Hi Rob and Charlie, I'm not aware of specific Restlet hosting solutions yet. The approach I would recommend is dedicated hosting or virtual servers. This is what I use for the Restlet.org site and other Noelios's sites. This is now a relatively inexpensive solution but it does require good administration knowledge.
If some of you have more experience with RoR hosting, I'd be curious to understand the technical reasons why it is easier to host a RoR application than to remotely deploy a WAR into a shared Java container (Servlet or Restlet)? With Java security policies, it is easy to prevent an application from doing some sensitive operations like direct disk access or JVM shutdown. Best regards, Jerome > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Rob Heittman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : vendredi 17 août 2007 04:43 > À : [email protected] > Objet : RE: Restlet Hosting? > > Since we are moving our commerce and small business hosting > platform to a restlet based approach, this question interests > us greatly. > > Generally, the existing application server solutions out > there are not designed with low cost shared hosting in mind. > This is the gating factor driving our cost to provide > something like Tomcat ... to have sufficient control over the > container and not collide with other users, you basically > need your own VM and practically your own private server. > Just providing a place for people to deploy WARs is not > commercially viable; users want and often need configuration > and customization at the container level. We have found > virtual private servers to be an acceptable balance ... but > that is often like swatting a fly with a baseball bat. > > In my humble opinion, this problem is a key point in favor of > LAMP and RoR. Java solutions are unfairly expensive and > frustrating to get hosted on the actual web. Without a > solution, I fear Java web solutions will never really escape > the enterprise context into common public use. > > Because Restlet is far more granular than Servlet and not > tightly bound to the whole J2EE container design, I think > there is a broad range of possibilities. But much work must > be done ... starting with discovery about the possible use cases. > > I don't know to what degree that's on topic for this list. > Maybe the time is right for a restlet hosting discussion > forum somewhere, if that doesn't already exist. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Charlie O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 8/16/07 9:35 PM > Subject: Restlet Hosting? > > If I want to host a restlet-based website, what are the best > options? Obviously > I could set up my own box, but I'm not sure I want to go > through that trouble. > > Are there any hosting companies that offer Restlet hosting? > Or would I have to > use Servlet hosting, and use a connector? Servlet hosting > always seems to be > expensive when compared with Ruby, PHP, Python etc. > > Is there any technical reason why companies might be able to > offer Restlet > containers more cheaply than Servlet containers? > > Charlie
