[LRUG] server admin UI on VPS?

[Chris Adams]

I'd second James on the Linode recommendation.

You'll get more server your money than if you go with AWS.

C


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On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 18:29, Ed James (Alt) wrote:

> Hey, 
> 
> It sounds like you need full control of your server, so you're probably better off going with a provider like Amazon or Linode. You'll get a bare-bones server install and the rest is up to you, so if you're not afraid of the sys-admin side of things this is what I'd suggest.
> 
> The Linode admin console is ok, but their tech support and prices are excellent. 
> 
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> On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 18:25, Viktor Tron wrote:
> 
> > Hi lruggers, 
> > 
> > Sorry for this offish email, but so many clever web people here I wanna hear you.
> > 
> > I developed a rails app. The client also wants to do a lot of management on the server on the same domain, ideally including:
> > blog (wordpress) 
> > forum (ideally seeded with a phpforum export, but not crucial)
> > manage emails, maybe mailing lists
> > manage subdomains
> > detailed anaylytics
> > ftp accounts, manage access
> > 
> > Since for background jobs I almost defo need root access we opted for a host that offered cpanel-based managed server with root access.
> > Now apart from the fact that cpanel feels like a thing of the past and looks like a monster if you look on the server, I also failed to hack apache config to handle my rails app (running on passenger)
> > (I simply wanted 2 vhost entries, non-ssl one redirecting to the the other on ssl, already something impossible to do)
> > 
> > The above seems like a pretty reasonable list of things to want. Now my question to you. How is this best done? 
> > I do not mind to install wordpress myself and get my hands dirty if you suggest good solutions to the other tasks?
> > Are heroku and suchlike rails-friendly hosts offering you these admin UIs and I am just better off trying to get my rails app working without insisting on root shell?
> > 
> > I appreciate all comments and pointers
> > 
> > Vik
> > 
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