On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> wrote:
> One more suggestion, a-la virtual machines: I know you mentioned > having to work in Cygwin, but if the plan is to deploy on CentOS, then > that's just trying to push a camel through a cat-door... I'll leave > the explanation of that to your imagination... > > Anyhow, I have recently bought an account at a VM hosting service > called Linode (http://www.linode.com) for dealing with this very sort > of problem, and I have to say, I am *extremely* impressed with it's > performance, ease of use, and flexibility. > > If you can at all swing it, do the work on a Linode - you can buy a VM > and have a CentOS system up and running *literally* within 5 minutes > (that was my experience) and you can tear it down and rebuild with a > simple web interface. > > SHAMELESS PLUG: If you do go that route, please go ahead and use my > referral key - it nets me a $20 credit, and you get one to use > yourself! > > http://www.linode.com/?r=b161a9ad6b331a7bd720740fce197ee017bf4fe1 > > -- > -- Steve Scaffidi <[email protected]> > I think that's a big part of the problem. Brian is being shackled by managemental edict and has no real wiggle room to implement a common sense solution here. That said, let me second the Linode recommendation for anyone who needs a Linux box - in a box :) I started using one a few months ago because running a home server for a hobby domain and having to worry about power outages, network outages, and machine outages was becoming more of a PITA than it was worth, and they've been fantastic. I now have a server that someone else maintains the care and feeding of, available pretty much 24/7 for $20/mo. Win win any way you slice it. -Chris -- Christopher Patti - Geek At Large | GTalk: [email protected] | AIM: chrisfeohpatti "Technology challenges art, art inspires technology." - John Lasseter, Pixar _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
