Comments on: An initial Mosso foray

By: Questions for Mosso the RackSpace Cloud | JpMaxMan

Questions for Mosso the RackSpace Cloud | JpMaxMan — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:30:33 +0000

[...] to mod_python – the python support is just CGI scripts. For more information check out this post: The perl and python support is just generic CGI script support. So there’s no support for [...]

By: Lydia Leong

Lydia Leong — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:48:29 +0000

mod_python has a CGI handler, so it would be the other way around — supporting Python-based CGI under mod_python.

But I can’t find any evidence that mod_python is enabled at all.

You can write a CGI script with #!/usr/bin/python as the path and it will run, but that’s a far cry from actual mod_python support.

By: Aral Balkan

Aral Balkan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:00:26 +0000

I’m being told by Mosso (@mosso on Twitter) that they support mod_python under CGI.

I have no idea what that means (AFAIK we’re talking about two incompatible ways of doing things, no?)

By: Brian Jinwright

Brian Jinwright — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:53:27 +0000

I would have to agree about the Python support as well. The funny thing is Mosso used to support Django in a limited beta. No one signed up so they stopped supporting it. I found this out the hard way when our company signed up and there nothing in the control panel to support the claim. So our account lasted about 25 minutes. They were really nice about the whole thing and gave us our money back quickly.

By: Lydia Leong

Lydia Leong — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:22:08 +0000

PHP is the right place to focus, I’d agree, given the vast amount of competition for Ruby on Rails in the cloud, Google focusing on Python with its App Engine, and the current target market for Mosso.

Of course, what people want is the pink pony: The ability to use their favorite frameworks with few changes, directly in the cloud with seamless scalability. Or, alternatively, to have cloud-scale frameworks that are just as developer-friendly.

Still, it’s worth being very clear ahead of time what you can and can’t run on Mosso.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:01:54 +0000

Lydia, I agree that python support through the cgi-bin is a long way from a python environment where you can run a full framework like Django. Mosso really wants to reach out to the communities and work to create a great environment for common frameworks. Demand has pointed us towards focusing on some of the PHP frameworks first, but the general idea is work with the developers to help adjust to the cloud and the idiosyncrasies inherent in applications that run across clusters of servers rather than in a single environment.