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Bushido: the future of hosting

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Re: Bushido: the future of hosting

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Post by znarfor »

Interesting, I founded La Distribution http://ladistribution.net/ and we also wants to help people easily install web applications, and take care of everything (configuration, permission, updates, backups, ...)

The difference with Heroku and clones, we're targeting end users rather than developers. Also, we're currently focusing on PHP web apps (Wordpress, Dokuwiki, Status.net, Firefox Sync, ...) but will hopefully expand to other stacks (Ruby, Python) in the future.

Oh, and we're open source https://github.com/ladistribution :-)

Re: Bushido: the future of hosting

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Post by r00fus »

This niche is currently filled by bitnami and others that provide a native binary, VMware or AMI file.

When I want to roll out a quick new trac/redmine/etc, this is one way I can get it demo-ready without a lot of hassle. However this requires someone to have "done the work" building the respective deployment patterns.

Also sometimes the deployment isn't quite what I want (so I need to install Passenger for example).

If I could do a single click, and start injecting data/config, that'd be more than awesome.

Re: Bushido: the future of hosting

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Post by jacques_chester »

r00fus wrote: post #13

This niche is currently filled by bitnami and others that provide a native binary, VMware or AMI file. When I want to roll out a quick new trac/redmine/etc, this is one way I can get it demo-ready without a lot of hassle. However this requires someone to have "done the work" building the respective deployment patterns. Also sometimes the deployment isn't quite what I want (so I need to install Passenger for example).…

I wrote a thesis proposal that came from the opposite direction. If the unit of distribution is a virtual image, why bother to aim for cross-OS portability in your application architecture? Might as well design as though you have a machine to yourself because virtually you do.
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