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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.42.138.66 with SMTP id b2mr21127717icu.21.1423434116956; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 14:21:56 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.253.1 with SMTP id zw1mr177528igc.11.1423434116699; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 14:21:56 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.swapon.de!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!hl2no12283773igb.0!news-out.google.com!db6ni20419igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no8781443igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 14:21:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=118.209.161.236; posting-account=l8GBMwoAAADCbqdOJSbg4dBRqkD14dJd NNTP-Posting-Host: 118.209.161.236 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: aws, gnoga or raw html? From: Leo Brewin Injection-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:21:56 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24923 Date: 2015-02-08T14:21:55-08:00 List-Id: On Friday, February 6, 2015 at 9:23:39 AM UTC+11, David Botton wrote: > AWS would just be another web server. You would server the same pages and= you would use Ada instead of say PHP or Python. >=20 > Gnoga is a completely different concept. You build an application as you = would a desktop application accept it is running on the web. You could use = Gnoga in the same way as AWS as well since it has a built in Web server, et= c. >=20 > I recently added (as in last night) to Gnoga the ability to auto fall bac= k to http long polling and Ajax when Websockets are not available. What tha= t means is that you won't have to worry about firewall issues, etc. and use= a Gnoga application for "website" development is very reasonable. >=20 > So to answer, if you plan on doing anything more than server static pages= or occasional form submissions, Gnoga is probably the best option today (i= n any language) if you want anything interactive. >=20 > David Botton Hi David, Many thanks for the reply. I'll go away and have a play with AWS and Gnoga. Cheers, Leo