Sean O'Connor wrote: > 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 > Do you know of any decent inexpensive alternative to google mail? > 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. > Cool! I didn't think google groups could be used for a shop newsletter. Google provides a promotion box form for website visitors to sign up. I'm not sure if it will work 100% for me this time but I will look more in to it.
> 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 > > Thank you for the tip, I will research optimization for Django and Satchmo. I might bug you with some questions later :oD Thanks for the great reply! :o) 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
