No, it's just a domain name. If it's of interested I am self hosting on a quad core Intel with 4 GB RAM on Linux Mint.
Simon On 22 August 2012 23:18, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > is this really an Arduino, > which chip, what clock frequency, which OS ? > It seems much faster than the Raspberry-PI ! > > cheers, > Stef > > > On 20-08-2012 21:12, Simon Carr wrote: > > I think I have made a mistake with SWVPS, I would suggest that no one > touch them. I had no response from them after sending my money, even though > it was less than $20. I have sent them two emails to what is supposed to be > 24/7 tech support and got no response. I am writing my $20 off, but don't > wont anyone else to get burnt. If I had looked before I would have also > have seen mountains of negative reviews. > > For the time being I have decided to self. Here is the URL for the > welcome app, it seems to run very fast. > > http://www.arduino-mega.com > > > Simon > > > > > > On 19 August 2012 15:24, Mike Girard <mikegirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wow, those are great prices for VPS. >> >> Was there anything besides price that made you choose them? >> >> >> On Sunday, August 19, 2012 5:42:32 AM UTC-4, Simon Carr wrote: >> >>> I have just found this service >>> >>> http://webkeepers.com >>> >>> I think i will give their medium service a try on the one month contract >>> and see how it goes. The 4gb version seems very reasonable even on the >>> monthly rates and better still if i decide to stick with them for a year. >>> My only worry is that i am in the uk and so will most of my >>> visitors/customers so latency might become an issue. >>> >>> I also have another option. I have virgin fibreoptic broadband with >>> 120mb download and 10mb upload and a static ip. I have tried pointing my >>> domain name at my home router before and it works fine. The only issue >>> here is that i would have to invest in a new pc and the computer room >>> shares a wall with the bedroom so the fan noise might become an issue at >>> night. >>> >>> Will give webkeepers a try and report back with results. >>> >>> Simon >>> On 19 Aug 2012 00:54, "Simon Carr" <simon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> After a few weeks of getting to know web2py i have decided that it >>>> should become one of the development tools in my tool belt. >>>> >>>> The only thing that is stopping me moving on however is hosting >>>> options. I am going to take a look at app engine as one option but i need >>>> to know that i can also deploy on a standard web server. >>>> >>>> I would need to be able to use apache which i know web2py can do but i >>>> am not sure how complicated this is. I also think that I am going to need >>>> to use a VPS but these go up in price very quickly beyond 1gb and 1 cpu. >>>> >>>> Can anyone give some comments on where they host, what spec server >>>> they have and what performance they get. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Simon >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > > > -- > > > > --
