Linux web hosting / LAMP

[Uri Even-Chen]

Thank you all for your advice. I read your blog about rackspace cloud,
Hetz. You don't like them too much, do you? I think I will prefer not
to use shared hosting, but it's a good idea to test the software in
shared hosting while in development, and only later move to cloud web
hosting. Currently www.speedy.net is hosted on Servage (a shared
hosting). It works fine, for example you can check Speedy Whois and my
blog.

Shahar, is the Zend Server free as in FOSS? or just free of charge? at
this stage I tend to use only FOSS, I don't know the advantages of
Zend Server and I never used it before. I just read an article about
Zend on Calcalist yesterday
[http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3450861,00.html],
I receive their newsletter.  I think Zeev Suraski should not complain
about facebook not paying Zend.  Free software is free software, and
they received a lot of money from Microsoft.  Facebook is paying its
employees, which many of them are developers, and they also support
open source software.  I don't think they have to pay Zend for using
PHP.

By the way, I heard facebook created a PHP compiler to C++. Does it
mean they will release it as FOSS? It might speed up websites without
having to change anything, just install it and it would speed up your
website.

Uri Even-Chen
Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
E-mail: uri at speedy.net
Website: http://www.speedy.net/




On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to build a new social networking website called Speedy Net. I
> want to use PHP, Javascript and MySQL (LAMP). I am considering where
> to host this website, where one of the options is using Rackspace
> Cloud [http://www.rackspacecloud.com]. If I use Rackspace Cloud, I
> will need to select what type of hosting I want - cloud servers
> (managed or not), cloud sites or cloud files
> [https://signup.rackspacecloud.com/signup?id=1238]. I also need to
> select what Linux distribution to use
> [http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/technology/index.php#os_apps].
> The available options are:
>
> Arch 2010.05
> CentOS 5.5
> CentOS 5.4
> Debian 5.0 (Lenny)
> Fedora 14 (Laughlin)
> Fedora 13 (Goddard)
> Fedora 12 (Constantine)
> Gentoo 10.1
> Oracle EL R5U4
> Oracle EL R5U3 JEOS
> Red Hat EL 5.4
> Red Hat EL 5.3
> Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
> Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
> Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
> Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS (Hardy Heron)
>
> I don't know which distribution to choose! I only used Red Hat Linux,
> about 10 years ago, and even if I select Red Hat - I don't know which
> one. I don't know the difference between distributions, I just know I
> need LAMP.
>
> What do you recommend?
>
> Also, I understand if I choose an unmanaged server, I will need to
> install everything myself - including Apache, PHP and MySQL? Or are
> they installed in the distributions?
>
> How do I backup the database and files? Do I need to select a managed server?
>
> I also received a list of PHP Web Hosting
> [http://www.webhostingreport.com/best-php-hosting.html], but I'm quite
> suspicious of "unlimited" web hosting, for around $3.50 per month. How
> can web hosting be unlimited? Do I really get an unlimited website for
> $3.50 per month?!?
>
> Thanks,
> Uri Even-Chen
> Mobile Phone: +972-50-9007559
> E-mail: uri at speedy.net
> Website: http://www.speedy.net/
>