Hosting
Hosting overview
The GAX~thinX architecture consist of one central application ? the GAX~thinX server ? that communicates with one or more databases, GAX~thinX interface CGIs and the GAX~thinX content publisher (which publishes either static or dynamic content). In a small installation, all of these components can run on the same machine. In a larger installation, some of these component could be on a separate machines.
Here is some relevant information in the case of statically generated pages:
- GAX~thinX can (and in almost all cases should) be run on a different machine than the web server.
- There can be only one instance of the GAX~thinX server.
- The GAX~thinX interface CGIs can run on one or more machines, depending on the number of concurrent users.
- The databases often run on separate machines in any case
- The GAX~thinX content publisher can run on the same machine as the GAX~thinX server, as it will only run from time to time
The constraints are greater if the pages need to be generated dynamically, as this requires much more computing resources:
- if necessary, additional 'read-only' GAX~thinX servers can run on separate machines (they cannot modify the content of the databases)
- GAX~thinX content publishers can run on multiple machines
GAX~thinX shared hosting
For clients who do not wish to manage their own dedicated server, GAX offers a hosting service dedicated to small to medium-sized GAX~thinX applications. Priced at EUR 200/month, the service has the following characteristics:
- Server location: Paris.
- Only small to medium-sized installation will be hosted on the server: less than 1 GB of data, less than 5,000 data objects and less than 20 users.
- Only GAX~thinX installations for static page generation will be hosted (with dynamic page generation, GAX~thinX requires significantly more resources).
- Generated pages are copied via scp to your web server (the web site itself cannot be hosted on the GAX~thinX server).
- No more than 20 GAX~thinX installations will be hosted on the server.
- Daily backups made to a remote location.
Please contact us for more information.
