Re: web hosting best practices

On Apr 13, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
That said, most of the information I'm looking for revolves around security and performance issues, user management, and just what additional php and perl modules to offer as standard. Very basic stuff, but I'm looking for broad outlines and the experience of others...



Might want to save yourself a bunch of trouble and look at something like CPanel. Just install a base FreeBSD 7.x or Linux (ie: CentOS, etc) and away you go. Basically turns the box into an appliance and they have service provider based monthly leasing that's very cost effective.

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