From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,dbe443728585f8d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!m24g2000vbp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Graham Stark Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AWS Sites Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:41:50 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: 6a20302f-e469-4701-b82c-26ff3104e36a@l16g2000yqo.googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.130.78.66 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1236188510 2794 127.0.0.1 (4 Mar 2009 17:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m24g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.130.78.66; posting-account=04rmagoAAABZ9PN7u3MdbKIs6DPG57E- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3942 Date: 2009-03-04T09:41:50-08:00 List-Id: Srini > a. Are there any internet sites running AWS - that I could browse? > A couple of sites I built for parts of the UK government are discussed here: http://virtual-worlds.biz/demonstrations/slas/ http://virtual-worlds.biz/demonstrations/nilam/ (I can't make them public because of restrictions on the data they use, but there are some screenshots). Code for these is here: http://virtual-worlds.biz/downloads/tb_components.tgz > b. Are there certain platforms that is friendlier for an AWS based > site than others? My colleague Jocelyn Paine and I moved a much larger program than these two from Linux to Windows in a couple of days, and it ran equally well on both. (Can't show you that one yet since it's still being tested). > c. Any comparisons vis-a-vis performance between AWS and apache? > Apache is likely to be much faster at serving static pages but AWS will likely outrun a typical dynamic setup using Apache/PHP or Java or whatever. It's actually straightforward to use both together, with Apache serving the images, etc. and AWS doing the hard bits. AWS is a very cool piece of code. Ada itself can be a bit of an acquired taste, of course. You'll need to be prepared for a bit more of a struggle with string handling, connecting to databases and the like than if you go down the more mainstream route. Hope this helps, Graham Graham Stark, Virtual Worlds http://www.virtual-worlds.biz t: (+044) 01908 618239 skype: graham_k_stark m:(+044) 07952 633 185