DreamHost with REAL Studio Web Edition

Sample REAL Studio web app running on DreamHost: http://www.pharmacaidonline.com/WebAppTest.fcgi

Also refer to my earlier post, Deploying Web Apps with REAL Studio Web Edition.

DreamHost offers a free one week trial of their VPS offering, so I decided to give it a try. Their setup is a bit unique. First, you have to create an account and then add the regular hosting plan ($9/month) to it. This is a “shared hosting” account so don’t expect REAL Studio WE to work with it. Next you have to add a VPS to your account (clicked Enable VPS Service) in the VPS section of the control panel. It can take up to a day for your VPS to get added to your account. Once your VPS is set up, you need to move your domain to it, which you can do by clicking Manage Domains in the Domains section. This can take up to 6 hours for the DNS to propogate (it took almost exactly 6 hours for me). DreamHost gives you 1 week free to test out the VPS. Hopefully with these instructions you can get up and running quickly. Their VPS plans start at an addition $15/month depending on RAM that you require. It would be wise to do some serious load testing of your web app during the free week to see what you might need for RAM.
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Deploying Web Apps with REAL Studio Web Edition

Yesterday, REAL Software released REAL Studio 2010 Release 5. The big new feature for this release is that it now includes Web Edition, at least for those that own an Enterprise Edition license. If you don’t have Enterprise, then you can purchase WE for $600, but it probably makes the most sense to just upgrade to Enterprise.

Web Edition is pretty impressive for a 1.0 product. You can quickly build web apps using your existing REAL Studio skills. However, I’ve seen a lot of questions about how to run your web apps outside the IDE. There are three ways to do that: Standalone, Dynamic FastCGI and Static FastCGI. You can choose which to build in the Web tab of the Build Settings window. Static FastCGI is such a pain to configure that I’m not sure why it’s even there, so I won’t be discussing it.
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Mac App Store and REAL Studio

Last month, Apple announced a Mac app store that will make it quick and easy for end users to purchase and install Mac apps. This is pretty neat, but it does open a lot of questions, many of which are not yet answered.

For starters, will REAL Studio applications be accepted, in general?

I suspect the answer will be yes, but we just don’t know yet. If you’re willing to gamble a bit, then you’ll need to pony up for the $99 yearly subscription to join the Mac Developer Program.

Here are some things I found while researching this:
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State of Cocoa

REAL Studio 2010 Release 4 was recently released, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit my current projects to see how they fare when build for Cocoa. The results were not good, I’m afraid.
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REAL Studio News

It’s been a busy September in the REAL Studio Community!
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Wow! REAL Studio Web Edition!

I don’t think many people saw this coming. With all that REAL has been working on lately (Cocoa, LLVM), it hardly seems like they’ve had enough time to also roll out a new product. But today, REAL Software announced REAL Studio Web Edition (RSW), a new product that will be shipping sometime in the fall.
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