Hi, I have ADFS RC setup at Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition SP2 64 bit. As soon as I login to provisioning.aspx using domain user account CardRequestFailedException occurs. I checked the diagnostic logs, ADFS eventing logs and security logs of the machine but could not find anything relevant to this exception. I'm not using silen...
I am migrating my Java,Tomcat, Mysql server to AWS EC2. I have already attached EBS volume for storing MySql data. In my web application people may upload images. So I should persist them. There are 2 alternatives in my mind: Save uploaded images to EBS volume. Use the S3 service. The followings are my notes, please be skeptic abou...
For my Bachelor Thesis I am researching how SaaS providers can arrange some sort of business continuity guarantee. You probably know the Source Code Escrow arrangements for 'shrink-wrapped' software. They give customers access to the source code and all applicable documentation whenever the software supplier gets into (financial) troub...
Much has been written about deploying data crunching applications on EC2/S3, but I would like to know, what is the typical workflow for developing such applications? Lets say I have a 1 TB of time series data to begin with and I have managed to store this on S3. How would I write applications and do interactive data analysis to build m...
I'm looking to check out the code for the opensource project CloudLoop, but the svn repo is offline and no one seems to respond to inquiries. Can someone provide a mirror for what was stored at: http://svn.cloudloop.com/svn/cloudloop/ ...
I've seen many people use git (or SVN) for deploying their web app projects, be they PHP, Python or whatever. Essentially, you use pull the code from the stable branch to your local server and possible run a few migration updates. Easy. But I wondered if anyone uses git for deploying to cloud server / clusters. RightScale suggest that w...
I'm building a rails gallery app for a company that doesn't want to host it themselves. They estimate that it could potentially get 1000 or so unique visits a day. What I'm pondering is... should the images be on a static file server such as S3 or rackspace cloudfile, or should they just be left on the same server as the app? There is pl...
what is Cloud computing exact? I have read the Wikipedia but still not sure that I understand how it actually works ...
I have been writing software for networked environments for some 15 years now, and am wondering if client-server is really "the best solution" out there for many types of distributed, or networked applications. My question is - are you familiar with other paradigms such as peer to peer software, distributed workload distribution / compu...
Over the past few weeks I have been trying to scout out a viable alternative to my hybrid/dedicated box over at WiredTree. I have all but landed on a cloud server solution from either Amazon (EC2) or Rackspace (Cloud Servers). My questions are: 1) Between those two, and any other cloud provider I may have missed out there, who can offe...
So I have been running the numbers for Azure and RackSpace Cloud Servers and found that RackSpace is substantially cheaper, less developer investment (no custom programming), and RackSpace offers RackSpace Cloud Files if you need a substantial storage solution for your site. It almost seems too good to be true, what am I missing? ...
I am a web developer that are working on several web applications. For my projects (running in a production environment), I always strive good performance. So, I have started to look into Microsoft Azure. I have deployed some test-apps and they all work fine. They all run a lot quicker than on my regular shared hosting environment. My ...
Hi All, I would like to know if there is anyone out there who would provide IBM's Websphere MQ and Websphere Message broker in a cloud. I did check Amazon , but they only offer DB2 and Websphere Application server. But I don't want my clients to buy licences for the above Websphere products , I m looking for something as Pay-as-you-go...
We're investigating the cloud for a couple of solutions and for our core product. We're new to this area so would like to ask a question of your experience. The various cloud services seem to be oriented around web applications. This is great, but our application is a web application fronting a .NET Windows Service/.EXE. Can we execute ...
We want to be able to have a folder that can securely serve images across a cluster of web servers. What's the best way to handle this in the Amazon Cloud? S3? EBS? Cloudfront? ...
Just wondering if there is good alternative to Amazon's S3 service? I like S3 but the bandwidth cost is high. I looked at CouldFiles from Rackspace but the cost is even higher. I don't mind prepaying or having monthly payment in order to reduce the bandwidth cost greatly. Thank you for any help ...
I have an application, that is becoming big, but until now, its not giving me a good revenue. That means, short money to re-invest on that. In this scenario, i found a way to make a "cheap distributed rails" deployment. I've got 4 VPS. All of them are in the same physical server. I added a load balance server running HAproxy in one ded...
I developed a server side java program, basically is a relay server so I can easily pass NATs and firewalls. The program works, but now I need a cloud service to host it. Do you know where/how I can put a java socket-like program in the cloud? Obviously, I prefer a free service or at least a free service while I'm testing. Thank you! ...
I would like to boot from an EBS snapshot for convenience but then I would like to detach the volume after launch so I don't have to pay for it. Is this possible? ...
I have to implement a way so our customers can backup their SQL 2000/5/8 databasase online. The application they use is a C#/.NET35 Winforms application that connects to a SQL Server (can be 2000/2005/2008, sometimes express editions). The SQL Server is on the same LAN. Our application has a very specific UI and we must code each for...