Forum OpenACS Q&A: OpenACS hosting

1: OpenACS hosting

Posted by James Harris on 07/04/01 03:28 AM

I've recently been doing a little research in to OpenACS hosting, and I have only been able to find two companies that advertise the service - http://openacs.furfly.net or http://www.hub.org. Hub offer a variety of options for disk space and data transfer while Furfly offer a standard 200MB disk space and 1GB/month data transfer.

I believe http://www.openforce.net/ do as well but I can't find any specific information on their site.

It seems to me that it may be worth creating a list of hosts that offer OpenACS for anyone who would like to use the toolkit but doesn't want to run their own server.

Does anyone know of any other hosts? If I can get a list of companies, I'll write up a document comparing their offerings.

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Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 07/04/01 05:27 AM

I am pretty sure that there is another thread either here at
OpenACS.org or on the aD web/db board that discusses/lists
these folks.

Last I recall there were somewhere between 5 and 10 of them.
My company, www.zill.net, also offers OpenACS hosting, either
using Apache+mod_aolserver OR the stock AOLserver 3.4 .

There is also Musea, Ybos.net, OpenForce, Furfly, hub.org, plus
a few others whose name(s) escape me. There is at least one
British provider as well.

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Posted by Rafael Calvo on 07/04/01 06:01 AM

There is a company in India that was offering acs classic and maybe openacs, whose name I do not remember right now and a company in Australia (icorp.com.au)

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Posted by James Harris on 07/04/01 07:33 AM

You're right Patrick, I found a discussion on Arsdigita's boards (http://www.arsdigita.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000a7b). I'd done a search here, but not over there.