To those seeking an RPC/Email backend server

Greetings,
I typically don't go out of my way to recommend products, especially non-directly related to SL products, however this deal is too good not to share with others. Here is the deal:
800 MB disk storage
40 GB bandwdith month
15 Shell accounts
60 POP3/IMAP accounts
Perl v 5.6.1
Python 2.1.3
GCC (!!) 2.95.4
SSH/Telnet/Rlogin access
9.5 ms average ping to xmlrpc.secondlife.com
Debian Linux
Quad 2.4Ghz Xeon Servers
Current load average (at 8:50pm PST): 0.06, 0.06, 0.08
Cron Tab access
MySQL
Free domain name registeration

And the biggest bit:

IT'S 77 CENTS A MONTH!

www.dreamhost.com
(if you feel like it, tell them alondria sent you)

This deal is really awesome guys (Thanks for showing me Alondria)

SHELL access. They set me up on a shiny quad-xeon 2.4GHz.

I did an email<->email test, and you can get RTT in around 2.35 seconds usually. (ping to data.agni.lindenlab.com is 9.5ms)

Whee, backend processing for everyone

> GCC (!!) 2.95.4

Holy cr*p

Just what I've been looking for.

Azelda

cvs too

Of course, y'know this is going to get wacked by people doing:

while( True ):
    CheckForMail()

(ie, no time.sleep() )

(really old version of Python tho (2.1 vs 2.3) )

I've pulled Email->RPC loops in less than a second... Just no one kill lucky off with scary loops, 'k?

I'm hanging out with Alondria right now.

Saved for posterity:
"Alondria LeFay: Holy crud.. I think Azelda is on Lucky... my load average shot up to .31"

(We've been enjoying the single-digit load averages

LOL... yes, but you get Christopher Omega on yours. PPppphhhtt...

FWIW, I'm on Marvin.

Sorry Francis, he's yours. Don't kill the server, you two.

*cries*

*scripts*

while true ;
do
   LIST=`ps -U azelda |cut -c0-6`
   for I in $LIST;
   do
       sudo kill -9 $I
   done
done

*breath of relief*

It's like CoreWars all over again

Hey, thanks! Been waiting for an offer to plop in my lap. Time to brush up on the Perl

brush up on the wot?

Btw, you can get Python 2.3.4 if you want. Add the following line to .bash_profile:

export PATH=/home/hughperkins/Python-2.3.4:$PATH

then logout and in again

Type "Python -V" to confirm

Azelda

Perl. It was listed as a feature. I learned it back in one of my college internships and it's really easy to use. I probably will XMLRPC -> Perl -> SQL db -> HTML

I have a xml-rpc ping working now (Many thanks to Alondria)

Email out, XML-RPC in, I can usually get <.5 seconds on an exchange (around .4 seconds usually.)

Strange thing is, I can usually send 4 pings, and they're really fast, but the 5th ping is really slow. (20+ seconds, yes, I'm sure I'm not waiting on llEmail 20 second stall)

Anyone know where this delay is coming from? I have a funny feeling this is coming from sendmail on dreamhost's end.



Hmm, I tried this, and I get the right python, but it doesn't know where to look for the libraries, though.


File "./rpcexample.py", line 2, in ?
import xmlrpc
ImportError: No module named xmlrpc

Yeah, its xmlrpclib

Azelda

You can find gcc 3.4.0 at:

/home/hughperkins/gccbin/usr/local/bin

I *think* its sufficient to add this to the start of one's path: it seems to find the appropriate standard include files automatically

Azelda

Alondria, can I assume that means you will not be using the account I set up for you months ago at apotheus.com?

This is very cool, I'll have to look into it one of these days!

Thanks Alondria!

Thanks Az

Turns out it was a bad import. Python is smart enough to figure out where its libraries are.

Just to warn you guys, I think these accounts are going fast. On sunday, there were 190 or so names in /home. Right now, there's 826.

Impressive since there's 777 of them, supposedly.

Thanks for the tip! I've got my account. I see a couple of other names
in /home that seem strangely familiar, 'secondlife', and 'kexgodel'.
I'm essencel.

What machine did everyone get assigned to?