Re: webhosting

[John Armstrong <siberian@siberian.org>]

Hi Vincent-
	Congrats on the switchover. I hope it works for you and I 
hope you have some UNIX knowledge before attempting this. If you read 
the install documents carefully it will tell you how to do 
everything. There is even a shell script that will walk you through 
setting it up in a virtually hosted environment.

Make sure you have telnet access and are able to run daemon's for 
extended periods of time. Some ISP's will cut your processes dead 
after xx minutes of CPU time or idle time. That means that minivend 
wont run as its a daemon which means it won't really run at all.

Also, I would not advise using the mysql stuff unless you really 
really have a need. Minivends built in databases are much faster and 
easier to work with. They also can do just about everything the sql 
databases do for the average user. The headaches and time you will 
save on your first installation will be fantastic.

You will need them to run a startup script which is also documented.

Good luck. Read those docs! Trust me, you will need to!

>Hi!
>
>I convinced my boss to switch from Windows NT to UNIX-based hosting. My
>host is  at www.webhosting.com . I want to now know what features are
>required to use Minivend on a remote host. I got Perl and all the
>necessary modules, MySQL too. Do I have to put some script at the
>startup process of the machine? What if they reboot the server, will I
>have to restart minivend manually? The real question is: what do I have
>to ask to the support staff to make sure I can use minivend?
>
>Thanks
>
>Vincent Brousseau
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