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I'm one of the SE refugees in the market for a replacement, and OSQA is a strong contender. Is there currently a way to get a working installation of OSQA on a virtual appliance? If not, why not build one on https://elasticserver.net/ or similar? It would allow prospective admins to get a feel for the software without wasting too much time doing the install themselves. Like others here, I was originally planning to run OSQA off our main web server under Windows 2008 (64-bit), but going the virtual route would bring us closer to deploying on Amazon EC2. Another - unrelated - question: I read on another site that Rick was prepared to look into Sybase SQL Anywhere as an alternative RDBMS to PostgreSQL or MySQL? Any progress on that? |
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We were discussing this issue just the other day. There's no reason to think OSQA would not work on Amazon EC2, but we haven't yet tried it. It would definitely be great to just deploy a copy of a pre-built image and be up and running instantly. In short, this is something we are very likely to do, but I have no idea when. We have not done any further work with SQL Anywhere yet. We have eliminated ALL direct SQL from the OSQA codebase, so it should be easy enough to just try it (presuming there's a Django/Python driver.) Ironically, we set up http://sqla.private.osqa.net/ for the SQLA StackExchange folks, but they seem to be MIA. I'll take some time over the summer to get an EC2 instance running with Win 2008 server 64bit + OSQA and dependencies. I'll try and integrate with Sybase SQL Anywhere as well. Will post results here.
(06 Jun '10, 11:38)
Vincent Buck
@Vincent - have you implemented this?
(18 Dec '10, 06:54)
ripper234 ♦
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It's very simple to take, say, one of the stock ubuntu images, launch it on EC2, setup OSQA, take a snapshot of that new image and then make the image publicly available so anyone can just launch. When I say very simple, I can do the bits apart from setting up OSQA in 15 minutes. My problem is, I can't setup OSQA :), but I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I'll try the process again on a 10.10 AMI and report back. Concerning the financials, with the new micro Amazon instance, you're looking at about 15USD per month to keep the instance running full time, bandwidth and storage is on top of that. An Elastic IP is free whilst the instance is running, so there's no extra cost mapping your domain onto it. It is possible to reserve instances, in that case you'd bring the instance cost down to 7-8USD per month including the 3 year reservation fee of 82USD (still not including bandwidth and storage). I love this idea, and DZone would be pleased to help someone get things packaged and documented to make this easy for other. Maybe we could fund a demo EC2 instance, for example. Anyone able and ready to jump in?
(19 Nov '10, 11:44)
rickross ♦♦
@rickross - I think I'll do that.
(17 Dec '10, 17:07)
ripper234 ♦
@ripper234 it has actually already been done. I didn't get a chance to ask Clay for an update yet, but I think we'll probably publish some info on the wiki about how to do it. It worked really well.
(17 Dec '10, 23:00)
rickross ♦♦
Great - then please share! This would have & will save me and many others the bother of installation. I think this should be the recommended way to install OSQA. Can you post some info & send me the link?
(18 Dec '10, 05:58)
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Can I suggest looking to get OSQA onto BitNami, this sort of thing I'd say will be the dominant install method before we know it. See my answer about EC2. What's the advantage of BitNami over EC2? (I'm not familiar with BitNami)
(02 Mar '11, 15:31)
ripper234 ♦
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