In-house Web...
Apr. 12th, 2009 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe big plus of using Web-based applications is that your information is available to you from anywhere at any time.
The cons are that said availability requires connectivity (case in point: my access was knocked out for about 30 minutes during yesterday's snowstorm, putatively because of nearby lightning strikes) and a place to host the application. Data security, via à vis malicious individuals, is also an issue.
On the other hand, maintaining a Web server at home, while convenient, presents its own set of problems, the primary of which (from the standpoint of usability) is getting at information when on the road.
So, I've been experimenting with something called Server2Go (which provides an Apache server along with PHP and MySQL support), and can report the following:
1. Trying to run a web server off a USB stick is a waste of time, even after increasing the allowable execution PHP script execution time to 60 seconds.
2. Running a web server off a USB disk drive is not exactly a stroll down High-Speed Alley, but I can probably live with the result. Now the issue is how "portable" do I remain with such a solution.
Time to think hard as to whether an online solution isn't really the way to go.
Cheers...
The cons are that said availability requires connectivity (case in point: my access was knocked out for about 30 minutes during yesterday's snowstorm, putatively because of nearby lightning strikes) and a place to host the application. Data security, via à vis malicious individuals, is also an issue.
On the other hand, maintaining a Web server at home, while convenient, presents its own set of problems, the primary of which (from the standpoint of usability) is getting at information when on the road.
So, I've been experimenting with something called Server2Go (which provides an Apache server along with PHP and MySQL support), and can report the following:
1. Trying to run a web server off a USB stick is a waste of time, even after increasing the allowable execution PHP script execution time to 60 seconds.
2. Running a web server off a USB disk drive is not exactly a stroll down High-Speed Alley, but I can probably live with the result. Now the issue is how "portable" do I remain with such a solution.
Time to think hard as to whether an online solution isn't really the way to go.
Cheers...
