councilroom hardware

[Rob Renaud]

There is some interest in people chipping in to buy a server for councilroom here: 

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=4355.msg124653#new

councilroom was a dell studio XPS 7100 with 16 GB of RAM and 440 GB of disk.

I think it was < $1300, shipped, including a monitor in mid 2010.  I'd guess it would be < $800 now for an equally powered, headless server.

[David Lu!!]

After thinking about this for a bit, questions I have...
1) What's the status of Mike's server? Is councilroom not up there
because of just the code issues?
2) If we bought a server, where would it go?

-DL!!

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[NobleHelium]

I think there is an easy solution for hosting.  Your code is already on Github.  Heroku offers one free Dyno (server unit) to everyone and it is easy to use if you are already using Git.  So I would just open a Heroku account and get the code up there and running.  Is one Dyno enough for councilroom.com?  Not sure, especially given Renaud's comments about not optimizing certain things.  But at least you'd have a minimally working website rather than the current nothing.

Disclaimer: I've never personally used Heroku so I could be completely wrong on this.

[David Lu!!]

The constraining element here is not the processing power, but the storage space, the pricing of which looks to be quite steep on Heroku. But thanks for the tip. 

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