A while back several people on this list recommended Webfaction for web hosting. We signed up and have been using it for awhile now. I thought I would pass along some information for other people in the US who may be interested in web hosting.
1. Our primary purpose is to update the Webfaction web site with our VFP9 SP2 programs so our clients can download anytime without using our company servers. It works well for that purpose. 2. Here are some things that we have to deal with that are not major problems, but we would like to find a workaround. a). They recommended that we use rsync for updating their Linux servers from our Windows development workstations. This works fine but we are not able to do this without manually typing in the password. If you Google this problem you will get a million hits (or more) so it is obviously a very common problem. None of the solutions work for us and most other people. This means we cannot automate the updating. FileZilla works for updating from Windows to their Linux servers but we can't figure a way to automate it. Wefaction support will give you several answers but none of them work. Surely there must be a simple way to send the password with rsync. An obvious answer is to just use ftp. That is ok and that is what we are now doing, however, if there are only a few small changes in the udpate, fpt will still copy every file and that takes a very long time. rsync is smart enough to know how to only transmit the changes and so it works quickly even for thousands of files. b) Webfaction processes our credit cards in GB (great britain?) so our bank charges a fee. I understand that their servers and support people are in the US so why process our payment in GB? If anyone else has a solution for this I would appreciate knowing your experiences. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/05f701cb0b0f$80035c70$7a00a...@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
