On Saturday 29 September 2007 19:56, joe wrote:
primm wrote:
Thanks. It's good advice. I must admit to using out of the box applications and expecting them to just work. Usually they do. I suppose if I bought the windows server I'd get 24/7 support.
If you bought linux server you'd get 24/7 support as well.
Maybe that's what I should be looking at in my situation.
How would downgrading to windoze help? If you want paid support, it's available with SLES or other linux distros. I work in a shop where the managers would love to see an all windoze shop, but the reality is they need unix in the server room because windoze doesn't "just work" in quite a few situations - and support doesn't help. The only solution found thus far is to let unix/linux handle those tasks.
I have however learned a lot from this experience, especially from the (free) advice given here. So I'm going to continue with my Linux setup until I understand enough not to have to trouble the list. I wish to thank everyone for their contributions in helping me solve this problem and I hope that I have not wasted your time on something trivial.
Everyone has to start somewhere, so please don't feel bad about asking for help. Just pass it on someday when the shoe is on the other foot.
Joe
Hi and thanks Joe. You give me new hope. I run a photo studio here in Alicante and have precious little time to sort out computer matters. Fact is, since I put up a website our client base has grown a lot. It's a steep learning curve from point and click XP to firewall, port, Apache, ftp, ssh, MySQL, php, 3306, 80, the cli, the Linux permission system. . . for over 3 months we have had not one virus take us down. It just works without having to reinstall so frequently. I got the impression I was wasting the time of people on the list. In fact, looking back at my question it was not as trivial as it sounds as I also wanted to preserve the integrity of our system as we serve the web pages from our own PC's. I'm a secretary who left xp to install a proper server. Another doubt I had was as to whether this list was also for people using opensuse commercially. Maybe I'm breaking the law making money indirectly from opensuse. I don't mind paying for support but the advice here is all I need. I am new to the list having taken over the e-mail from my previous incumbent. If the list is simply for hobbyists then could you please point me in the right direction elsewhere. I looked at the opensuse list details but there is no mention as to it's use. Love and kisses from Lynn. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org