Administering a web and mailing list server at home...

From: Jim (rtmcrider_at_cox.net)
Date: 09/07/04

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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:30:09 -0700

    All -

    Thank you for your replies with much appreciated encouragement, information,
    and suggestions!

    Kevin Kinsey wrote:

    I might proffer the opinion that in contrast to the statement
    "seems to me I would lose a lot of control and have software tool choice
    limitations..."
    that it might very well be the opposite case. As administrator of the
    server,
    *you* choose what software will be installed, not someone else. Unless you
    are talking about proprietary software, it's out there; many hosting
    services use freely available "Open Source" code for almost every purpose
    there is.

    Dave Vollenweider wrote:

    As an alternative, you could look into a commercial web hosting company that
    uses FreeBSD and puts every site in its own jail. You'd then have a root
    password for the jail and can do whatever you want with it without affecting
    the rest of the system.

    As a result of these two comments, I looked into the possibility of a vps
    host. This does seem to solve problems I have with my current provider
    explicitly stating that operating a web server through their connection
    violates my user agreement.

    I am also investigating the alternative choices I have been given for my MTA
    and mailing list manager software.

    Thank you all again!

    Jim

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