Konsole Blog

I have been working with GAE. Letting them host your app in a highly available distributed setup is very easy. It has a few limitations and I am not sure yet how it would be possible to handle more complex apps that require background jobs, uploads and other things. I think that google should look into allowing scheduled jobs to be setup in the dashboard. Specify the time and the python file and method to run.

Its nice that django is offered but its very limited. A few helpful projects exist to fix some of the limitations. Django AE utils provides a User model and Session backend for the django session middleware. It uses google app engine datastore. I would like to figure out a good way to test its performance. It might be worth trying to use memcache.

I am really enjoying the python world. I haven’t really touched PHP in a year.

Happy coding!

This is my first post… I just want to say thanks to Mike for giving me an outlet in which to express myself! I hope to post links to articles that I find interesting, and also sample code that I am working on at any given moment.

Cheers,

Matthew

Ok… all the old servers are down and everyone is using the new stuff.  Cool.

When I say everyone.. I mean like 8 people.  I really trimmed down my hosting over the last couple of years.  now that things are hosted elsewhere and most of the tricky stuff is handled so nicely for me I may be able to offer a bit more in terms of email or random web stuff.  I know Matt Reynolds and I will be using the SVN server feature and some of the one-click installs to get some long running projects going.

I am going to open this blog up a little and give accounts to some people i know that might want to post random geeky things to it.

The most important thing is mail.  The new incoming and outgoing mail server is mail.konsole.net.

Log in to   mailboxes.konsole.net to manage your email account.

Log in to  webmail.konsole.net to manage spam settings.  I will leave this as squirrel mail and install the pretty roundcube webmail at konsole.net/webmail

Any other hosted sites or other random services that were running are down.  I will setup SVN and some other things later but I am no longer hosting much else for anyone.  My time is just too limited.

I really don’t have time to mess with servers and such anymore.  I was in the slow process of migrating from about seven servers down to one.  I made it to two servers. One was a web server and the other had all the OpenLDAP and Mail services on it.  I have been busy lately and havent been keeping an eye on the servers much.  They were most likely outdated and not very secure.  They both got root kits installed on them by some douchbag .

Anyway… I moved everything over to DreamHost and shut down both of those servers.  So far so good.

I may have more energy to blog now that I am no longer messing with running servers.. who knows…