Hosting
Leanworkbench is currently hosted on coreOS VM using Daniel Cadden's personal Azure account. Since we have a docker setup this can be ported just about anywhere.
It's important to note that when leanworkbench needs to switch hosting I would recommend look at CUIT for hosting. You can read below for more information on that
Azure is Microsoft's proprietary cloud hosting solution. A competitor comparable to AWS, Google Compute Engine. We're currently using them to host a coreOS VM which Leanworkbench is running off.
To access Azure visit the azure portal.
You will need to login with the Azure credentials which are provided here.
After logging in you will notice a dashboard containing some cursory information on server health etc.
If you click on virtual machines (classic) and look for lwb you will find host VM.
From here you can restart the VM and access and machine level information you might think is important.
Now that you know a bit about what the VM looks like here is some information on how to access and deploy to the VM.
Since this is Daniel Cadden's personal account the specifics of the account subscription should be mentioned. Currently the account is under a Bizspark subscription. Which means that the account has $150 of hosting credit every month for three years. The expiration of this subscription is 10/16/2017, so there is still quite a bit of time left.
There may come a time when Azure is no longer an option for server hosting. That being said CUIT offers Virtual Machine hosting. This route appears to be a bit more expensive but has the added benefit of being really easy to bill. Since it's affiliated with Columbia we are able to specify exactly where the money should come from to buy hosting, which means it will be much easier to use grant money to make the purchases.
The cheapest option will be approximately $100 monthly.
I think this number is hard-set (regardless of your usage, which is opposite of Azure). Which is both beneficial and detrimental.
If you're interested in what the checkout process for that is you can go here to place an order
You'll need to specify some of the hardware specs. I recommend choosing the lowest teirs possible in terms of Resource Allocation and Total Storage. You will also want to select the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS, as using docker on Linux will be better supported than Windows Sever.
You will also need to specify some information as to who you will be requesting the server for.
I assume this will be under the PL Chris Wiggins, but you can confirm with Ivy Shultz before ordering.
Lastly it will ask you for any additionally resources you might care about such as Backup & Disaster Recover. I recommend choosing what you can afford but these don't seem like necessary options at the moment.
