[OOTB-infra] Live showcase

[Heiko Robert]

Hi Martin,

> One of our tasks in INFRA is to consider how to get a live showcase of 
> Alfresco, as well as to create a demo site where we can invite users 
> to try out their issues and problems.
>
> Which version do we want for the showcase? The 5.0.x track seems 
> appropriate as it showcases new alfresco features but perhaps we will 
> prefer a more stable platform and merely showcase our additions?
Demo site should be for the existing addons not for Alfresco itself, right?
Although there is 5.0.b out I would vote for 4.2.f since the SDK 2.0 and 
the Alfresco search page is still under development / not stabile and 
therefore we will not have too much addons available.
Should be agreed with the addon team. 5.0.x is nice to show new featues, 
but these are more or less limited to search. Everything else can be 
shown on 4.2.x
Anyway it shouldn't be an issue to switch to 5.0.x if all the 
modules/addons are available.

Additionally we need a hosted testing environment for different Alfresco 
versions which are available at the same time. It makes no sense only to 
test on trunc / only on the latest version since Alfresco versions in 
real live run older versions.

>
> The demo site... well maybe we need to be able to spin up whichever 
> version we require as and when we need it.

>
> Hosting - we can try to host on vpsdime which is cheap ($7/mth for 6GB 
> RAM I think) but occasionally goes down, or do we want to chase up 
> some of the people who have offered us server space? I believe we have 
> had offers both from Alfresco via Richard Esplin and also from Ole's 
> company.
We had very bad experience in using vHosts for Alfresco and tried 
several hosters. They are far to slow for Alfresco. In most cases the 
memory is not garantueed and and main bottlenek is disk IO ( esp. for 
SOLR/postgres/...). We have seen Alfresco just to start up taking 30 
mins... The other point is that we can't switch environments/server 
images on vHosts. Everything has to be installed/confgured manually from 
scratch.
We are happy with real boxes running VMWare ESXi (50€/moth) e.g. hetzner 
EX 
<http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix-ex>. 
Easy to maintain, scales very well, allows to run several VMs in 
parallel and we load new systems ready to run in minutes. This is 
cheaper and faster than amazon and is exactly the same environment how 
80 % of companies here in Germany run Alfresco and most of their other 
systems.

Heiko
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