Thanks Mike. The reason I was asking primarily is because of seasidehosting.st (which my company runs). It's old and dusty and Cog images don't run on it. There was a lot of hype around Smallharbour but it seems to have died (anyone have any news on that?), which is a shame because it might have been a replacement for seasidehosting.st.
So what I gather from your answer is that rackinthecloud is not an alternative, strictly speaking (seasidehosting.st is free of charge), but a good spot to turn to if you're looking for permanent hosting. And that's a good thing to know because we do get requests from time to time from people who are looking for more than we provide with seasidehosting.st. Thanks again for the clarification and thanks also for your initiative! One last thing: maybe you could add the information you just gave me to the website (maybe on an "about" page). I think that would help a lot (it would help you too, since people will have more trust if they have more information). Cheers, Max On 30.07.2013, at 11:57, mikefilonov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Max, > That’s great you found this project that cool, thank you :) > > Rackincloud.com is actually my personal project that I developed to host > several pharo/seaside applications (well, not only seaside though: redmine, > svn too, and several others are planned). As I did not find any similar > suitable solution and I have some experience in hosting/appliances, I > decided to create a simple platform for easy management of several instances > of pharo/smalltalk via Web interface. Seems it really worked out :) > > I developed a Pharo-appliance which is basically a Linux ISO-image that runs > Pharo and VNC server. The appliance incorporates pharo-vm, pharo-image and > all necessary utilities/libraries in one ready-to-use package, which allows > to install server on a virtualization platform in "one click". The result is > very similar to "Smalltalk OS" idea: you boot and you see pure pharo > environment :) > > Well, I thought that this project might be interesting to smalltalk/pharo > community (as the process of running a new instance of Pharo is extremely > easy with rackincloud.com) and I decided to make it public. So here the > short video of how to run pharo (sorry about the musicJ) > http://youtu.be/TXbvO5ejZZA?a > > What about costs, at the moment it is $15/month for Pharo appliance. This > includes: 512Mb of RAM, 5Gb of HDD, unlimited traffic. For hosting large > files there is a "Fileserver Appliance" that is basically an apache server > configured to serve files from public directory. It is managed by ajaxplorer > web interface. > > In general for now there is only 4 appliances ready for my platform, but I > can package any linux software as appliance in case of such need. > > So, I hope you'll enjoy working with rack in cloud, but keep in mind that it > is its first run, and I REALY look forward to receiving any feedback. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-dev-rackincloude-seaside-hosting-tp4701427p4701464.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
