Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-06 Thread Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN
The main problem with a VPS is that we have to take care of the security, and that's NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. Configuration and maintenance is a piece of cake. Because of this I strongly suggest that we don't use a VPS. I have an idea: 1. Prepare rsync scripts and SSH keys 2. Put the script /

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-06 Thread Olivier van der Toorn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Isn't that the main selling point of a vps at this point? The ability to grow? If in a year we decide we want something completely different from a Web site, and the vps isn't overloaded, it can just run on there. I am in favor of a vps, especially

Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Rick.Timmis
Hello all I am afraid my company decided that they wouldn't be able to provide hosting, admin etc... The reason for this is because they are in the process of migrating between providers. However, as I mentioned in an earlier response to the post of a potential hosting offer from Digital

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Paweł Abramowicz
When this semester ends, I'm more than happy to help. I have some experience in LAMP and LEMP stacks... And if no one would be able to personally ssh into the server, digital ocean has quite good tutorials for beginners on the matter, too (they can be used by sysadmins with http-only Internet

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Aaron Honeycutt
if I know anything really about sysadmin I would help out. On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:29 AM Rick.Timmis rick.tim...@abazander.com wrote: Hello all I am afraid my company decided that they wouldn't be able to provide hosting, admin etc... The reason for this is because they are in the

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Rick.Timmis
OK, thats good to know Pawel. Once a server is setup, I can setup ssh keys, ( provided you've a known public key on launchpad ) I am more than happy to bo most or even all of the work, but need others to assist and be upto speed withits setup, so that I am not a single point of failure. So now

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Olivier van der Toorn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Kubuntu-dev, I have some experience with being a system administrator. Been a sys admin at my study association for a couple of years now. I'd like to help out :) Cheers, - -O.I. van der Toorn. On 06/05/2015 09:11 AM, Rick.Timmis wrote: OK,

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Xen
(This one.com indeed needs you to register a domain with them, which is a bit... well, silly. Sorry about that inclusion). Quoting Xen l...@xenhideout.nl: Are you sure about all of this? It's just a simple website right. At this point. Why get an VPS provider? It makes no sense. VPS is

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Xen
Are you sure about all of this? It's just a simple website right. At this point. Why get an VPS provider? It makes no sense. VPS is what you do if you want to build a complex website or a server that sports additional features other than the website. A place to run python scripts, do some

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Shrinivasan T
Yes. VPS is not required for a LAMP application or website. My friend runs a webhosting business at http://milkhost.com reseller of hostgator. It has cpanel and ftp to upload files. I can sponsor the web space and domain name. Can help on administration too. Reply here for any help. --

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Paul White
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, at 13:28, Xen wrote: Are you sure about all of this? It's just a simple website right. At this point. Why get an VPS provider? It makes no sense. I'm a Kubuntu user who has contributed to Kubuntu funds and used Kubuntu since Natty Narwhal 11.04. I would rather see

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Xen
All I can say is that *these guys* https://www.midphase.com/website-hosting/personal-hosting-plan.php also have SSH access. It is not turned on by default, you have to ask for it, then they turn it on. I'll leave it at that. (This is the message I wrote earlier, it was rejected again

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN
IMHO the vps is too much. We don't need the hassle. We need web hosting with full access to our files. Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN a href=http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com;GeekAliens. Com/a a href=http://ro.kubuntu.org;Kubuntu România/a -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Rick.Timmis
Ah ha But I have a cunning plan, to implement a full community CRM system. Marketing, Press Contacts, Events, and much much more.. I set a Sick_Rimmit objective to bring Kubuntu from 28 on distrowatch to 14, by year end 2016 So a VPS, would help quite alot :-) Sent from my Dragon

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Xen
The problem is that it is another machine to administer in your mind. I have a website host myself, it is easy, all I need to do is take care of my own files, nothing more. With a VPS you run the entire system yourself. You need to think about what software to use, etc. Of course it can be

Re: Web Site Hosting

2015-06-05 Thread Xen
That would be different :). Still the biggest difference is probably that on VPS you would have access to multiple user accounts and more people who can access it using their own accounts. And you could have more of a shell server. Then you could turn it into a shell host for Kubuntu