[clue] Webserver's purpose

[Shawn Perry]

How much security do we really need.  Everyone here doesn't reuse passwords,
right?  Right??

There is alot to be said about "it just works" IMHO, and the VPS doesn't
seem to have that.

It's a sysadmin's job to look at the back end adminy sttuff, sure, but they
also need to look at the user's perspective.  I think the users perspective
is often overlooked.  It's the user that actually uses the service, and if
that service isn't working as they expect, they won't use it, or will use it
improperly.

For example:  I don't use the cluedenver.org site at all.  It's not up do
date when I do check it, and I get the info I need from the mailing list.



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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Dan Kulinski <daniel at kulinski.net> wrote:

> I moved away from shared hosting to a VPS due to several reasons:
>
> Security, reliability and performance.
>
> In regards to security, shared hosting is and always will be a miss.  There
> is no true partitioning.
>
> Reliability, I install a minimum of software to run exactly what I need.
> Sure a VPS is oversold but the controls are much more strict on how
> resources are provisioned.
>
> Finally performance, I don't have nearly the hiccups I have had on a shared
> host.  I can manage all the services and their configurations directly.
>
> To me the complexity is with shared hosting but then again I don't look at
> it strictly from a users perspective since I am a systems administrator by
> trade.
>
> Dan
>
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