[Seaside] Seaside hosting questions - multiple sites, uploading squeak images and cgi

[Avi Bryant]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Derek Brans wrote:

> Hi Avi,
>
> I have access to my very own server.  I don't have seaside installed
> yet, but I wanted to know if it is possible to manage seaside sites just
> as I would other sites on my server.  Is it possible (within the limits
> of seaside) that a user could upload an image and start it up?  Does
> that mean you need one image running for every seaside site?  Is that
> scalable?

I don't really understand your question about uploading an
image and starting it up - if you either give them enough access to start
a Squeak process going, or write some scripts to automate this, then, yes,
of course they can.  To be anything like secure, you will definitely need
a separate image for each user.  Scalability of this depends on a couple
of things - Squeak images can be stripped easily to about 6-8 megabytes,
so count on using that much RAM for each user.  On unix, the standard
Squeak VM is a bit of a CPU hog; it seems to help to compile
it with -DITIMER, but I'll have to do some more experimentation to be
sure.

What kind of a usage scenario are you imagining?

Avi