Is this like Heroku or something? What are the use cases for this? It's an app server? What are the limitations? How much does it cost? If it is free, why is it free?
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:57 AM, gurugeek <1...@1.ai> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >
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