Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Yewondwossen Assefa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yassefa@dmsolutions.ca">yassefa@dmsolutions.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<div>There are hundreds more good reasons, I could go on all
day, but I will leave you with this last gem:<br>
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- Almost every FOSSGIS project's developement effort that I am
aware of happens principally on linux. When things go wrong
developers are much more amenable to helping because the are
on 'home turf'. Speaking personally, if someone reports a QGIS
problem on windows, I usually groan inside and have to be
really motivated to dig out a mothballed windows xp virtual
machine to look at the problem....<br>
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I think It is a bit harsh :) I agree that most developers are on
Linux for OSGeo projects but at the same time all mature projects
have been working on both Windows and Linux (and mac) machines for
years and that is one of their strength. <br>
I can definitely speak for MapServer as a developer that the windows
version is well supported and works as well as any platform. It has
been used for years in production environment through MS4W
(<a href="http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml" target="_blank">http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml</a>) which has about 3000
downloads a month.<br>
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I don't strongly feel one way or the other about deploying OSGeo
tools on Linux or Windows. I believe people should deploy it on the
environment of their choice. As OSGeo developers, I think we should
make sure that the tools work as advertised on all platforms.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Ooops, I forgot to qualify that statement with a warning that I was about to make a gross, completely biased generalisation ! :-)<br><br>Regards<br><br>Tim<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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regards,<br>
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Tim<br>
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Sarel Coetzer | GIS Developer<br>
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Malaria Research Programme<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM,
Gavin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com" target="_blank">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>Hi Sarel<br>
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I have had experience with Hetzner in Germany and
DataPro in Cape Town. Hetzner with dedicated servers
and DataPro with a clients' own servers. <br>
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Offshore hosting has the advantage of negligible
bandwidth costs. <br>
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I have come across a couple of North American
services that cover the mapserver and postgis part
of your stack, not sure about the MS though. <br>
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I have generally done full management along with Tim
Sutton (Linfiniti) or directly with my clients on
the following stack:<br>
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Ubuntu server<br>
PostgreSQL/PostGIS<br>
MapServer/Mapnik/GeoServer/QGIS map server<br>
Python (mainly Django)/php(a little)<br>
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A few of us (AfriSpatial and Linfiniti so far that I
know of) are offering / keen to offer hosting
solutions on more or less the above stack so please
continue the discussion on or off list. These would
most likely be VPS or shared servers.<br>
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It would also be interesting to see your results if
you're planning to share them. <br>
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Gavin
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On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 12:18 +0200, Sarel Coetzer
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<blockquote type="CITE">Hi There </blockquote>
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<blockquote type="CITE">I am currently
documenting and listing hosting solutions
in (Africa or European) that
caters/supports the following stack: </blockquote>
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<blockquote type="CITE"><b><u>Stack:</u></b> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="CITE">OS: MS 2008 R2 </blockquote>
<blockquote type="CITE">Mapserver </blockquote>
<blockquote type="CITE">PostgreSQL </blockquote>
<blockquote type="CITE">PostGIS </blockquote>
<blockquote type="CITE">PHP </blockquote>
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<blockquote type="CITE">I am interested in VPS,
shared or dedicated servers.I would like to
know your experience with the hosting source
aswell. Any info will be great. </blockquote>
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<blockquote type="CITE">Your assistance will be
appreciated </blockquote>
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<blockquote type="CITE">Regards<br>
Sarel Coetzer | GIS Developer<br>
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