| Paul on Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:40:10 +0200 |
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What it boils down to is what packages are installed on the system, like what editors, mail server, web server, database, and whatever is needed for the cliants needs. For web hosting, is php installed and if so what version? These are questions that you should ask to make your decision. Editors. I use Pico. They have Apache, PHP 4.2.1, MySQL (I really want PostgreSQL, but that's OK. I might not even get used.) I don't know what mail server they run, but it supports IMAP. 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? _______________________________________________ plug mailing list plug@lists.phillylinux.org https://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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