I have a web server that i'm not really using (but it is paid for the next two years...) I was wondering if it is possible today to install ares on it and make it publicly available for anyone.
It shouldn't be very hard to install on a server. After all, the "local" version is just running a server on the user's computer.
One thing that will be an issue is that the "local filesystem" service doesn't have any sense of user accounts, so everybody would see each other's files if you used that. The DropBox client *does* use user credentials stored per-client, so you ought to be able to use that to serve files to multiple users.
Not completely unrelated.... I built an Ares Nodejs server on a Raspberry Pi. The instructions can easily be adapted for any Debian Linux platform. Really more a proof of concept, haven't done enough to see if the Raspberry is powerful enough to really be an effective Ares platform.
Comments
One thing that will be an issue is that the "local filesystem" service doesn't have any sense of user accounts, so everybody would see each other's files if you used that. The DropBox client *does* use user credentials stored per-client, so you ought to be able to use that to serve files to multiple users.
http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-development/322467-public-working-ares-2-how.html#post3377898
https://github.com/pcimino/raspberry-pi-ares