michaellunsford Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Just curious how difficult it is to configure and use. I'm considering it for ease of use and stability. Nothing fancy, just LAMP kind of stuff. Any thoughts, ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Do you meen to actually host public sites or just for developement? I wouldn't recommend hosting a public site on any OS that has software installed that is not required. ie: A webserver should be dedicated to being a webserver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellunsford Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 I'm looking at an xserve to manage about 40 domains. It should provide the power of LAMP without the management nightmare I'm having right now. I'm working in a plesk environment (which is barely a management utility), and having to do quite a bit of command line stuff to get things working right. I am wondering if the osx server software is as easy to configure websites, email, etc, as plesk is? I'd just hate to drop $3,500 and be disappointed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Sorry, I have no OSX or Xserve experience at all, so couldn't really advice you. I've never used plesk or anything similar either having always prefering to do things via shell access. I manage a few servers (3) running a few sites each but would have thought you would have a fair amount of server admin experience before getting to the point of managing 40+ domains. What sorts of problems are you having exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellunsford Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 my email stopped working a while back. dnsstuff said it was timing out. I also couldn't ftp out from the server, or even do a whois, ping, or host lookup by domain name. I found out the nameserver in my /etc/resolv.conf file was not responding, so I had to switch to an opendns.org one. Now everything is slow, and curl_lib is not working. Latest hack is doing `curl` instead. I also had a catastrophic hardware failure a few months back. It took the ISP about eight days to replace the machine. The latest thing is, I've been waiting for them to do a cold restart of the server since the 20th of February. I've also been waiting for their DNS nameserver to come back online for about the same amount of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellunsford Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 clarification... php curl works fine from the command line "php test.php" but not from a web browser "example.com/test.php" -- I get a really long wait time to load the page, then it just loads an empty page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Seems most of your issues are related to your hosting provider then? Is this a hired dedicated server or something? Or are you using a co-location? Either way, if it where me I'de be looking for another provider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellunsford Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 I'd love to migrate to rackspace, but I could pay off a pair of mac osx servers in a year with the $500 a month they want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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