Ubuntu+Mono+Postgres+ASP.NET 4.0. No problem?

Question

Would this be ok? I'm an ASP.NET developer and I'm planning to build "portable" web app servers based on Atom D510 mini-ITX.

I have ran Ubuntu 10 with MySQL along with a separate IIS machines (win 2k3, 2k8) before with no problems.

But now I'm thinking of "packaging" a web/db server into one small, cheap machine.

I thought of Ubuntu/Mono/Postgres/ASP.NET, that it would be a good idea but I'm not sure? I have not actually tried it yet. Your thoughts?

Answer 1

Your biggest problem will be only using calls that Mono supports. It would be easier to package a machine like this using something like Ubuntu/Postgres/ruby or the classic L.A.M.P (Linux Apache Mysql PHP). If you are sure you need to use c# just know there will be some headaches making sure you write code that will be supported by Mono. Make sure you develop on a Linux machine.

Answer 2

Try to look at these questions from StackOverflow.

Answer 3

I tried using Ubuntu and CentOS, but both had too many difficulties setting up an ASP.NET environment using Mono. I gave in and used OpenSUSE, which provided a straightforward path to configure Mono.

Here's a good configuration walkthrough. Remember, though, Linux installations change frequently, so even this document may be a bit outdated:

http://www.integratedwebsystems.com/2010/01/installing-opensuse-11-2-with-mono-2-6-1-and-apache-using-text-mode-configuration-porting-to-mono-part-1-of-3/

That said, I can tell you that I got my mono server working successfully using these instructions. It was capable of hosting an ASP.NET web page using MySQL and Dapper.