Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all! For some time I have been intending to get a VPS somewhere. I know that throughout this time I have seen various people mentioning in IRC doing the same. I know I will get varying answers to this, but can people recommend the best host in their experience? (and Debian/Ubuntu is a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Matthew East
On 17/08/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! For some time I have been intending to get a VPS somewhere. I know that throughout this time I have seen various people mentioning in IRC doing the same. I know I will get varying answers to this, but can people recommend the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:52 +0100, Matthew East wrote: While I also considered a VPS for a while, in the end I decided that they weren't worth the money - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2006-December/009733.html For a relatively low-specification solution, I'd recommend

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:23 +0100, Matthew East wrote: On 17/08/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the whole, my dreamhost experience has been good and I have been able to run IRSSI+screen (Console IRC Client) without any problems. How do you do that? I haven't been able to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Matthew East
Hi, On 17/08/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then i simply extracted the irssi executable from either a deb or tar, I can't remember. To make things easier you can just use mine :) Ah, clever: there was me trying to compile the thing, and finding missing glib libraries, and getting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 17/08/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Key Based Authentication: # On local machine upload the key (If you already have one) $ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ # ssh back to dreamhost $ mkdir .ssh $ cat id_dsa.pub .ssh/authorized_keys # append your key Instead of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote: Hi, On 17/08/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then i simply extracted the irssi executable from either a deb or tar, I can't remember. To make things easier you can just use mine :) Ah, clever: there was me trying to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-17 Thread Dave Walker
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:42 +0100, Dave Walker wrote: Make this script and chmod +x it. whoops use this instead; #!/bin/sh SERVICE='irssa' if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE /dev/null then echo grooovy /dev/null else # irssi is not running, better relaunch screen -dmS

[ubuntu-uk] VPS hosts

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew Wild
Hi all! For some time I have been intending to get a VPS somewhere. I know that throughout this time I have seen various people mentioning in IRC doing the same. I know I will get varying answers to this, but can people recommend the best host in their experience? (and Debian/Ubuntu is a must :)