[Seaside] seaside providers

[C. David Shaffer]

Adrian Lienhard wrote:

> We thought about that a while ago to set up a professional seaside 
> hosting here at netstyle.ch. The idea is to have a pre-installed 
> system as it is typically used for a Seaside app. This would include 
> GOODS, Postgres, ssh access, VNC and Apache for example. The 
> infrastructure/bandwidth etc. is in place, what we would have to set 
> up are some security restrictions.

Yes, putting together a setup like this isn't difficult.  What's hard is 
making it usable remotely.  I have a server on a T1 but VNCing from my 
home via our Cable internet provider can be very laggy at times.  I 
really can't say this enough times: "If you don't have physical or LAN 
access to the server then be ready to build administrative interfaces 
and develop a deployment technique which ensures no or few errors."  On 
the other hand it isn't that hard to set it up and test it with one or 
two customers.  I just wouldn't try to sell it as a "general Seaside 
solution" without a lot of tools added.  LiveWire looks like a very 
promising part of such a toolset.

David

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