Re: considering rackspace colo, use BSD or Linux?

From: phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Date: 02/08/02 

From: phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Date: 8 Feb 2002 08:30:08 GMT

Daniel Smith <dls@ihatespammersdaniel.org.nowhere.com> wrote:

> I currently lease a Cobalt RaQ. The machine died this morning,
> and I am considering moving my domains over to a leased
> machine at rackspace.com.

rackspace.com has a bad reputation in news.admin.abuse.e-mail,
this could affect your reachability.

Before signing with them, make shure that they fix their
spamming problem.

> The choices that appeal to me are Linux and FreeBSD.
> I am wondering which would better, security-wise, everything
> else being equal.

> The machine will be used for about 5 domains. I will
> be running Apache/PHP/MySQL. I am considering
> the use of sendmaiil with wrappers. Check email
> through some sort of ssh tunnel?

> The basic ports I see open will be ssh, apache, and
> sendmail. No telnet or ftp spoken here :-)

> Opinons on which OS? Is Rackspace.com as good
> as the reviews I am reading? A main use of the
> machine will be development of a web-based
> photography database, as well as photo web sites
> (perhaps commercial) for the shots that my wife and I take.

> thanks for any followup,

> Daniel Smith 

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