http://johnvh.com Online home of Dallas, TX based web developer John Van Horn Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:42:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://johnvh.com/2009/11/12/note-to-self-minimum-requirements-for-hosting/ http://johnvh.com/2009/11/12/note-to-self-minimum-requirements-for-hosting/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:53:42 +0000 johnvh http://johnvh.com/?p=263 While it would be nice have my own fancy server, a private server, or a private vm, I really don’t need it. I’ve always opted for shared hosting, because anything else seems like overkill. I currently have a shared plan with Dreamhost and they have served me quite well and meet all my needs. Recently though, while working with another hosting company, I realized there were some things missing that have become absolutely critical to my workflow. So here is my list of bare-minimum requirements for hosting:

• LAMP

  Linux, Apache, MySql and Php. No Windows please. Not because Windows sucks, but because Windows has no shell access. Cli’s for mysql and php are a plus.

• Shell access

  For me, there is no better way to work than through ssh and scp. Working through ftp is balls. Also required is easy-to-set-up shell access. Let me check a box on a control panel somewhere and wait at the most 10 minutes. Please do not make me enter my phone number, wait for a call, get a confirmation code from the call, enter the code somewhere in the control panel, and then wait 72 hours for my shell access to be “activated”.

• Source control

  Binaries. At least Subversion. Git would be ok too. Repo hosting is a plus.

• Vim

  The ultimate editor.

• Other binaries

  Curl and/or wget. Ant would be nice too. Xmllint and tidy.

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