I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am.
It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer Fedora. I have a TG782t modem.
Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems than enough. Shared servers won't host Rails. VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no knowledge on that.
What would you recommend please. Help greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Roger
Hi,
I can host your web application. I have several machines at my disposal and a public IP's. You would have to point your domain to one of my ip addresses and start from there. I can host either Centos or Debian and tailor the server to the other software you need. Let me know if you are interested. I run my network for work purposes and testing. Mostly it is under utilized and I would like to get some web hosting or applications running on it. I do not charge for my services. I only ask that you not run anything illegal and if you get too big or there is too much traffic you will have to find another hosting company.
Thanks, Ramon
On 2013-06-17 21:50, Roger wrote:
I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am.
It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer Fedora. I have a TG782t modem.
Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems than enough. Shared servers won't host Rails. VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no knowledge on that.
What would you recommend please. Help greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Roger
On 2013-06-17 21:50, Roger wrote:
I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am. :
Hi,
I can host your web application. I have several machines at my disposal and a public IP's. You would have to point your domain to one of my ip addresses and start from there. I can host either Centos or Debian and tailor the server to the other software you need. Let me know if you are interested. I run my network for work purposes and testing. Mostly it is under utilized and I would like to get some web hosting or applications running on it. I do not charge for my services. I only ask that you not run anything illegal and if you get too big or there is too much traffic you will have to find another hosting company.
Thanks, Ramon
Hi Ramon This may help a lot, thank you for the offer. I'll check with the others and get back to you. Cheers Roger
On 06/17/2013 11:50 PM, Roger wrote:
I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am.
It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer Fedora. I have a TG782t modem.
Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems than enough. Shared servers won't host Rails. VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no knowledge on that.
What would you recommend please. Help greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Roger
I use lots of Asus EeeBox 1033 machines as CentOS 6 based appliance web servers. I am sure Fedora would run on them, too. Silent, low power consumption and no linux compatibility issues.
http://ca.asus.com/en/Eee/EeeBox_PC/EeeBox_PC_EB1033/
Allegedly, on or about 18 June 2013, Roger sent:
High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything.
NB: That's being a bit too simplistic. If you got hacked, your machine could become a menace to the internet. You always want high security on a public server, even on private servers that could accidentally become publicly accessible in a way that you haven't thought of.
On 06/18/2013 02:49 PM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 18 June 2013, Roger sent:
High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything.
NB: That's being a bit too simplistic. If you got hacked, your machine could become a menace to the internet. You always want high security on a public server, even on private servers that could accidentally become publicly accessible in a way that you haven't thought of.
Thank you I had not considered that aspect.
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 13:50 +1000, Roger wrote:
I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am.
It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer Fedora. I have a TG782t modem.
Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems than enough. Shared servers won't host Rails. VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no knowledge on that.
What would you recommend please.
---- Heroku free for your purposes and fully supports RoR
PostgreSQL is in my opinion, much more reliable than MySQL/MariaDB.
In essence, RoR abstracts the database functionality so you could relatively easily swap between different database servers or even do development on MySQL and deployment on Postgres.
Pictures should not be in the database in any event. You might want to check into something like Amazon S3 for storing pictures.
Craig
On 06/18/2013 03:46 PM, Craig White wrote:
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 13:50 +1000, Roger wrote:
I am looking into building or acquiring a small fairly silent low power web server for my home office. Reason is that I need to develop and run a small number of Ruby2 Rails 4 applications. These will have low traffic around 200 hits per day possibly up to 500 hits over 24 hours in heavy load times, but most of the time we expect 20-40 per day. It will be turned off at 10:30 pm and restarted about 8-9 am.
It will be Centos or Fedora OS, Ubuntu has been recommended but I prefer Fedora. I have a TG782t modem.
Have looked into shared servers, VPS, Heroku and each has more problems than enough. Shared servers won't host Rails. VPS is way too expensive for the small requirements High security is not needed, if it got hacked I'd just reinstall everything. But I do need my developer pc isolated against any attacks Heroku uses only postgres I would rather mariaDB, sqlite or mysql. Apparently postgres doesn't handle images too well but I have no knowledge on that.
What would you recommend please.
Heroku free for your purposes and fully supports RoR
PostgreSQL is in my opinion, much more reliable than MySQL/MariaDB.
In essence, RoR abstracts the database functionality so you could relatively easily swap between different database servers or even do development on MySQL and deployment on Postgres.
Pictures should not be in the database in any event. You might want to check into something like Amazon S3 for storing pictures.
Craig
Thanks Craig I have it on heroku for dev/test. Not sure about it being free, it seems that Heroku provides a number of free hours which when exhausted start costing and those costs seem to get to hundreds of Dollars a year, even up to a thousand Dollars a year by their calculator, unless I'm not understanding their pricing structure. After the hours are exhausted, does Heroku still charge for in and out when developing? I couldn't find anything in the charges/costs to explain. Roger
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