Forum OpenACS Q&A: Hi, I have located a hosting company that might be able to host openacs...

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1: Hi, I have located a hosting company that might be able to host openacs...
Posted by Jim Lynch on 07/12/06 07:24 AM
could an experienced person look and see if they really can?

here is a link to them.

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2: Re: Hi, I have located a hosting company that might be able to host openacs... (response to 1)
Posted by Demon Cypher on 07/12/06 12:33 PM
HI,
The quantact hosting provides you with VPS (virtual private server) , it's like having a linux box of your own , you can install,run any thing on it, so it's possible to install openACS on it and there are lot of hosting providers offering vps .
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3: Re: Hi, I have located a hosting company that might be able to host openacs... (response to 1)
Posted by Janine Ohmer on 07/12/06 07:45 PM
Any hosting company that lets you install your own software can host an OpenACS site. However, you are then responsible for pretty much everything - upgrades, making sure your data gets backed up properly, etc. They usually won't help you if you're having problems; it's caveat nerdor, as Philip used to say.

Also sometimes these small companies are many levels of reseller away from the network providers, and their uptime and network speed are not always very good.

If you're up for being your own sys admin, and don't need commercial quality uptime, these places will work fine.

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4: Re: Hi, I have located a hosting company that might be able to host openacs... (response to 1)
Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 07/17/06 06:26 PM
Just a note that for a VPS or shared solution on top of Linux, I would recommend Xen-hosted or Virtuozzo-based solutions.

In Xen, you cannot over-commit RAM, so if you pay for a 256MB VPS, they cannot hide whether or not you actually have 256MB dedicated to you. And 256MB if not 512MB is the bare minimum I would recommend for OpenACS or .LRN if you have any kind of traffic.

In Virtuozzo, the resources are usually shared and over-committed or over-subscribed, however, Virtuozzo has a good reputation amongst hosters, provided that the company running the server knows what they are doing and set limits properly. Also the filesystem cache is not part of your RAM allocation as I understand it, since the filesystem is cached globally by the host kernel.

I have found that Solaris Zones (part of Solaris 10) are superior to Xen in terms of CPU performance and ease of use, and superior to Virtuozzo in terms of quick setup, maintainability and price (especially since Solaris 10 is free). Also Solaris' virtual memory manager appears to perform better than Linux, however, with all the changes in 2.6.x that may no longer be the case. However, aside from Zill.net (my company), virtually no one offers Solaris as a shared server solution.