Hi

Been lurking for a while now on an old e-mail address but figured it was time to actually come forward and say hello.

My names Darren, I live in Essex, 27. I own a medium sized web hosting company, with servers in the US all running Slackware 8, usual stuff PHP/MySQL/Perl/Apache/Sendmail or Qmail PGSQL etc..

We also have servers running Redhat on another network, these are Leased. The other ones are our own equipment, i.e. we are not a reseller as so many "hosting companies are"

Just ordered a Rack in Redbus Docklands which should be live by the end of the month.

The version of Slackware we use is highly customised, I have found this distro to be great as a server rather then a desktop OS. Everything about the way it boots to the way we run MySQL is "different" which is nice but can also be a nightmare sometime :)

I just order SuSE to give that a go as a office desktop OS, tried Deb but didn't really get on with it.

I love Linux, not even close to understanding everything about it but I can handle everytning I ever need to do with it. I have a guy that writes PureFTPD working for me on a part time basis and he knows more then I could ever hope to know. His also a hardcore programmer, his working with the PHP Dev team atm for upgrades to the new version etc.. Nice guy to have on board.

Here to mix with a few like minded people and learn a thing or two.

Regards Darren