hosting

Ensuring folder name doesn't show up in the domain name.

Hello, our hosting account is set up with the domain www.nashman.ca, and our application is at www.nashman.ca/hub. We have another domain that forwards to www.nashman.ca/hub and that's hub.mhn.co. The problem i'm having with this is that the forwarded domain adds on the /hub whenever you navigate to another page from hub.mhn.co, so the d...

Cheapest way (platform/language) to implement a RESTful web API for an iPhone app?

I am developing an iPhone app and would like to create some sort of RESTful API so different users of the app can share information/data. To create a community of sorts. Say my app is some sort of game, and I want the user to be able to post their highscore on a global leaderboard as well as maintain a list of friends and see their scor...

Ruby error on non-ruby site

A friends of mine have a shared hosting with many sites hosted. There is ruby on rails, php, xslt/xml sites using mysql or postgress. Today one of the xslt sites displays this error: Passenger error #2 An error occurred while trying to access '..../config/environment.rb': Cannot stat '..../config/environment.rb': Permission denied (13) ...

How to create an EngineYard-like service for other languages?

Hi, Does anyone know what is needed to create an EngineYard-like service for other languages? Where should one start? Thanks ...

cron after every 15 sec

I cannot set cron time to less than 1 minute even on my dedicated server. I need it to run every 15 seconds because it calls betfair api and calculations are highly time dependent. Please advise. ...

Domain transfer + Microsoft exchange

I have a client who has their domain name registered through Network Solutions and their site hosted at GoDaddy. I checked at GoDaddy and they're not hosting the email accounts, so I asked the client and all they could tell me is they have Exchange. I'm trying to transfer the domain and hosting to a new host, but I don't want to mess u...

ASP.NET Deployment Fails - Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.mshtml'

I have developed a Web application in VS2008. It works perfectly on my development PC. When I publish and upload to the shared Windows hosting service (which supports ASP.NET 3.5), it fails (even when accessing it from my development PC). The error message is: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.mshtml, Version=7.0.3300.0, Cu...

Hosting and domains

Is it preferred to buy domains separate from hosting? Or does it not matter? ...

Hosting solution to my ASP.NET application

Hi, Sorry if this question does not belong here, but I could not resist. I have my ASP.NET application which I want to be installed for multiple clients. Each customer will sign up, and the app will get installed (with its own DB instance) in the server. So over a period of time, the server will have multiple IIS websites and multiple da...

Good Options for Java Developer who needs Inexpensive Web Hosting

As a programmer with limited experience, and interest, in server management, what are some good options for having space available online that makes getting to the actual development and deployment of Java web applications simple? Needs: - ability to create, or at least manage a database through non-command line interface, even if it ju...

can i use aws or cloud computing to build a website building platform like webs.com or blogspot.com?

I have a web app running on php and mysql. i have tested on my localhost and i know it works. if my platform has a url like myplatform.com, and users sign up, they automatically get a website like user1.myplatform.com or user2.myplatform.com, etc. Akin to blogger, wordpress or webs.com now if user1 decides to purchase a url from a do...

Glassfish v3.0 Open Source Edition Hosting

Where can i find affordable glassfish hosting for my webapp? I saw one vendor who charges $33/month for a VPS. If you guys don't have any better suggestions, I'll go with this vendor. This is for a personal project btw. Hosting at home is not an option. ...

Hold TcpClient Connection with WCF

Hallo I need a Tcp connection to a server alive in backgrond and applications will send data with this connection.I searched around and found WCF singleton is apporiate for this task here is a code snippet that i use below my question is that the good way and any problem can be with this? string hostAddress = string.Empty; ...

Uploading Difficulties to Discountasp.net, new at C#

I've been trying to upload a new page to a site hosted on a DiscountASPnet server, but have been having trouble. I have been working on this site in the development server for a while now. it was already built and hosted when I got my hands on it, and I haven't worked in ASP.net before. First I uploaded the page itself, the code behind, ...

Python cloud hosting other than Google App Engine?

What options exist for Python Cloud Hosting other than Google App Engine? I'm looking for solutions that let me write and publish code to servers that will scale up automatically to meet demand. I don't want to spend my time on IT tasks. So far, I've really only found this: https://www.picloud.com/ App Engine is great, but has some im...

How to host a console application on Windows Server 2003?

I have to host a console program which hosts an application used by Asp.Net 4.0 and should always be running. What is the best way to host it on the server? I can run the console application from commandline but it can be closed accidently. Windows Service is not an option as we don't have the source code for the Console App. ...

What are the things to absolutely check when deploying an MVC 2 web application?

Hello, I am going to deploy my first MVC web application to the internet. As is the first app with this framework for me, I was wondering if I can collect some advices regarding what should be done to prevent troubles. I am generic on the question and this is xpressely done to collect the most various answers. Thanks! UPDATE: Thank...

Serving lots of small files?

I am building a website which depends on serving lots of little mp3 files (approx 10-15KB each) quite quickly. Each file contains a word pronunciation, and 20-30 per user will be downloaded every minute they are using the site. Each user might download 200 a day, and I anticipate 50 simultaneous users. There will be approx. 15,000 separa...

asp.net hosting - forms authentication not working for .htm files

Hi, I've put a password around a website for preview purposes - it has .htm files generated by a content management system and .aspx files. On my pc the Forms authentication restricts the .htm - but deployed live it does not - only the aspx files are restricted. I realise that it maybe something specific to my hosting package (pipe10)...

Mercurial Hosting software, alternatives?

Are there any software packages available for hosting Mercurial repositories on my own server, apart from the very basic script that comes with it? I've looked over the PublishingRepositories wiki page at Mercurial, and the only viable alternative in that list is the hgwebdir script, which I've set up, but it's rather basic. Does anyon...