Well it’s been fun but I’ve decided to stop hosting spyjax. I mainly created
the service because I thought it was a cool idea and wanted to see if it
was possible. Once I had created it I decided to share it with all of you.
If you’re new here read the original article about Spyjax here.
About 450 people signed up for the service in last two weeks. Which is way more
than I thought would. Some of those that signed up have websites getting thousands
of visitors per day. All that traffic is starting to effect our servers and database.
If I wanted to make the service viable I would have to put a lot more time into it
and start to charge people with high traffic sites.
Instead of hosting the project I’ve decided to give away the source to the entire project
so you can install it on your own servers or someone else can set it up and host it for
others. You can download the source here:
spyjax_service.zip
I’ve released the code as open source with an
Attribution Assurance License.
That basically means you can do whatever you want with the source as long as you keep
my credits on it (like the footer on the bottom of this page with (C) 2007 Spyjax…).
Thank you everyone that signed up for the service or left comments on our blog or linked to
it. It was really cool getting so much feedback and seeing so many good debates.
-Justin
ps. You can discuss this here: The spy is dead.
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1 The Spy Is Dead - Spyjax Offline // May 30, 2008 at 10:13 am
[...] Because I’ve decided to shutdown the service I’m giving away all the code as open source. Anyone can install the Spyjax service on their server. Someone else could even start the service up and let others user it. You can download the source here: Spyjax Source Code. Spyjax uses PHP and MySQL so most web servers should be able to run it. You’ll need to do a little bit of configuration, mainly in the config.php file. There might be a place or two where you need to put your email address for sign up and feedback emails to work correctly. Also the urls.php file needs your MySQL database host, user name, and password. The service assumes that it’s using a database named “spyjax”. The schema for the database can be found in spyjax.sql. If you have any questions about how to install it contact me using the form on over here. [...]
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