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...
Is there currently a filesystem agnostic way to have a file in two locations on a network, change one copy, and have just the changed bits (or more likely blocks) synced to the other copy? It would be awesome to have media files in the cloud, allow another service to read them and me to edit them with their web app, and then only have t...
Hello. Lately I've been looking at force.com which happens to be SalesForce.com's cloud initiative. However, what I am unable to draw is its comparison with Amazon & Azure platforms. Force.com seems to be targeting Enterprises primarily, so I am not sure if as a small shop, I should be going that way. Mine is going to be a social network...
I'm looking for some literature on how to approach architecting and developing solutions for the cloud, especially on MS Azure. Can you recommend any books on these topics? ...
Hello. I am planning to deploy my web application (ASP.Net based) on the Amazon EC2 and the persistence on Amazon RDS. I have a 'gut feeling' that at least my session store (again on RDS) should be separate from the rest of the application database. This is because I am expecting high activity in the session store. RDS supports the abili...
I'm playing around with a test project in Visual Studio 2010 and tried to publish it to Azure, but it was rejected as, out-of-the-box, VS2010 defaults to using .Net Framework 4.0 and Azure currently only runs 3.5 SP1 stuff. Any other restrictions on the level of software you can use in there? ...
Is it possible to use ms office live workspace for database? I'm currently using ms access as a vb.net database, is it possible to connect vb.net with the online version of microsoft office so that more users can access it? ...
I have an application written in native C++ which intends intensive computation. In fact I'm interested only in result of computation, i.e. it can be done without GUI or be controlled by some .Net service/application. Can I run it in Microsoft's Cloud? How can I do it? ...
Possible Duplicate: What alternatives are there to Google App Engine? I would like to know if there is any alternative to Google App Engine. I have tried to use it with JPA, but it seems quite limited with the relationships and everything. Any kind of DBMS would do, as long as it's not too limited I found this post so I'm goin...
What are the benefits of using a Cloud Service over a normal server setup? It's a given that i may benefit from a distributed server setup (The cloud) and maybe cost. But am i really missing out on any capabilities by not using a cloud service? If anything cloud computing is rather limited. For example the Azure service not all of ...
Hello. While choosing between shared hosting and Cloud hosting I have always been inclined to go for the latter. However one aspect that always worries about Cloud is security. Here I'll try to be more specific. When I go for shared hosting, the foundation softwares are already there for me and they are configured to the best suitable...
Hey all so I am working on a project and I won't get into the details but it will be programmed/designed by me and will allow customers to sign up for their own instance of it where they will be able to customize it. Think of it as something along the lines of phpbb where they are a bunch of them being hosted by me that clients will pay...
Currently we're building a small datacenter. For the Infrastructure-as-a-Service part I'm planning to use VMWare vSphere. I know VMWare is pushing its vCloud API so my question is: how can I install and use this API within my own datacenter? ...
If someone goes to the url of my bucket, they are able to see every single file listed. Although I want the files in my bucket to be able to be seen by the public, I'd prefer not to have this list view available. Is there a way to prevent "directory listings" like this? ...
I am part of a development team that switched to a different project from a pure Java 5 project to a Java 6, J2EE, cloud environment, open source project. The problem is that we are doing barely OK, since we use a lot of search engines and we are pretty proficient in Java (3 years experience), but it feels like we need to start educatin...
I've got a few HTML pages with the requisite images, css and other bits and pieces, all static content no CGI required. I currently host it on an Amazon EC2 image that I need to have up and running for a different application. Ideally I'd like to move the hosting of the static content off the EC2 image so that it's independent of any sin...
I have a question. Is there a demand out there for a small, lightweight, Java 7 based open source project that is geared toward making Cloud services more elegant? I have written several servers in my lifetime, and was curious if there was a need for this. My thoughts were to keep it simple, lightweight, and use the Java 7 NIO 2 funct...
I'm looking for an open source library or project which would offer a filesystem or block device representation for AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service. I'm looking for something similar to what you have for Amazon S3 : s3backer, s3fs-fuse, s3fs, or FuseOverAmazon. Unfortunatly, I didn't find anything like that for AT&T's storage offeri...
looking for a solution to mask / use a different url of a file rather than the cloud hosted one. for example, wish to display an image TEST.JPG from the url http://cloud.filehosting.example.com/12345/asdfg/123455/sjklksgklshglhfjgl.jpg as http://mysite.com/image/TEST.JPG how is this called (so i can actually look it up on googl...
Hi - I've got a web app which has pretty intensive processor requirements, specifically in relation to the amount of data that gets stored. Because of the massive amounts of data coming in and out (and being sorted, formatted, etc), I'm routinely bringing the server down. The problem is usually CPU related, not memory related, and it...