Forum OpenACS Q&A: AOLServer/PG Hosting

Posted by defunct defunct on 10/24/01 11:38 AM

I posted on another thread, but thought I'd ask the question again as
its a bit of a prob. for us at the moment.

We've been trying to find a hosting company that will allow us to
install OpenACS4.2 (i.e. AOLServer and Pg), and had very little luck
in the UK... 'no bespoke web servers' is the usual, fairly ignorant,
comment....

Of course we could rent an antire machine and solve the problem, but
thats not really suitable for this project... we just need a fairly
modest size, moderate cost hosting for a small site.....

Anyone know of a good one?

Thanks
Simon

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Posted by dwayne hinton on 10/24/01 05:42 PM

if you look on the bottom of the openacs' home page i think there is a link to a company that hosting this site. it stands to reason, since their link is posted that they are in the business of providing this type of service. sure hope more companies begin to host aol based web services! i'm sure when openacs4 is "production ready" more providers will see how powerful openacs/pg/aolserver toolkit combo is!!
hope this helps u out
cheers

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Posted by Don Baccus on 10/24/01 07:55 PM

hub.org in Canada hosts OpenACS sites, but they probably haven't hosted OpenACS 4 yet.

I don't know if they're running AOLserver or the mod_aol hack.

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Posted by Marc Fournier on 10/24/01 08:26 PM

hub.org hosts all of its clients in a Virtual Machine environment, so we can tailor
the environment to the client, not the client to our environment.

If you want AOLServer w/ OpenACS4, fine ... if you want mod_aol w/ OpenACS3,
fine ... basically, we will do our best to make sure what you need, and what version
you need, is available ...

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Posted by Don Baccus on 10/24/01 09:06 PM

That's great, Marc ...

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Posted by defunct defunct on 10/25/01 11:05 AM

Thanks Marc,

Could be just what we're after. Canadian dollar also makes it good financial sense for us... I'll pass this on to my Operations Director and hopefully we'll be in touch soon.

Thanks for your help

Simon

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Posted by Matt Roberts on 10/25/01 03:32 PM

www.sigmer.com is a London/Brighton UK based hosting company that are currently setting up hosting for two PG/openacs sites for me. I would be inclined to talk to the Brighton office and ask for Malcolm

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Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 10/25/01 10:34 PM

Marc, the "virtual machine" environment under FreeBSD sounds very
interesting, but I couldn't any info on how you folks actually do it.
Could you point us to any more info, so we can better understand it?
Thanks!

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Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 10/26/01 12:18 AM

FreeBSD has the ability to jail processes (chroot on steroids). That is probably the basis of the virtual machine.

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Posted by Roberto Mello on 10/26/01 12:29 AM

I was going to reply about the use of AOLserver at hub.org, but Marc's response is more trustworthy 😊

I almost got a client I'm working with right now to go with hub.org so that I could use OpenACS 4, but as usual, marketing came on the way 😟

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Posted by Todd Gillespie on 10/26/01 02:11 AM

Has anyone here been exceptionally happy with hub.org? It looks very
tempting...

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Posted by Steve Crossan on 10/26/01 11:56 AM

Hi Simon,

We've recently managed to persuade Sigmer (www.sigmer.net) to do Aolserver+Postgres hosting on shared servers. We know them quite well and their pretty flexible. They are based in brighton with servers in Telehouse. Prices start around Â£40/month. Try mailto:malcolm@sigmer.net, or send me a mail with your requirements & I'll call him up.

Steve

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Posted by David Cotter on 04/02/03 11:34 AM

To be honest I was not happy with hub so I moved to acornhosting.

If you have a reasonably busy site that requires, say, 1G disk space and 2G bandwidth/month then hub gets expensive. Also there was quite a bit of downtime but I think that was a specific problem which is probably fixed now.

I agree with everyone here that hub are very responsive and helpful.