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On 9/1/07, Nigel Dunn <nigel at redefine.co.uk> wrote:

> My top tip for any VPS though is to use a disposable domain name as the
> primary one for the server - that was another area of grief I had when I
> had given up on WebFusion & wanted to move the site away. The primary
> domain gets tangled up in the Plesk configuration so you can't simply
> point the www record somewhere else, even though the admin interface
> looks like you can.

I think getting tangled up with Plesk configuration is my current
problem - admittedly probably of my own making, as I had made some
changes to things directly which confused Plesk. I posted on here a
few weeks ago about randomly stopping sites within IIS, and after
examining the logs within event viewer  it looks like one of the plesk
sevices is causing this. as it seems to be getting confused. I don't
need plesk, and although initially I found it convenient to set up
sites etc via plesk i'd rather administer things directly via remote
desktop. I'm convinced that if I disable the plesk services, bad
things might happen?

The primary domain on this server isn't crucial, but I have had
problems because webfusion had no record of registering it for me and
after ignored emails and wasted time on phone support i'm having to
deal with nominet directly to make some changes to the whois record to
set up an SSL certificate, and i'll have to do the same if I  move it
i.

googling around earlier I found http://www.interhost.co.uk - anyone
got any horror stories (about interhost rather than just general
horror stories ;-) ?


-- 
Rick Hurst, Web developer, Bristol, England
http://www.rickhurst.co.uk