Forgive me if I sound gibberish. I use coding as my hobby in my free time (Non IT professional) and thinking to release a website on GitHub or Dropbox.
However, I guess these support The websites that are static in nature. The website which I am developing has form which is crucial where users will fill the details and click on submit in order to get the data.
Now before I dive into paid service of hosting, I would like to first begin with testing stage or host the website for free by using GitHub or so until I get confidence.
So my question- is it possible to run the website that has forms such contact name , number, address etc on GitHub or Dropbox?
Any answer or help, comments, suggestions is much appreciated. Alternative to GitHub are also welcome ( links leading on how to release would be helpful).
Thank you in advance.
I am not sure about hosting a website on Github and dropbox is really a good option or not. However as you are in starting face and you do not have any specific requirements like space and bandwidth and all I would not stop you to host your website on dropbox and github and it is free, you dont have to pay anything. for more information on it click here
I have another two options for you in which you might be interested.
(1) Heroku is one of the most popular platform for hosting your web-site or web-application. You can get up to 5 repositories free on basic account. I think you do not require any database but just in case if you do in future they do provide postgresql. You might find Little-bit challenging in starting for hosting on it as you are not IT professional however you will eventually start learning.
for more information on heroku click here
(2) you can host your website on freehosting which is free for 1 year and they provide 2 GB space for your website as you have static page I am sure it wont increase more than that. On top of that they do provide one MySql database too which in case you need.
I hope this helps you.
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me and my friend are developing new code and we want to maintaine from time to time.
we looking for sodtware or service that can provide us what github and his "friends" are providing but we dont want to store our code on the cloud or in the web.
a software that can provide us something like when someone is working on the code so no one else can work on this in the same time' you know what I mean...
can anyone recommand about software or service like this?
thanks a lot!
Gitlab is easy to install on a Linux server.
It offers a lot of features on the open version, it is what you're searching for I guess.
The Gitlab on the cloud is not free, it is similar to Github, but don't worry you won't have to pay unless you need advanced features (out of issues, PR, basic CI, hooks...) https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/#self-managed
First of all you i have to define what you really need. It seems that your are looking for a remote solution that enables you and friends to work together on common code and at the sametime you don't want a "cloud" solution.
By "cloud" i guest you want to say not in internet? If it is so; why don't you try a personnal Gitlab server, hosted on a server in your home or friend's one. If you have serious unix skill this is something that you can envisage or try a private cloud solution as bitbucket.
I'm going to be creating a few small mobile applications and have managed to find a great online Git repo hosting services that is free. It even comes with online issue tracking software but appears to be mainly geared towards the development team. I was hoping it would also have an interface for end-users to log issues/features and allow them to vote on what they wanted but it does not have this. It does expose an RESTful API but I didn't want to go down that path and wanted something ready to go (once configured).
I don't think I need it to be integrated with the Git repo so having something that is purely standalone would be great but I would definitely want something that is online as I don't want to install software on my local PC.
In summary, my requirements are:
Free or very cheap
Simple end-user interface to allow users
to submit issues/features
Allow end-users to vote on their own or other users issues/features
Visible status of issues/features (i.e. whether they are pending, in progress, rejected, fixed etc)
A more advanced management system for me as a developer to manage the
issues
Some basic reports/charts/graphing would be great
Email/RSS notification of new issues/suggestions would be great too
Something that is ready to go after some configuration/settings.
Can anyone recommend something that would be suitable for this?
TIA
I based my question on a website I saw a while back but couldn't find it. Anyway, I've now found it again (it's called http://www.uservoice.com/). It's not really issue tracking but more of a way of letting end-users report features and allow them to vote on them. The important thing is that it is a very user friendly interface which is perfect for end-users. Obviously, I would then need to maintain issues/features in my own system (e.g. Mantis) and then manually sync features requested in uservoice to Mantis but that shouldn't be a big issue. Anyway, this perfectly meets my needs for my low volume applications at the moment.
I'm looking at Github and it looks great. I see there are business accounts you can set up to version control your work. I know there is a lot of open source stuff on there, but is it common practice for businesses to store solutions on there? And more importantly, is it safe? As the solutions are not to be viewed by anyone else.
For what it's worth, I just transitioned my company's source to GitHub, using private repositories. Also, I've been keeping commercial products of my own on GitHub in the same way for some time
It's working great. Your account has a list of 'contributors' for each repository, which controls who can view / commit to each one.
The business accounts on GitHub are suitable for you if you do not want to store your code on someone else's server. Sign up for this if you want to keep your repositories "behind the firewall" by installing the software on your own server.
References:
GitHub Enterprise (this is the "business" plan)
GitHub Security
Concerning safety - there was a similar question a few months ago.
Check it (and my answer there :-) out:
How safe is it to host sensitive data on repository sites like github, bitbucket, etc.?
I don't know if it's common practice for companies to store their code online...but I guess that a lot of companies don't like the idea of hosting their intellectual property at some third party.
Probably "company culture" makes a big part of it.
I'd say that "hip" internet startups are more likely to host their stuff online than "conservative" enterprises/"non-techy" companies.
Some of the "hip internet" companies (for example Facebook, Twitter, GitHub...) at least have open-sourced part of their stuff, but I don't know which of them also host their private stuff there and which don't.
(except GitHub, I read somewhere that they host ALL of their stuff themselves...makes sense :-)
Another example: Headspring Software (where quite a few known .NET developers work) runs nearly completely on online services.
The linked blog post doesn't explicitly mention where they host their source code, but I wanted to mention this example anyway because of all the other stuff they have outsourced.
Many "conservative" companies wouldn't even want their e-mail/calendar/sales data at some third-party provider in the cloud...let alone their source code.
I'm currently designing my very first Website for a small business Intranet (5 pages). Can anyone recommend the best way to manage content for the Company News section? I don't really want to get involved in day to day content updates so something that would be simple for the Marketing guy to create and upload a simple news article, perhaps created in MS Word, lets assume the author has no html skills.
I've read about Content Management systems but,
A. I won't get any funding for purchase and
B. Think it's a bit overkill for a small 5 page internal website.
It's been an unexpected hurdle in my plans, for something that I'd assumed would be a fairly common functionality I can't seem to find any definitive articles to suit my needs.
I'm open to suggestions (even if it's confirmation that a CMS is the only way to go).
Your requirements are : small site, no budget and the need for it to be easy for the marketing guy to upload a news item.
My recommendation would be to go with an all in one CMS e.g wordpress which has the kind of functionality you're talking about out of the box.
My guess is this organisation is just getting into "intranets" so something quick and simple that can be used to justify expenditure if value is returned is the key. Perhaps look at a plugin that automatically emails a summary of the blog posts to all employees once a week would be useful ?
There are many options and you can use any one of these:
Joomla
SilverStripe CMS
ModX
Cushy CMS
Frog CMS
Drupal
Additional in what Mr. Mckinnon said, you must keep in mind that if you don't want to get involved in daily updates of the people who is going to use the platform, you should consider the following:
What kind of data you want to be displayed
Who can view/modify that data
Who can create/remove data
How you will be organizing all that data
Your intranet should not be limited to display or create data, eventually all that data can turn into a beautiful Knowledge Base (KB) for your company that eventually your coworkers can share their solutions to common and rare problems that company can present eventually. This KB is amazing and time-saving, it is recommended to start it as soon as possible, so newcomers to your Company have access to it and see the most common issues and they can enter into production asap (we all know time is a luxury in every company regarding size).
Just keep in mind too, that all that knowledge and data is beyond valuable to you and your coworkers, so you should also consider some additional login credentials so your Company System Administrator can manage those credentials and also eventual audit for unauthorized access (if applicable).
I hope this helps from the administrative point of view
is it possible to let my own facebook apps (not generating revenue) being hosted by facebook?
The problem is that by using the iframe-version the traffic/requests are killing the server :-(
But I need to connect to a database and print/calculate values, so I think there is no other way than hosting everything on own servers. But maybe there are things I don't know.
What is the way you would go?
I don't think Facebook has an option to host apps, at least not that I've ever heard of or was quickly able to find on their developers site.
Honestly, when it comes to hosting a high-demand website, there's no free way to do it. Resources cost money. You can pick from tons of hosting providers and see who gives you the features you need at the best rate. Maybe some will offer free hosting if you include ads in the Facebook app, maybe some will offer free hosting for other means, etc.
For a non-revenue-generating app, when it becomes popular and successful and requires real resources to keep it running, it's generally time to start thinking about how to generate revenue from it. Maybe use it as a free gateway app to other revenue-generating apps (a loss leader), maybe have ads, maybe use it to generate useful marketing data, etc. For a successful site it may involve a good bit of personal investment and risk before the profits roll in (Facebook being a good, though extreme and uncommon example of this).
You have to host the application on your own, there's no way that FB does it for you.