If you have a spare pc, i would suggest installing SME Server 9.0.
I have it on my company, and it has been working for years has email server, hosting, backend PHP+MYSQL.
Backend hosting for applications
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greyhoundcode
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Re: Backend hosting for applications
Hey @tj1010,
Though I've never tried adding gtk to a server (not quite sure why you would want to do this in a headless environment but maybe I'm missing something) I don't think it would actually stop you from doing so. In my experience, even if you can't apt-get a package (or need a more recent version than is available through that channel) you can still compile what you want from sources - and from what I've seen that's been true not just of Digital Ocean but most comparable offerings from Rackspace, etc.
There's not much they don't allow (within reason!).tj1010 wrote:That $60/year package is pretty good comparatively speaking. I don't know what they allow though. For game back-ends you need sockets or long-polling and the ability to, for example, put packages like GTK on Ubuntu so you can build and run servers with panels, or maybe SSL updates.
Though I've never tried adding gtk to a server (not quite sure why you would want to do this in a headless environment but maybe I'm missing something) I don't think it would actually stop you from doing so. In my experience, even if you can't apt-get a package (or need a more recent version than is available through that channel) you can still compile what you want from sources - and from what I've seen that's been true not just of Digital Ocean but most comparable offerings from Rackspace, etc.