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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Zope
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:16:58 -0500

Don't have time to fully respond to stuff today. The hosting thing
seems kind of up in the air and I did toss out the possibility of
using Eden as a starting point. Not sure where people are with that.
I think I would rather use Zope, but I'm still open to the idea of
Eden. Anyway, I'm going to continue fooling around w/Zope in the
meantime.

John Howe writes:
> > Exactly what kind of resources do you have John that you could offer
> > us? I'll put my name out there as well as someone who could
> > temporarily host zope/cvs/bugzilla. I'm already overquota with the
> > Eden MySQL db, but the company I use are also my friends and live next
> > door. Another solution is that we just break down and buy ourselves
> > our own account somewhere. I bet a $25-30/month account would be all
> > we needed unless we got popular (Lord, curse me thusly ;-).
>
> My services go though johncompanies.com in San Diego. I used to have a
> co-located server in Seattle, however, I found it easier to outsource
> hardware management. Johncompanies.com provides the following: triple
> homed networking, hardware management, and daily backups. I get 40g/month
> network throughput ( with ability to scale ) and I am happy with the
> service there, ( don't have to deal with failing hardware issues anymore,
> no pager calls) and host several domains.

That sounds very nice, what kind of disk quota do you have? I think
the current Eden dataset is about 35-40 megs live in MySQL. Not sure
how it would compare in ZODB, but I think we be in the gigs shortly
esp. if we put images and other big things in.

> Consider me a sole-proprietor web-hosting reseller with focus on
> development support. The base system is Debian 3.0 w/some tweaks of mine.

Excellent, my favorite distro of Linux. I run 'testing' myself... was
a sysadmin years ago as well.

> Anyhoo, I have been online for a while and do not intend to go away
> anytime soon. Since I directly manage the system, I have the ability to
> make more agile changes that say more established web presences. Think of
> my server like a pioneer field where rapid prototyping can occur. I incur
> all the hosting costs myself, however, I am inclined to share space with
> projects that interest me, such as HG.

If we do end up using your server, we could write that into the next grant.

> My current feeling is that I have resources I can dedicate to getting a
> prototype of HG hosted in relatively short time. The pioneer inception can
> allow for the evolution of HG and eventually mature enough to move towards
> ibiblio ( predicated on Zope, platform issues ). Protyping here, I can do
> performance metrics on the application to report back to the ibiblio
> people as well.
>
> And Chad, you have mentioned you can also host ( as you are currently
> doing with Eden ).

Um, nothing like what you or ibiblio have. I'd say I'm the last resort.

> > Another zope snag that I've been thinking about is related to
> > Richard. I'm not sure what kind of PHP integration there is with
> > zope. Zope is really kind of alternative to PHP and using PHP with
> > zope might be kind of redundant. I actually haven't looked into this,
> > but John^2 would probably know. Anyway, Richard, consider learning
> > zope.
>
> PHP generally runs as an apache module, or as a stand alone CGI
> application. There is a PHPTAL project that may be of interest @
> http://nyphp.org/content/presentations/3templates/phptal/. ( Code in PHP,
> and migrate to Zope later? ).
>
> Zope also has a PHParser/PHPGateway @
> http://zope.org/Members/hewei/PHParser/, so theoretically, PHP code could
> be migrated to Zope in incremental steps ( migrate existing PHP code base
> into Zope proper ).

Sounds like that is not a concern at all then.

> Then again, there is mod_python for apache as well @
> http://www.modpython.org/ for speed of execution.

--
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'




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