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Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by alanh »

saadmalik01 wrote: post #10
alanh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t follow your (or your parent post’s) line of thinking. Apparently “dépêche means dispatch (or update, message or news),” and has a connotation of “fast.” I don’t see how this really applies to Drapache, which I thought of as “dr’apache,” a portmanteau of “drop(box)” and “apache.” I’m a Depeche Mode fan, but don’t see how it relates. Where’s the pun? :)

Depeche Mode is the name of band from the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depeche_Mode

I know, and mentioned the band in my post. But that’s not a pun, that’s just a reference. For it to be a good name, doesn’t depeche have to have something to do with Dropbox?

Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by mahmud »

alanh wrote: post #11
saadmalik01 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depeche Mode is the name of band from the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depeche_Mode

I know, and mentioned the band in my post. But that’s not a pun, that’s just a reference. For it to be a good name, doesn’t depeche have to have something to do with Dropbox?

you are very much right :-)

Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by nextstep »

mahmud wrote: post #2

Why not just call it "mod_depeche"? Sexier, more pronouncable name, and punful as well.

Because "Drapache" makes sense (kind of, it's a portmanteau of Dropbox and Apache); "mod_depeche" doesn't makes any sense. I really don't understand that name at all.

Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by devmach »

I don't think it's a good idea if you target developers :

1- Trading expensive bandwidth for a cheap storage isn't economically logical.

2- Any web developer should understand how web works and he should be comfortable with ftp, apache/nginx/iis, git(/mercurial), etc...

Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by nl »

It starts a thread per (dynamic) request, with 25 second timeouts?

I can't imagine Dropbox will be too pleased running that on their servers (Although it is possible I'm misunderstand how it works - the explanation is vague, but I never knew Dropbox had the ability to run Python(!?))

Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by callumjones »

nl wrote: post #15

It starts a thread per (dynamic) request, with 25 second timeouts? I can't imagine Dropbox will be too pleased running that on their servers (Although it is possible I'm misunderstand how it works - the explanation is vague, but I never knew Dropbox had the ability to run Python(!?))

Dropbox can't run anything, this is meant to be run on your own hardware/vps/ec2.

Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by nl »

callumjones wrote: post #16
nl wrote: post #15

It starts a thread per (dynamic) request, with 25 second timeouts? I can't imagine Dropbox will be too pleased running that on their servers (Although it is possible I'm misunderstand how it works - the explanation is vague, but I never knew Dropbox had the ability to run Python(!?))

Dropbox can't run anything, this is meant to be run on your own hardware/vps/ec2.

Mm yeah, that makes sense.

It also makes this incredibly bad. Not only do you have to run your own server, you have to pay for bandwidth twice - once from your server, and once from Dropbox (files are served from your Dropbox to the server, then to the client)

Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox

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Post by nl »

autotravis wrote: post #6
ricardobeat wrote: post #5

How is this different than using Uniform Server, XAMP, sharing on OSX or even SimpleHTTPServer, serving from the Dropbox folder? Setup looks more involved than any of those.

Don't those (at least sharing on OS X) necessitate your machine running?

So does this (or some machine somewhere, anyway)
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