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
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