Jon
To keep the app alive, in your "Long Life Service object", have it do 1
XML "Are you alive request" to itself (same web site, some ashx link)
every "x" minutes, that should work?
Shawn
On 5/13/2011 12:13 PM, Jon Dick wrote:
The only reason the long lived ASP.NET <http://ASP.NET> application is
important is if you are sending a lot of notifications frequently, you
need to maintain the same TCP connection to apple's push notification
servers. You wouldn't want to be creating a new connection for each
message.
In practice, you would probably be fine with creating a global
instance of the library's NotificationService object in your
Global.asax... Realistically that instance should be ok until the app
pool is restarted, which I don't think would happen terribly often if
there is a lot of activity.
I'm not familiar with Manos de Mono... The only reason I would suggest
you could rig up asp.net <http://asp.net> to be long lived and make
this work, is if you wanted to do hosting really cheaply (eg: a shared
hosting provider where you can't run custom executables). There's of
course nothing stopping you from making a nice .net service using this
library directly (which is exactly what I do).
It would be interesting though to see if you could make a similar
application work over ASP.NET <http://ASP.NET>. In my case, my server
application has to monitor a bunch of IMAP connections, without the
users necessarily contacting the web service subsequent times. So for
me the challenge would be making sure my asp.net <http://asp.net> app
stays alive with nobody hitting pages on it.
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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:38 AM, ChrisNTR <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Would you be able to use something like Manos de Mono to do this
sort of thing - if the long lived ASP.NET <http://ASP.NET>
application was the important part? http://manosdemono.org/
ChrisNTR
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jon Dick <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I run my own server using my APNS-Sharp library.
There should technically even be a way to get it working via
asp.net <http://asp.net>, but that involves some techniques to
keep the asp.net <http://asp.net> application long lived.
Depending on your situation, a service like Urban Airship may
be preferable (if you don't send out a lot of messages).
Basically I look at pricing. I can easily run my own VPS for
$20/month. That equates to 8000 push notifications with urban
airship. My one app sends out about 10,000 notifications per
day, so price wise, Urban Airship is way too expensive for me.
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Jon (aka Redth)
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:01 AM, atmuc <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
what server do you use except urban airship?
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