you know about Kitely, the cloud-based hosting of OpenSim, and it is a brilliant endeavor headed up by two very passionate guys
and you know how cloud this and cloud that are barfed up all over the place, especially in the corporate world – i swear not a day goes by in my real world where i don’t hear how innovative we are for serving this and that up in the cloud =\
but there you go, i can’t escape it either and here i am blabbing about another cloud thing. face it, most of us are intrigued about the cloud because it sounds so cheap! =)
here’s a nifty service and i don’t really know what it means but it got my little cogs a turning:
it sounds like a pretty neat offering because it somehow makes deploying GitHub stuff easier. when i read GitHub i immediately thought of Crista Lopes’ D2 Ditribution of OpenSim
if you don’t know of her D2 Distro, it is what is used for sim-on-a-stick and is also an great way to set up a fully hypergriddable grid on your own machine
does using fluxflex (say that 5 times fast) mean that it would be pretty painless for any of us to host her OpenSim distribution on our own cloud server?
read this article to learn more (and maybe educate me, it’s just a tad over my head)
if it’s what i think it means, this could open up a huge opportunity for us average peeps to have our own grid online open to whoever we want and do so in a very economical manner that updates easily!
This is a PaaS (Platform as a service) cloud computing solution, one of the 3 variations of CLoud Computing (other two being : Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service). This means you are limited to using middleware software they provide.
From what I read, for the time being it :
“We currently support PHP / Python / Ruby / Perl / Node.js / Haskell and MySQL so far. Also we natively support various frameworks such as Ruby on Rails for easy-to-use deployment.”
It seems targetted towards web dev only.
No mono, no opensim :(
peterhost
11 Jul 11 at 6:54 pm
thanks Peter! your explanation is much better than in the article. and thank you for explaining the various models
it sounds like i was envisioning the Iaas model where it is basically a server that is needed that we would proviosion ourselves for OpenSim use
Ener Hax
11 Jul 11 at 8:45 pm
I was going to read this until I read about the cloud being barfed up. Please use other colorful terms. I find talk about the cloud interesting and don’t equate such a word with it. No need to publish this. I just thought I would let you know it didn’t seem suitable for your writing. Thanks
JS Park
14 Jul 11 at 6:35 am
ah, you must not know me as well as i think you should! =)
sorry if barf offended you. i am very much my unfiltered inner child in my online personna and often use juvenile terms such as barf, ralph, poop, crap, and so on
the written word can be very rich as well as rather base – sometimes, in being base, it adds colur and flavour to the message beiong communicated (i also tend to spell with canadian english)
another shortcoming some may find is that i aslo tend to embrace early bauhaus principles which means no capital letters (i do often use proper casing for prpoer nouns)
in my “real” writings (those not of my avatar, which is fake) i am very proper so this blog allows me to escape that and just have fun. after all, a blog, or web log, is an online diary and as such, i write in a manner that i enjoy
as to “cloud”, it’s more offensive to me than barf because cloud is simply a trendy euphemism that has no real meaning for what it is. it is almost a non-word when used in this manner, similar to Web2.0 which has become highly bastardised term that is far from Tim O’Reilly’s original definition when he coined the phrase many years ago =)
*crips Ener, what a friggin’ soapboax!* =D
thank you though for your thoughts and i will consider my wording a tad bit more and reading the blog is always optional =)
Ener Hax
14 Jul 11 at 7:13 am
I haven’t paid much attention to all the cloud hoopla. I will be avoiding using cloud computing. For 2 reasons. If LulzSec can hack security and FBI servers, how secure are the cloud servers? The other is the history of corporations in how they treat data and such. FaceBook is a prime example of how corporations think. What’s to stop any cloud server company from using my stuff to make money for themselves? Does anyone truly believe that such companies won’t monitor your use of their systems? And use the results for their marketing?
Sarge Misfit
14 Jul 11 at 9:29 am
hey Sarge – great point! and on that note, here is part of the Amazon EC2 TOS:
You consent to our collection, use and disclosure of information associated with the Service Offerings in accordance with our Privacy Policy . . .
Ener Hax
14 Jul 11 at 11:01 am