Linode rocks! I've been with them for over two years and I know a bunch of other LUG people have been with them for a while. They are easily the best hosting company I've ever worked with. As far as your DNS server, I would actually recommend using the DNS services offered by Linode. Their DNS manager is pretty full featured and their servers seem pretty solid.
For the google email hosting, I've had very positive experiences with it. Be sure to think for a while and make sure that you are comfortable with Google having access to/control over your email. Similarly depending on your specific needs and goals you might want to check out Google Groups ( http://groups.google.com) before setting up a listserv. Again you loose a bit of control but you also let a ton of admin headaches be somebody else's problem. In regard to updating your server, you might find the post at http://www.vanutsteen.nl/2008/06/09/unattended-upgrades-on-a-ubuntu-hardy-server/interesting. It describes some of Ubuntu Server Edition's built in update tools. As with any automatic update tools they can cause problems by updating things which your not expecting to have change, but they also can go a long way to preventing your server from getting owned. Finally, as a bit of a side note, be sure to do some research on optimizing your setup for the relatively low memory limits which exist in VPS environments. The generally recommended deployments for Django and Satchmo can be pretty memory intensive, but can be tweaked to have much lower memory profiles. ____________________________ Sean O'Connor http://seanoc.com On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Orion Vianna < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm thinking of setting up a VPS server for a django satchmo store with > slicehost or linode. > The only problem is that I don't know the amount of work needed to > maintain the system secure. > I think I will only have a webserver and database running which should > be easier to maintain then a system running many services. > I'm thinking of using http://editdns.net/ for DNS and google business > email service http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/index.html > I will also need to run a mailing list for store mailings. Hopefully it > will play well with google email. > > How do people keep informed of security issues? I know there are > security mailing lists out there. Do you know of any that you can select > only the software being used on your system? What would be awesome and > maybe is already out there, is to get security info automatically, based > on the packages installed. I know there is a pop up thing on *ubuntu > gnome/kde/xfce but I don't know if something like that exists for a > server without X window > A quick google search did not return any results. > > Maybe I could make apt-get run from cron every 12hours but if the > install messes up I won't know if everything is working. Or maybe I can > get email notifications from failures. Or maybe there is a better > software package to manage this out there > > Any ideas and tips on how to keep a system updated with the minimum > amount of work is appreciated :o) > Unfortunately Its been a while since I was able to attend to a LUG meeting. > I missed most of the LUG security related meetings... > > Does anyone have exerience with linode? > I appreciate any other ideas and suggestions anyone might have > > Thanks > Orion > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Dec 3 - Lightning Talks & Swap Session > > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 3 - Lightning Talks & Swap Session
