[cobalt-users] One Good Reason ..

["Russell" <rga@xxxxxx>]

 Okay, sorry to take up time for such a Q.
 But I need some straight talk ..

 .. and notice that cobalt knowledge base doesn't 
    even have Raq4 articles ..
 
    are they going out of business and just 
    not saying anything ??

 I know this ain't no 12 step support group, but 
 I'm ready to bail on my rental contract w/ 
 a company leasing me a RaQ4r ..

 I'm no computer dummy, program perl very well,
 but don't run web servers, the Raq was proclaimed
 to be the "entry level" run everything from the 
 browser web server ..

 Here's my delimma: It's SSL H*ll

 First, I must be able to run some kind of 
 shared SSL, it will be quite hard for me
 to sell what I have and ask folks to pay
 $ 125 - $ 300 per cert, when joe blow
 down the street gives it away on a $ 22.00 
 per month web site ..

 Second, my box's main host site has a cert,
 which runs okay (way slow - even for SSL), 
 which by Cobalt's manual auto enabled the 
  SSL admin server, which works okay ..

 Try using a virtual site ../sitename.com/siteadmin/
   login, and HTTPS is forced (no choice) which 
   of course reports a name mismatch on the cert ..

 This is pretty cute for customers to log into.
 I wouldn't think this is a confidence builder
 for my customers ..

 Just what the H*ll is cobalt thinking of here.
 I'll need to privately purchase a $ 300 cert
 just to keep my customers who use the web 
 based /siteadmin/ UI ??



   .. How to make SSL available to virtual sites ?
  
  What about this ..

  * But 1 additional cert for www.mysecurehost.com
  * Give my virtual sites a user account under 
     www.mysecurehost.com/~user1/cgi-bin/

     Pretty awkward if folks want to work with
     their own cgi files .. requires seperate
     log ins ??

   If someone might give me one good reason
   why I shouldn't chunk this whole project
   right out the window ..

   I certainly don't feel I'm in the promised
   land of web hosting ..    

   Please, no admonishment for whining here.
   I'm sincerely frustrated, with money and 
   so far plenty of hours working my way
   through the Raq, only to find it will
   probably not be able to compete with
   normal hosting packages .. and not even 
   come close as a server to run cgi 
   shopping cart enabled sites from ..