Applications
Applications are like web pages but more complicated. If you would like to run an application please ask first :3
What is an Application
Anything that need a daemon basically.
Guidelines
- Keep memory use Down
- Keep CPU time Down
- Avoid running anything that would use a Silly amount of system/natural resources
- Your application may be better suited for being run as a part of The Incredible Pronounmail Suite of Interesting Applications.
Systemd
Users can freely set up systemd units to run their daemons. Put your service files and such in ~/.config/systemd/user/
and pass --user
when using systemctl.
For example:
$ nano ~/.config/systemd/user/my_service.service # (inside the file) [Unit] Description=My cool application After=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/home/leah/application/start.sh Type=notify Restart=on-failure [Install] WantedBy=default.target RequiredBy=network.target # (save + exit) $ systemctl --user enable --now my_service.service
More documentation is available
Networking
Please please please have your application listen over a Unix Domain Socket (where the socket is a filesystem node) over a Internet domain socket (where the socket is an IP address and a port number).
Database(s)
We have a PosgreSQL instance that you may plug your things into. Ping leah and she'll set up a database and account for you.
You can also use SQLite or whatever
Webserver
Your application needs to be reverse-proxied through the webserver in order to appear on pronounmail.com.
All webserver configuration must currently pass through leah. Please ask her nicely if you need things to be changèd.
Alternatively
If you're not expecting too much traffic, it might be wise to write your thing with CGI. We also have PHP, which works quite well.