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SibylLab / Program-Wars

A web-based educational card game for teaching basic concepts of computer programming and cybersecurity
https://program-wars.firebaseapp.com
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Move from Shawn's domain #53

Closed johnanvik closed 6 years ago

johnanvik commented 7 years ago

@sscullen has been kind enough to let us continue using his domain to run Program Wars, but at some point, we will need to move this to a more permanent location (especially once we start publishing about it).

johnanvik commented 7 years ago

A free option looks to be BitBalloon (https://www.bitballoon.com). It looks like Travis-CI can deploy to it.

johnanvik commented 6 years ago

Perhaps talk to Trent/Kip about hosting here?

JaceRiehl commented 6 years ago

Firebase may be a good option if we can't host it at the University. It looks like it's free for what we would use it for, travis CI can deploy to it, and it's backed by Google.

wscullen commented 6 years ago

AFAIK, Firebase is a good option for maintaining application state (its a real time database) which would be good fit for networked multiplayer features. For the hosting of web page, with git push to deploy support like the setup we have now, the easiest would be a linux VM or container that could be set up to mirror the setup we have now, it would be the most seamless transition.

What we could do is look at free hosting such as github pages. Since we don't have an API and all work is done client side, I think you could set it up with github pages (https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/pages/) and then add Firebase support to have a shared application state among different clients, with Firebase acting as the server-side portion of the application.

Sorry for the delay, hope this helps!

johnanvik commented 6 years ago

I think I recall @vincentcote87 looking at Firebase last fall for storing the survey information (before we changed to Qualtrics). Perhaps see what he knows.

wscullen commented 6 years ago

Sorry, didn't realize Firebase offered hosting of webapps with a domain and everything, thought it was limited to just the NoSQL database hosting. That does look like a good option.