Setting up perfect server config for codeigniter

[eluser]BrianL[/eluser]
I have recently done this. I can set up php.ini and my.cnf exactly how I want it, and I use lighttpd so I don't need to mess around with .htaccess because it doesn't exist. It is far more secure than standard codeigniter installs, because I have PHP and MySQL chrooted and CodeIgniter and phpMyAdmin above the webroot, inaccessible. I have self-signed certificates, and firewall rules to restrict access to sensitive directories like the phpMyAdmin directory (which is of course renamed to random). I can host as many sites as I want. This is all done through http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_host...ts/servers so it is scalable as much as I want. SSH is only accessible through keys, not passwords so my server is immune to brute force attacks. I transfer my files through SFTP not FTP. Et cetera et cetera.

But I have systems administration experience .

The problem is the "perfect server config" requires multidisciplinary skills. Mostly systems administration but also a lot of scripting and experience what works and what doesn't. Security is a major issue. For example http://www.auscert.org.au/5816 is just a minor start on the security issues.

It sounds like you want this instead:
http://www.getcloudigniter.com/

Yes paying 5-10 dollars for each codeigniter site is far more expensive than paying ten dollars and setting up a vps. But to get such systems administration skills takes months to years, and to hire one is 15-25 an hour. Since your primary concern is configurability, not cost, you should be able to find a webhost that will give you everything you want without wasting time learning systems admin.

P.S. If you are absolutely sure you want to learn systems administration (which will take 6 months to one year) send me a PM and I can send you 100 links to read. But again as a coder, I do not believe it is worth your time. If you think you are wasting time setting up CodeIgniter you haven't tried setting up NFS server for Tripwire intrusion detection or getting sendmail binary to work in a chroot!