Red Hat Interchange

[kdavis]

Does anyone know if I could run Redhat's Interchange on Futurequest? Is anyone doing it?

[Arthur]

I don't know much about the product at all, but I looked up the specs for it and it looks like there's no way to run this on a shared server. You'd need a dedicated machine, because you have to install a complete OS (RedHat Linux), with a webserver (Stronghold Secure Apache Web Server) and a database server (PostgreSQL) plus the Interchange e-commerce server.

[esc]

... but I looked up the specs for it and it looks like there's no way to run this on a shared server. You'd need a dedicated machine, because you have to install a complete OS (RedHat Linux), with a webserver (Stronghold Secure Apache Web Server) and a database server (PostgreSQL) plus the Interchange e-commerce server.
No, that's not true. There are lots of ISPs out there that provide web space with Akopia Interchange in a shared environment for $10 per month upwards. Do a web-search with terms 'Akopia Interchange hosting' or 'RedHat Interchange hosting'. You will probably need a dedicated server if your shop attracts far more than 20GB traffic per month. Most shared environments run Interchange against MySQL and not against Oracle or the other big guys.

The Interchange documentation even explains how to install the shop and the Perl modules without root access in a shared environment oneself.

Does anyone know if I could run Redhat's Interchange on Futurequest?
But, and this is the big BUT, you may not run it on FutureQuest. The Interchange daemon consumes about 16MB of memory resources and is a LRD (a long running daemon) that is always running in the background and waiting for connection via an Unix or IP socket. And it needs some attention by the sysop, as it may not be killed by a watchdog daemon and should be restarted case it dies. To make it short – it needs some special trimming on the server similar to a bigger DB engine and Terra does not allow it just at the moment.


Erich:waa:

[Arthur]

When I said "there's no way to run this on a shared server", I meant a shared server here at FutureQuest. Servers built with Red Hat Interchange don't have to be dedicated servers.

[esc]

I think Interchange runs on most Linux machines. I've installed it here in our office on a SuSE 7.1 for development purposes without problems.

Erich