Re: [cobalt-users] Support, Warranty and Hype

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> Within the next week I'll be getting a whitebox with Plesk on it.
> Before March I'll have another, and hopefully by July I'll have a few
> more. Those might not even have Plesk, who knows? But being that it's
> written in PHP and I can very easily plug my own scripts in it, I'll
> probably keep it... why reinvent the wheel?

Hmmmmm... I've never seen a white rack-mount system.  Mine are all black
<smile>.  We currently buy 1u rackmount systems with 800mhz cpu, 512
megabyte of memory, and 20 gig hd for about us$700.  We get a
dual-processor capable system with dual 40 gig drives and hardware raid,
for about $1300.  We get 450mhz systems with 10 gigabyte hard disks and
128 meg of memory for about $325.

Plesk isn't cheap, though <smile>.

> Thom, your main gripe is with majordomo... but think about it, you're
> a real majordomo power-user. Most new hosts aren't. Hell, I'd dare
> say that most new hosts have never had their own web site, they're
> just hopping into the field for the money potential. So what these
> little blue beasts do is enough to get those people by until they've
> either learned enough or gotten enough clients that they need to move
> to something more (either hardware or software).

Anyone who still has issues with majordomo should either do a second
install as I do, or for people who don't know how, shell out the money
it costs to have someone else do it.  We're quite happy with our
majordomo installations, and support them fully on the official
majordomo email list.

Jeff
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