[LRUG] server admin UI on VPS?

[Ed James (Alt)]

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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