On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Stream Service || Mark Scholten<[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I realize that CouchDB is totally different from those examples. That is > also the reason we want to see if we could offer it in our shared hosting > environment. > > You say that many things aren't for a database to check, but that is the most > logical location to do it if you ask me. >
Because CouchDB speaks HTTP a lot of people are already using these techniques. Eventually CouchDB should support some of those features internally. The point is you don't have to wait if you want to start building a system. Keep us posted as you explore. Chris > But with these answers we will look into it further and probably start > testing it in the near future. > > Thanks for the answers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sergey Shepelev [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: dinsdag 7 juli 2009 20:05 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FW: CouchDB shared hosting > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Stream Service || Mark > Scholten<[email protected]> wrote: >> I am sorry for duplicate messages. >> =========================================== >> >> Hello, >> >> We want to know if the following is possible now or in the near future. When >> it is possible we probably want to add the CouchDB to our standard packages. >> - Access to a database based on the username and password > > That's not DB job, you can do it with proxying http server. (nginx, > lighttpd, varnish) > >> - Require that the connections comes from a "trusted" IP or from any IP (can >> also be done by a firewall) > > That's not DB job, you know how to do it, why are you asking? :) > >> - The option to change rights and/or passwords for a user with commands (so >> it can be done automatically) > > You can write scripts to change proxying http server configs and make > it reload them with commands. In fact, there is no such thing in the > world, that can't be done "with commands, automatically". > >> - The option to create/delete users/databases with commands (so it can be >> done automatically) > > You can create/delete databases as simply as curl -X PUT/DELETE > db.host/database > >> - 1 instance for multiple databases (not an instance per database) > > CouchDB can do that. But requirement doesn't make sense. > >> >> If most (or all) options above are possible we will probably start soon with >> offering it on our shared platform. >> >> Currently we work with: >> - MySQL >> - MSSQL >> - Postgresql > > You realize, that CouchDB is totally different from those, right? > >> >> With kind regards, >> >> Mark Scholten >> >> > > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
