FogBugz Hosting!

After many inquiries, and the hands-on realization that FogBugz doesn’t work with MySQL 4.1x (our default MySQL), I went ahead and setup a server that defaults to PHP 4.3.11 and MySQL 4.0.24 (it’s just easier that way).

The result is textbugz.com

And thought I would show one that I think is cool:

The other interesting thing about it?

No Apache.

It’s all lighttpd and PHP-FastCGI and works great (I had heard it was a slow app, but not here). If you want to see snappy snap snap and fast clicking around, then check out the movie

So, since this is all set and running on it’s own dedicateds, I’m going to go ahead and put together “FogBugz plans”.

Of course, you’ll need to get the licenses yourself and then we’ll either put it under a subdomain of your own domain or you.textbugz.com.

I’m thinking that there will be 2 plans:

  • A standalone-I-got-nothing-else-at-TextDrive-but-want-good-fogbugz-hosting plan and then
  • A add-on-I’m-already-hosted-here-just-cannot-run-fogbugz-over-there plan

·:· Posted 7 June 2005, 10:58 by Jason Hoffman to Server geek  |  

  1. FYI, Subversion (and its brethren) itegration is available in FogBugz:

    http://rubyurl.com/YW1Ya

    — george    7 June 2005, 15:58    #
  2. Three things:

    First, this is great! Thanks for setting this up. I was hoping it would work with lighttpd and PHP-FastCGI.

    However, my decision to sign on as a VCII hinged significantly on TxD’s willingness to support a FogBugz setup. Since it’s just another PHP app, I wasn’t expecting to pay extra for access to something I already paid Fog Creek for. I just want TxD to host it, not admin it. Is there anything (other than the MySQL 4.1 issue) preventing me from running my own instance?

    Third, will a single installation suffice? At my work, we’ve got 70-odd licenses, about a dozen of which are “admins” meaning we can all see/modify each others’ projects. Or is FB smart enough to realize that different licenses belong to different people, and so restrict them to their own projects? Fog Creek does have a demo server.

    Reservations and questions aside, congratulations on getting this up and running. I’m sure the Fog Creek folks will be happy to have someone they can recommend as a Unix host!

    — Chuck McKinnon    8 June 2005, 18:22    #
  3. Other than the 4.1 issue, no, nothing preventing you.

    And you wouldn’t be paying extra for something that you’ve paid Fog Creek for, you paid them for software.

    Regardless of any other account you have here, there are significant advantages to having focused dedicated servers that are only running Application X and provide a lot of additional space. That’s what you’d be paying for.

    With 70 odd licensees for example, it would only take about 15MB each before your VC2 space is nearly gone.

    — Jason Hoffman    8 June 2005, 23:18    #
  4. Sorry Jason; it seems we’ve been thinking about different scenarios, and I didn’t realize it until your last post.

    I’m not talking about running a FogBugz server with lots of licensees, or a mini-version of textbugz.com or anything like that. I’m working on a Palm app and want to use FogBugz to manage support emails and bug tracking. Maybe discussion forums (maybe). There’s only going to be one licensed user: me.

    That’s what I meant about not wanting anyone to admin it; it simply won’t be getting the amount of use that, in my mind, would justify moving to (and paying for) a dedicated server. In terms of memory and database usage, it’ll probably be about equivalent to running a blog.

    Of course, if business picks up and space becomes an issue, I’ll be grateful for the option to move to a dedicated server. I just didn’t want to start that way, especially before there’s any revenue coming in. In the scenario I’ve been envisioning, I couldn’t see how FB would be any different than Trac or Bugzilla, neither of which would incur extra costs to run on my TxD account.

    Thanks for the clarification, and sorry for any misunderstanding.

    — Chuck McKinnon    9 June 2005, 01:31    #