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ericgilmore

Multiuser Processing Website
Feb 5^th, 2008, 7:13pm

I am currently working on my graduate thesis project and have decided to use Processing over Flash. I want to make a multiuser website that reserves an open socket for direct communication. I want to make a multiuser environment, similar to Colin Moock's Avatar chat, but more abstract and representational. I have used code from Alex Galloway's "Shared Canvas" and it is working great.

My question is: Does anyone have any suggestions as to any hosting solutions I can use to get this site up and running?

Thank you so much,
Eric

robin sloan

Re: Multiuser Processing Website
Reply #1 - Feb 5^th, 2008, 8:13pm

I recommend slicehost.com. They essentially give you a clean, new machine -- actually a virtual instance of a machine -- and let you do whatever you want with it.

Thus, it's quite a bit more involved to get things up and running initially -- they do have good, clear tutorials, though -- but once you do, you have total flexibility.

I've found it to be pretty awesomely liberating compared to traditional shared hosting.

A little more expensive than baseline hosting at ~$20/month, but I think it more than makes up for it in terms of the time & frustration cost avoided.

ericgilmore YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 4	Re: Multiuser Processing Website Reply #2 - Feb 5^th, 2008, 9:21pm Thanks so much fro your speedy reply. I will look into that. Do you know offhand if I will be able to access that virtual machine through an IP address and reserve a socket open? If not, I'll keep doing some more research. Thanks again.

robin sloan YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 21	Re: Multiuser Processing Website Reply #3 - Feb 5^th, 2008, 9:24pm Yes, you definitely can -- I've set up something similar myself, though in Ruby (using EventMachine) not Java.

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