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| author | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-07-08 12:27:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Louise Crow <louise.crow@gmail.com> | 2014-07-08 12:27:51 +0100 |
| commit | 341a078717c4048e094a3930de893e2cf88e4b68 (patch) | |
| tree | 84beea2c4b174da0618909fdb70d9ff8e545f59d /docs/getting_started.md | |
| parent | 3d8d1c2796ec2e0704fb0bebe1ba24bae261c480 (diff) | |
| parent | 4e77f18c28876ca338dad7fe2d8c06d8725abd81 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'gh-pages-wheezy' into gh-pages
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diff --git a/docs/getting_started.md b/docs/getting_started.md index 5c5a7437d..615d7e818 100644 --- a/docs/getting_started.md +++ b/docs/getting_started.md @@ -108,12 +108,13 @@ You'll need to find a tech person who knows about hosting websites using Apache and Linux. They don't need to know Ruby on Rails, but it would be a huge advantage if they do. -You'll also need to source a server. You should ask your tech person to help -with this. The minimum spec for running a low traffic website is 512MB RAM and -a 20GB disk. 2GB RAM would be ideal. We recommend Debian Squeeze 64-bit as the -operating system, though any sort of Linux should do. Rackspace offer suitable -cloud servers, which start out at around $25 / month. Then your tech person -should follow the [installation documentation]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/installing/). +You'll also need to source a server. You should ask your tech person to +help with this. The minimum spec for running a low traffic website is +512MB RAM and a 20GB disk. 2GB RAM would be ideal. We recommend the +latest Debian Wheezy (7) or Squeeze (6) 64-bit or Ubuntu precise (12.04) +as the operating system. Rackspace offer suitable cloud servers, which +start out at around $25 / month. Then your tech person should follow the +[installation documentation]({{ site.baseurl }}docs/installing/). Alternatively, you could use Amazon Web Services. This has the added advantage that you can use our preconfigured [Alaveteli EC2 |