Posted: 11/16/2009 4:10:43 PM EDT
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So I am going to do an online classifieds website. What would be the best route? Something a little better than craigslist and maybe not so neato as ebay. Something like link.
Please discuss. |
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Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP).
Cheapest, easiest way to go is Unix based hosting and Joomla IMHO. http://www.joomla.org/ |
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FreeBSD Apache (1.3) PostgreSQL Perl (and not just because it spells FAPP)
If you're building a site from the ground up, Perl+Mason gives you an excellent foundation for building a CMS, and if you have a lot of backend tasks to do, it integrates very nicely with the Perl. PostgreSQL because a transactional database is really much more appropriate for sites highly dynamic content. Yes MySQL has 3rd party table handlers that give you transactions, but Postgres works very nicely out of the box. FreeBSD for a long list of reasons. |
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Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP). Cheapest, easiest way to go is Unix based hosting and Joomla IMHO. http://www.joomla.org/ Yep, LAMP. |
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I work in a large IT shop - we have thousands of servers with a mix of operating systems –– pretty much any OS you can name. The Unix variants are often up for months at a time without issue. I wish I could say that about the Windows servers –– most of them have to be rebooted weekly to keep them from running out of various resources.
When we have to get new servers for a project, we have a choice between Windows and Linux machines and we ALWAYS choose Linux unless there is some proprietary software that absolutely will not run on Windows. |
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Ok, let me clarify. I have quest internet at home for whoever was curious. I am going to buy a service, probably from godaddy, from what I see they have a unix or windows version for hosting.
I have been a sw developer my whole life, but have never ever written a web app. I am basically looking for a framework that will have some picture and search capability, catagories, etc. I figure an account with godaddy is going to run about $10/mo with a name. |
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Quoted: I work in a large IT shop - we have thousands of servers with a mix of operating systems –– pretty much any OS you can name. The Unix variants are often up for months at a time without issue. I wish I could say that about the Windows servers –– most of them have to be rebooted weekly to keep them from running out of various resources. When we have to get new servers for a project, we have a choice between Windows and Linux machines and we ALWAYS choose Linux unless there is some proprietary software that absolutely will not run on Windows. we've got a mix of linux (CentOS) and windoze (2003) we've got issues with the windoze machines from time to time. the linux ones run longer w/o issues. we had one older Fedora (IIRC) machine that we just rtook down the other day for the first time in about 3 years or so, to update (replace) the OS  We'd probably run all Linux boxes, but those specific boxes corporate HQ wants running '03 (influened by the IT guy there (he doesn't know linux at all)) |
| I work for a very large hosting provider, and I run a few websites for some car clubs. Without a doubt, the LAMP architecture is the most popular, and IMO, the easiest to use. You might check out OpenHosting.com. I have three websites hosted with them and haven't ever had a problem with their VPS product. |
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Personally I like a company like slicehost.com. You start off at like $20 a month for a piece of a server and as your needs grow so can your server with a minimum of downtime. Yeah, openhosting has a 'token based' billing system. I've never come close to using up the tokens I get for my $30/month, and I have a full Linux virtual server with root shell access, etc. I can install packages via RPM, and they build in full system backups, just in case. The only thing that makes it "virtual" is the network adapters, which all belong to the host system....for 99% of the hosting crowd, it makes no difference. |