Daniel Von Fange

Life, Code, and Cool Stuff

New Server Woes

I’ve spent the last two days bashing the new servers into shape. Things should not have to be this hard! Maybe Macs have spoiled me, but it should take only a few minutes to setup a virtual hosting computer, not a few days. If I had dollar for every time I put my hostname, or ip address into yet another config file.

Currently I’m off scouring the web for a better way.

Here is what I really want:

  • Runs on any linux/BSD
  • I only have to configure the software, and it builds and configures, the individual server software.
  • Web based control panel
  • Free