Could you accomplish this using a free AWS ec2 tier? http://aws.amazon.com/free/faqs/
Michael Haas > Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:43:33 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [lopsa-discuss] supporting developers with no time or money > > I hope that this is such a common problem these days that there are some > good tools/approaches out there, but i wanted to ask some advice before > trying again at random. Hope this isn't too out of scope for the list. > > I'm helping some hobbyists develop an apache/PHP/MySQL webservice. > Developers are using whatever computers they happen to run at home (or > at work, or at home and at work and a third different one they share > with their spouses). We'd like to standardize dev environments, for > the obvious reasons, e.g. so devs don't spend all their time adapting > to config changes we make in prod, and so we don't spend all our time > debugging commits which are broken for environment reasons. > > I'm interested in tools/approaches that are likely to work easily for > this kind of environment. So far, i've tried: > > * Vagrant/VirtualBox, which is exactly what i thought i was looking for, > but only works at all easily for people with recent Mac/Linux > environments, which isn't going to cut it for our actual devs. > > * A free PaaS, which is okay, but is both a frustrating dev environment > (so people also want to setup somewhere else) and not what we > actually want for production in the end (so it's not as standardized > as all that). > > Anyone have good experiences with any approach to this problem? > We haven't yet tried a standardized-local-apache type solution > (e.g. XAMPP?), maintaining a dev VM, or having everyone develop at a cloud > provider (could we do this without it being overwhelmingly expensive?). > Basically, any ideas are welcome! > > Thanks for your time. > > Chaos > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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