I suggest going with virtualized hosting providers that give you root access on the box and you can do whatever you want on it. The biggest name would probably be amazon ec2 instances but there are several other places like slicehost and similar. I have used amazon ec2 instances with R which is very similar to Matlab from my understanding. You could get one ec2 instance and set it up as your webserver + matlab processing machine or get two instances and split up the work. There are some nuances you/they will run into when working with ec2. If you need something super simple at first you might want to go with slicehost type of hosting provider they make certain things a little easier. Their assumption is you will be using the vm's for web content related stuff and with amazon ec2 they don’t make any assumptions about what you will be using the vm's for so there is a lot more setup work.
Thanks, ------------------------------------------ Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM) Sr. Security Researcher Websense Security Labs http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com ------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:08 AM To: hwg Subject: [H] Question about a hosted server box running web services & Matlab 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 To report this as spam, please forward to [email protected]. Thank you. Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com
