Re: [cobalt-users] Goodbye Cobalt!

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/4/00 3:48 PM, PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx at PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Well...
> 
> I'm sick and tired of what i've been going through with cobalt servers...
> 
> My hard drive failed the other day... 200 customers gone...  I had to
> re-enter them in the GUI and asked them to re-upload their sites.  Seems like
> everyones uploading and once and the new cobalt server crashed...

I don't mean any offense by this, but where was your backup?

That is precisely the reason why it is important to have a good backup
routine, as well as why I've been saying RAID is required if you only have
one web server (i.e. you're not load balancing and have a hot spare online).

> Well it turns out there are other solutions then cobalt....  You can get a
> dedicated RedHat server and then this software which you should check out...
> which is BETTER then cobalt's GUI: http://www.alabanza.com -- Gives you and
> your customers a GUI.  Your customer's GUI can even make web sites from it!

I remember looking at Alabanza not too long ago and wasn't really very
impressed.  That'd be cool if they have a good product.  I do agree that
competition is good, especially in this market when Cabalt is the defacto
leader in 'server appliances'.

> Right now I'm selling my business to another company just so I don't have to
> deal with this stress anymore (750 customer biz).  However I will be keeping
> a cobalt RaQ for my own personal use, so I am still willing to help on the
> list.  I think cobalt raqs should be a bit more versitile, better cpu,
> ability to add more ram, stronger connections, etc...

Hopefully the Raq4 will bridge a bit of the gap--it would have really saved
a lot of time (and money) in your situation.

Good luck!
-k