<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">on the question of performance, does the site's current (or future) traffic justify the hardware on which it currently runs?<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br><br><div style="font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Shawn Perry <shawn@redmop.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CLUE's mailing list <clue@cluedenver.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, May 25, 2011 1:30:16 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [clue] Webserver's purpose<br></font><br>
How much security do we really need. Everyone here doesn't reuse passwords, right? Right??<br clear="all"><br>There is alot to be said about "it just works" IMHO, and the VPS doesn't seem to have that.<br>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example: I don't use the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://cluedenver.org">cluedenver.org</a> 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.</div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div><br>Shawn T Perry<br>Red Mop Computing Services<br>email: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:shawn@redmop.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:shawn@redmop.com">shawn@redmop.com</a><br>office: 720-319-7627<br>cell: 303-881-2623<br><span>web: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.redmop.com/">http://www.redmop.com/</a></span><br><span>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Dan Kulinski <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:daniel@kulinski.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:daniel@kulinski.net">daniel@kulinski.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I moved away from shared hosting to a VPS due to several reasons:<br><br>Security, reliability and performance. <br><br>In regards to security, shared hosting is and always will be a miss. There is no true partitioning.<br>
<br>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.<br><br>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. <br>
<br>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. <br><font color="#888888"><br>Dan<br>
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