# Does anybody out there use Site5 hosting?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anybody-out-there-use-site5-hosting/90448>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [March 28, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anybody-out-there-use-site5-hosting/90448 "2007-03-28T22:18:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![bravedave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@bravedave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bravedave)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anybody-out-there-use-site5-hosting/90448/1 "2007-03-28T22:18:09Z")

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I just signed up for the Site5 Multi-Domain product today and have no  
clue how to manage my site on their control panel. They say they don’t  
have a consultant they can put me in touch with…is there anyone out  
there I could pay to steer me through the basics?  
The first thing I’d like to do is set up a Subversion (webpage or file?)  
so that I can maintain my backups there.  
Thank you,  
dak AT itracker DOT com

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**Author:** ![bravedave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@bravedave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bravedave)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anybody-out-there-use-site5-hosting/90448/2 "2007-03-29T19:23:42Z")

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I just started working on a site for a client that has decided to go  
with Site5. I have found this wiki page to be extreamly valuable:  
[http://wiki.site5.com/Scripting\_and\_Development\_Guide](http://wiki.site5.com/Scripting_and_Development_Guide)  
There is a section on setting up Subversion with some very helpful  
links to the things it sounds like you are trying to do.

After looking at the WIKI, the first thing you should do is go to  
“Site Admin” from the Control Panel and make sure that you have shell  
access turned on so that you can use ssh and to get a bash terminal  
session. I found that this was already the default case for the site I  
was working on, but have noticed in most of the documents that others  
have had to explicitly set this up.

On Mar 28, 4:18 pm, BraveDave [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![bravedave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@bravedave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bravedave)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-anybody-out-there-use-site5-hosting/90448/3 "2007-03-30T15:00:29Z")

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Jean-Michel has a nice example for deploying to site5 with capistrano.

> **[Deploying a rails application on site5](http://21croissants.blogspot.com/2007/02/deploying-rails-application-on-site5.html)**
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> It took me a while - 2 days and a half ! - but I finnaly managed to deploy my application on site5 using capistrano! The toughest part was u...

On 3/28/07, BraveDave [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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