introduce a high performance free hosting (for drupal)--sae---a GAE like China project , i just finished deploy drupal 6 there

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ok , example first to prove that i am telling the truth : http://trackself.sinaapp.com/ just feel its speed!

[background:]
1.SAE: sina app engine , belong to sina.com (China), it's a service like google app engine ,but provide PHP hosting and mysql hosting and more! well , i think it's better than GAE, because i only know php but not python/java. It declare itself cloud service. And better than GAE, it use SVN.
2.Since it offer php and mysql hosting , drupal can be hosted. But a little hack to install.php , nothing more hack
3.it's Fast , very fast (PHP and MYSQL running speed compare with bluehost).
4.since some people doubt about that , one more words:sina.com is a large company in China , google it yourself.
5.since it support cookies and session , we could build a powerful proxy-website on it .

[Join:]
1.http://sae.sina.com.cn/activity/invite/44638/weibo , firstly you have to go the the invite page to get yourself an account of sae.
sorry , the invite page is total Chinese , but i think you could manage it, just click button if you see one , or use google translate for help.
2.like GAE, SAE need your phone number to send you a verify code, and i don't know if a foreign phone will work , and by the way , seem that need a name and i don't know if it must be a Chinese name or not (anyway , you could google one).
3.i just comment with their help services to confirm that they will support foreign soon , now ,not Chinese will have to find a Chinese friends to help to register , i am sorry to hear that. (http://sae.sina.com.cn/?m=feedback&a=view&id=4058)

[drupal6 install:]
1.download http://trackself.sinaapp.com/drupal6forsae.rar , this file is the drupal6 , i hack the install.php to make drupal 6 suitable in sae. if you don't trust me , just do a diff after you downloaded it. You won't be able to install drupal6 using drupal.org's origin drupal, thus need the hack.
2.decompression and upload the source file to sae using SVN
3.create an app via the control panel of sae , and then active mysql usage (default not acitve).
3.visite http://your-app-domain/install.php for installation and then delete this install file (this is the only different, you don't have to config the mysql username).

[if you still don't trust me , just upload an empty txt file using svn to that SAE and do the hack of drupal or wordpress yourself, the main concept of this article is just telling you that China have a GAE like project ---SAE.I just mean to share not harm]

all done.

[warning:page performance: not good]
the cloud service do not support css/js aggregation and since it's a test , i didn't use any cache mode/module.
sae is like gae , it do not support file wirte services , so css/js aggregation not supported , and thus boost moudle not supported.
but using devel module : mysql and php running time is good , in fact , much better than my bluehost.
well , but this could be fixed , hack the css/js aggregation module , make the write to file changing to writing to database.

( sorry,my english is poor,but i still would like to share with you)

hope you like it , I am glad that China could make such good services that could compare with google-app-engine , so i am so excited to share this with you.By the way , currently , wordpress is also supported.

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This looks rather like spam

pwolanin's picture

This looks rather like spam due to the level of cross-posting.

what do u mean cross posting

haojiang's picture

what do u mean cross posting , i don't get it
i mean not to spam , i write this content for 40 minutes

Cross Posting

Andy_Read's picture

Cross Posting means you have posted this to 11 different groups, most of which are irrelevant. I'm subscribed to 'Views Developers' and this has absolutely nothing to do with Views development. It is bad etiquette to waste people's time by posting to irrelevant groups.

Please edit your original post and remove all groups that are not directly relevant (which may be all of them!!), otherwise subscribers to these groups will continue to get replies to this post, which is essentially just about hosting.

Hey, it looks cool! And i

joelwallis's picture

Hey, it looks cool! And i dont see it has a spam message. I'll take a look today at home. It may serve to test some performance scriptings...

thank you very much , and

haojiang's picture

thank you very much , and since the services is from China, i don't know if USA will feel the speed of that.
anyway , i do a test using a sock5 proxy , and still very fast
hope to see the direct test from USA.

I don't trust this at

Nick_vh's picture

I don't trust this at all...
A diff file + listing of changes or removal I'd say. And no direct links to some dodgy rar file...

"A diff file + listing of

haojiang's picture

"A diff file + listing of changes or removal "

how to do that ?

sorry , the file need not to install even a software in your computer , you only need to install SVN to upload using SVN.

you need not to install drupal on your own computer.

that's the cloud server mean , isn't it?

so , how the hell could i got a chance to harm your computer?

and by the way , i said php hosting , you could upload only a empty test.txt to do a debug , not just drupal

I just ran it through google

Nick_vh's picture

I just ran it through google pagespeed
http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/pagespeed/#url=http_3A_2F_2Ftrackself.si...

It seems that you didn't even enable css/js aggregation? I'm sorry but I suppose you'll have to come up with more details if you want to gain acceptance. A default drupal 7 will get you more speed and speed is all relative depending on the location you are in.

the cloud service do not

haojiang's picture

the cloud service do not support css/js aggregation and since it's a test , i didn't use any cache mode/module.
sae is like gae , it do not support file wirte services , yeah , if you're familiar with linux yamp , you could do a trip to over round write thus will making it support css/js aggregation and .htaccess rewrite too , but it's a huge task to me and a lot to hack. And as far i know , GAE do not even have these kind of trick . And the better is that it support session and cookie...

i saw somebody in China already did a try but not success.
if you wanted css/js aggregation , just try a third party call cloudflare.com .

and , i mean fast it's about php runing and mysql querying.

anyway , i just want to introduce to you a GAE like program in China , SAE.

it is not just for drupal , but for all php-mysql websites.

i am now trying wordpress and building a web-proxy on it since it support session and cookie, but GAE didn't.

and i am not familiar with drupal 7 , so i still use drupal 6 for a try on that SAE . drupal 7 is better performance than drupal 6 , i doubt about that since the database in drupal 7 , i mean CCK-field part , using more left join than drupal 6 did whie it's on beta version.

^

Ayesh's picture

Why did you hack install.php ? what are the things that's incompatible with SAE ?
Does is support APC/Memcache ? (because you said PHP/SQL running fast)

it support Memcache , but i

haojiang's picture

it support Memcache , but i didn't try to use its memcache yet , withou using memcache , it still fast
about hack install.php
ok , you're familiar with GAE(GOOGLE APP ENGINE) , SAE is just like GAE:
1.install.php will check if setting.php and default/files are both writable .
2.both GAE and SAE do not support write services to file.
THUS the reasons i hack it, of course there are some other problem , but their details , could not describe in a word.

This post should be in the

mikeprinsloo's picture

This post should be in the following group only: http://groups.drupal.org/node/88174

Am just at a loss

wbe's picture

Am just at loss as to the meaning, importance and relevance of this post to this group. Been reading through all the comments. Just curious.

@admins, please lock this thread

scottprive's picture

@haojiang - Does this thread pertain to the Drupal Views module? As in here: http://drupal.org/project/views

I suspect the answer is no - this is NOT about Drupal Views.
To be even more clear, if the subject IS something really cool about Drupal... but not related to "Drupal Views" related, then again the topic does NOT belong here.

When you are a member of a Drupal Group, you are email notified for every thread and every reply even if you have have been trying to ignore (and not participate).
The fact is some people are getting annoyed by the notifications.

To not get notices for this discussion, members would need to QUIT the group... and I am not going to do that. @Admins - please lock or delete this thread.

if this WAS an honest mistake by @haojiang and this really DOES have something to do with "Views", this must be communicated in the FIRST post for the new topic. This can be done in a new thread, if needed. (If that new thread does not mention anything about Drupal Views, then it confirms something is wrong with regard to forum rules....)

Thanks.

+1 for locking

dddbbb's picture

+1 for locking. I'd really like to stay subscribed to this group but this thread is waaay off topic and making me want to unsubscribe.

+1 for locking

StephanieFuda's picture

My thought exactly, I don't want to unsubscribe from the group because of one possibly erroneous post topic.

Please stop this thread!

schmook's picture

It is annoying and had NOTHING to do with views!

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