Re: [cobalt-users] FTP directories Re Cobalt Please take Note

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It just comes down to what you are trying to do.  I came from a background
in NT and Linux--and chose Cobalt products for the price-effectivness, and
for remote-controllability and stability.  The form-factor and power
consumption is a big plus.

It is kind of unfortunate that people are buying this as an ISP in a box.
What it is really designed for (IMHO) is for ISPs to maximize cost savings
and densities.  Nothing is foolproof--take IIS and NT even (you might not
screw around with the how to use the interface, but you'll probably be using
it a lot more to iron out 'issues' and recovering from crashes).

If you want to run an ISP--you're going to want to get your own servers and
administrate them using traditonal tools.  But if you are already an ISP,
and would like to not have to go out and spend $10k on a new server just to
host your web sites, the Raq2 is a great solution.

THis is of course, just my opinion.

-k

on 2/14/00 3:38 PM, Jeffrey Ferguson at yogi@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I completely agree. I gotten a Cobalt RaQ2 from digitalNATION in just the
> past weeks...
> 
> All this crap about changing things and voiding the warrenty...
> 
> I would suggest to anyone, to goto Amazon, and buy "Unix Unleashed" and grab
> a dedicated Linux server instead of a Cobalt in the future!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: JJMA <jjma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 6:18 PM
> Subject: [cobalt-users] FTP directories Re Cobalt Please take Note
> 
> 
>> 
>> Well I agree with you Fathi on this one. I have had the RAQ for a couple
> of
>> months and come from a design background using win95/98. We were used to a
>> straight forward(in a basic way) operating system where we could easily
>> navigate and create on. We decided to go for the Raq as we were expecting
>> having read the cobalt brochure that the raq system was a major initiative
>> towards making server hosting user friendly for the non technical. The FTP
>> directory 'log on' is a classic example of a major oversight on the
>> corporations' behalf although must be something relatively easy to
>> correct(if your listening cobalt), maybe in a patch or an update for
>> existing RAQ owners.
>> 
>> All of my clients, a 100%, have written or contacted me to say that they
>> cannot upload their web sites because they don't know what ftp directory
> to
>> use and once told they groan! Could Cobalt of expected them to know where
>> they should navigate, having no or little experience of FTP protocol, once
>> logged in as a user to the PROPER/LIVE web directory?
>> 
>> Not so user friendly after all, me thinks.
>> 
>> Jonathan Alstead
>> 
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