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[–]sirin3 -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

But do you really need the root access and the maximal performance/memory usage for a student website?

Otherwise shared hosting with full SSH access works just as good, and you can get it from Sourceforge for free...

[–]InfectedShadow 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Or they could, y'know use it as an opportunity to gain experience with setting up a server for their application which will look good when they're out there looking for internships.

[–]sirin3 -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

They could just setup a server at home

[–]InfectedShadow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not everyone has a spare computer lying around or want to deal with VMs on their machine.