My thoughts below: On 3/23/07, stylo stylo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thinking about a viviotech vps but I'm not an admin and never used linux. > Wondering how hard it would be and what people are using there. I've searched > and read the good feedback. It's either that or shared hosting somewhere like > hostmysite/ct. > > I know there is a managed solution but wondering if I could toy with an > unmanaged one and set it up slowly myself. Would like to hear from anyone but > especially people who were in the same boat.
This is essentially where I was, although to be fair I had basic Linux/UNIX experience when I started. The control panel lets you do most things without needing to know Linux and the support forum will help you do the rest. > > Rambling thoughts: > > Is a basic package with 256mb enough for Bluedragon and mysql4/5 on a not too > busy niche commerce site? I thought much more memory would be needed. I added 256MB just to be sure (since it costs stuff all), but here's what top shows me right now: Mem: 524288k av, 107468k used, 416820k free So it's up to you. Don't forget you get a larger amount of swap space to go with that physical memory. > > Is the line fast enough? Seems good to me. Let me know: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ > > Find much difference between BD and cfmx on linux? (I know the tag > differences.) Not much - the odd thing is different but all the important stuff works as you would expect. > > Are there problems monitoring BD in case it pegs the cpu? I know you can't > use cfmx monitors. What do people do? (I also don't want to be tied to a > computer 24hrs a day.) Big issue, small issue? You could set up a cron job to do this kind of thing with shell scripts. It could restart BD automatically etc. > > What sort of monitoring does viviotech do for you themselves? If something is obviously wrong with their hardware etc they get on it. You can ask Jordan for more details if you need to (I imagine he'll be responding here soon enough anyway). > > Is it a full-time job for you now monitoring the site yourself and jumping in > to fix things all the time? BD had a hiccup once. Updating the system is as hard as typing "yum update" or using the control panel to do the same thing. > > How difficult was it to set up such an environment there with a couple extra > very minor domains, ftp, email and such? Control Panel does this for you - fill in a form and click a button. > > Mysql backup has to be done manually? Do you also have to monitor mysql > somehow? You could schedule this. MySQL hasn't broken so far. > > Do you install phpadmin to handle mysql, or something else? I'm not really a > command-line guy. I use the MySQL Windows GUI tools - I've given a specific IP access to do this (via the control panel, btw). Navicat is good too. > > Did you have to become BD/mysql/apache gurus just in order to use them for > the site, or left them as-is? I'm afraid I'd do this then find I'd never > tweaked some obvious setting which was causing big problems. Nope, worked out of the box. > > What do you do to ensure security? You can set up firewall rules, schedule updates etc. It's set up quite securely by default. > > What were the biggest hurdles you faced going it alone? N/A - I haven't looked back. After the service I got at the old provider, I decided I'd do a better job. You can always ask for help on the forums if you get stuck and Jordan often helps for free (and of course you can pay for support if some simple advice is not going to cut it). -- mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles: http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273492 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
