Gour wrote:
"Max" == Max Battcher <[email protected]> writes:
Max> Once I get it next deployed I'm debating asking around for interest
Max> in paid, private hosting with it to help me continue to work on it.
Max> My current thoughts are something like $15-$50 per month per
Max> project, with "unlimited" (mostly related) repositories per project
Max> (including "user" repositories) and big/healthy quota caps between
Max> levels (possibly with micro-payments over the quotas). Important
Max> features that I see being Day 1 features: SSL support (you buy the
Max> cert, we host it; you can have all visits of your private project
Max> site redirect to the SSL-encrypted site) and CNAME support
Max> (project.yourcompany.com rather than or in addition to
Max> yourcompanyproject.whatevermyhostingsitegetscalled.com).
Hmm, I must say that the above pricing is a bit expensive for me - for
$20/m one can get the whole VPS at .e.g Linode.
Moreover, atm I have some small hosting at djangohosting.ch for 4€/m and
can put (almost) whatever I like there.
I'm absolutely keeping that in mind. My Darcsforge has always been open
source, top to bottom, and my goal is that it will continue to be so. If
I do start doing paid Darcsforge-based hosting, under whatever name I
might use for that, I'm going to do it well with the knowledge that
knowledgeable people with Django hosting experience can run it
themselves, or even run competitive hosting with my exact source code...
To be honest I think that's an important goal for a DVCS-based tool
and one of my harshest criticisms of github/bitbucket/et al. I think
that companies should have easy to find paid hosting, but I also think
that people and companies should have paths to in-house hosting and
whatever hybrids they might need. Darcs works well distributed, the
web-serving environments should too.
Any goals for paid hosting are for those that want to pay someone to
support it, and also have fit within my current "corporate plans" where
Darcsforge is a low priority (roughly 20% time) project. (Which is also
why, with patch-tag available, I'm certainly not contemplating any sort
of free hosting.) I'm also considering other sorts of paid support to
help continue my development work on it; such as setting up easy-to-use
paid EC2 instances or support contracts.
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--Max Battcher--
http://worldmaker.net
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