Forum OpenACS Q&A: who does AOLserver hosting for a mostly static Web site?

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1: who does AOLserver hosting for a mostly static Web site?
Posted by Philip Greenspun on 02/08/07 05:56 AM
Folks:

We're about to replace all of our server hardware at www.photo.net. We host a handful of mostly static Web sites that make some use of AOLserver .tcl, but none of Oracle. With places like godaddy.com selling hosting for $4/month, it seems like it would be better to push our friends' sites out of our cluster (even if we have to pay godaddy) than continue to support them in a half-assed manner. We don't run an FTP server, for example, and our reliability is probably not the best due to the complexity of the photo.net and philip.greenspun.com sites.

Thanks in advance,

Philip
mailto:philg@mit.edu

p.s. In case you're curious, we're upgrading to CentOS, Oracle 10g, ACS 3.4 (classic!) on some Dell pizza boxes, a bigger Dell machine with 16 GB of RAM for the Oracle server, and a couple of 8-disk Silicon Mechanics machines for the photo database.

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2: Re: who does AOLserver hosting for a mostly static Web site? (response to 1)
Posted by Marc Fournier on 02/11/07 12:11 AM
We generally do it for OpenACS sites, but we definitely do host AOLServer sites ... we aren't $4/month, mind you ... cheapest would be $11.99/mo ... but, you can technically put several (or all) of the clients under one VPS ...
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4: Re: who does AOLserver hosting for a mostly static Web site? (response to 1)
Posted by Torben Brosten on 02/11/07 11:55 AM
For an example, http://kappacorp.com is part of a hub hosted Premium Plan. It is on a virtual host in a virtual machine using aolserver (with apache reverse proxy).

It somehow seems appropriate as an example here, since it happens to have a dog and photo theme ;)