This might be a good time to mention an idea I have yet to get round to automating on my web2py backend. I intend to use web2py to automate upload of files to another site and generate appropriate links. It cuts down on hosting traffic costs. For the Google App Engine it can be used to overcome potential limits.
I host large files on Amazon S3, http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ , such as pdf, image and video files, that are accessed from web2py generated links. Amazon S3 provides very cheap 'bucket' storage. There is fairly mature python software called s3cmd that can be used to easily interface to Amazon S3. The web site http://s3tools.org/s3cmd is down at the moment. I don't know if there would be problems adapting the software for use on the Google App Engine. An older version can be quickly installed on a Ubuntu server with apt-get install s3cmd An up to date version can be obtained from http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/files/s3cmd/#files and can be quickly installed with 'python setup.py install'. John Heenan On Jan 11, 10:05 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > One problem is the size of the web2py*.zip and the pdf documents. I > host many of them and they would not fit on GAE. > > On Jan 10, 5:50 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > Yo have a point. Some of the examples use features that are not > > supported on GAE. They can be rewritten. The only issue is finding > > them. I will do so. > > > On Jan 10, 5:27 pm, Richard <richar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > would it be possible to host the main web2py site on GAE to avoid > > > these problems? > > > > On Jan 9, 9:32 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > This time I was able to see the error. It was an out of memory error > > > > on os.fork. This is a virtual machine with 256MB Ram and I had not > > > > rebooted in long time (only restarted the web server). I rebooted it > > > > now and let's see what happens. > > > > > Massimo > > > > > On Jan 8, 4:26 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > > > > > > The server keeps going down even after disabling cron, were you able > > > > > to figure out why ? > > > > > > -Thadeus > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Gavin Joyce <gavinjo...@gmail.com> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Massimo > > > > > > > On Jan 8, 7:46 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > >> Sorry I just rebooted the server. > > > > > > >> Massimo > > > > > > >> On Jan 8, 1:35 pm, Gavin Joyce <gavinjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > >> > Hi, > > > > > > >> > I've been researching frameworks for GAE and am excited about > > > > > >> > using > > > > > >> > web2py. I was hoping to play around with it today but the > > > > > >> > website has > > > > > >> > been down all day for me (503 Service Temporarily Unavailable). > > > > > > >> > Is there somewhere other than web2py.com where I can download the > > > > > >> > latest stable release? > > > > > > >> > Thanks, > > > > > >> > Gavin > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > > > Groups "web2py-users" group. > > > > > > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > > > > For more options, visit this group > > > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
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