On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 15:53, Richard Miller wrote: > I have since looked at Linode.com and Rimuhosting.com quite a bit and I > like the idea of these a lot! Do you (or anyone) prefer one over the > other?
I have no idea bout Rimuhosting.com, but I can join others in my praises of linode.com. It's been reliable and very quick support over e-mail and irc. Sign up for a years contract and you'll get 1.5 free gigs on their $20 a month machine. Linode and Rimuhosting give you all the benefits of hosting things yourself without the hassle of trying to maintain the hardware and the internet connection. All you need to concern yourself with is the administration of the machine. This probably the biggest downside over a hosting firm. You have to maintain the whole machine yourself. Software patches, compromises (if any). I enjoy the freedom I get from linode though. I can run any service I want, install any software I want as long as it's not illegal (ie spam or warez). > > Also, when I've talked to my web hosting companies about WebDAV, they > have always said "we don't turn on the webdav Apache module because of > the security risks." I was under the impression that WebDAV was MORE > secure, for instance, than FTP. Is there any reason for me not to use > it (or to limit it)? WebDAV is more secure than FTP in that it can run over https, which provides a layer of encryption hiding password exchange. What the hosting companies are probably concerned about, however, may be the complexity of setting up and maintaining WebDAV. It could be that there are security issues with regards to securing apache that they don't wish to deal with. FTP maybe insecure for users, but setup is brain-dead simple for ISPs, and they won't worry about your security as long as their machines can't be compromised remotely. With a UML hosting provider you are free to set up WebDAV and any other thing you want. Michael > > Richard > > > On Apr 19, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Carl Youngblood wrote: > > > Richard Miller wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know a hosting company that allows WebDAV accesss so I > >> can synchronize my iCal calendar (Mac OS X)? > > > > If you get linode you can do whatever you want. > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
