So I pretty much answered my own question today by installing Sympl on a Bytemark Buster cloud server. The installation went smoothly with only the following prompt:
‘A new version (/tmp/filetLiHuo) of configuration file /etc/ssh/sshd_config is available, but the version installed currently has been locally modified.’
Not knowing the answer I opted to install the package maintainers version albeit I’m currently unsure whether this was the correct course of action?
What a bummer phpMyAdmin doesn’t come with Buster, however I think I’ve managed a successful installation but I have yet to test. I’m planning to install Munin when I have a moment for quick and E-Z web browser monitoring.
I decided to host Sympl on a Bytemark cloud server to take advantage of their flexible infrastructure, cost effectiveness and Bytemark’s content DNS system (DNS magic just happens at Bytemark). The Sympl roadmap promises to include OctoDNS plus a raft of other goodies - that said my problem is that I’m far too impatient.