So it was with my latest foray into virtualization on the
cheap. The client could barely afford to
pay me let alone invest thousands in licensing fees. So we had to get creative without sacrificing
stability.
That can be a tall order especially when everything you're
using is Open Source.
Now I have my issues with the way the Open Source community
does things but a good product is a good product regardless of who made it.
Of course, "good" is a relative term.
It's always a trade off.
A bit of pain to save a lot of money is fair but too much pain can cost
more than if you'd just went with a commercial option. And I do mean "commercial" because
I still firmly believe that any product that relies on a fractured support
community or high priced "experts" to make a product work is just
this side of an amateur effort.
Not that all open source products are that way, however.
Some communities are better than others and if they put together a solid package with "readable" documentation then I'm all for it. If we're just stroking somebody's ego so they can get a guest spot on Floss Weekly I'll take a pass every time.
Some communities are better than others and if they put together a solid package with "readable" documentation then I'm all for it. If we're just stroking somebody's ego so they can get a guest spot on Floss Weekly I'll take a pass every time.
I put CentOS, the open source version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and
Z-panel, the open source clone of C-panel squarely in the "good"
category.
Together they offered a cost effective and relatively stable
platform for web hosting. Add in a
virtual platform for them to live on and you've got a web host that could fit on
a keychain. Not bad...
Instead of bore you with 4000 words of text describing my latest
open source virtualization adventure I've created a video that takes you from
creating the virtual machine to administering your new web host.
As you're watching you may miss a few of the links in the
video. I've provided them below.
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