From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 23:48:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22AD1065676 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:48:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-121.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-121.bluehost.com [67.222.38.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 801588FC14 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:48:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 17664 invoked by uid 0); 7 Nov 2008 23:48:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2008 23:48:50 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Buz3+RGgsC0ER5ks+Ndi4bahYv8fzZ/E2eIeuzhJnQGUg2/JFChWfC1mgyDp7vTsIYCi5ZiNrFAn9m/yhQOkW+jyiyO38Twg/idFPOCpCG3GAdG3kR1emfP4e5L7FL9C; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kyb4L-0007eb-RE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:48:50 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:49:14 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:49:14 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081107234914.GC5725@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <49138F93.3040300@embarqmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:48:52 -0000 --XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:28:07AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: >=20 > If you are totally new to Linux/Unix and have zero experience and just wa= nt > an easy, out of the box "something other" than XP you might try the latest > incarnation of Kubuntu. I know in a FreeBSD list these comments are > sacrilege, but the broader picture is what your needs truly are. I'd suggest PC-BSD instead, and not only because it's a FreeBSD spin-off. It also provides PBI for software management, which will surely provide a gentler transition for people used to the Microsoft way of installing software, and doesn't make a lot of the design mistakes I see in Ubuntu and its spin-offs. DesktopBSD is a pretty good choice along those lines, too. Still better than Ubuntu, in my opinion. Furthermore . . . they both use KDE by default, and you don't have to use a red-headed stepchild or second-hand citizen like Kubuntu to get it. >=20 > Now running a real live "Web" presence out of your house is probably not > really a good idea if it has anything to do with business. A personal blog > can go down for indefinite periods and no harm done, but a business site = is > a different story. First, the reason for having your servers located in a > data center is they are sitting directly on the "fat pipes" of the > Internet. Second, these data centers are "multi homed" in their peerage to > other backbones. If one connection path develops a problem your site is > still going to be accessible via one of the other paths. You simply will > never have the kind of connectivity found in a real data center at home. Make sure the colocation facility of your choice is multi-homed before simply assuming it is. Some aren't. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Larry Wall: "Just don't create a file called -rf." --XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkU0/oACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKWPGACg8uWPnlBAa1Ac3ScknID9eP5e CHgAn2dugy/b+Y4jK8CA2ceX7APKuyPc =tWTN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XMCwj5IQnwKtuyBG--