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Difference between cloud providers

Possible Duplicate: Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine I am familiar with Amazon EC2. But how is it different from Azure, AppEngine and SalesForce? ...

I want to optimise the upload of a file onto the server - whats the best way to do it?

Hi all, I have a rails app that does the following (at the moment linear) process: (1) User uploads a file via HTTP and a standard upload form on a standard HTML page (2) The file is uploaded to an apache server (same server as the one hosting the app) (3) The server uploads the file to remote storage service (call this storage 1) (4) ...

Does it make sense to put all development works in Cloud?

Is it possible having virtual machines in the cloud, install visual studio there, and making developers using the 'cloud' to do day-to-day programming work? Is the cost going to be too high? Is the speed going to be too slow? Where can I find statistics or numbers to convince people? ...

What makes it a PaaS not SaaS - or examples

I found some questions here on how to create a SaaS. This much is easy, but what I don't understand is what makes an application a PaaS and not a SaaS. What lines does an application cross before we can start calling it a PaaS (platform as a service) and not just a SaaS (software as a service)? It seems like a small difference but I can'...

Is a PaaS only for developers

It seems to me that a PaaS basically is an application for developers. Is it always or is it usually the case that the end users of a PaaS are developers? Any examples of a PaaS that isn't for end users who are developers? ...

How can I secure memcached/beanstalkd in a hostile cloud environment?

Here's how my servers (in Amazon EC2) would look like: Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 __________________________ _____________________ _______________ | Cloud Monitor Daemon | | Memcached daemon | | beanstalkd | | | | Memcached daemon | ____...

Correct way to take a snapshot

I've asked this question before, but I am still confused. What's the correct and quickest way to take a snapshot (I only use EBS-backed Unix and Windows machines, so that's all my interest right now). Some ideas: Just take the snapshot... This seems to sometimes cause system corruption. Stop the machine, take the snapshot and then star...

Azure table with Silverlight 4

Hi! I'm looking for a way to manage Azure table with Silverlight 4, can someone tell me where can I find something useful? ...

What is the difference between Windows Azure and traditional Windows hosting?

My knowledge of Windows Azure is limited to the several videos I watched on Microsoft's web site. Aside from a few new buzzwords, I'm not seeing how this platform differentiates from traditional web hosts that have existed for many years. Aside from the unique billing model (e.g. "storage transactions per month"), what differentiates Azu...

Can Google App Engine use a third party SMTP server?

Google App Engine currently limits you to 2,000 emails per day (for free) via their API. I am trying to find a definitive answer if it is possible to use a third-party system if you need to send more. I know that they disallow raw sockets, so I would assume that there might be trouble with this approach... but surely I'm not the firs...

Is it a bad idea to have a TeamCity webserver instance also act as a build agent?

I'm building an Amazon EC-2 cloud-based build server for my personal development projects using Team City Professional. I only intend to use it of an evening and my project builds are going to be quite small. At this stage, is there a good reason why I should go for two servers: one hosting the Team City website another configured as...

Has anybody tried Test Driven Development on Netsuite?

I'm new to Netsuite customizations and I'm wondering if anyone has used any unit testing tool that plays nice with Netsuite. ...

Cloud Managment for Windows EC2 instances?

Hi, there is a cloud managment application like http://www.scalr.net/, but for windows instaces? Thanks! ...

Is right to affirm not every SaaS is cloud software, but all Cloud software is SaaS?

Is right to affirm not every SaaS is cloud software, but all Cloud software is SaaS? ...

SaaS maturity level 2, how i can build configurable SaaS?(Technics and patterns)

According SaaS maturity model a SaaS is level 2 if is configurable, but how i can get started in this concept?how patterns and Technics, i can use to enable my SaaS? ...

Scale out my application in cloud, how i can do that?

Hi, i have a medium SaaS project and need scale out, where i can find materials to get started my cloud project? ps: i dont want work with a PaaS, like App engine or Azure...i will use IaaS like ec2 or rackspace ...

OSS implementation of Google app engine?

After Google pioneered map-reduce the community came out with Hadoop, is there a OSS Google AppEngine project? Or, put another way: What is the best off the shelf python or java cloud software? Specifically I'm looking for something that I could host on my own and have some sort of auto-scale feature (more frequently used apps would be ...

How to know the browser the user is using?

Hi, We have started developing an application for location aware emergency service. The users can connect through computer,smart phone or even through WAP. We want to use cloud servers (GAE or AWS). We want to optimize the site for the user's device. I can not find out exactly how to know the device or the browser the user is using. Fro...

How to deploy a JEE application in the Amazon cloud?

Here's the thing: I need to take a certain JEE webapp and deploy it to Amazon EC2 (which I will need to setup first) starting next month (using the http://aws.amazon.com/free/faqs/ AWS Free Tier Usage - hope it supports Tomcat + MySQL/PostgreSQL). The problem: I have never ever deployed a JEE app (not even a normal one on a dedicated hos...

Hosting website on cloud

Hi, I had been hosting my ASP.NET website on a traditional shared hosting. Now I want to move it to a cloud, I wanted to know; If I can move the same website as-is to the cloud? Or do I need to make any changes before hosting. I am using RackSpaces' Windows Cloud hosting. Thanks ...