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Is 256MB Ram cloud server enough to run a simple web application in PHP?

I have written a simple web application mostly full of static web pages with several you-tube embeddings. Few forms and so on. All this is developed using CodeIgniter. The site is very similar to Academic Earth. With videos served from Youtube. It has got 400 users only 30-40 are active. I am not interested in shared hosting and want ...

Guidance on creating a server that has a group of threads to process requests

Say I am 1000 pop emails that I have to pull emails from. I want to create a service, that utilizes muliple threads so I can pull email from multiple pop3 servers at the same time (as oppose to a serialized process). How would I go about doing this? ...

Read out a website every 5 seconds - how to do it fast?

Hi, I wanna read out a server status webpage every x seconds. Site is: http://www.ffxiv-status.com/ how to do it easily and fast? I found this lines in Google, to read out the page source: WebClient wClient = new WebClient(); string strSource = wClient.DownloadString("http://www.google.de"); I could split the page then wth string a...

Simulate keystrokes over the internet

I'm trying to do something pretty complicated, so I've sort created this hypothetical that if answered would solve my problem: Say I was sitting in a room with two computers. Computer 1 has a game of pong that I've programmed. I would like to be able to set up a web page whereby I could log on with Computer 2, and be able to play the ...

Which is better for database design, RoR or PHP?

I am about to embark on a project which will be a database with potentially thousands of entries. It is for an Australian audience so load should not be particularly high. The developer who is interested has a strong preference for RoR. However I am unconvinced of the benefits of RoR for all aspects of a project. For example, while RoR...

Are there any examples for programming client/server "Hello world" in C#?

I want some fairly simple functionality. . Server listening for a client . Clients connecting and sending "Hello server" . Serve acknowledging with "Hello client" Communication performed using TCP/IP. I've looked for examples with source code but haven't found anything that I can get working. Does anyone have any recommended resou...

is form button can handle 400 click at the same time?

I am making a site that who will click button when timer ends first he will won.But I am not sure that if will 400 people will click the same time server can response quickly? And is there will be timer and when timer end click button will be enabled.But is this time will show on each computer as the same time that button enabled? Or c...

Set allow_url_include on SINGLE file

I've created a php file called pagebase.php that I'm quite proud of. It contains a class that created the whole html file for me from input such as css links and js links. In any case, this file is several hundred lines long, as it includes several helper functions such as cleanHTML() that removes all whitespace from the html code then, ...

[OpenSSL] SSL_accept() throws "Invalid argument" error

I'm attempting to create a client/server program, but I'm finding some difficulty continuing with the unfortunately sparse amount of OpenSSL documentation. My issue: SSL_accept throws an "Invalid Argument" upon executing the following code (simplified): SSL* ssl = SSL_new(ctx); // ctx is created earlier SSL_set_fd(ssl, socket); // sock...

Does placing GPL licensed software on server qualify as 'distribution' if end user never sees it?

I'm writing a software application that I'd like to use FFTW (an FFT math algorithm with GPL license) as part of the back-end. I won't modify FFTW and I won't distribute the code to an end customer of mine. However, I will place my software application back-end on a server that client computers access over the Internet. All of the mate...

Will upgrading of windows server 2003 to windows server 2008 results in loss of data

I have installed operating system windows server 2003 on my PC. I have installed some additional softwares like visual studio 2010, sql server 2008 & MOSS 2007 on windows server 2003. Now I want to upgrade my windows server 2003 with the new operating system windows server 2008. I am not aware about the whether upgrade will loose data st...

Significance of /dev/null in Web Servers?

Recently I've heard a bit about the implementation (or rather, use of) /dev/null in Mongrel2, as well as other projects. However, I've never seen it explained what this actually means. What does this mean, and why is it good for scalability (as I've seen it be claimed)? ...

How to deploy a WAR file into Apache 2.2

Hi there! My server is an apache 2.2 who serves php applications, now I would like to configure it to serve J2EE applications as well. I think there is an Apache module to deploy WAR files into it, Could anybody help me? Thanks ...

What apache modules are required?

How can I determine what add-ons to apache will be required for my php code? I have legacy php code that was setup a long time back (and we dont have the documentation on what was done at that time). I need to get this application working on another new server, but apache has yet to be installed. I would like to install only those comp...

Netbeans 6.8 & Glassfish 2.1.1

I am using Netbeans 6.8 with Windows OS 7. I downloaded "glassfish-installer-v2.1.1-b31g-windows" executable jar file to my harddrive. I open this jar with Java Platform SE binary by right clicking the jar file and chosing "Open." A folder called "glassfish" is placed in the same folder as the jar. The glassfish server is now downloa...

Super fast server for php script

Hi, I have a php script which requires no web hosting or disk space etc. The script simply retrieves infromation from a server, does some processing on this information and than passes it on to a client (an iPhone app in this case). The only thing is that if traffic gets high than there is a high demand for bandwidth and speed. Does any...

"My Queries" are lost after TFS move to a new environment

Hello All, After moving TFS to a new environment and after restoring the backups, I can only find the predefined queries but can't find any custom query which should be located at "My Queries" any help? ...

Blackberry Bluetooth Development Help

Hello everyone, I've been stuck since several days on my bluetooth application. Its role is to receive data from Bluetooth devices, using Serial Port Protocol ... The application runs in the background of the phone and devices, when they need to send an information, turns on the bluetooth and try to send a data frame. The problem is th...

Definitive matrix of $_SERVER values for different web server software out there?

I'm write PHP applications to distribute publicly, and am trying to ensure they run correctly on all popular web server software (IIS, Apache, NGINX, Lighttpd). Does anybody know if someone has created definitive matrix of $_SERVER array items for each different popular server software package? Sounds like a good idea, and I just want ...

PHP program always active in web-server

Is it possible? E.g. A script every minute write a word in a file (without the page opened in a browser). ...