Re: where to host web server

2012-10-31 Thread vordoo
Hi, You can useĀ  the free Google App Engine (GAE), like these guys did: http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs253/CourseRev/apr2012 http://gigaom.com/cloud/google-app-engine-is-ready-for-primetime-says-reddithipmunk-co-founder/ If your mai

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-23 Thread Ori Berger
On 10/23/2012 10:57 AM, Shahar Dag wrote: The students will decide which web server and supporting programs to install (but it will be Linux) and then install everything they need. We cannot test in advanced that the web site & the machine behave in a reasonable way. Everything can be accessed

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012, Shahar Dag wrote about "RE: where to host web server": > In a large system, you can't let users do whatever they want, you must > protect your network. For example you will not let a user build & run a DNS > server on the corporate network, you wil

RE: where to host web server

2012-10-23 Thread Shahar Dag
From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Oleg Goldshmidt Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:02 PM To: Steve G. Cc: IGLU Mailing list Subject: Re: where to host web server On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Steve G. wrote: Easiest

RE: where to host web server

2012-10-23 Thread Shahar Dag
v Har'El [mailto:n...@math.technion.ac.il] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 3:57 PM To: Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda Cc: Shahar Dag; IGLU Mailing list Subject: Re: where to host web server On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: where to host web server": > I think it is not a qu

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: where to host web server": > The smallest example would be my very own "almost complete guide > to the Israeli Internet", which some of you may remember as my index of > Israeli web sites in the early 1990s, wh

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Steve G. wrote: > > Easiest example - a server with poor password. If you are in the intranet, > and someone hacks into it and runs a DDOS on a local server, the admin will > shut the offending server down and that's the end of it. Ditto for an error > that create

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: where to host web server": > I think it is not a question of resources, but of policies and firewall > ports. The Technion does not allow any SMTP servers that are not controlled > by the system team, for examp

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Steve G.
ou get my drift - some things are better left outside, where responsibility is the student's and the ISP's and not the Technion. Z. On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: where to host > web serv

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: where to host web server": > This will also not blacklist the Technion with regards to other mail > servers, and enable error-free monitoring of wild SMTP servers (viral ones). Next thing you know, the Technion's

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, what is the security limitation? Even if hosted >> externally, I'd expect the machines to "logically belong" to the Technion >> (e.g., in the "technion.ac.

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Elazar Leibovich
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Out of curiosity, what is the security limitation? Even if hosted > externally, I'd expect the machines to "logically belong" to the Technion > (e.g., in the "technion.ac.il" sense as well as in every legal sense) > If students host illeg

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Shahar Dag wrote: > Hello > > ** ** > > I am the system administrator of a teaching laboratory at the Technion.*** > * > > We would like to give the students in a project that involve developing a > web site (sorry, I don't have any additional details here) a

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012, Shahar Dag wrote about "where to host web server": > > Due to the Technion security limitation, we can't do it in house, so we > are > > looking to host the project somewhere outside the Technion. We don't need > > This

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-21 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012, Shahar Dag wrote about "where to host web server": > Due to the Technion security limitation, we can't do it in house, so we are > looking to host the project somewhere outside the Technion. We don't need This is SO SAD :( The end-to-end Internet is dead :( O tempora, o mores

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-18 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
You can submit a grant request to Amazon. http://aws.amazon.com/grants/ - see the "Educators" tag. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Shahar Dag wrote: > Hello > > ** ** > > I am the system administrator of a teaching laboratory at the Technion.*** > * > > We would like to give the students i

Re: where to host web server

2012-10-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Sounds like an ideal fit for Amazon AWS - they have a free tire for the first year from time that an account was opened. On Oct 18, 2012 9:35 PM, "Shahar Dag" wrote: > Hello > > ** ** > > I am the system administrator of a teaching laboratory at the Technion.*** > * > > We would like to give