[OSGeo Africa] Web Hosting

Wed May 11 10:41:42 EDT 2011

Hi

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Yewondwossen Assefa <yassefa at dmsolutions.ca
> wrote:

>  Hi Tim,
>
>  There are hundreds more good reasons, I could go on all day, but I will
> leave you with this last gem:
>
> - 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....
>
>    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.
> 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 (
> http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml)  which  has about 3000 downloads a
> month.
>
> 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.
>
>
Ooops, I forgot to qualify that statement with a warning that I was about to
make a gross, completely biased generalisation ! :-)

Regards

Tim


>  regards,
>
> Assefa
>
>
>
>
>  Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>>
>> Sarel Coetzer | GIS Developer
>>
>> Malaria Research Programme
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Gavin <gavinjfleming at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sarel
>>>
>>> I have had experience with Hetzner in Germany and DataPro in Cape Town.
>>> Hetzner with dedicated servers and DataPro with a clients' own servers.
>>>
>>> Offshore hosting has the advantage of negligible bandwidth costs.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I have generally done full management along with Tim Sutton (Linfiniti)
>>> or directly with my clients on the following stack:
>>>
>>> Ubuntu server
>>> PostgreSQL/PostGIS
>>> MapServer/Mapnik/GeoServer/QGIS map server
>>> Python (mainly Django)/php(a little)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It would also be interesting to see your results if you're planning to
>>> share them.
>>>
>>> Gavin
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 12:18 +0200, Sarel Coetzer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi There
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am currently documenting and listing hosting solutions in (Africa or
>>> European) that caters/supports the following stack:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Stack:*
>>>
>>> OS: MS 2008 R2
>>>
>>> Mapserver
>>>
>>> PostgreSQL
>>>
>>> PostGIS
>>>
>>> PHP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Your assistance will be appreciated
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Sarel Coetzer | GIS Developer
>>>
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