[Haskell-beginners] Yezod and Snap deployments to ISP

[Robert Wills]

Webfactional doesn't provide VPS services but you can still run Haskell apps
on their servers.

http://wrwills.webfactional.com/2009/10/30/Haskell-on-a-Webfaction-Host

<http://wrwills.webfactional.com/2009/10/30/Haskell-on-a-Webfaction-Host>
-Rob

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

>
> On 3-Aug-10, at 2:11 PM, Kyle Murphy wrote:
>
> Your choice of ISP will always determine your choice of language/framework,
> and vice versa. Most cheap ISPs only support a limited subset of languages
> and/or frameworks, typically ASP.NET, PHP, or Java. Some ISPs will also
> dictate other choices, such as using a particular web server (Apache,
> Tomcat, IIS, etc.), or a particular DB such as MySQL, MS SQL, or PosgreSQL.
> On the more expensive end of choices you have dedicated servers or private
> virtual servers, where you have complete control over what you run and it's
> up to you to configure the services you want. The downside to private
> virtual servers is that they typically have fairly strict resources limits,
> such as 300M of RAM, or 5G of storage. Finally, the most expensive option is
> a co-location facility that will plug your server into their network and
> provide you backbone access, but which allows you to not only control what
> software you run, but also the hardware that it runs on.
>
> At this time, I know of no ISP that directly supports Haskell, in
> particular Happs, Yesod, or Snap, so if you want to run any of those you'll
> have to go with a dedicated server, or a virtual server. As for sending
> e-mail, and language should be able to send e-mail if you have a properly
> configured mail server that it can connect to, but the details of how to
> configure that are a bit much to put into an e-mail.
>
> If you want to play around with Yesod, I and a couple other people are
> using slicehost to run various Haskell based webapps (under a variety of
> frameworks), but be aware that it's more expensive than a lot of cheap hosts
> (~$20 a month for a basic server with 256M of RAM), and you'll be
> responsible for administering your own server, as well as having to work
> within the limited resources provided.
>
>
>
> Other than slicehost, here are some more VPS hosting options, in USA.
>
>
>    -  http://www.hostgator.com/ <http://www.hostgator.com/>
>    -  http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/<http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/>
>    -  http://www.gandi.net/ <http://www.gandi.net/>
>    -  http://www.webfaction.com/ <http://www.webfaction.com/>
>    -  http://linode.com/ <http://linode.com/>
>    -  http://laughingsquid.us/ <http://laughingsquid.us/>
>    -  http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ <http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/>
>    -  http://www.rackspace.com/ <http://www.rackspace.com/>
>    - Comparison chart (June 2010):
>    http://advogato.org/person/etbe/diary/792.html<http://advogato.org/person/etbe/diary/792.html>
>
> --Toby
>
>
>
> -R. Kyle Murphy
> --
> Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:48, MH <mhamro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to build a website using haskell and deploy it to some ISP. I
>> appreciate if you help me understand the following:
>> 1. Do I need to consider using special ISP to deploy Yezod or Snap?
>> 2. Do I need to consider using special ISP to deploy any other Haskell
>> based web app?
>> 3. To start with I need to display a static content and ability to send
>> email from user submitted form. Can I send email with these Web frameworks
>> (I would appreciate the samples)?
>> 4. Can you recommend me any ISP in USA?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Malik
>>
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