I am new to cloud computing, so please bear with me here. I have an existing ASP.NET application with SQL Server 2008 hosted on a Virtual Private Server. Here's what it briefly does: The front end accepts user's requests and adds them to a DB table A Windows Service running in the background picks up the request, processes it and sets ...
we are currently developing a high traffic rails application with facebooker (facebook game). since amazon simpledb (aws-sdb) is really slow, we are thinking of using a dedicated mongodb server as offered by mongoHQ for example. questions: what is the read/writes peak value for a mongodb server running on a amazon ec2 instance? what w...
I'm planning a database for an enterprise cloud service. The service will be two web applications, one Warehouse management system and one for Invoices. Companies can signup and become a "user" of the service, then they can have their Inventory and Invoice system online. Should I keep all users/companies in the same table or should I h...
I have seen quite a few code samples/plugins that promote uploading assets directly to S3. For example, if you have a user object with an avatar, the file upload field would load directly to S3. The only way I see this being possible is if the user object is already created in the database and your S3 bucket + path is something like ...
I've looked at tropo, twilio and cloudvox, plus another bunch. Most of these services provide their own entry points (PSTN, sip, IM), which is cool. Unfortunately I already have a local PSTN number that is redirected to a local SIP account. For business, performance and cost reasons (I'm outside the US) I don't want to simply redirect ...
If I am running more than two instances of a server (using rackspace-cloud's ip groups), how do I manage my sessions with PHP? Is there a way to make users 'sticky' to the server they logged into originally? I do use memcached, but all of the cloud systems have memcached on them, I need to insure a users session gets to the right ser...
We've migrated our issue tracking system and source control to hosted fogbugz (called fogbugz on-demand), and it's so much nicer because we don't have to worry about hardware, connectivity, backup etc. Given this, we are thinking to migrate our document management software (currently using Alfresco on our own server) to hosting servic...
Hi, Has anyone had any experience running an ASP.NET MVC (2) app in one of the (decent) cloud hosting services? Which providers support this? Additionally - how does session state work in these services - all ok? Thanks ...
Assuming that I created a cloud-based website application that people literally all over the world could use, are there any countries in particular that do not like personal data being encrypted and stored within a database and used in this manner? I'm not saying about storing unencrypted data, I mean about countries that do not like th...
Possible Duplicates: What is Cloud computing? What is cloud computing? Sorry for asking some Simple Question. But I cannot clearly understand the needs of Could Computing. or better to say I am confused about what actually Cloud Computing is. I've seen a lot of articles on this topic. But they were non technical and I cannot...
We have decided that it is time to ditch the ad-hoc method of deploying video on our web properties and pick one or more Video Platforms to handle this task for us. High level requirements are: Needs to have an easy to mount and embed player. Needs to make uploading and converting existing video. Needs to have strong analytics, prefera...
I have a web app running on php and mysql. i have tested on my localhost and i know it works. if my platform has a url like myplatform.com, and users sign up, they automatically get a website like user1.myplatform.com or user2.myplatform.com, etc. Akin to blogger, wordpress or webs.com now if user1 decides to purchase a url from a do...
Could someone help me with the precautions that are to be taken to keep the asp.net / cloud website secure? ...
Hi, This is another Cloud security question, but it relates to the specific types of vulnerabilities that are exposed via a cloud infrastructure. My question is: Assume Company A and Company B have separate virtual servers within the same Cloud-provider's infrastructure (assume they have 2 servers each). Because these four virtual serv...
Hi, I am trying to model an app based on http://code.google.com/p/jumpnote/ authBundle = am.getAuthToken(account, APPENGINE_SERVICE_NAME, needAuthAction == NEED_AUTH_NOTIFICATION, null, null).getResult(); authToken = authBundle.getString(AccountManager.KEY_AUTHTOKEN); authToken is returned null in this case. ...
I am planning to teach an ASP.NET MVC course some time. I would like to host the students project's on a web server accessible via internet. To this effect I am planning to rent a Windows machine on Amazon ec2. The students will be uploading their ASP.NET Websites so that they can see their projects online and allow other students to acc...
I am looking at hosting a new site on a cloud service. It looks like cool technology, pricing is attractive, and I can scale in case my plans for global internet domination come to fruition. I have spent a good chunk of time figuring out what back-end to use thought. The site is in ASP.NET MVC, and I have hit a brick wall when it come...
hi, I want to have a website with database and customize the website to update data in the database. Can you suggest any cloud service which offer websites like these? Thanks ...
Hello, I plan to open a subscription based website that will be video and image heavy. I have the video and image hosting sorted using Amazons S3 and CDN. now, I will still need a main server to host php/html files and the mysql database. My question is, is there a scalable solution (that has redundancy incase of spikes) to replace my ...
I can't see a reason why we couldn't do the same thing Heroku does for an ASP.NET website. Anyone care to object? ...