[plt-scheme] Web Hosting on PLT Scheme Web Server?

Wouldn't it be interesting to share a good VM for Web Serving
with people on this list? With a combi of the url-rewriting module I posted
lately on this list and the virtual hosts of the web server it is 
possible to
host a number of domains on the same machine.

With a pound configuration (reverse proxy) and multiple web servers
running on multiple ports, it is possible to host different web server
environments on the same machine.

This would reduce the monthly costs for the mere mortals considerably.

--Hans


Matt Jadud schreef:
> On 6/27/07, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know what current market prices are.  Bytemark was competitive
>> when we looked into it.  However I strongly suggest you get more RAM
>> unless you are expecting very low load.  RAM has been the limiting
>> factor in our applications, far more so than CPU speed.
>>
>> N.
>
> I think an important thing to consider also is quality of service.
> Bytemark has consistently been excellent with us. When my credit cards
> went missing (and therefore were cancelled), they just let our machine
> ride until I had time to register a new card. They have always
> responded to every service request/upgrade quickly and professionally,
> and are constantly on the move in terms of making their service as
> stable and excellent as possible. Our VM, at its peak, had an uptime
> of 280+ days... only cut short by our need to reboot to see the effect
> of a disk space upgrade.
>
> So, 13 Euros/month is a good price, but the question is whether or not
> you get good service for that price as well.
>
> As to Grant's question of hosting our own server, we're now
> considering that---but it took a while to get to the point where we
> could financially justify it. Colocation costs 50 quid at best, and if
> anything goes wrong with the hardware, you're in trouble. A virtual
> machine is much cheaper, sits on better hardware than I can afford,
> and someone else makes sure things keep ticking over. I would be very
> leery about managing my own hardware unless I was prepared to have
> additional drives, power supplies, drive controllers, and the like
> ready to roll in case of failure. So, in this regard, if you're paying
> for hosting:
>
> 1. Start cheap with a Xen VM or similar, and upgrade that VM as necessary
> 2. Upgrade to a dedicated box (at around 50/60 GBP a month, $100 or
> so/month) when you need the performance that dedicated CPU, RAM, and
> disk provide, and
> 3. Never buy your own hardware unless you know exactly why you're 
> doing it.
>
> Those are the small lessons that I've learned in helping maintain the
> untyped.com VM. And I guess I might as well finish it off:
>
> 1. All your configuration should be under version control.
> 2. Your server is only as good as your backups.
> 3. Automate everything, no matter how trivial---writing and
> documenting the script to automatically add new domains is easier than
> trying to figure out which six config files you must edit (in an
> error-prone manner) by hand.
>
> There may be other lessons I've learned and internalized at this point.
>
> Oh.
>
> 4. Use PLT Scheme for all of your server scripting needs. But I didn't
> need to say that here, did I?
>
> Cheers,
> M
>
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