On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Gerald Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Gentlemen, > > I noticed that the MOODLE educational system is now widely available as a > free option at a large proportion of the most popular free/low cost web > hosting sites. I myself verified that it took only a few minutes to set up a > fully functioning MOODLE server at zero cost to me. This feature will work > wonders for popularizing MOODLE far and wide. I wonder why something like > this cannot be set up for SAGE Math? If SAGE were readily available on > these hosting platforms as an option (probably because of the amount of > resources needed for SAGE, it would be an option on a low cost rather than > the bottom end completely free web hosting choice), I think it would do much > to encourage the wide spread adoption of SAGE Math. I am also curious how > dificult it would be to use a low cost web hosting site to set up a SAGE > server on my own? These sites typically offer Linux/BSD Unix functionality. > If I buy the space, will they allow me to upload SAGE and compile and > install it into a directory on the file system assigned to me? If so, how > would I set it up so that everybody could access the SAGE notebook server on > the site? I have given up trying to make SAGE on my personal computer > accessible from the Internet. I was told to use a "bridged" system for > VMWare, but the server simply gives up and refuses to function if I put it > up under anything except NAT. I would much prefer to set it up on a low > cost webhosting site anyway so it could be available at any time to my > students, and we could use it to share worksheets with each other. I think > as SAGE becomes more popular in education, having everybody use the > www.sagemath.org server will lead to chaos. Those teachers who have access > to sympathetic IT directors might be able to set it up on a school district > system, but it would be really nice if educators could set it up on their > own and have a URL to a SAGE web server that was entirely their own. Having > it as an optional package at one or more of these low cost web hosting > sites would be a wonderful opportunity for educators without access to > institutional IT resources. Has anybody tried this? I would very much like > some input. Could anybody with the necessary technical knowledge approach > these sites and talk to their directors about offering a SAGE Math web > server package as an option for their customers? I am thinking about places > like Freehostia, 110MB or GoDaddy. What do you guys think? > > Sincerely, > > Jerry >
The minimum reasonable requirements for building sage from source and running a Sage server are: 1. at least 2.5GB disk space (building sage from source ends up taking 1.9GB once the build finishes, and you want to have room for user data). 2. Linux (BSD is currently _not_ supported) 3. at least 1GB RAM (preferably 4GB) 4. standard GCC build environment (gcc, g++, make) 5. at least two unix accounts on the server Regarding 5, if you want to run Sage on a hosting service such that it is not trivial for any users to hack/break, then you also have to be able to create at least one other user account on the system and setup ssh keys. If a hosting service provides the above, then Sage is likely to work fine. -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
