testing

[Robert Brenstein]

>On 6/29/05 3:28 PM, "peter salomon" <peter.salomon at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>Hi Peter and Robert,
>
>>  also i agree with Robert, Ruslan.
>>  It would really be a useful service. In most cases developer have one
>>  main workstation, companies will have more with  fast ethernet
>>  connections in their offices.
>>  So - setting up a server on localhost or on another machine which is
>>  connected via fast ethernet does make sense to develop pure functions.
>>
>>  But to find bottlenecks it could be useful to have that service, which
>>  simulates the use of real internet connections.
>>  And i´m also sure, that one will find a way to avoid conflicts.

May be even for debugging in some situations. If 
the client program I develop fails to connect to 
my server (or my client's server), I can try 
connecting to this sandbox and see whether the 
problem is with my client program or with my 
server (connection, server version, etc).

>Yes, with some efforts it is possible resolve conflicts. May be.
>

Since it is a sandbox, there is no issue of 
conflicts to worry about that I can see. The 
content needs to be deleted (restored to standard 
actually) once a day or once a week anyway and 
users need to be aware that anything they put up 
there will be lost. The idea is for people to use 
it on short term basis only. With record locking, 
people should be protected from stepping directly 
on each other toes and if one deletes something 
that someone else just uploaded, well, that's the 
nature of sandbox. From using a few of these, 
however, I know that most people are quite 
careful and considerate and prefix their stuff 
with their name.

>  > And moreover it could really be interesting for you to find out how
>>  VServer can stand real stress.
>>  Next questions would be: what about serving larger projects - and so
>>  possible needs of Vserver.
>>
>>  Well - i can understand that Ruslan has more 
>>important an d time killing tasks
>>  to do So Robert - are we going to realize it as a third party project? In
>>  about two months i´ll have server at static IP.

Yes, I could be game for this but I am not sure 
what I could contribute. I have no option to set 
up a public server now. And from what I 
understand about the service setup, it can't be 
done remotely.


>IMHO this is task for some ISP
>
>IMHO as you name this SPECIAL service, it should be not free.
>Because ISP will spend traffic to handle this work and setup server.
>

It would make no sense to be a paid service 
unless you talk about a token amount basically to 
track who has access. Finding an ISP who wants to 
offer valentina as service (the way FileMaker and 
MySQL are farmed out) might be a way to get 
going, although I imagine that Paradigma should 
be the one offering this.

The server software itself would probably have to 
be customized to disallow uploading more than 
certain number and volume of records so people do 
not try to abuse this.

Robert