RE: [cobalt-users] administration - web or manual?

["Neil J. Kemp" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>We put DNS on servers that run strictly DNS, IMHO RAQs are not meant to
>run DNS, anything past 20 or so domains become a kludge, we host hundreds
>of domains so dedicated name servers make more sense.

I disagree. We have over 700 domains running their primary DNS on a RaQ2
with no problems at all. Granted I have NEVER used the web interface for
this and do it manually (after all it's just BIND (an older version though)
running on a Linux box, But if you meant RaQ's not to meant DNS under the
interface I apologise and agree to a certain extent. It's very restrained as
to what you can and can't do. No CNAMES for example, but people that just
need MX's and A's this should suffice. My opinion anyway.

>Cobalt's whole mission was to provide a click and drool interface to make
>basic webhosting easier.  Where they have gone wrong is not telling
>customers that they only support the interface.  That they don't support
>Linux questions, for that you neeed to go to linux.com, the mailing list,
>or some other linux support mechanism.

Agree with you completely! How can Cobalt support custom changes that will
affect all their items. What is annoying though is that Cobalt don't seem to
monitor this list as a full technical staff (yes I know it's Cobalt USERS)
but it would be nice if they would sometimes say how something worked so
even if they wouldn't provide a solution they could atleast explain the
premise (does that make any sense? I think I lost myself!)

>Linux is not hard to learn, it is no harder than truly running an NT box
>or Novell box the correct way, the same amount of knowledge needs to be
>applied.  In my opinion linux is easier to run, I prefer text config files
>to registry hacks anyday  :)

I think NT's probably easier (my opinion) for most users to get to grips
with as majority have been brought up with Windows of some form. Personally
though I LOVE my Linux machines.

--Neil

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