Re: [Hampshire] Hants server experiencing problems

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Author: Chris Dennis
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hants server experiencing problems
john lewis wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:48:04 +0100
> Adrian Bridgett <adrian@???> wrote:
>
>> Yep, only one disk in it otherwise we would have :-) We are looking
>> at migrating over the lug.org.uk for just this sort of reason,
>> however there are a number of prereqs to sort out first -
>> http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ServerMigration.
>
> Hmmm! This includes:-
> "Geneweb - I think it's only sensible for JL to move this to a
> personal machine"
>
> Technically I could probably do this from home by putting my server
> outside the local-lan but I wouldn't have the bandwidth/speed to do
> it properly. Hundreds of people from all round the world make use of
> the data held in geneweb.
>
> So to take my site off the hantslug box I need an alternative host
> that will allow me a 15Gb storage space and in addition to
> access to apache has geneweb and gallery installed, gives me full
> access to /var/lib/geneweb and allows me to use my startx.co.uk
> domain name.


I can recommend BitFolk (www.bitfolk.co.uk) -- they can provide a VPS
with full control over everything.

And it's run by one Andy Smith who is a regular contributor to this very
list.

cheers

Chris

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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK