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Re: Glassfish in a shared hosting environment

From: Jeanfrancois Arcand <Jeanfrancois.Arcand_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:50:29 -0500

Hi,


Witold Szczerba wrote:
> I was thinking about same thing...
>
> I think that web host provider would have to provide separate
> glassfish domain for every customer. As far as I know each domain
> lives in its own environment and if one crashes - it can damage only
> itself (question to Glassfish developers: is that true?).

That true. You can always remove|delete|add virtual-server without
having to re-start GlassFish[1]

>
> The provider could create each domain folder in customer private home
> folder, so customers could launch/stop/restart/reconfigure their own
> domains using some shell access (asadmin tool) or glassfish admin
> web-page or something special developed for that purpose. The real
> question is how many domains could be handled by one server and how
> many resources (memory/cpu) is required for every single domain
> excluding resources taken by deployed applications...

I would also be interested to know how many virtual server GlassFish can
handle :-)

-- Jeanfrancois

[1]
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2006/06/dynamically_add.html


>
> 2007/1/5, Jason Lee <lee_at_iecokc.com>:
>>
>>
>> Forgive me if this has been asked and answered, but. :P
>>
>> I'm trying to convince my web hoster (dreamhost.com :) to offer Java
>> support, but they are reluctant to do so. The problem for many in the
>> shared hosting biz, as I'm sure most of you know, is that if one app in a
>> shared Tomcat instance (for example) goes crazy, it takes the whole
>> server
>> out. I'm curious if Glassfish suffers from the same problem. Can
>> different
>> virtual servers be restarted independently of others, and are they
>> isolated
>> enough so that the death of one doesn't negatively affect others (beyond
>> issues like memory and CPU utilization, which are, largely, outside the
>> scope of the app server, though I guess it's conceivable that the server
>> could enforce some sort of quota on its virtual servers)? I do all
>> sort of
>> cool stuff with JSF and Glassfish at work, but am forced to use PHP (not
>> that there's anything wrong with that ;) for everything I do at home
>> due to
>> the lack of Java hosting that's comparable in price and features to PHP
>> hosting. I'm hoping Glassfish can help rectify that. :)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -----
>> Jason Lee, SCJP
>> Programmer/Analyst
>> http://www.iec-okc.com
>>
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