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Freelance web development: who pays for hosting?

I've never bid on any freelance jobs on GetACoder, eLance, oDesk etc. I've only done sites for friends and family so I've setup the hosting and have performed any updates that we needed after the initial design myself. I know it probably varies from job-to-job, but what is the typical arrangement for hosting and subsequent maintenance ...

Running ASP.Net websites in Medium Trust environments

Hi, Disclaimer: I have limited ASP.Net skills I have a couple of websites which I am transferring from my current hosting onto the Mosso hosting service. When I tried transferring one of the websites, I got the error "System.Security.SecurityException: That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers.", which appears to have to d...

Preventing UNC Share error at build time

At work we have a bunch of sites hosted on our development server. The folder containing all these sites is mapped as a network drive. In VisualStudio I open the root of the site as a WebSite and when I build the site I alwys get this error. Error 4 An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes t...

Amazon EC2 Metadata

We're in the process of migrating from a datacenter to Amazon. We're a small company and rather than upgrade our hardware, we've found it to be enticing to move to "the cloud." We've put together custom AMI's from scratch and are currently in process of deciding on how to configure the environments. I've been using Amazon's management c...

GoDaddy Hosting - Medium Trust Workaround?

I've seen a few different questions here on SO related to shared hosting, specifically GoDaddy, with medium trust configurations. While most questions seem to be oriented around trying to include a 3rd party DLL in your application, I really haven't seen a consistent answer on how to move forward. I am trying to utilize the FlickrNet f...

Does the new asp:chart control need to be installed on the server or can it be used from the bin folder.

I have installed the new asp:chart control on my machine and have built an app that uses it. All is working well so far. Now I want to deploy my app in a hosted environment. If my hosting provider doesn't have the asp:chart control installed can I get my app to work by putting the .dll in the bin folder? (I guess I am asking if it has...

What is the most feature rich, ad-less, free web hosting service available on the internet?

Pretty simple question. Looking for recommendations for setting up a free website and having the best answer voted up. All platforms and programming languages included. I value a powerful programming environment over everything else Thanks Note: I'm asking this question for somebody else, I'd personally just pay dreamhost or l...

What is meaning this " aspnet_asapi map " ?

hello. when I use Urlmapping and sitemap and altogether use same Directory in my web site , and when that don't work . that server that I buying HOST from there , tell me : " we Active this (aspnet_asapi map) " . What is meaning this " *aspnet_asapi map* " ? ...

Microsoft SQL server hosting that supports DTS

Could someone suggest a shared SQL Server solution that supports DTS packages? Update: I was hoping to use the PostgreSQL ODBC driver and a DTS package to keep data synchronized between MSSQL server and Postgres. After getting my hands on SQL Server 2005 and attempting to do this I realized SSIS doesn't seem to play nicely with the Pos...

hosting company with more then one loaction (US,Europe,Middle East,)

We are renting a few dedicated servers but we we have customers all around the world. We are looking for a hosting company that has a few locations, so we will be able to benefit from servers that are close to our customers without having the trouble of dealing with more the one hosting company. ...

Who is a good host for a realtime TCP/IP game server?

I a trying to set up a real time game server that runs a game I am writing as a C# .NET 3.5 service. The game is similar to classic pong so I need to send real time feedback to both clients through a persistent socket connect to the server. This is an example of how it is coded. http://www.codeproject.com/kb/IP/socketsByBobJanova.aspx ...

getting mvc on shared host to work

Any idea on how to get my asp.net mvc website to work on a webhost that's running asp.net 3.5 but maybe not IIS 7? (I think they might be on IIS 6) I am on Crystal Tech and my home page shows up just fine but all other requests give me a 404 page not found error. Note: I already follow these instructions but it's still not working htt...

ASP.NET and PHP hosting

Hi, Can anyone suggest some of the best hosting companies that support both ASP.NET and PHP ? I've been considering http://www.webhost4life.com Thanks. ...

Is there a free JSF Webhost out there ?

Hi .. i am looking for a free Webhost for JSF sites.. unfortunately i didn't find any by Google. It is just for testing .. i know .. i could test it with localhost. but i do want to have real time conditions. ...

Adding admin subdomain in asp.net

I have a website that i am hosting from home. I want to add a subdomain to my website, for example: admin.mywebsite.com Would it be best to create a new project and point DNS to that project, or should i rather create the admin application in a folder under the current project? ...

Unlimited diskspace/Bandwidth for hosting ASP.NET vs PHP website?

We are thinking to use Dotnetnuke(ASP.NET) as platform for creating asp.net based social networking site. Surprisingly, Its difficult to find webhost with unlimited diskspace/badnwidth to store/stream lots of photos/videos. On the other hand, PHP based webhosting companies do provide unlimited diskspace/bandwidth. Check it here So, I ...

do you use Heroku to write Ruby on Rails app?

do you use Heroku to write Ruby on Rails app? i read about from the book Learning Rails from O'Reilly, and then today found that http://heroku.com/myapps doesn't have a "Create App" on the page so that I can edit the code online any more. Do they only allow that for the paid user? It also seems that they only let you have one web requ...

Which is better for Java development hosting: Aptana? Google App Engine? Slice Host?

I am split between the benefits of developing Java (non-commercial) webapps and deploying to something like Aptana or Google cloud, or just going with a Slice Host account. Tomcat or Jetty and MySQL are really my only big requirements. Aptana and Google App Engine come with some cool Eclipse deployment options, but does scalability rea...

Which server can I decide for MySQL, windows or Unix/Linux/Ubuntu/Debian?

I'm working on a SaaS project and mysql is our main database. Our applications is written on c# .net and runs under an windows 2003 server. Considering maintainance, cost, options and performance, which server plattaform can I decide for MySQL hosting, windows or Unix/Linux/Ubuntu/Debian? The scenario is as following: The server I ru...

How can I host a Mercurial repository for several users myself?

There are a number of hosting services for git, Mercurial, etc. I need to host my own, because some of the data we want to keep there is of a sensitive nature, and we cannot move it off-site. I need to host a Mercurial repository on a server so that a number of people can access it to both pull changes and push their own work. There nee...