On 10/23/2012 10:57 AM, Shahar Dag wrote:
The students will decide which web server and supporting programs to
install (but it will be Linux) and then install everything they need.
We cannot test in advanced that the web site & the machine behave in a
reasonable way.
Everything can be accessed internally via a limited network.
If this network is on the Technion network, and it has free access
outside, everything bad that people described can happen. You just need
an ssh tunnel or a <http://pagekite.net/> redirect, and you're on the
open internet, almost equivalently to being there in the first place.
The problem starts for example if you want to test your system from a
mobile device via 3G. Here you need to open your system to the world.
Currently we can’t do it (for next year we will try to host a virtual
cluster in the DMZ).
one ssh -L to tx, or a pagekite account, is all it takes to make it
accessible to everything and everyone. (I'm not suggesting you do that -
I'm suggesting that being directly routeable is not a requirement for it
to be "open").
If you want to test it from a mobile device, you can put a $30 wireless
router, and set that mobile device to use that wireless router's wifi.
If you want 3G speeds and problems, you can do traffic shaping.
If you can afford ~50nis/project, use a VPS server. A quick review of
LowEndBox says you can get a 256MB VPS, internet routable, for $4/month,
which would be 50 nis for a semester. (There are even cheaper options).
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