My website is running quite well and serving lacks of pages on daily basis. We want to add one more web server to share load on server at heavy traffic times. Instead, can I go with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or any other cloud service as an alternative solution. In cloud server environment, need I to install multiple instances...
Does anybody know if red5 can be deployed on Mircosoft Azure Cloud? The only hint I got was in MSDN forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/d58fdffe-27a4-4e77-8683-4f58fc037ff9 Thanks! Marc ...
we have a large ec2 instance running in asia pacific region.we want to reserve that particular instance.In aws management console we see an option to purchase a reserved instance but there seems to be no option to change this instance into a reserved one.Are we missing out on something ...
Hy guys, I am currently doing the architecture of a small start-up. Due to budget constraints and trying to avoid as many problems related to deployment and scalability as possible I decided to go for a PAAS related to one of the Cloud solution providers out there. I am currently balancing between the well known Google App Engine and th...
Right now I am planning to build a news publication website that should be automatically scalable when traffic is increasing. I have good experience in developing web applications using ASP.NET and PHP. To move forward on selection of specific technology here are some questions for which I need some clarifications. My primary intention...
Has anyone ever launched cloud-based apps / websites that use a local SQLite DB as the primary data source? Are there any warnings about this? My environment: C# 3.0 app currently uses a sql server 2008 db current db size 30 mb- ...
Hi if i get it right i can via rest API in amazon cloud to extend the capacity and the volume of my servers so simple logic is: if i have registered paying user in my Saas app i can via API to extent my web app ? someone can recommend on real life setups and configuration on web apps based on a cloud (Amazon?) ...
Hi, Lately I have been working with predictive analytics and in many cases my PC runs out of memory. For the analysis I use several tools such as Matlab, custom algorithms written in c++ or C#. Anyway I was thinking about running these algorithms in the cloud but so far I haven't got any experiences from cloud computing or server admin...
Hi, Basically I have two questions. I investigate means of implementing WebDAV interface for EMC ATMOS storage. There will be billion(s) of files with thousands simultanous reads and probably hundreds creations/deletions. The problem is with COPY/MOVE/DELETE operations. If the structure is stored in ATMOS (using namespace interface wh...
Hi, This is another Cloud security question, but it relates to the specific types of vulnerabilities that are exposed via a cloud infrastructure. My question is: Assume Company A and Company B have separate virtual servers within the same Cloud-provider's infrastructure (assume they have 2 servers each). Because these four virtual serv...
I am taking cloud computing course next semester. Would like to know if there are any good books or online materials to start off that would help me get a job. ...
I'm interested in experimenting with writing R code on my laptop which I then execute on an Amazon S3 machine. I want the execution to be interactive because I'm building a work flow and the data is only on my EC2 instance, not on my local machine. I could redirect X11 to put the remove ESS window on my local machine, but I've had some...
I'm a programmer but not a web programmer looking to help out a friend set up a simple web-accessible database for a non-profit. It would need to be available both inside and out of the office, provide at least 2 levels of access (ie. clients could access their own records, employees could access everything), and do everything right in ...
.Now I will be dealing with government data that needs to be secure on government servers. Is this .gov cloud a nice alternative to App Engine? ...
Wich database i use to a medium SaaS CRM??nosql or relational database.. Oracle Sql Server CouchDB etc.. Any suggestions? ...
For my final year project I plan to code a cloud in Python. The client will be written in Java by the other member of my team. The client will have a tabbed interface and it will provide a text editor, a media player, a couple of small Java based games and a maybe a few more services. The server will work like this: 1) Validate the...
There is such a wonderful source http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/src/ but it does not get integrated into Flex. Are there other examples of an animated tag cloud? ...
Hi all, Quick question - I have the following setup: (1) An ec2 instance with an SWF on it - this SWF plays streaming video - i.e. is a video player like JWPlayer (2) A streaming video distribution set up via Cloudfront If I stream the the video via RTMP from Cloudfront to the SWF (which is on ec2) - would I incur charges for data tra...
As cloud computing seems to be one of the most popular topics, It got me thinking, And as i dont know much about the topic excuse me for any ignorance in the question. What exactly is a cloud database and how would this service even be created. Would it simply be a MySQL database with a web frontend that would allow users to create thei...
I saw this query on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3743366/stopping-snapshotting-and-restarting-ebs-server Now I am confused... I have also encountered an inconsistent state when taking EC2 snapshots of my app. So is this the required process when I want a snapshot of a Unix/Linux/Windows image: Stop the image Take a snapshot ...