Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
On 2017-03-10 17:15, Bo Berglund wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:03:12 -0600, nore...@z505.com wrote: For websites with 10 visitors a day it might suffice... but then if those 10 visitors download a 5mb file even, it's super slow for them... Maybe ISP upload speeds are better in your country,

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
On 2017-03-10 20:36, Travis Siegel wrote: 2 dollarsfor an additional 5GB of storage if you want it regardless of the plan you choose. Heck, I'm seriously considering getting one of these myself, and I don't even have an immediate need for it, just things I'd like to do that I've been putting

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
On 2017-03-10 20:35, Travis Siegel wrote: Just for reference, a T1 hasn't costed thousands of dollars for more than 20 years. The last time I had one, it was less than 600 a month, and that was more than 10 years ago. Indeed, I only did research on them about 15-20 years ago and haven't done

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
On 2017-03-12 18:18, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-03-12 21:27, nore...@z505.com wrote: With 1.8Mbps up link, that's roughly 0.2 mega bytes per second, so, if you run servers from your home that your customers access, what happens if someone downloads a 100MB file And that is exactly why

Re: [fpc-other] How to set library search path ?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
On 2017-03-12 18:25, Giuliano Colla wrote: As far as Linux and FreeBSD are concerned, my suggestion would be that you launch your application from a shell script, which does the work. Sort of an executable file called MyProg.sh What happens if you use a function that launches the shell and

Re: [fpc-other] How to set library search path ?

2017-03-12 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 12/03/2017 20:15, Fred van Stappen ha scritto: But is it possible to set that library path without to edit a file, only by command (via a TProcess) ? And if it is possible for Linux, how to do for Windows and FreeBSD and Mac OS (and other os are welcome). If the libraries are needed

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-03-12 21:27, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Conspiracy theory: they are all purposely limiting upload speeds so we > don't run our own servers! Interesting theory. ;-) Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-other] How to set library search path ?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
On 2017-03-12 17:37, Fred van Stappen wrote: But how do you do to use SetEnv ? if you call SetEnv in the main program, I guess it doesn't affect the program inside TProcess? I may see your problem now :-) What's this do?

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-03-12 20:22, Luca Olivetti wrote: > AFAIK it isn't. > > https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html Take everything you read on the Internet with a pinch of salt. :) That page seems very old and much out of date. ie: it references multiple times articles dated cira 2002 - that's 14 years ago.

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
On 2017-03-12 15:22, Luca Olivetti wrote: El 12/03/17 a les 19:08, Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: On 2017-03-12 16:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? As far as I know IPv6 is backwards compatible (in that it can

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
El 12/03/17 a les 19:08, Graeme Geldenhuys ha escrit: On 2017-03-12 16:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? As far as I know IPv6 is backwards compatible (in that it can handle IPv4 traffic) AFAIK it isn't.

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread David W Noon via fpc-other
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 19:41:22 +0100, José Mejuto (joshy...@gmail.com) wrote about "Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?" (in <4ec7b29b-be2e-dacb-9694-522d0375f...@gmail.com>): > El 12/03/2017 a las 19:06, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: >> On 2017-03-11 17:13, José Mejuto

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread José Mejuto
El 12/03/2017 a las 19:06, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: On 2017-03-11 17:13, José Mejuto wrote: IPv6 in most ISPs will continue to be dynamic :-/ which have its advantages and problems. With my ISP (Sky Broadband in the UK), they allocate a huge amount of IPv6 addresses to each Sky Fibre

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-03-12 16:09, nore...@z505.com wrote: > Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? > or backwards compatibility is in place? As far as I know IPv6 is backwards compatible (in that it can handle IPv4 traffic), but IPv6 has so many benefits and makes so many IPv4 "features" obsolete.

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-03-11 17:13, José Mejuto wrote: > IPv6 in most ISPs will continue to be dynamic :-/ which have its > advantages and problems. With my ISP (Sky Broadband in the UK), they allocate a huge amount of IPv6 addresses to each Sky Fibre customers. These addresses don't change as far as I know -

Re: [fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

2017-03-12 Thread noreply
El 11/03/2017 a las 11:04, Graeme Geldenhuys escribió: Now the only thing remaining is for all ISP's to switch off IPv4 and only use IPv6 (wishful thinking). Won't switching off ipv4 break old software apps? or backwards compatibility is in place? Yet another latest and greatest I will