Mark Hahn wrote:
>You should get together and share one virtual server.  You are planning on
>using/supporting the same environment, and one server can host multiple
>domains.

Curt Hibbs wrote:
>This is an excellent idea, especially since the only account on their
server
>that will meet all of my foreseeable needs is the "Reseller" account. This
>lets you host multiple domains, and owner of each domain as full
>administrative control over their own domain.
>
>If I did this, how many people out their would be interested in sub-leasing
>ruby server space with their own domain? What would you be willing to pay
>each month?
>
>Personally, I am planning to get into Ruby in a bug way, but I am still a
>newbie. So, I would be willing to give free server space to anyone who
>wanted to volunteer to setup and maintain the ruby server extensions.
>
>Anyone interested?

I should mention that www.lightspeedhost.com (the company I thinking of
hosting with) uses the Ensim virtual server package (see www.ensim.com) and
is running Redhat 6.1 in each virtual server. Ensim has a very nice
web-based administration pack for configuring most common components, but
for the hardcore, there's always telnet with root access.

The software that is preinstalled (remember you can install anything you
like, yourself) includes (this is straight off of the lightspeed website):

Web Hosting
  Apache Web Server
  Secure Web Server (SSL)
  Web Log Analyzer
  FrontPage 2000 Extensions
  DNS/BIND Name Server

Administation
  Appliance Administrator
  Site Administrator Control Panels
  Site User(s) Control Panels

E-Mail
  POP3/IMAP Server
  Sendmail SMTP Server
  Vacation Autoresponder
  Autoresponder & Aliases
  Spam Filters
  Majordomo Mailing List Server

Server Access
  ProFTP server
  Telnet Server

Web Utilities
  Lynx Text-based browser
  Melange Chat Server
  WebCal Web-based Calender
  WWWBoard Discussion board

Scripting Capabilities
  CGI-BIN
  Python
  PHP4
  ASP
  Perl

Streaming
  Quicktime Server

Database
  MySQL