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Installing packages

  • 21-02-2009 12:36am
    #1
    corblimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭


    This might be a difficult one to answer without getting into specific hosting companies, but as a general rule, is it fair to say that no hosting company will allow you to install packages (for example xpdf) on their servers until you're paying for either colo or dedicated?

    I took a quick tour of the sites listed in the sticky, but none of them had a big flashing banner saying 'yes, you can install rpm packages here!!!'. I just wonder if anybody has any experience of this with hosting companies in general and has found that none of them offer it as a service.

    I've got a project in the pipeline that requires the installation of several rpm packages, but I'm not sure my client will jump to the expense of colo or dedicated, so I just want to be sure that I'm generally right when I say "it's either or, matey, you can't have the functionality you want til you stump up the cash for colo" or words to that effect?


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  • #2
    colm_c
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    No shared hosting will allow that kind of modification.

    You could look at Virtualisation hosting.

    Cheaper than a dedicated/colo but not as much horsepower.


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