I wasn't getting a response from buffistas.org for about a half hour, sometime between 12 & 1 PM board time.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Sue - Nov 11, 2003 11:19:42 am PST #6060 of 10000
hip deep in pie
Consuela - Nov 11, 2003 11:49:03 am PST #6061 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Me neither, Sue. Couldn't get in for about an hour. I was very unhappy.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2003 8:08:54 pm PST #6062 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay -- 40,000 more posts excised from the database.
Questions have been sent off to istrata. Waiting on results.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2003 4:46:26 am PST #6063 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In the "huh, curious" category, the first e-mail address listed on the istrata site (info@istrata.com) does not work.
Stay tuned.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2003 11:11:13 am PST #6064 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In terms of responsiveness, I'm not impressed with iStrata so far.
One non-working e-mail address, and only automated responses to sales@ and support@
Typo Boy - Nov 12, 2003 11:37:13 am PST #6065 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Sound like we need to check out the other one - Dreamhost is it?
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2003 11:45:04 am PST #6066 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dreamhost was brought up, but not dedicated, I think. Their dedicated is pretty expensive. Their shared has the conueries thing, where you kinda pay for connections, but with the MySQL bug ...
t goes to check e-mail
Look! Reply!
sorry for the confusion regarding the iStrata web site, it's actually not a production site yet however we have been selling the products for almost a year now. I'll answer your questions inline below.
The server comes loaded with RedHat 7.3 with all the standard web hosting software such as the Apache web server, PHP, MySQL, etc. We also install the Plesk control panel which in addition to giving you a web based interface for almost everything you would want to do, it also integrates POP, IMAP, and web based mail. The latest version of Plesk (version 6) also includes MailMan mailing list software, and we should be able to provide version 6 immediately.
You also get full root access to the server and are responsible for the management and backup of the server. However we provide an autoupdate service that will keep the server software up to date and apply all security patches for you, so there's little to do other than to maintain your sites and keep a backup on hand. The DS1 server is $99/setup and $99/mo (as I said the site is not in production, specifically the setup fee is not waived as stated). You can add raid 1 (mirroring) for $249/setup and $10/mo. If you need the additional 512MB of memory (most folks don't), you can add this for $129/setup, $0/mo.
Kristen - Nov 12, 2003 12:07:22 pm PST #6067 of 10000
Huh. So they don't do nightly backups?
I need to go look at my list of management services now.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2003 12:12:22 pm PST #6068 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They do have an automated nightly SQL backups, and a config backup.
Those are the two that I'm most nervous about, since I my code at home is never more than 8 hours out of synch with the site itself. Config, I have no idea how to start, and SQL -- backing it up across the pipe is really time-consuming.
Kristen - Nov 12, 2003 12:23:28 pm PST #6069 of 10000
I had assumed, I'm not sure why, that the istrata plans were fully managed the way the FG/IH plan was. So now I'm just wondering what else they might not be taking care of.
It seems like they backup the database but you have to DL it and are responsible for restoring it in the event of a problem.