Looked into a Joomla related development task, to create a booking module for tour providers and hotels.
Did initial set up of their new VPS. It is a Rackspace Cloud Server, which seems much the same as any other VPS. Their control panel was down when I went to administer it, which was unfortunate timing. However I've since set it up with Webmin (which seems very lightweight and effective), the usual Apache/MySQL/PHP stack, as well as Exim + Dovecot for email accounts.
Updated the PlanetaryMoodRing site, so that it provides emails of the submitted data, and automatically subscribes the person to a mailing list. I decided that the user needing to confirm membership was acceptable (instead of just subscribing them immediately) on the idea that people who provided their email address out of habit, without reading "for mailing list", will mark the mailing list as spam, potentially leading to the list being binned across an entire email provider.
Did initial set up of their new VPS. It is a Rackspace Cloud Server, which seems much the same as any other VPS. Their control panel was down when I went to administer it, which was unfortunate timing. However I've since set it up with Webmin (which seems very lightweight and effective), the usual Apache/MySQL/PHP stack, as well as Exim + Dovecot for email accounts.
Updated the PlanetaryMoodRing site, so that it provides emails of the submitted data, and automatically subscribes the person to a mailing list. I decided that the user needing to confirm membership was acceptable (instead of just subscribing them immediately) on the idea that people who provided their email address out of habit, without reading "for mailing list", will mark the mailing list as spam, potentially leading to the list being binned across an entire email provider.