Hey Aral, I don't know if this is viable for you or not but RailsPlayground uses CPanel and a very simple rails app for administrating Subversion/Trac---you pay for hosting and request svn/trac install and the rest can be done by the client via these two web apps. Since switching to rails I've been using these guys as a host and its great b/c I have total control.
CPanel ain't free and the rails app they use to admin trac/svn is in house-- but you never know they might want to see it improved and/or sell it. Anyhow, leveraging software like this might be a way to let you "hit the ground running" with a minimum effort. http://www.cpanel.net/purchase/cPanelandWHM/linux/cPanel_WHM.htm Cheers, Brian On 10/20/06, zwetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Aral, > > On 10/20/06, Aral Balkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > As of now, I am going to be devoting myself to developing an engine > > to power an open source web site similar to SourceForge but much > > simpler to use. It has automated project signups, etc., and the core > > functionality from the current solution. OSFlash will become one > > category (the Flash category) under the projects that are hosted > > there (alongside other Adobe and non-Adobe projects.) In order to > > make it possible for me to work on this and pay the rent, I am going > > to create a separate site that uses this engine which will host > > commercial projects for a fee. Finally, if companies want to use this > > engine, they'll be able to buy licenses for it and/or buy it as an > > appliance. This should make it financially feasible for me to work on > > OSFlash full time. > > > > What does everyone think of this? > > > > maybe what I experienced those last month can help a little > > my case was that doing basic freelance work in flash etc. > most of the time every single client didn't have something > as Trac+Subversion, but once they experienced it > they just wanted exactly the same thing for almost all their > projects but didn't want to go all the trouble to install it themselves. > > At first I was hosting all that just on mix of VPS + home DSL, > then got problem with both the VPS plan and the DSL, then decided to > go on my own dedicated server. > > My plan was the same, host open source projects for my stuff and for > other people that might be interested, but have an automated tool that > do just that automate stuff because yes it take a hell lot of a > time... > > This is very recent but here are some results after ~1 months > > -> the automated stuff take more time than I thought, I should have > planed more time for it, not even remotely finished as I would want, > so I set up to have automated stuff on batch script level and see > later how I can have cool web admin and sleeping at the same time... > > -> strangely, clients talk to each other, and most of the > time new clients come ask me to host their Trac+SVN > without me even needing to look for new clients, > which is something I didn't planed at all. > > -> you need a very small set of paying client to cover for the cost of > the dedicated server, but even if this is cool this is not enougth to > cover you to be full time working on the server (but I'm talking for > me, a very small 1-man-shop and I was expecting that anyway). > > > With OSFlash, which is much much much bigger, > even if you can experience about the same thing, > you will have imho a scaling problem, and here > I'm talking about your ressources as a human being :). > > Even paid and being able to do all this full time 24/24, > such a setup for this scale would take quite some time > to put in place. > > For OSS projects, if the web admin is not ready etc. > it's ok, people can understand etc. > but for paying client, if they do not have an easy admin > to manage their project they will want and ask you the human admin > to set up things for them, and this is the most time consuming thing imho. > > I don't know how you want to program all that, > but if some of my stuff > (jscript and python mostly on windows server) can help, > I would be glad to share that or other little tricks > that save time in the day ;). > > cheers, > zwetan > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
