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Rails gallery app hosting

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...

If I make my application with the Zend framework, will I be able to host it with any company that supports PHP?

Thank you for the answers. :) I'm mainly looking to host my website with A Small Orange, but they don't say if they support Zend anywhere. :S ...

Who is the best cloud hosting provider for managing multiple sites with unique IP addresses/vhosts?

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...

Hosting the CLR: IHostAssemblyStore::ProvideAssembly causes exception " exception "The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference"

Hi, PostSharp 2.0 includes a CLR host and implements IHostAssemblyStore::ProvideAssembly. From managed code, I invoke: Assembly.Load("logicnp.cryptolicensing, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4a3c0a4c668b48b4") My implementation of IHostAssemblyStore::ProvideAssembly receives the following input for ...

Windows Azure or RackSpace Cloud?

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? ...

VPS/VDS for Continuous Integration (TeamCity)

We are looking at moving some of existing infrastructure to the virtual space, hence the question: Would you recommend a virtual hosting provider for hosting TeamCity CI server, based on your experience? It'd be nice to get company names/links but if that's against the rules listing your VPS configuration should also do. ...

Questions about Microsoft Azure

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 ...

Cloud DB hosting options

Hi, I'd like to move some small app databases to a cloud hosting provider. Basically, I'd like to not have to manage databases myself. I've been looking at Amazon RDS and MongoHQ, which are great, but are bit expensive. Are there any other alternatives other than setting up my own VPS? Thanks. Jim- ...

Can I rely on mod_rewrite?

I'm building a small PHP framework for the websites I create and wanted to know if I can rely on mod_rewrite being availabe on most hosters. Is ist even a good idea using it? There are many good points already (one entry point, "beautiful", readable URLS) Where is it not availabe? Should I include an alternative in the framework if mo...

Show code demos online

Is any website where I could upload my JQuery/Javascript, CSS, and HTML projects to show demos? I am looking for any free file hosting service to show my demos, has a public download location for those files, and is more than just storing files on their server. I have asked this question because I would be providing links on my wor...

File mirroring solution for a website

Our website is currently experiencing high volume download traffic. It will soon exceed the bandwidth limit. What's the most convenient way to mirror a software package? We also need to maintain existing URL of the package. ...

NGINX : Allow users to password protect directories themselves?

To my knowledge Nginx can only password protect directories from within the configuration file(s). That works nicely, but is not a real option for end-users who A) can not edit the configs and B) would break the configs if they could Right now I am thinking about a webbased representation of the directory structure where they can point ...

Online Perforce Repositories

Is anyone aware of of anybody offering hosted perforce servers? It doesn't have to be free - but preferably not too expensive! My understanding of Perforce is that it's free to use for personal projects, which mine is. Currently I have a perforce server setup on the same machine as the code is on which doesn't offer much security in cas...

Redirect folder to different server

I know you can redirect subdomains to a different server, but can you do the same with folders? Say I have example.com. I can redirect mysubdomain.example.com to a different server, but can I redirect example.com/mysubdomain to a different server? I'd like to host a rails app in that folder on a site that runs php while still maintainin...

I'm getting the warning: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, etc... (Help!)

I'm building a webpage and I'm getting the following warning (and the page loads but when I change of section it never loads and displays the warning). The warning: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Pragma: no-cache Content-Type: text/html Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 ...

WCF- Meta Data Exchange Configuration

I have defined two endpoints in my App.Config file as <system.serviceModel> <services> <service name="HostDirectAddress.ITestService" behaviorConfiguration="behaviorConfig"> <endpoint address="net.tcp://localhost:9000/ITestService" binding="netTcpBinding" ...

Hosting Mecurial HG via VisualSVN Server

I have tried to host a Mercurial HG repository using a Scriptalias. ScriptAlias /hg/ "htdocs/hgwebdir.cgi" If I go to Chrome it display the contents of the cgi file. In IE it does render however images and links are not displayed. In either case the repository I want to display is not shown. Has anyone managed to get this working with...

ASP.NET MVC hosting problem, routing, handlers and modules

Hi, This is one of them again, hosting with fasthosts. I recently purchased a windows developer package from them. When I tried to deploy my ASP.NET 3.5 MVC project, which was working fine with the same host on a reseller account, it is not working. The reason to move from reseller to a normal Windows Developer package is, the MS-SQL...

Host Mercurial on my company's intranet?

Instead of using an external web-based Mercurial host, I want to set one up on my company's intranet. Is there a web-based tool for Mercurial that lets you have an interface like Bitbucket's but let's you host Mercurial locally? ...

Hosting a flash game...

Hi ppl, Im starting a new project that consist in a game made in Flash, I use PHP for the server counterpart and a MySQL database. My question is, what do I need to host my game?.. I mean, how good (connection, HD space, procesor, ram, etc) should be my hosting to be able to take care of all the stuff I need...? And, if you know some ...