[Gllug] recommend a (web) hosting company for linux box

[ben f]

 --- Jason Clifford <jason at ukpost.com> wrote: > On
Wed, 27 Aug 2003, ben f wrote:
> 
> > My company are looking for recommendations for a
> web
> > hosting company. We don't want our site on someone
> > else's box. We have our own box that we want
> "looked
> > after" 24x7. Basically we want them to react to
> > hardware failures. We do the admin bits.
> 
> UKFSN offers coloaction and I can extend that to
> cover some extra support 
> however I would need a more accurate description of
> the requirement.
> 
> What reaction do you want to hardware failures?

Kit swapped out with another box/parts.

> Do you want the provider to replace the failed kit
> within a specified time 
> period? If so what is the required time period?

Yup. My boss says 8 working hours.

> Will you provide hot swap equipment to be stored at
> the providers 
> premises? If not do you expect the provider to
> provide this equipment or 
> will you ship it to them?
Expect the provider to source this.
> 
> You say you will do the admin. Will you want any
> software or admin support 
> from the provider?
Not really.
> 
> > It's a compaq ml370 running redhat 9.0 with
> apache.
> 
> Are you running Apache2 (default with RH9) and if so
> is it a concsious 
> decision?

Semi-conscious! We ran apache for a while and then
upgraded the server (and with it came redhat 9.0 and
apache2). I decided to stick with this.

Ben

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