[OOTB-infra] Live showcase

[Martin Cosgrave]

On 16/10/14 11:10, Heiko Robert wrote:
> 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.
>
OK, I prefer 4.2.f too, I think it is best and we don't want to 
continually update our environment if Alfresco break things with point 
releases

> 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.
>
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vpsdime is good because the memory is guaranteed, however they are 
limited on disk I/O as you say, however I have heard of several people 
(douglascrp and Darkstar1 among them) who have run demo alfresco servers 
there without problems

€50 a month seems to be a lot for now, unless we can find someone to 
sponsor that for us, in that case it might be quite good - if that's 
capable of running ESXi or KVM then it could suit us, question is how to 
fund it?

> Heiko

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