Forum OpenACS Q&A: Is a shared and managed hosting option avaialble ....

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1: Is a shared and managed hosting option avaialble ....
Posted by Ana Smith on 07/19/04 11:34 PM
I'm developing a couple of sites using openacs and want to host it in a shared and managed enviornment, which takes care of the server administration issues. Does anybody out there know about a web hosting company who does this.

The hosting options that I have got so far with openacs is either a virtual machine  dedicated hosting  or dedicated hosting .

Looking forward to find such a web hosting service ...

Thank you.

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2: Re: Is a shared and managed hosting option avaialble .... (response to 1)
Posted by Jun Yamog on 07/20/04 08:17 AM
Hi Ana,

I think Patrick of Zill.net offers shared.  You can look at the community page for hosting options

https://openacs.org/community/

I would recommend zill and acorn, I had very good experience with them.  They are nice small shops and the level of service is still personal and prompt.  I had a bad experience from a mid size shop.  I did have good exprience from bigger size shops like Globix, although I don't think they will offer shared hosting of OpenACS.  Good luck.

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3: Re: Is a shared and managed hosting option avaialble .... (response to 1)
Posted by Lachlan Myers on 07/21/04 12:45 AM
I'd second acorn hosting (www.acornhosting.com - I use one of their virtual server services).

The limitation is that the service I use is really for low/medium volume sites, but it would be worth asking about your specific requirements. Cathy Sarisky is very responsive.

For me here's not much admin involved, except vacuuming the db (and if you use a 7.4 Postgresql, the pg_autovacuum in contrib fixes that) and backing up (for which a number of automated solutions are well documented).