Hi Benmania, Benmania Guin wrote:
I have some experience with Zope on my desktop pc with an WIN XP operating system. Now I want to order my own virtual server but I am unsure about the features I will need and I do not know how to install ZOPE on such a system at all. Can you give me any advice what features I will certainly need, e.g. SSH(?), Root access(?)? Can you tell me where I can find more infos about this issue (installing ZOPE on different VServers with different OSs)?
I've just ordered the "Zope Virtual Server" from Zettai, which seemed to mysteriously morph from a Zope instance to a virtual server part way through the sign up process - which I am very happy about. I wouldn't have chosen a virtual server initially, because all my experience is Win32 and I don't have time to learn for this project. However, it feels like the best of both worlds - I didn't have to set Zope up at all, it was all in place for me (Zope 2.8.1, Plone 2.1 + the "classic" products I'd have expected to install), and I get SSH and Root access more or less as a bonus. The only thing I have had to get my head around is the file system - but that hasn't been hard at all. You might consider a Zettai account, or you might want to see how they do it, 'cos they seem to have got it right from my PoV. Put it this way - I bought a second identical account less than a week later for a personal project.
I hope my inquiries were not too trivial to be answered.
Not at all - this is important! -- Regards, PhilK Email: phil@xfr.co.uk PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail & Facsimile: 07092 070518 "You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start." - Tony Harrison