no time to try this today, but - as an existing user :-) this is a
brilliant service, nice work! - DaveE
Hello Campers!
I am happy to announce that the camping 1 click deployment is now
available at http://1.ai
The platform has been coded with camping (with some help from bash
for the backend scripts) and it seems to work very well.
We have spent some time to get sure that it would be secure and easy
to use. After working on an easy and secure way to upload/manage
files online etc. we have found an easier solution: fetch a github
repository with a camping application and - with one click -deploy
it online at yourname.1.ai
So how does this works ?
1 - you signup
2 - after logging in you simply fetch your camping application from
a github repository there is a sample hello world available at https://github.com/gurugeek/0ai
and this is also explained in the app admin page
3 - after fetching (provided that this is a valid camping app and
has a valid config.ru file) your application will be live.
The admin panel has all these instructions and if you try to fetch a
non-camping application from a github repository it will return the
relevant error.
The system supports private repositories too (this said I wouldn't
run something very secret and private on it!) but you would need to
authorise the github user 1ai to access your private repository.
Github has a lot of wonderful features so I feel that this was the
best solution without re-inventing the wheel. It is probably the
fastest and easiest way to get your camping application up and
running.
Each application is securely isolated but all this is running in a
traditional dedicated server (no virtual/cloud/droids) are employed.
This should enhance the application performance. The server is also
using only SSD (solid state drivers) that are not yet available in
most of cloud providers (EC2, Rackspace cloud).
I really appreciate your testing and comments so please go on and
launch your shiny Camping app at
http://1.ai !
A small caveat: The aim of this service is (hopefully) to promote
camping (perhaps next with a programming contest with some cool
prizes) but it is obviously not meant to replace a traditional
hosting in the sense that there will be no tech support offered and
the service is provided without any warranty. This doesn't mean that
is not good enough to run any of your fancy Camping apps - just that
you should not expect this to replace any professional hosting.
Note on Databases:
-If you have an sqlite database in your github repository it should
work just fine. If it works for you locally it should work fine on http://1.ai
after the github fetch
-If you want to use CouchDB you can do it with the wonderful Chill (https://github.com/Bluebie/chill
) and http://www.iriscouch.com/ (which is free for small apps/
usage). Once you have your CouchDB on iriscouch you simply connect
to it from your camping app, fetch the data etc.
I do look forward to your comments and welcome any question you
might have!
Best Regards
David
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