[consulting] VPS? [was D7 side effects on the Development list]

[LPCA]

Try Linode for VPS. their services are vastly superior than mass 
shared-hosting providers like 1and1 or godaddy etc...
The service is very reliable and affordable. The UI for admins is great. 
You can clone the VPS into new VPS, form a cluster, upgrade each VPS 
independently to a new VPS plan, add memory, IPs, backup, etc.

Each VPS can have it's own partitions set, unlike in some providers 
where you are stuck to one partition. There's support also for multiple 
OS/profiles per VPS, rescue OS and rescue SSH box.
They also provide a free decent DNS service. And you can even set up new 
logins for your clients, to give them certain permissions on Linode's 
admin UI, for example, to create new DNS records for a certain domain.

As for control panel software, Webmin+Usermin+Virtualmin GPL is a 
opensource/free software solution, with zero cost on the software 
itself, only requiring either general linux knowledge from the user 
installing it or a linux IT professional to deploy it.

Webmin provides the panel to manage the machine, Usermin provides the 
panel for mail and other data and Virtualmin provides the panel for 
virtual server / hosting management, for both admins and clients. Webmin 
allows managing an enormous amount of system daemons/services, from web 
server, to DNS, mail, Samba/NFS, GIT/SVN/CVS, ftp, ssh, MySQL, 
PostgreSQL, linux users and groups, etc.

There is also Cloudmin, for virtual machine/virtualization management. 
All of them are developed by the same programmer, all are free, all are 
written in Perl and self contained (can be setup in apache, nginx or 
lighthttpd as well).

This would of course require Linux as the operating system. Linode and 
Webmin provide support for the most common server distros, like Debian, 
CentOS, and more generic ones like Ubuntu and Fedora. RHEL is also 
supported.

It goes awesome with Debian 64-bit, using BIND, Apache2, FastCGI, 
Dovecot, Postfix, PHP. Other software combinations are possible, like 
nginx, lighthttpd, sendmail, qmail, and so on. I would recommend Debian 
over CentOS, since it's easier to configure (when you don't need a 
Display Manager and related software )and provides more software and 
more updated software (ex, PHP 5.2) than it's counterpart.

 From my own experiences, you can't beat this combination with any other 
provider or software.
www.linode.com
www.webmin.com

On 10-12-2010 00:08, Mark Ferree wrote:
> You could always go with DynDns if you want to host your development 
> sites on your own machine and avoid that $15 charge from AT&T. I've 
> been happy with their free service for keeping a static address mapped 
> to my dynamic IP for external SSH access.
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:46 PM, <jeff at ayendesigns.com 
> <mailto:jeff at ayendesigns.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm moving this here because the question has morphed into one
>     only marginally assocated with development. I have a shared
>     hosting account with 'unlimited' domains and 25 database max. I
>     have a few clients I host, and several for which I keep a test
>     version of their site up for making changes before rolling them
>     out. Plus I have my site and a blog, etc. I received a letter
>     saying that they now have a policy of 1000 tables max per hosting
>     account. I was at 2200.
>
>
>     They don't do VPS, and if they did, I don't know whether the
>     limitations would go away. But if I get a second hosting account,
>     it's not just a mv in ssh, it will be download, upload, repoint
>     the domains, etc., same as if I move to another hoster or to a VPS.
>
>
>     I'd appreciate thoughts on whether I should do that, or consider a
>     VPS... 2 shared hosting accounts is only $200/year. I thought
>     about getting a static IP here and move the test sites here along
>     with my own, but AT&T charges $15/month for that, which is more
>     than double the cost of an additional hosting account.
>
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