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Got a dedicated server

While it’s a bit early, I went ahead with Hypernia.net and got a dedicated server for development. Mainly right now it will be for source control. The price is somewhat high, at $150 a month, but this means I no longer have the security and speed problems of using my own home computer. It also […]

While it’s a bit early, I went ahead with Hypernia.net and got a dedicated server for development. Mainly right now it will be for source control. The price is somewhat high, at $150 a month, but this means I no longer have the security and speed problems of using my own home computer. It also means certain kinds of work can be done more easily, such as writing the webpage and database stuff, since it can all be done on the server directly.

I briefly considered using Orcsweb for source control but god what a ripoff. They charge you full-price for a Vault license, when in practice the price goes down the more licenses you buy. Then they charge a per-developer montly ($40) and setup fee, ($20) when in fact there is no per-developer incremental cost to the host, aside from a trival amount of bandwidth. At 4 developers it’s already the same price as my dedicated server and all I’ve saved is the trouble of installing SQL Express and Vault. I’m not sure why anyone would use them.

Now I’m faced with trying to figure out how to setup all the web services, such as email, FTP, security, and web hosting. IIS isn’t that easy to figure out when combined with user security rights and database security rights. Hopefully I run across someone who already knows all this stuff.

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