Alan Gutierrez

I purchased two servers at GoDaddy.com, one for myself and one for Think New Orleans, since they are not that expensive, I thought I’d purchase new servers as Think New Orleans took on more projects.

GoDaddy.com was chosen because they supported Fedora Core 4, which is what I’m currently running at ljubljana.blogometer.com. The server I purchased for Think New Orleans got off to an inauspcious start. Messages were popping up on the console informing me that the CPU was out of its temperature range. After filing a report, and waiting quite a while, I got a call telling me that the CPU fan was out. It was replaced.

Then I spend a couple hours wrestling with Plesk, trying to get it to host a WordPress blog. There were security features of PHP that prevented WordPress from running. I found myself trolling web bulletin boards reading about PHP configurations. Life it too short for this.

Why bother? I thought it would be nice to have managed hosting, and that Plesk would make that easier, since the GoDaddy.com managers would be familiar with it. That only creeped into my head as I was fixing Plesk, though. Something is broken, must fix, must justify loss three hours of life. Obsessive compulsive server adminsitration.

Plesk is rubbish. The application is virtual hosting of a lot of pet stores and such. Easy install guest book script, oh boy!

After filing a request to rebuild the server without it, I picked off the dependencies with rpm -e while watching the Daily Show, so I hope they don’t come by and zap my server now that it is Plesk free.

The upshot is that I’m going to lease a third dedicated server from LunarPages or SingleHop and start building out a CentOS distribution. It seems to be popular and there are more hosting options with it.

I’m pleased to see that there is finally a place to go after the end of Red Hat.