zero-k.info/springie/nightwatch should be hosted in a linux vm

[abma]

maintaining on linux is much easier:

• ssh vs gui (much easier to give permissions to other people)
• migration of springrts.com took 2 days, zero-k.info a year?!
• linux uses less resources
• smaller backup size
• fewer reboots because of security updates
• license costs

also we have much more good linux admins in community (imo).

i'm requesting this because some people asked "plutonium hosts evo-7.63 instead of evo-7.65" and nobody seems responsible/capable to fix it. having this on the linux side would simplify this.

.net mostly is opensource, so the gap mono vs .net should shrink over time. also monodevelop seems to be capable to load .csproj, so it shouldn't be hard to develop on linux/osx.

[xponen]

is plutonium use springiee too? because if its Autoregistrator problem, a quick fix would be to use ZKL to register the mod, because Licho might not want to turn on Autoregistrator because of its excessive system usage.

For now, I go download EVO and try see if I can register with my ZKL

[Licho1]

Springie and nightwatch would run on linux but there were some issues (memory leaks) in past mono versions.. Site im not sure..

[db81]

For posterity: plutonium hosting the wrong version was fixed by @det who removed a duplicate evo:stable tag.

[abma]

Springie and nightwatch would run on linux but there were some issues (memory leaks) in past mono versions..

rumors said, that there are memory leaks currently when running on windows, too.

[Licho1]

Thats a separate issue. Mono leaked in itself, even when springie ran on 50mb on win without leaks, it was leaking on linux.. now its leaking due to programming error and not a runtime

[Licho1]

This should be postponed at least until MVC6 (next year) which runs on linux. Also issue can be with DB, it would have to be migrated to mysql from mssql which means changing ORM from linq2sql to EF. It can be done but it can create lots of little bugs.