[clue] Webserver's purpose

[Brian Gibson]

on the question of performance, does the site's current (or future) traffic 
justify the hardware on which it currently runs?

what data is stored on the site that requires its own box?  Besides, I'd expect 
the weakest link is not in the server configuration, but in the application 
stack of whatever is running on the server. 


now, if there's software that needs to be run that is not allowed in shared 
hosting environment, then that's certainly a good reason for using a VPS.  But 
given the size of the site and the lack of sensitive information, performance 
and security are weak arguments in favor of a VPS.






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From: Shawn Perry <shawn at redmop.com>
To: CLUE's mailing list <clue at cluedenver.org>
Sent: Wed, May 25, 2011 1:30:16 PM
Subject: Re: [clue] Webserver's purpose

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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