Hello, Wanted to know what you would recommend as a hosting provider for a popular asp.net site, bearing performance and scalability in mind. A friend of mine recommended webhost4life who advertises unlimited bandwidth, but at $10/month, i am wary - especially if the website grows to be popular and chews up a lot bandwidth (say 300GB/...
We have an ASP.net web application and would like to host on Azure to scale to thousands on concurrent users. Also have a bunch of application and services written in .NET that the web app accesses using TCP/IP or .net remoting which handle long running processes. For example a media transcoder server, a system monitor, image server, sch...
Hi, does anyone know if this can be done? I can find Windows Server 2003 but not 2008. I read you can create your own EC2 Virtual machines, but I haven't found any articles that say you can do this with Windows Server 2008. I'm really after IIS7, but I'd also intend to use SQL Server Express 2008 until such time as I can add support f...
Is it possible to upload to Amazon Cloudfront using Javascript preferably with the use of (Google) Gears for uploading chunks? I'm building a CMS for images and video data and want to integrate Cloudfront as a storage backend. To avoid first uploading to Google Appengine (which is where my system is hosted) and then from there upload th...
My startup is located in Europe where most of our current users are. I'm looking for a host that will allow us to scale to the US and Asia without latency taking its toll on performance. Does the cloud solve the distance = latency problem? If not, Where would be the ideal hosting location for a growing startup? Some data: Asp.net 3.5...
There are several companies providing beta access. It looks like it could be a great pay as you go, and expand, service. However, I'd like to hear if anyone had difficulties in getting Microsoft stack web apps running on one. Either asp.net or asp.net-mvc, with MSSQL 2005. ...
Does anyone know if it's possible to host a SQL server in the cloud and connect an ASP.NET app hosted on DiscountASP? I'd like to consolidate my SQL Server instances but keep the web app hosting where it's at. There are various reasons for I want to do this and I don't particularly want to get into it. I don't have any experience wit...
This is a pretty vague question but I'm struggling a bit to get my head around what is involved in cloud hosting. Say for instance if I had an asp.net web app using: - Webforms - linq to sql - an sql server database - Calling some external restful webservices What would need to be done to host it on a cloud service? Are there spe...
I'm trying to use the WCF Rest Starter Kit with the RightScale's Login API which seems fairly simple to use. Edit - Here's a blog entry I wrote on using Powershell to consume the API. Edit - Created a generic .NET wrapper for the RightScale API - NRightAPI It's exactly as simple as it looks while using CURL. In order for me to obtain...
Hi All, Since last week my compute cycles (CC) went through the roof (Rackspace Cloud Sites). Normally I stay under the 10,000 cycles per month . Now this month I already have more than 75,000 compute cycles. I don't have more visitors and I did not change anything in the code. I looked in the raw log files, that didn't help either... ...
Hope my question does not pose as too wide. So I try to frame my question not to get too similar answers to the question of this question. Currently I have deploy my rails application on Linode. The service works fine, the price is reasonable. But there are those administering works time to time. I could live without those. Recently I s...
I am working on an application that creates video files and stores them in a folder in the C:\ drive. I speculate that there will be a large number of these files in the future and we would run out of disk space at some point of time (on our VPS). When the time comes that we have to upgrade, we either plan to use one of the Cloud provide...
I looked this up on Google, but wanted more opinions before I committed to either service. Has anyone had experience with either (or maybe both) services? Are there any advantages or disadvantages that stood out about either one? Particular areas of interest are: Security Stability Scalability. Price ...
Hi All, I am busy creating a asp.net web site and using MS SQl 2008 as the Database. I am looking for a cloud based hosting solution for both the database and the web site. I would like to keep the costs down, until more clients are using the system. What are your experiences and suggestions? If I can have decent availability and th...
Hi, I'd like to move some small app databases to a cloud hosting provider. Basically, I'd like to not have to manage databases myself. I've been looking at Amazon RDS and MongoHQ, which are great, but are bit expensive. Are there any other alternatives other than setting up my own VPS? Thanks. Jim- ...
Hi, I have recently moved my RoR app on the Heroku platform, and almost everything works fine apart from the videos. It works fine when my app runs in local but not on heroku. This is the error log I'm getting, if anyone knows where it can be coming from: Processing VideosController#new (for IP at 2010-03-20 04:32:09) [GET] Sess...
The requirements for PCI standards include installing a firewall, restrict physical access to servers, using and regularly updating antivirus and malware software etc as outlined here If you host your application in the cloud , how can you ensure that you meet these PCI requirements ...
Just to give you a fair idea, I am new to the web development / hosting world and planning to develop a Multilingual Social networking Web Applications in ASP.NET 4.0 , expected the content to deliver in many countries German, France, China, India and MiddleEast. My question is will Cloud Hosting provides a development environment? or sh...
Hi All Our clients upload a serious amount of data from all over the world and we'd like to do our best to make that as painless as possible. Our clients upload 2GB worth of files over their sometimes very 'retail' broadband packages (with capped upload speeds) that draw out upload times to 24-48 hours. At any given time we have 10 or...
We're not a windows shop, but one of our products is going to need to optionally integrate with Active Directory - things like SSO etc. I'd really rather not go through the rigamarole of setting up a whole server just to develop against it and then leave it hanging around for testing purposes. Is there a simple cloud-based service wher...