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Creating Ruby on Rails cloud hosting

Hey guys There is a lot of demand in my country for rails and hosting, yet there is not one provider that does this. Are there packaged solutions, or at least guides, out there that can help me get started with providing hosting to people? You can think of it as a local Heroku.com ...

how to install ffmpeg in cpanel

I heard that most probably cpanel server dont have ffmpeg preconfigured in it. Can you explain a way to install it in cpanel. Please if you can guide me through the installtion of ffmpeg in cpanel server in step by step process. Can anyone please also give me links of other servers which have ffmpeg preconfigured and set to run. ...

categorize website based on visitors count.

my site is having around 300 unique visits/5000 pageviews per day. i want to know how many unique visits/page views (approx.) a site should have to be called low , moderate and high traffic website. also how can i test strength of my website, like how many requests my website can process simultaneously. http://loadimpact.com/ -- iam l...

Cloud machine for Windows .NET app

I am currently running a new .NET application on an Amazon instance. I really like it, as it comes with Windows 2k8, IIS7 and SQL server pre-installed. However, it's costing a bit, at about $90/month for a small instance, which is catagorized as: "Small Instance (Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 C...

Use existing java application with tomcat & cie.

I created a java application a year ago which is basically a multithread socket server for a website. I built this around a tutorial, which I expanded to do many things, including live multiplayer game with Flash client. The tutorial I used is the following (in french): http://defaut.developpez.com/tutoriel/java/serveur/multithread/ It...

Can you recommend a good shared hosting provider for a webapp made with Lift framework with Scala 2.8?

I've got acquainted with Scala recently and found it beautiful. I am willing to give up using PHP and use Scala instead for all projects of mine. Now I Use BlueHost for hosting my PHP-based sites. Can you recommend a good alternative that will support Scala? ...

Can you reccomend me a book on asp.NET application deployment?

Hi, Can you advise a book or an article with full coverage of asp.Net application deployment? I mean consider you have developed your software on your local machine and now you want to host your application on a server. So I need a book, covering all the stages from selecting the right asp.net host to setting up the environment of your...

What are the best practices for image serving?

What techniques do people commonly use for uploading, storing and presenting images with a CMS? Do you store them in the database or on the file system? Do you generate thumbnails on upload? Or on the fly, then maybe cache them for reuse? Or rely on browser scaling? ...

Notification Architecture

Hi everyone, With the arrival of WP7, I developed a solution to business appointments. And I wonder about the architecture. My Silverlight application needs to communicate with web services, no problem here. By cons, I have another need that is a push to notify phones with the Microsoft Notification Push Service. My problem is how to h...

Hosting for large file uploads

Hi All, I need to find an inexpensive LAMP Web host that allows for large file uploads (500-1024MB) via PHP/HTML. My current host has lots of restrictions with this that I cannot override. thx. ...

How do you know what OS to use in hosting Coldfusion Apps?

What factors play part in determining the OS to host? Or is it a matter of preference? Would factors like using SQL be a hindrance when hosting in Linux? Are there any real advantages of one over the other? E.g Performance, Scalability, Security Thanks ...

how do i enable pdo extenstion in my hosting provider

1) My whole application is built on PDO with sqlite My Problem: The hosting provider has PDO --disabled I want to know how i can get PDO extensions to work on my hosting provider. The hosting provider just doesnt seem to respond to my queries. So is there any way i can do this remotely. ...

What requirments are necessary for a webhoster to host Diaspora*

What do I need to get from a webhoster if I want to host my own Diaspora* seed? Do I just need some webspace with ruby on rails capabilities? I suppose it uses Ruby On Rails SOAP for communication between seeds? If so what is needed for this? ...

Hosting GWT WebApp

Hello there! Just asking for some recommendations. I looking for good hosting alternatives for a GWT webapp. Google AppEngine is a problem due to FatTable limitiation for the DB. Planning to run hibernate Postgres/MySql. One host that I've found offers 100MB for the JVM which seems very little. They offer Tomcat6. I'm looking for som...

Server requirements hosting for Flash

Hi there, I want to build a Flash web application that could installed on a user's computer. So any hosting requirements would be subject to whatever configuration the user has. What are there requirements to host a Flash application? Can any OS be used? Is it required that some Flash framework/runtime be installed on the machine? Doe...

What is required to host a WPF application that provides a web service?

Hi there, I want to build a WPF web application that could installed on a user's computer. So any hosting requirements would be subject to whatever configuration the user has. What are there requirements to host a WPF application? Can any OS be used? Is it required that the .Net framework be installed on the machine? Obviously some we...

Do I need VPS to get CodeIgniter and PHP 5.3

I am currently hosting my site on my computer on WAMP, however I am looking to take it live. The problem is that it uses both CodeIgniter and PHP 5.3. It will not however, draw very much in the way of traffic to start. Is there some way I can get greater control of my server (so that I can use 5.3 and CI) without having to pay the expens...

SWF hosting security

I have started developing a drawing application in as3. I am thinking that I could integrate a cms and allow swf files to be uploaded in runtime as graphics.What are the potensial security issues involving third party possibly malicious swf files here? I would simply be adding the swf as a custom sprite class to a masked container sprit...

Ruby on rails hosting

First Hello, and then yearh i know Heroku! But they somehow just dosen't fit my interest, i want to have an email service. Well that's fine with heroku if you insert your credit card informations.. Well ya, no thank you.. So is there an alternative to Heroku? Or is it just imposible? ohh.. by the way, i need crons, email and rails3 su...

Rails hosting advice - EngineYard, Heroku, EC2

Hi, I'm developing a very sensitive application for a client that needs to have 99.9999999999% uptime guarantee. It's a Rails application with MySQL database. I am thinking of hosting it on EngineYard due the low maintenance requirements and easiness to run. Heroku does not seems to be the perfect solution due to uptime problems. EC2...