Hi David
just a quick reply, because I've been off the Camping case for various
reasons (work, health), but still following... this is great news!
An 'alternative to Heroku' is pretty ambitious, but since many (most?)
people don't need anything like the full array of Heroku features (or
news updates!) it's a viable 'lite' alternative. Yes, I'd be
interested in testing.
Dave
Hello Everyone,
sorry for the longish silence but as you know sometimes it can be
busy at work!
I just wanted to let you know about a complete update on the free
hosting system I did prepare from camping. The github idea was not
that bad but it didn't work in many cases (too many!) and did not
give enough control to the users.
So I am testing a completely rebuild system with these currently
working features:
- SFTP access to users: no more github madeness and total control
over your files. It is as drop and run as it can get;
- MySQL available to all users - it is popular so regardless of
other cutting edge possibilities I think it is an important add-on
- Fairly secure environment: users can't read other users files
(which seems like a no brainer but it is not possible to do or at
least not easily with nginx so we are using apache with a worker
that runs everything as the owner of the file)
- Ruby and PHP side by side? yes! see
http://testme.2.ai camping app
http://testme.2.ai/i.php
This is a quick test regarding permissions e.g. this user cannot
open via PHP or Ruby another user file
http://testme.2.ai/testperms.php
It also works with other rack frameworks like Sinatra http://dotgeek.2.ai
So in short it supports secure Ruby (Camping, Sinatra, even ROR but
not fully tested) and PHP hosting with MySQL, Sqlite or Kirbybase ;)
What do you think ? Would you be interested in testing the system ?
Do you think it could be interesting to users as an alternative to
heroku etc ?I will soon move the domain 1.ai to the new system so
that you can test. Initially I plan to add a key of some sort to
make it by invitation only or sort of for the alpha stage.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
David
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