Permaculture Database

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

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Subject: Re: [permaculture] database, wiki, blogs, forums, etc
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:35:12 -0500
From: neshura <neshura@gmail.com>
Reply-To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>

Like Rich said, places like textdrive.com and other tech-savvy hosting
companies give you everything you need to run a full db-driven
application, an apache instance (or many), etc etc without the
necessity of sudo. Sudo is in fact not necessary to run any of these
things -- a certain amount of administrator privileges can be
conferred securely without having to give someone root. Shared server
space is much much cheaper than dedicated server space and often more
secure as well, since staff admins are breathing down the necks of the
share-ees.

As an additional comment though, there are not a lot of companies that
will give you shared server space to *develop* a db-driven
application. Since you won't be able to tell a hosting company that
your app is production-ready, chances are high that you will need to
run your own server in a colo, and that is substantially more
expensive. Definitely try to find someone who will donate space that
doesn't violate the TOS if you are messing around restarting apache or
postgres or upgrading from CPAN or whatever.