I have a friend who has developed a very cool Google Earth layer for viewing satellite orbits. The problem is, he's currently running it on his home server which only has campus Wifi to connect to the world. Needless to say, I'm trying to find a more professional (and stable) way of hosting it.
Normally I would go with a standard web hosting service like SquareSpace, but this is a bit different. The layer displays images (specifically, graphs of a satellite's orbit over time) which are calculated using a custom Matlab script. Every day, he downloads the tracking data and runs the Matlab routine to generate the graphics. All told it's about 1 GB of data. So if we just had a web server that hosted the images, he would still need to ftp 1 GB of data from his personal computer to the web server every day over a WiFi connection. Not ideal So, my question is - does anyone have experience with a company that can provide a hosted box which will do web serving and can have Matlab installed and run custom C++ programs, all from a remote login? I know the ideal long-term solution is to build our own server and then find a home for it, but right now time is critical - ideally we'd like to have something up and running as soon as possible. Funds are not really a problem at this point (within a few thousand USD). Ideas? --------------------------- Brian Weeden Technical Advisor Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada +1 (202) 683-8534 US
