From: Marcin Raczkowski <swistak@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T16:46:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Web Hosting

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 12:45, John Joyce wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2007, at 9:00 PM, manohar amrutkar wrote:
> > On Apr 10, 1:21 pm, "Martin DeMello" <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 4/10/07, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:30:06PM +0900, manohar amrutkar wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>  Does ruby support to implement a web hosting website like
> >>>> godaddy.com
> >>>> or namecheap.com?
> >>>
> >>> Uh . . . what?  There are two meanings to this question that
> >>> occur to
> >>> me immediately as possibilities:
> >>>
> >>>   1. You want to know if Ruby supports web development on one of
> >>> these
> >>>   webhosts.
> >>>
> >>>   2. You want to know if Ruby provides the ability to automate
> >>> webhost
> >>>   account registration programmatically.
> >>
> >> Sounds more like
> >>
> >> 3. If I wanted to implement my own hosting site, could I use ruby
> >> to do it,
> >>
> >> martin
> >
> > yes , i want to implement my own hosting website which will have
> > features like search domain,
> >
> > domain name registration, transfer domain etc. Does ruby provides
> > scripts for these applications?
> >
> > Is there any third party support for ruby APIs for such kind of
> > application? I have only two books
> >
> > programming ruby and ruby on rails but they are not sufficient to
> > implement this hosting website.
> >
> > Is there any tutorials do u know? please give me guidelines.
> >
> > thanks .
>
> You could certainly do that stuff with Ruby. Why not?
> But, if you expect it is all done for you by pre-written scripts,
> you're sadly mistaken.
> Much of the software used by web hosts (such as Fantastico and
> cPanel) are expensive packages. You could write your own.
> But I have to tell you that if you are serious about this, then
> you're really not going to want to do this alone. Get several
> partners. It's a lot of stuff to handle. But you need to learn about
> DNS, BIND, TCP/IP, routers, firewalls, networking in general.
> If you are planning to just be a reseller,  a middleman, some hosts
> already offer the software you need.
> Scrounge around the sites of big ones like Verisign and Network
> Solutions. This will give you an idea of what you are looking for.

Well, my company is working on this kind of solution, but we're using 
http://www.dotandco.com/services/software/Net-DRI/index.en (perl) and writing 
RPC interface to ruby (and rails).