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Hello All,

I know this is little bit off-topic but I think users of this group
can give good advice on this topic.

We have a in-house built application using MySQL + PHP + Apache. It is
essentially a elaborate collection of online forms that will be used
for managing school scholarship in the 3rd world countries. The
student/teachers will either come to the office or fill out the forms
online.

We have identified few pilot location and would like to deploy this
application. However due to lack of IT support at the location we have
decided to use a pre-configured appliance which support the LAMP
stack. All we want to do is directly ship the appliance to the
location, and remotely install our app.

We want the appliance to require minimal maintenance and
administration, and have a auto-update feature to get security patches
etc.

I had previously worked on a similar project and used Sun Cobalt 550
servers. But now I think Sun has stopped making them and you can only
buy them refurbished and the auto-update features are severely
limited.

Any other suggestion??? We want the appliance to cost us $1,000 / unit.

Thanks
saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net

Have you looked at ubuntu distribution of linux. I think they have a
'school' variant which might be close to what you need. Also, the people
there might be able to give you more help. Good luck.
On Thu, December 7, 2006 9:39, Saqib Ali said:
> Hello All,
>
> I know this is little bit off-topic but I think users of this group
> can give good advice on this topic.
>
> We have a in-house built application using MySQL + PHP + Apache. It is
> essentially a elaborate collection of online forms that will be used
> for managing school scholarship in the 3rd world countries. The
> student/teachers will either come to the office or fill out the forms
> online.
>
> We have identified few pilot location and would like to deploy this
> application. However due to lack of IT support at the location we have
> decided to use a pre-configured appliance which support the LAMP
> stack. All we want to do is directly ship the appliance to the
> location, and remotely install our app.
>
> We want the appliance to require minimal maintenance and
> administration, and have a auto-update feature to get security patches
> etc.
>
> I had previously worked on a similar project and used Sun Cobalt 550
> servers. But now I think Sun has stopped making them and you can only
> buy them refurbished and the auto-update features are severely
> limited.
>
> Any other suggestion??? We want the appliance to cost us $1,000 / unit.
>
> Thanks
> saqib
> http://www.full-disk-encryption.net
>
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I think you look for something like:

http://directadmin.com/

Peter

Saqib Ali wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I know this is little bit off-topic but I think users of this group
> can give good advice on this topic.
>
> We have a in-house built application using MySQL + PHP + Apache. It is
> essentially a elaborate collection of online forms that will be used
> for managing school scholarship in the 3rd world countries. The
> student/teachers will either come to the office or fill out the forms
> online.
>
> We have identified few pilot location and would like to deploy this
> application. However due to lack of IT support at the location we have
> decided to use a pre-configured appliance which support the LAMP
> stack. All we want to do is directly ship the appliance to the
> location, and remotely install our app.
>
> We want the appliance to require minimal maintenance and
> administration, and have a auto-update feature to get security patches
> etc.
>
> I had previously worked on a similar project and used Sun Cobalt 550
> servers. But now I think Sun has stopped making them and you can only
> buy them refurbished and the auto-update features are severely
> limited.
>
> Any other suggestion??? We want the appliance to cost us $1,000 / unit.
>
> Thanks
> saqib
> http://www.full-disk-encryption.net
>