Web deployment on shared host

aanders1977

I have configured a small application using AwareIM (Windows version). The .bsv-file is 143kb.

I want to install the server on my shared host website, but your installation guide advices against this. This application is as I said pretty small, and will at most be used by 2 users simultaneously. The number of records will be about 300/year.

Is it more likely that this application will run smooth on a shared host because of it's small size and few simultaneous users?
I configured the application using the Windows version. My ISP runs a Linux server. Does this mean that I have to install the AwareIM Linux version on the server and then import the .bsv file?

Help appreciated.

Anders, Norway

tford

I'll try to answer your questions until Support does. You may want to check with your ISP to see if they will even run the ISP server in a shared environment. I found U.S. ISPs unwilling to open ports needed by AwareIM on shared servers. However lower end VPS servers are priced very competitively.

Once you find the right server / ISP, yes, you just import the BSV on that machine & away you go!

Tom

aware_support

We do not advise against using shared hosts provided that it's a VPS (virtual private server) host and that it has at least 256M of GUARANTEED memory - this is how much memory is required to run Aware IM. The size of the application almost doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter which version of the operating system you are running. If the host offers Linux you need to use Aware IM for Linux and import the BSV file.

If you have not chosen the host yet we can recommend Hostland (www.hostland.com) - they can pre-install Aware IM for you.