From: Mike K. \(kerrnel22\) <tik...@ke...> - 2008-11-04 06:12:59
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Was just looking at the url posted below and while this sounds like an interesting experiment, how is this an advantage to Tiki if we can get it to run in this environment given the following disclaimer from the EC2 page? " Disclaimer: 1. This is experimental, use at your own risk 2. Data which is created in EC2 instances do not survive beyond the instance (no persistance). If the instance crashes or is shut down, your data just vanished. 3. Do not run production servers on this. This is intended as a demo. " >From the sounds of things this is like RAM memory. You put something in and if it reboots or is reset, it's gone. Software as sophisticated as Tiki I can't see working well in that sort of environment given how much effort it takes to get a site up and running. Especially if there's a chance you can lose three hours of work 10 minutes later? I can definitely see its benefits for demoing something, but I'm thinking more of a single application that you can load up there, and show it off with 2 minutes of setup time. If you lose it - oh well, just load it back up. Can't really do that with Tiki. Or am I missing something about how EC2 works? Mike. -----Original Message----- From: Marc Laporte [mailto:ma...@ma...] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:49 AM To: Tiki users mailing list Cc: Tikiwiki developers Subject: Re: [Tikiwiki-users] Jumpbox TikiWiki Hi! Vincent has setup an instance of TikiWiki 2.2 and trunk on EC2. http://tikiwiki.org/EC2 Enjoy! M ;-) On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:16 PM, ma...@gm... <ma...@gm...> wrote: > +1 Its a good idea. > It made me think ... someone should create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) so > people can load TikiWiki in to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). > This would allow people to get a incredibly scalable tikiwiki site running > and hosted very easily. All someone needs to do is > read http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-05-05/GettingStartedGuide/ > and have a go. If it works, then we should offer the machine images as > a download on tw.o > I would be very interested in how it goes. If someone wants to try I can > "lend" them an EC2 account to try it out. > > Matthew > > On 4 Oct 2008, at 17:45, Nelson Ko wrote: > > Has anyone tried http://www.jumpbox.com/app/tikiwiki? > > If it works well, I think we should put a link to such virtual > appliances on a page on info.tikiwiki.org... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Tikiwiki-users mailing list > Tik...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-users > > -- Marc Laporte http://MarcLaporte.com http://TikiWiki.org/MarcLaporte http://AvanTech.net http://OurWiki.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Tikiwiki-users mailing list Tik...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tikiwiki-users |