[Speed] Getting the project off the ground

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ideally the webserver for speed.python should *really* be hosted on a
>>> different machine.  I know Maciej has been investigating moving speed.pypy's
>>> web presence to ep.io, so that could be an easy way to do the static site as
>>> well.
>>> Alex
>>
>> Yes. There is speed.ep.io which doesn't quite work, but we're getting there.
>>
>> Also - we need some sort of locking mechanism. If you run benchmarks,
>> you don't want anything else to run on the same machine at the same
>> time. This is something DasIch can work on I suppose ;-)
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FWIW: I have complete admin/root access on the machine - I can setup
>>>> new users as needed, but I don't want to hand them out willy-nilly.
>>>>
>>>> The code running speed.pypy.org:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/tobami/codespeed/
>>>>
>>>> I know there's been some work abstracting it/improving it - I'm not
>>>> sure where that work stands at this point. Miquel Torres who has been
>>>> leading the effort can provide more detail - I do know there are also
>>>> two GSOC projects going on as well.
>>>>
>>>> If anything, I need to get a static page up on the site explaining
>>>> what it's going to be sometime this week, but I'm leery to install
>>>> anything like apache that can gobble resources that are better spent
>>>> on speed :)
>>>>
>>>> jesse
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>>>
>>>
>
> I can get us free web hosting (VPS based) from OSU/OSL
>

Just to add to this: We have resources we do not need to pay for to
host the website if determined that we need to separate the host from
the results / runner - since this is PSF backed, I can get us the
hosting for free, and we should - the board does not enjoy paying for
web hosting, and OSU/OSL has been incredibly gracious.

jesse