[ZendTo] Re: Which zend.to is right for me?

[Jules]

I would wholeheartedly agree with that. Do it the easy way, just use my 
VM distributions. Upgrading everything is dead simple ("yum update" on 
CentOS or "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" on Ubuntu). And you know it 
will work (believe it or not, I do actually test it occasionally! :-)

Doing your own home-built server is definitely the hard way to do it.

Jules.

On 06/10/2011 22:43, Brad Beckenhauer wrote:
> Personally,
> Since you have been out of the Linux world for awhile, I'd recommend 
> that you consider starting by using one of Julians pre-made vm's.  
> That way you would be using a pre-configured vm that everyone could 
> easily comment on if you need help.  Putting the system into 
> "production" will involve editing a few text files. But there are a 
> number of folks on the list that can help you out.
>
> If you build your system, there will always be a question about how or 
> what process you used to configure the system, permissions, how did 
> you compile your packages, etc.
>
> We use Julian's 64 bit CentOS vm and other than a few custom text 
> edits requested by our Support team, Zendto is pretty stock and it 
> just works  ( thank you Julian).  Files under 2BG have been pretty 
> much trouble free.  If you're going to be sending files over 2GB, I'd 
> read up on the forum to get up to speed on the issues others are having.
>
> Updates for CentOS and Zendto involve just one command ( yum update) 
> from a command line that can be accessed via ssh or via the Vmware 
> Host console.
>
> Just a few points for your consideration.  I'm sure that others can 
> contribute additional thoughts for you to consider.
>
> Brad
>
>
> >>> Jonathan Barker 10/06/11 6:55 AM >>>
>
> I?m really interested in the zend.to application, but i haven?t 
> touched a linux box in over 10 years.  We?re a mostly Windows/AD 
> environment.  I was able to get the Virtual Machine installed on our 
> ESX server, and i started a plain Ubuntu install to get some GUI going 
> to make patching, editing, and general administration a little easier 
> considering my Windows background.  The problem is that without a 
> step-by-step, i?m going to have problems.  For instance, with the VM, 
> it took me about 15 minutes to figure out how to edit a config file.  
> Should i stick with the VM (will patching be simple?) or should i keep 
> plugging along on the Ubuntu install?
>
>
>
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