I recently moved from hostgator to slicehost. I signed up with hostgator because it seemed to be a cheap place ($10/mo) to play with rails. It turns out that hostgator doesn’t really do rails (they offer it via cgi, not even fastcgi). They didn’t allow me to install things like the Send2Wiki perl module or give me access to execute scripts from PHP either.
With slicehost I get a VPS for $20 / mo. I’ve never used a VPS before but have run my own web servers, so it seems worth a shot. In the process of getting it set up I’ve learned more about DNS, iptables, fastcgi, etc than before, so that is fun, but also a time drain. Anyway, now I’ve got the access I need to set up Send2Wiki and run rails apps.
After hearing Justin rave about WPMU, I thought I would give it a shot. WP normally installs easy, so I expected the same. It would have except I wanted to install WPMU in a subdirectory. My Googling gave warnings against doing so, but I shrugged them off and forged ahead and tried to hack it to get it to work. Bad idea. It may be possible to do, and I got it to almost work, but certainly it doesn’t fall within the scope of famous 5 minutes install. So I’ve backed off and returned to the single user version.
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by admin
Filed under: web development
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