Hi Djangonauts, I am almost done developing a Django project (with a few pluggable apps). I want to offer this project as a SaaS (something like basecamp). i.e: project1.mysaas.com , project2.mysaas.com etc I seek your expertise in showing me the path. Ways I have thought of are: 1 use Sites to define site specific settings.py 2 a...
The file system part of our asp.net application framework requires updating to fall inline with our SaaS / Multi-Tenancy approach and in particular with regards scaling up. Our current file system stores files on disk in separate folders for each tenant. ie: X:\FilesFolder\ApplicationInstance\TenantA etc where the Tenant names and file...
I am considering purchasing the Railskits SaaS kit and deploy the app on Heroku. Has anyone deployed a Railskits SaaS based app on Heroku? What was your experience with it? Thank you. ...
For an Asp.Net software as a service application, I want to do account based subdomains like Basecamp and the rest of the 37Signals products have. E.g. acme.myapp.com will load the account for that customer and pull back only their information. This is easy to do in Ruby on Rails, but how would you handle this functionality in ASP.NET ...
If I am building a CRM web application to sell as a membership service, what is the best method to design and deploy the database? Do I have 1 database that houses 100s of records per table or deploy multiple databases for different clients? Is it really an issue to use a single database since I believe sites like Flickr use them? ...
I am doing a Saas project, and we want each customer to be able to upload a css page for "his" web site. (Although actually, all of the customer's sites are hosted by us using virtual hosting). What are good guidelines when designing the html of a page so that css can be applied a posteriori. ...
Hi there, anyone already tried to build a Flex App, which would be run as a Federated Application on the Intuit IPP? From my understanding it is very easy to build a native Flex App which runs on the Intuit environment. They also allow the approach of "Federated Applications", which lets you host your app (they say written in any langua...
We have a SAAS application where reporting and other print jobs are generated on our application servers and then sent to CUPS print queues. The queue prints to printers at the client sites via IP printing; so far everything works fine. However, we have a new requirement with a new customer. They want a print job to print to the pri...
I think that most of the advice that comes from 37 Signals is fascinating. I ask this question as i can't help also thinking that the some of the principals will only pull in customers if you have a fan base to call on such as the Ruby On Rails evangilists? ...
Hi Djangonauts, I am almost done developing a Django project (with a few pluggable apps). I want to offer this project as a SaaS (something like 37signals.com). i.e: customer1.product1.com , customer2.product2.com etc product1 could be the basecamp product2 could be highrise and so on. I want to know how the project should be struc...
This question is somewhat multi-part. First, I realize it can vary somewhat, but what is generally expected from SaaS vendors in terms of what happens when a customer discontinues service with respect to their data. I have/am building a hosted Web based business application that customers use for an important aspect of their business. I...
The company I work for is redesigning our application in .NET. Our application is sold using the Software as a Service model. We track all of our users actions in the software for reporting purposes (searching for things, downloading assets, completing forms, what is associated with the form they are creating, snap shot of the user's pr...
I wish to provide a status dashboard to users of my SAAS internet application similar to the status dashboards provided by Google and Amazon. Does anyone know of a ready-made 3rd party hosted service supporting such an interface? Google example: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en Amazon Example: http://status.aws.amazon.com ...
I am a small time internet hosted app (SAAS) developer, when I launch I expect most of my customers will authenticate (login) to my application using the standard email + password technique. However I would like to offer a better single sign-on option for larger customers who will have ready-made communities of potential users of my sys...
I would like to use Amiando programmatically to manage the events for an organisation. Has any one used the Amiando event manager service API and if so, was it easy to work with and were there any pitfalls? Bonus question: can Amiando expose events as an iCal feed? Thanks ...
I've got a commercial SaaS application, an online collaboration/lean project mgmt tool. I want to offer a "Community Edition", with specific limitations on how the software can be used, for free. For example free for groups using it to manage open source projects free to K-12 teachers to use in the classroom free for authors collaborat...
Basically something that handles the low-level "plumbing" code for a subscription-based service. I see a lot of things dealing with basic membership, but nothing that handles the subscription aspect (recurring billing, automated jobs for setting up billing, notification for billing, etc). This might be the one thing that keeps me from ...
What would be the best way to limit an account based on a particular subscription? For example my Basic plan might allow a subscriber to create a maximum of 2 user accounts and have up to 50 customers; the Premium plan might allow 10 users and 200 customers. The only way I can think of to handle this would be to create a subscription_p...
Hi all, I recently moved south to Bangalore and I am working for a large software integrator mainly testing. My project team is working on web service project. We plan to use an open source software like soapUI now. Are you able to point me to online and offline resources/trainings that can help me and friends get up to speed with this ...
I have developed a number of departmental client-server applications, and am now ready to begin working on moving one of these applications to a SaaS model. I have done some basic web development, but I'm a newbie when it comes to SaaS architectures. One of the first questions that comes to mind as I try to design the architecture is th...