[Qgis-developer] new server

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Alex,

I apologize for my, out of context, comment on "privacy" and "NSA". I
understand that OSGeo and our existing QGIS servers do not contain any
known backdoor for NSA & Co. It is just that we are quite uncomfortable
with the actions that the US/UK (and other European) governments are
undertaking in the disguise of "security".

We value the work and efforts you, Alex, OSGeo and others did for us.
Thanks a lot! Nevertheless, we had performance issues with the QGIS
servers, esp. for the Redmine instance (hub.qgis.org) - at least in the
country where I live. So I think it is quite useful to add additional
server resources to make the overall system more reliable.

Andreas

Am 06.10.2013 21:13, schrieb 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
> 
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