Hey guys,
I need a CI server. I've been thinking about this for a little while and
I'm leaning towards hosting my own CI server rather than using somebody
else's service - primarily because I don't want to pay someone else for
something I can maintain and because they tend to be slow. With regard to
maintaining my own CI server, here are the conclusions I've come to:
1. Headless servers are extremely frustrating to debug
- I want to be able to plug in a screen to set everything up, and to
debug it when it (inevitably) breaks
2. Remote servers tend to be slow
- E.g. Amazon EC2
- Also they cost money I don't have
3. Maintaining my own hardware is fine, but I'm going to be travelling
between countries a lot in the next few months and I need to be able to
take it with me
- So smaller is better
My app is pretty straightforward, a Rails server and HTML/JS frontend
tested with RSpec, Jasmine and Cucumber. Running the full suite of tests
takes about 2 minutes on my MBP.
I've been thinking about getting a mini-pc/nettop/<stupid sales term for
"small computer">. Anybody have any recommendations - either for small
portable hardware or for a hosted service that will perform adequately and
not cost too much?
Cheers,
Will
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