Hello Folks,
I am thinking of moving to an RPS II hosting package, my site is a blog & a photo repository, low traffic at present but may get quite busy.
There will be only one, possibly 2 domains on the server.
I plan to run Wordpress & Gallery II (or Coppermine) with the option for ecommerce later, probably Zen as I know the Zen package.
What operating system would the users here recommend?
Should I go bare distro or get the Gentoo installation with Webmin & PhpMyAdmin?
What has been the uptime experience of users here?
Is it true that the main pof is the iSCSI connection which drops rather too easily?
I have been told that open-iSCSI is still in hot development - is that true?
What do people do for backups?
Please only answer from experience with OVH, no "I used RH5 at HostX and liked it".
Thank you in advance - it is very useful to be allowed into this forum prior to purchase & if I commit I will be as helpful as I can in my turn.
I ran a hosting company for 7 years, but sold it in 2005 as we were making less & less money - we were a Red Hat house, with individual hardware servers only, no SAN even - very old-fashioned but jolly reliable & maintainable.
Regards,
Nico Morrison
London UK
http://nicomorrison.com