Thanks for all the help guys and taking the time to respond. I've made note of all the suggestions, and I'll definitely use them when I talk with my client next week. Wesley asked for some more details, and so here they are.
This really is an easy system to administer. Its a very small company. Basically I am their entire system support staff, and I do a large part of their software development. It is a startup company, and so they don't have much money to spend, so I try to keep their costs down by not doing anything that isn't asked for or needed. Any QA is done by me and one other person who does Jitterbit stuff. Here it is in a nutshell. All of their servers are running in Rackspace VMs. Two servers used in production, one running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and the other running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. They are basically stock systems. The 12.04 system has Jitterbit 5 Server installed, which is a proprietary Java based server. The 14.04 server has Tomcat 7 and PostgreSQL 9.3 with an Java application I wrote running in Tomcat. Nothing else. This is why I've felt comfortable just updating from the distribution because there really isn't any more to it than that. We have a couple of non production servers that someone who uses Jitterbit does for testing Jitterbit operations. With those, we have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS running Jitterbit 8 Server, and we have PostgreSql 9.3 and Tomcat running on a CentOS 6.7 machine. I have the same Tomcat app running on the CentOS 6.7 machine. That is it in a nutshell. Nothing special. I was contracted to do development work, but its turned into a lot of system admin work too. BTW most of you don't know me, but I've been a member of NLUG since the late 90s when Andy was prez. (Thanks for the help BTW.) I even used to have an nlug.org email forwarding address & an NLUG name badge. Remember those? Now I mostly just lurk here. Hello Mark. Whatever happened to Prof Sunshine? ;-) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
