RE: FN-FORUM Virtual Internet - Don't go there.

date posted 13th July 2001 19:25

At 18:52 13/07/2001 +0100, Dave wrote:
> > I was told by Virtual Internet that I was purchasing an industry-standard
> > Linux server with Apache, PostgreSQL, Majordomo, etc.
>
>Mmmm thats naughty. The Raqs are not really your vanilla box due the
>cobalt gui
>etc.

I know that now!

>Its probably an industry standard appliance though :-)
>
>Did you not look into what you were buying before you bought it?

I only looked at the VI and Cobalt sites personally. I bought the box on
the recommendation of the programmer who had been hired to rebuild
Chopstix. He was supposed to check into whether the server would do what
was required. A few months later he effectively took the money and ran, but
that's another story...

Had I not been relying upon him, I would've checked the RAQ4 user groups
myself. Having said that, where you're told (or read) that a box has
Apache, PostgreSQL, etc, I'd say the tendency is not worry too much.

>Something that unfortunately needs to be done in this day and age no
>matter who
>you are dealing with.
>
>Although Raqs are designed for people with minimal sysadmin knowledge you
>can do
>more or less anything you need to with them for straight forward hosting etc.

Yes, that's true... but I wanted to run HTML::Mason, dynamic canonical
domains, addition mod_rewrites, add users, easily set up email virtmaps,
etc. These are all things that are straight forward on a Red Hat box.

>enough of that though....
>
>Do VI have their description of a Raq in print or web anywhere??

Yep... http://www.raq4u.co.uk/ - and they don't seem to have changed the
site since my complaint either.

--
Ian Fenn
Liang ba shiah dz / Ai chu fong to, Chopstix Media Limited
http://www.chopstixmedia.com/

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