Re: shell or VPS account?

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Responses below.

--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Dale Kiefling <http://www.gmail.com/~daleki> wrote:
> From: Dale Kiefling <http://www.gmail.com/~daleki>
> Subject: Re: shell or VPS account?
> To: "Robert" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
> Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 9:03 AM
>
> Life has been very busy but
> good.  I have a new woman in my life,
> Adriane who is just great.   Sorry to miss
> you in .  I'm
> starting to search for a new job, as my current work
> environment seems
> to be going down hill.

I'm sorry to hear that.  If there's any connection in my LinkedIn connections that can help you, please use me as the in-between.

For myself, work seems OK, 'though I do think one guy is leaving, which may leave a bigger workload for the rest of us.

> Re: accounts I have some ideas for you.  Give me a
> call today if you
> can.  960 312 4464.

I did a further cost/benefit analysis and realized it was better to keep my "intermediate server" at home ('though I'm still happy with my VPS I have through Quantact).  So, I'll be buying another computer.  (My current thought is the AOpen XC Mini; I'll continue to use Debian Sid/unstable.)  Just don't know when.  Been pretty busy lately.

> Cheers,
> Dale
> 
> On 10/16/09, Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
> wrote:
> > Hey Dale,
> >
> > How's everything going?  Work?  Life?
> >
> > We're going to be in  this weekend.  We will arrive there at about
> > 1pm.  We may meet up with various people.
> >
> > We're probably going to eat a pre-dinner dessert at Crixa Cakes some time
> > between 3:30pm and 6pm.  You could call us on Noelle's cell phone at
> > our-Oakland-cell-phone-number so we could meet up.
> >
> > But!  That's not why I initially wrote.
> >
> > My existing computer at home is having problems and I'm thinking of just
> > getting a shell or VPS account instead since I only use it for filtering
> > spam, reading email, grabbing various content, and backing up.  (The backing
> > up is an issue which I can deal with separately.  I may get either an
> > offline backup service or maybe get a few external hard drives.)
> >
> > So, my primary requirement for a shell account is that it have qmail and at
> > least 10GB of disk space.  For a VPS, I would need 10GB and the ability to
> > install the Debian of my choice :-).
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions/recommendations?
> >
> > Thanks.