Thank you Jenna.. an excellent point as always ! I agree that I wouldn't want to give any impression that this service should replace any paid hosting. So I think that a simple daily backup would suffice to guarantee any issue. We have a forum at http://dotgeek.org so I think we will use that one. I was also thinking about a coding competition with prizes etc. what do you think ? thanks again David
On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:24 AM, Jenna Fox <a...@creativepony.com> wrote: > I'm not sure I understand the usefulness of the second and third server? Is > it for redundancy? If I were running free hosting I'd be cautious of such > things as I wouldn't want to give the users the impression I was going to be > completely committed to keeping it online forever and having bulletproof > reliability and so on.I guess I'd be focusing more now on building a > community around it, so people can trade tips and help each other out. A > forum or something like that I guess? > > — > Jenna > > On Friday, 31 August 2012 at 10:02 AM, David C gurugeek wrote: > >> Hello! >> Just a short update regarding the free hosting (I hope this is not too >> annoying but I received several emails from uses that saw this on the list >> so it could be interesting): we have now updated the system with more RAM >> and solid state drives. We have also removed the invitation key so everyone >> can apply at http://1.ai (provided that something that makes sense is >> written in the about you/motivation field. If you read this mailing list >> just note that and it will be fine - accounts are activated daily). >> >> The whole system is written in Camping + Bash and it was a bit of a >> challenge but also a lot of fun to learn the camping way to do things :) >> >> Yet this is just free hosting ..so what is new ? Well we were thinking to >> make the service more special by adding an automatic live sync of user space >> (and all the relevant apps) in 2 more servers. This will include the mysql >> database if needed so for example if your app is at campingapp.1.ai it will >> automatically be live synched in 2 separate servers so for example >> campingapp.1.ai campingapp.2.ai campingapp.3.ai and the main domain >> campingapp.dotgeek.org will automatically switch in case that a server >> becomes unavailable. >> >> What do you think about this ? It is probably not needed for most >> programmers that just want a space to try out things so we could also simply >> have a regular backup on S3 and similar services but it would certainly be >> something that, as far as I know, nobody offers ? >> >> Thanks and >> Best Regards >> David >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> Camping-list@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
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