Re: [PLUG] Suggest a Host

[LeRoy Cressy <leroy@lrcressy.com>]

Concerning your comment about frontpage, you might want to use:
Open Office
xemacs html mode
netscape/mozilla composer

As with any html composer you want to test the on a windows, Linux, and 
MAC box to see how it looks.  Some of the composers make really bad html 
across various platforms.




> Editors.  I use Pico.

Debian includes a pico like editor called nano where you do not have to 
compile from source.

  They have Apache, PHP 4.2.1, MySQL (I really want
> PostgreSQL, but that's OK.  I might not even get used.) 

MySQL has a smaller ``footprint'' so I think it is more appropriate for 
web development.  Most of the commands between the two are the same.



 I don't know
> what mail server they run, but it supports IMAP.

The mail server and the pop/imap server are usually two different 
packages.  The Debian default mail transport agent is exim, while there 
are various choices for IMAP/POP utilities.


> I was just concerned that Debian would be different enough to cause some 
> trouble for me.
>
> Here's what they say about Debian:
>
> Debian is the distribution of the linux operating system we use on all 
> of our servers. It is the "open source" distribution, run by a volunteer 
> organization rather than a company. We have found it to have the best 
> software packaging solution and highest stability of all linux 
> distributions and we love it to death! We also have a few OpenBSD 
> machines running as firewalls. We have no Windows NT/2000 servers of any 
> kind. We find them to be too insecure, instable, inflexible, and 
> expensive for our needs as a premiere hosting provider!
>
> This is kinda funny: "Microsoft Frontpage is a somewhat popular 
> web-publishing program that *we do not recommend you use*. We recommend 
> buying a book on HTML or using CityDesk."
>
> But this worries me: "Also note, if you turn on FP Extensions your CGI 
> scripts will no longer work."  My customer uses Front Page.  Blah.  Is 
> it typical that CGI cannot be enabled when Front Page extensions are 
> enabled?
>
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