www.web2py.com down?

[Gavin Joyce]

Hi,

I've been researching frameworks for GAE and am excited about using
web2py. I was hoping to play around with it today but the website has
been down all day for me (503 Service Temporarily Unavailable).

Is there somewhere other than web2py.com where I can download the
latest stable release?

Thanks,
Gavin

[mdipierro]

Sorry I just rebooted the server.

Massimo

[Gavin Joyce]

Thanks Massimo

[Thadeus Burgess]

The server keeps going down even after disabling cron, were you able
to figure out why ?

-Thadeus

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[mdipierro]

This time I was able to see the error. It was an out of memory error
on os.fork. This is a virtual machine with 256MB Ram and I had not
rebooted in long time (only restarted the web server). I rebooted it
now and let's see what happens.

Massimo

On Jan 8, 4:26 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> The server keeps going down even after disabling cron, were you able
> to figure out why ?
>
> -Thadeus
>

[Richard]

would it be possible to host the main web2py site on GAE to avoid
these problems?

[mdipierro]

Yo have a point. Some of the examples use features that are not
supported on GAE. They can be rewritten. The only issue is finding
them. I will do so.

[mdipierro]

One problem is the size of the web2py*.zip and the pdf documents. I
host many of them and they would not fit on GAE.

[John Heenan]

This might be a good time to mention an idea I have yet to get round
to automating on my web2py backend. I intend to use web2py to automate
upload of files to another site and generate appropriate links. It
cuts down on hosting traffic costs. For the Google App Engine it can
be used to overcome potential limits.

I host large files on Amazon S3, http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ , such as
pdf, image and video files, that are accessed from web2py generated
links. Amazon S3 provides very cheap 'bucket' storage.

There is fairly mature python software called s3cmd that can be used
to easily interface to Amazon S3. The web site http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
is down at the moment.

I don't know if there would be problems adapting the software for use
on the Google App Engine.

An older version can be quickly installed on a Ubuntu server with
apt-get install s3cmd

An up to date version can be obtained from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/files/s3cmd/#files
and can be quickly installed with 'python setup.py install'.

John Heenan