Hi SoC accepted projects,
I thought I would ping the group to see if anyone thinks they would benefit or could use access to a VPS with whatever is needed (shell access, CVS, SVN, etc) to help with their project.
This would be a basic VPS running a LAMP stack plus shell access, CVS, editors (emacs/vi/whatever) that I would setup and donate for use by anyone with an accepted project and their mentors for use in completing your SoC work. I thought this might be useful for people with accounts on a provider that don't have shell, or maybe lack some things like CVS.
The question is would it be helpful to anyone, and would you use such a thing? If there is sufficient interest and enough people say yes that would be a big help I will work on setting something up for you to use.
Thanks,
Steve Brown
HotDrupal.com
Comments
VPS!
+1
Well thats a great idea. It could be of great help to students who don't really have any access to a web server (other than setting their own machines as web servers). And it could be all the more help during the testing period. As of now I dont really need one but like I said, I will like to have one for testing purposes.
+1
It's a generous offer! I'm doing fine with my local apache installation for now, but it might be useful for testing purposes.
Time ...
Just want to let everyone know how I do this will be dependent on what kind and number of responses I get. I'm not trying to get people to respond for the sake of responding, it's important that people don't just go "sounds good! vps!" and write saying "yeah, I'll use that!" just because.
So I'm going to give the thread a few days and then figure out the best way to do this based on the responses I get in that time frame. So if you need to respond do so sooner than later :)
Steve
HotDrupal.com - Drupal Friendly Hosting
Definitely would use it
This would be very useful for demonstrating our projects and providing a clean testing environment outside our local dev machines. I'd gratefully accept the offer.
++1 love this generous
++1 love this generous offer!!
I use my hostgator hosting account / local server for testing purposes but this sounds awesome :)
sumit kataria
www.sumitk.net
SumitK
www.sumitk.net
VPS is slowly getting there
It's almost done, been working on it this morning. This is a little more work as it's totally different than the regular VPS systems. More software, less restrictions, etc. etc.
For the people expressing interest please contact me off-list for login information
You can send me an e-mail using the address steve.brown followed by an at sign and then the domain name show below my signature.
Steve
hotdrupal.com
Ready To Go
VPS is ready
http://soc2008.hotdrupal.com
Steve
HotDrupal.com