[Qgis-developer] new server

[Alex Mandel]

On 10/06/2013 12:54 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> On 06-10-13 21:38, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> So in terms of the django,  I disagree with that being the priority to
>> move, it's actually running quite well now with added ram and builds
>> relocated. The biggest competition for resources is actually
>> Ruby/Passenger which last I looked was unoptimized the way mod_wsgi is.
>> I'll also note, that if we want to squeeze more performance out of
>> django we should be looking to move to uwsgi or gunicorn instead of
>> mod_wsgi.
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> one reason to start with the django app, is that it seems broken on
> current server because of (tim, please correct me if I'm wrong) some
> gdal-python breakage (which... is needed for the user map app or so).
> 
> So instead of fixing this on current machine, it seemed a nice candidate
> to do in a docker. To potentially being moved back to qgis1 later.
> One argument for docker is that it is easier to fix this kind of
> breakages (because separation of services), because the breakage then is
> only in one service/container.
> 
> In Nottingham in a talk about Mapproxy (also python/wsgi) by Oliver
> Tonnhofer he also promoted the use of gunicorn.... let's put it on our
> todo list :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Duivenvoorde

That sounds like a plan.

If you want to upgrade Debian versions, thats an option or we can check
DebianGIS for a backport of newer gdal.

I setup the gunicorn for spatialreference.org (also on osgeo machines),
so let me know if you have questions.

Thanks,
Alex