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Besides impressing benchmarks,
does anyone really uses G-WAN web server?
(except of cource gwan.ch and trustleap.com)
G-WAN is a freeware, that means that people are not under the obligation of paying a license to use it for commercial purposes.
Having participated to write some of their code, I am aware of Web sites using G-WAN for different applications platforms:
auctions
advertising
yellow pages
social network
geographic maps
multimedia streaming
trading.
But this is merely my personal experience. I must say that G-WAN has allowed me to do things that could not be done with other servers like:
using cheap virtual servers where I would have had to use dedicated servers
using the same Web server to create applications in different languages
creating applications which rely on different programming languages
test code modifications without having to redeploy packages or modify configurations
-etc.
G-WAN, at least for me, has been a game-changer.
I do not understand the comment of "Virtualeyes" since my customers did not pay a dime to the G-WAN author. I just paid him 149 CHF, not because I was obliged to do it but rather because I wanted to thank him for the hard work.
By the way, that's Linus Torvalds, not "Linus Torvolds".
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We're evaluating ITextSharp (now known as IText) for producing pdf documents. This will be used in our websites which will be published across a load-balanced solution amongst several servers.
According to Itext, this will require a production license per server (we're not open-source) in our load balanced configuration, as well as uat and developer licenses. This is obviously a considerable investment.
Could anyone recommend any alternatives to reduce the costs?
Also, is there a pattern we could adopt to minimise the migration effort of the existing website prototype if we were to use another product?
You could change your architecture a bit and have a dedicated PDF generation server. You'd then need to boil your requests down to something that could be sent between the servers. Depending on your goals, that could be something relatively simple, such as a user ID and a report name, or complex (text layout, that image there).
As far as distancing yourself from the commercial iText, there are two options.
1) Use the older MPL iTextSharp. It won't have all the latest features and bugfixes, but it's hard to beat the price.
2) The "wrapper" design pattern. Build a relatively generic interface, and have your current implementation of that interface sit atop iText. If you later need to swap it out, you're rebuilding the glue code, not your whole app.
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I'm developing on my main computer, which I use for everything. store private images, documents, and stuff.
But I'm going to show off my website for lets say a company.
Is is secure for me to link my ip-adress and make them take a look from there or should I upload it to a webhosting service first?
I don't want them to get access to my files on the computer. I know they can get html, css and javascript files. but is there something else I should worry about?
I'll try to provide you with the most information I can:
I'm behind a router which has port 80 open for the webserver?
Using W7, xampp, and I've F-secure installed.
Also I wonder because I've a stable 100/100 connection and I've no down-time in two years.. so I would like to skit my hosting service and redirect the domains to my computer instead.. is this safe or should I buy a seperate server running Ubuntu?
Sorry if I couldn't find the answers on my own.
well as long as you set up your webserver right you should be fine, but it`s probably for the best to buy a linux vps.
VPS' are cheap and it takes the toll off of your computer, plus you just eliminate any sort of personal information leak from the get-go.
I had good experience with:
http://www.linode.com/
http://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/
http://vpsville.ca/
I had bad experience with:
http://burst.net/
However, burstnet has cheap ips, but their nodes are very unstable.
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I want to use Hacker News' open source software to build a link sharing community for another industry. I followed the instructions on the arc github page and was able to get a clone up and running on my local environment. I was wondering what the next steps were.
What kind of hosting is required for this kind of a site (since arc is a bit esoteric)? If we assume that I have substantial traffic, is it best to go the cloud hosting route? I noticed Hacker News itself is hosted with ThePlanet, should I do the same?
For any kind of lisp hosting, you're pretty much on your own. It depends on how serious you are about doing this, and how big the starting community will be. If it's a work thing, talk to your network guy about getting a server provisioned. If it's a personal project, you should really consider a VPS server; something like Linode or Slicehost. Note that these aren't specifically Lisp hosts; they give you a bare metal Linux server and let you do what you want with it (including hosting Lisp apps).
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I am tasked to research and evaluate a long overdue CMS system for our dept within a large software company. For the most part we need a system that has workflows and the ability to publish static content to a specified location (app server, cdn etc...). We aren't interested in a typical CMS that let's you create templated websites. Our developers will still be creating our applications in their preferred language and will ideally pick up the static content that will populate areas of our websites from the CMS to avoid code deployments for every little content change.
Another department is doing this using Teamsite. Aside from Teamsite can anyone here recommend a CMS? I'm not too impressed with their interface (and their price tag). I found a product called Ingeniux that does what we need (multi format output) but I haven't heard much about them and need to demo their system.
While this is our main requirement, other requirements would be - average price tag (free to $20k, rather than +$100k a year), self hosted (not a hosted or cloud solution), and straightforward setup and integration process (ideally we don't want to hire a consulting company to stand up the servers etc...).
Thanks.
You could
put some of that money to fund one of this open source projects
ask the author to do custom work for you
allocate time for one of your coders to learn the technology and implement and maintain the tool you need by an open-source project.
I used, with satisfaction, for some of my work:
Ruby
NANOC
Jekyll
Webby
Middleman
Ruhoh
...And a bunch of other solutions from this big list at Nanoc website.
Node.js + Coffescript
DocPad
Also try this lightweight cms using ruby and google drive nice alternative.
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I'm looking to run a Jabber server on a Windows 2003 server(web farm) and like some practical advice from anyone who has run a live environment with ~500 concurrent users.
Criteria for comment:
Performance
Capacity (ie ~number of concurrent users)
Stability
OpenFire is a good gpl java implementation of a jabber server.
It has plenty of option plugins you can use and it can intergrate quite well with Active Directory OpenFire
I think you're going to need to be a bit more explicit - you looking for server configurations, or software e.g. Jabber Server?
If you're thinking Jabber server, EJabberD is probably the most stable, flexible, capable of being clustered etc.
Really useful comparison of Open Source servers here...
http://www.saint-andre.com/jabber/jsc/