Re: [cobalt-users] management services

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 05 March 2004 06:03 am, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:

> I would consider either a monthly service from someone like Jeff
> Lasman instead of buying that service from my ISP. No company that
> rents you a Cobalt server for $100 a month promises to maintain and
> update it for you as part of that.

Thanks, Dan <blush>.

As the Sun Cobalt RaQs get more and more outdated they also get harder 
to keep updated; as you know, Sun Cobalt is not always up-to-date on 
issuing patches, even for serious exploits.  We were actually 
considering dropping support for RaQs as they get more expensive to 
maintain (we spend time looking for patches and do RPM patches and even 
manual patches against source and rebuilding when severe exploits are 
known to exist in "the wild"), but I suppose as long as there's a 
demand we're going to be a source of supply.

I spent a few hours yesterday with a friend and business "partner" from 
whom I get a fair amount of business, and we discussed possible future 
directions.  He appears to be interested in running RaQ550 software on 
top of Red Hat 9, while I'm looking at, using, and supporting other 
hosting platforms as well.

The original poster doesn't make it clear that he doesn't own his own 
Raq4, but if he does rent, he might be better off looking at other 
platforms where he can get a complete managed service on another 
platform for less than what he's paying now, or for not much more.

I know I'm not the only person on this list who offers these commercial 
services, and I don't know of one bad choice among us.

Jeff
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