Re: Sleepless Nights ColorForth Wiki

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:11:53PM -0400, Mark Slicker wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Albert van der Horst wrote:
>
> >
> >I can do my own web hosting now! http://80.100.243.19 lands
> >on the server in my home, and you can run a cgi script written
> >in (my own) Forth. (This machine is not known by name servers
> >yet, it is a stable Debian, but the security must be cranked up
> >further before.)
> >I could spare a gigabyte for colorforth, and it would be reachable
> >from the wiki site.
>
> Is it possible to dedicate a machine to colorForth? That seems like it
> would be an interesting way to chart the progress of colorForth, the first
> milestone would be to serve web pages, then perhaps more capabilities and
> services can be added.

The reason I installed the web server is not to serve a lot of
information, but to demonstrate Forth as a web scripting language.

My remark was about making available background information, that is
maybe large, but only occasionally used. A high visibility website
would atract more traffic, and my provider might object to that.
Something like an ftp-site where a wiki site can be dumped for backup,
or other largish file could be exchanged.
I could reserve a partition, or a disk. I can't see much sense in
having a separate machine, unless it runs colorforth. (That would be
interesting: a colorforth machine, serving colorforth information over
the web. I guess a formidable project.)

Another reason to do not too much colorforth hosting on private
machines:
If you look at Chuck Moores cf.html, you see only links that are
stable for more than three years now. Chuck refrained from links that
need constant updating. It would be nice if we find a home that is
sufficiently stable. Preferably this would be a named domain
(www.colorforthfans.org) that could be migrated to an other host if
need be. That would be a link that is worth Chuck's while to add to
his site.
Then we need sponsoring at least for the domain name.

> Mark

Groetjes Albert

--
Albert van der Horst,Oranjestr 8,3511 RA UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
Economic growth -- like all pyramid schemes -- ultimately falters.
[email protected] http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst