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Yes. That's the basic idea that lead me to the above post, but from what I hear (no benchmarks or test though) the dropbox cli is too expensive on the resources
by elisk 14y ago
Yes. That's the basic idea that lead me to the above post, but from what I hear (no benchmarks or test though) the dropbox cli is too expensive on the resources.
And even if that's a non-issue, what I'm talking about is a bit more robust solution - providing the user with some basic tools (like doing markdown/haml pages) right off the bat without any additional hacking.
On top of that, installing dropbox-cli as simple as it might be, is not simple enough and requires access to the shell (that not everyone might have), running a daemon, and it's not super secure (you need to store your root password, no?). My idea is that whenever you install a drophost, you get a new folder in your dropbox with the name of your host (i.e. /dropbox/drophost/mydomain.com/) which is simple to navigate and maintain multiple sites.
- Piskvorrr 14y agoHmm...the host in question is a tiny VM, and the resource usage by dropboxd is negligible (<10 MB of memory, CPU usage ~0.00, in my case); if you don't believe in hearsay, try it out for yourself ;) The daemon runs completely user-side - there's no need to do anything as root, let alone store passwords (you do need to store the Dropbox auth token, so that the daemon can re-login into DB; this is more secure than storing passwords, and doesn't give you access from anywhere else). The daemon only requires shell access on install - after that, it's a completely hands-off solution. Still not sure how you'd imagine the integration - the markdown pages would be processed into HTML on the server?