Re: [cobalt-users] server appliance vs macosx/linux server

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Jomo Aykay wrote:

> hello.
> 
> we have a virtual unix server at a webhosting company at the moment and
> are thinking of switching to our own Linux or MacOS X server or to a
> server appliance such as the cobalt raq4.
> 
> therefore we would like to know what the exact advantages (and more
> important: the disadvantages!!) of a dedicated server as the cobalt raq4
> are, compared to a linux or macosx server. (at the moment our websites
> are hosted on a sun aries at the webhsoting company)
> 
> especially the following things are of high interest to us:
> 
> - possibility to host about 10-20 virtual domains
Everything runs with a GUI... it supports much more virtual domains, i am
not sure of the number, but it's above 100...

> - Wusage statistic software

Not familiar with that one, most of us here use Webalizer (http://www.webalizer.com/)
> - Subdomains
Yeah, but they count as different sites in the Cobalt's GUI... if you want
that thing you can do it manually, it's the same Apache webserver you'll
have on any other flavour 
> - SSH
There's a package that will install that
> - SSL
Comes with the box
> - firewall 
There's a package that will install that
> - Email Options such as Mail Forwarders, Catchall Forwarding,
> Autoresponders, more than just one real POP email addresses, WebMail(!)
Webmail you'll have to install alone, all the rest are already there...
> - the possibility to build and install additional PHP libraries (i.e.
> mysql, gd, from www.boutell.com, etc.) and other additional (unix/linux)
> softwares
Possible, if you know what you're doing
> - Macromedia Flash support
Irrelevant to server (client side software only)
> - perhaps quicktime or real support (not so important yet)
If you mean streaming with them, you'll have to buy the software from the
appropriate vendors... The cobalt will support them, as it's a linux
flavour (modified redhat linux)

> i hope you can help us
hope I did.
> 
> thank you,
> 
You welcome.
> jomo aykay
> 
- shimi