As someone with a bit of experience babysitting build servers, there are
some things that break on their own. Disks fill up due to missing log
rotations or too long of a build history being kept. You have to install
Windows Updates and then reboot on a regular basis. Sometimes Windows gets
these "Zombie Files" that can't be deleted without a reboot. Stuff like
that ... there's an economy of scale to keeping a piece of software
running, thus the rise of software as a service.
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:11 PM, john skaller <skal...@users.sourceforge.net
> wrote:
>
> On 22/11/2012, at 10:55 AM, Dobes Vandermeer wrote:
>
> > Renting a Windows box from Rackspace means you have to set up all the
> software, the build system, etc. yourself. When something breaks, fix it
> yourself. If you pay Rackspace a bunch more money they'll manage it for
> you, I'm sure. But compared to something like CloudBees or AppHarbor or
> some other Web 2.0 services which offer you a certain amount of build power
> for free, it's a lot more costly.
>
> Well, for Felix we may have fun getting Windows build running.
> But after that not much to do: software doesn't "break" you know,
> it doesn't wear out :)
>
> I guess the charge is related to licence fees, which do not apply to Linux.
>
> I don't know anything about CloudBees or AppHarbour.
>
> Most of the short review of continuous integration stuff I made suggested
> the amount of work involved getting them configured was quite significant.
>
> Given there's less than one developer the advantages of continuous
> integration
> are quite small. I can easily set up Chron job or whatever on the Linux
> slice
> to build and package for linux automatically. The error reporting is more
> of a bitch, but that problem is inherent in the build technology and
> can't be solved just by using an integration server.
>
> Throw in a few actual users or devs or a real job and things might
> change.
>
> --
> john skaller
> skal...@users.sourceforge.net
> http://felix-lang.org
>
>
>
>
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