on-rev reliability ?

Björnke von Gierke bvg at mac.com
Tue Jul 9 16:36:31 EDT 2013


I have not made any sophisticated solutions on on-rev. However, The servers where seldomly down for me. I was on Loki, and during the server move was transferred to tio. I don't think i've had many major downs, altho I am mostly judging it by the availability of email service (am not checking my site regularly).

I too have seen a lot of mentions of thor downtimes. It seems to me, that one is a "dirty" server somehow, at least compared to the ones I was/am on.

Said that, if you worry about downtime so much, I am very sure that a single failure shared hosting point like on-rev is not what you want, not even "my" experience. Neither would of course be dreamhost, networksolutions or other such services. You'd need a dedicated machine (rack space), or a cloud based account like amazon offers. Those do cost money and are harder to set up and also need more work to maintain.



On 09.07.2013, at 20:32, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm back on this list after a few of years (although I never stopped using
> LC).
> I'd like to get opinions and experiences about on-rev...
> 
> I have been using the service for almost 3 years via 3 different accounts,
> and have
> built professional apps & websites on LC & on-rev, and several companies
> are using these apps
> and have built their business around them.
> Everything worked seamlessly for almost 2 years, but last february &
> march, we
> started experiencing huge & frequent server (thor) crashes and slowdowns,
> which put us
> in a terrible situation towards our clients who threatened to sue us
> because we weren't
> delivering the service they paid for...
> Meanwhile, one of our accounts was moved to a new server (pancake) but it
> appeared that
> something went wrong during the move, because we experienced random bugs
> in some
> scripts that lead to corrupted data in DBs and random errors in
> automatically generated
> pdf files (invoices for instance)... To solve this problem, I had to move
> all scripts, files and
> DBs to another account of ours still on thor...
> Last but not least, for the last few days, we had a few server crashes
> again, and of course
> our clients yelling at us... Last week-end I also noticed some erratic
> behavior during ftp
> transfer that lead to corrupted scripts and huge bugs in web pages...
> 
> Searching through the list archives I found a few posts mentioning that
> thor was "down
> again", but nobody seemed to be in a panic business-wise because of that...
> 
> So finally, here's my question / request : we have the feeling that most
> of the problems
> are due to the fact that thor is a shared server and that some other
> on-rev users are
> playing dirty games, and we are thinking of moving our accounts to a
> dedicated server.
> Before subscribing to on-rev, I had a Revolution engine installed on a
> dedicated Linux
> server an experienced crashes or slowdowns only 2 or 3 times a year, not
> every 2 or
> 3 days...
> Does anyone on this list have built rather sophisticated with Livecode &
> on-rev ?
> If yes, how do you deal with all those server problems ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any opinion, and sorry for the long post...
> 
> jbv
> 
> 
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