wot's with the HTML tags?? On Thursday 22 July 2004 12:40 pm, ceri shaw wrote: > <P> > <BR> > Hi<BR> > <BR> > A million thanx for the prompt and informative responses. This is paticularly appreciated since I am in the middle of downloading the FC2 iso's as i write, and plan to install some time today.<BR> > <BR> > I am a little concerned about the mixed reviews that you have given FC2 and I wonder whether FC1 wouldnt be a better choice. The problem is , however, that while I want a certain amount of fuctionality I also want to be as "bleeding edge" as possible.<BR>
Well, then I suggest you get another couple of PCs. One for bleeding-edge testing, and one for your production server. Good used machines are dirt cheep, I bet some folks here have some spares. > <BR> > I am indeed dual-booting with WindozeXP and whilst I would dearly love to consign it to the "dustbin of history" I still need it to finish a half completed Associate degree in web design and site administration, assuming I can ever find the time to go back to college and complete it.<BR> > <BR> > I am hoping that the dual boot problem can be easily overcome?<BR> > <BR> Yes. Get another PC or two. How can you run a commercial site from a dual-boot machine? It makes no sense. How will you handle the downtime when you're booted into Windows? And it's just not responsible to store customer data on an insecure box, which any windows PC is by definition. In fact it's a really terrible idea to store any customer or financial data on your Webserver. That's what secure backends tucked far out of reach of any public services are for. > Web Design and Site Hosting is the area that I am hoping to work in, so I guess the headaches associated with running a commercial site are something that I will have to get used to. I am reasonably ok with Apache and I am fairly confident that I can run the whole thing securely.<BR> > <BR> > So thats the plan. To run a commercial site on my FC2 partition with the entire package installed, on a dual boot system with XP, and all this on a PII 350. Am I insane or is this feasible given that I will probably relish all the time and trouble that it costs me.<BR> I vote for insane. :) Really, you're trying to do too much with too little. If all you wanted to do was play around, you could multi-boot as many Linuxes as you had room for, and bleeding edge to your heart's content. But you can't run a live Webserver from a dual-boot PC, and no responsible Webmaster or sysadmin runs a production machine on bleeding-edge, untested software. Most Web administration is done remotely, so why not start with a nice commercial hosting service, as others have suggested. Do the crazy stuff on your home machine. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
