Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Hi guys, may be you'll find ArchServer an interesting project, you'll find more here: www.archserver.org. The idea behind this project is to create a rock-solid, server-oriented Arch flavor ready for mass deployment with all the pros we love about Arch -easy to maintain, lightweight,

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread d4n1
I'm has used the archlinux in all. My servers are running firewall, web, bd, proxy, DNS, dhcp and others. I'm used politics of update/upgrade, and mark some packages to not update/upgrade. I'm used only the oficial mirror in the pacman. I'm removed compilers and run hardenings. On Jun 26, 2012

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
idea of having a server edition of AL ready to deploy and forgot about it because Arch rocks Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? --

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Cigorraga
Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. -- -msx

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. probably because it's completely off the radar and probably projects in themselves especially as

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-26 Thread Don deJuan
On 06/26/2012 10:49 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Have you considered flavours like mail, web. A recent thread showed atleast one person who probably would have liked an out of the box web arch? Sorry Kevin, I don't follow you. probably because it's completely off the radar and probably

[arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Arno Gaboury
Hi all, I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). I daily use Arch as my system on my home box, and I must admit I am very satisfied by its strength and its very active and deep involved community. My plan is

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Hi all, I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). I daily use Arch as my system on my home box, and I must admit I am very satisfied by its strength and its very

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Hi all, I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). I daily use Arch as my system on my home box, and I must admit I am very satisfied by its strength and its very

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Jean-Luc Bassereau
Le 19/06/2012 12:07, Arno Gaboury a écrit : On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Hi all, I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). I daily use Arch as my system on my home box, and I must admit I am

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Can you please give me some pro/against reasons for using Debian distro rather than Archlinux as a web server? If I was running arch because I wanted greater control or a more specific setup, I would certainly either use something like ideally a CARP firewall or if not possible, taking the

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/19/2012 12:15 PM, Jean-Luc Bassereau wrote: Le 19/06/2012 12:07, Arno Gaboury a écrit : On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Hi all, I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). I daily use Arch

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Alper Kanat
Hey There, As a Turkish digital social agency and a startup, we have recently converted all our physical production servers to seperate Arch Linux VM's. That not just saved us a lot money but also gave us the flexibility of a primitive cloud. Being cutting edge led us to always support the

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread satisficer
On 2012-06-19, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any provider offering Arch distro, as it seems it is hard, near impossible, to find one. Linode https://www.linode.com/ is a VPS with Arch for USD 20/month. Easy to setup, and if you screw up something while tinkering, you can

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Alper Kanat
We bought our VPS' from Hetzner btw. Hetzner is a German ISP which provides cheap (starts from 7€ just look at the price page) but rock solid servers. They don't officially support Arch Linux but the installation is trivial. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Culley Smith
I have a Linode server running Arch. I did a little tinkering to enable kernel updates, but that's about it. I keep things up to date through Pacman and haven't had many problems at all. I've run php, ruby on rails, apache, nginx, mysql, postgresql, redis, node.js, and a number of server-side

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Calvin Morrison
On Jun 19, 2012 9:29 AM, Alper Kanat tu...@raptiye.org wrote: We bought our VPS' from Hetzner btw. Hetzner is a German ISP which provides cheap (starts from 7€ just look at the price page) but rock solid servers. They don't officially support Arch Linux but the installation is trivial. ---

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Szu-Han Chen
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:43:06AM -0500, Culley Smith wrote: I have a Linode server running Arch. I did a little tinkering to enable kernel updates, but that's about it. I keep things up to date through Pacman and haven't had many problems at all. I've run php, ruby on rails, apache,

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Calvin Morrison
On Jun 19, 2012 9:42 AM, Szu-Han Chen sjc...@sjchen.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:43:06AM -0500, Culley Smith wrote: I have a Linode server running Arch. I did a little tinkering to enable kernel updates, but that's about it. I keep things up to date through Pacman and haven't

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Szu-Han Chen sjc...@sjchen.com wrote: I'm not sure if these responses are really helping OP. He asked about running Arch on a web server, not a thread of web hosting company ads. I'm not sure you really read the whole thread, but the OP explicitly asked for

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/19/2012 03:42 PM, Szu-Han Chen wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:43:06AM -0500, Culley Smith wrote: I have a Linode server running Arch. I did a little tinkering to enable kernel updates, but that's about it. I keep things up to date through Pacman and haven't had many problems at all.

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/19/2012 03:48 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Szu-Han Chen sjc...@sjchen.com wrote: I'm not sure if these responses are really helping OP. He asked about running Arch on a web server, not a thread of web hosting company ads. I'm not sure you really

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 19 June 2012 14:49, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: Please bear in mind I am not a tech pro, and even if I want to build the web server on my own coz tech is a hobby, I am looking for something not too difficult to deal with configuration, updates, and security. 1. Use what you

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Denis A . Altoé Falqueto
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if these responses are really helping OP. He asked about running Arch on a web server, not a thread of web hosting company ads. I'm not sure you really read the whole thread, but the OP explicitly

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread gt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: Hi all, I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). I daily use Arch as my system on my home

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Bartłomiej Piotrowski
On 06/19/2012 04:14 PM, gt wrote: Can you please elaborate how you manage the regular updates, especially kernel, udev, glibc etc. Do you hold back the upgrades to packages which require a restart? This is exactly how I handle kernel updates. Afaik glibc and udev updates don't require

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Arno Gaboury
On 06/19/2012 04:20 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:14 PM, gt wrote: Can you please elaborate how you manage the regular updates, especially kernel, udev, glibc etc. Do you hold back the upgrades to packages which require a restart? This is exactly how I handle kernel

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2012 16:31:49 Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:20 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:14 PM, gt wrote: Can you please elaborate how you manage the regular updates, especially kernel, udev, glibc etc. Do you hold back the upgrades to packages which

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:20 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:14 PM, gt wrote: Can you please elaborate how you manage the regular updates, especially kernel, udev, glibc etc. Do you hold back the upgrades to packages which

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I have a once-a-month scheduled reboot to take care of kernel upgrades. I hold back linux and udev, because they tend to rely on each other. I would have thought you could schedule a reboot via at that very night for 4 in the morning or something. The reason I say this is that apart from

Re: [arch-general] Arch as a web server

2012-06-19 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/19/12 05:58, satisficer wrote: On 2012-06-19, Arno Gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any provider offering Arch distro, as it seems it is hard, near impossible, to find one. Linode https://www.linode.com/ is a VPS with Arch