Cloud hosting is hosting a service, commonly a website, on multiple distributed servers. Like a server farm, this provides greater performance (through load balancing) and availability than using a single server, but the distributed nature of the cloud means requests can be serviced closer to the ...
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Windows hosting - Shared | VPS | Cloud [duplicate]
I'll begin with stating what I require for a new website project:
ASP.NET (probably 4+)
SQL Server (not fussy, probably 2008+)
IIS 7
SSL
Not a huge list which is nice. However, the behaviour of ...
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Ridiculously high price for cloud [closed]
I have dedicated servers for my website. Many hosting companies will charge about €30 / month for a server like this:
CPU: i3 @3.4GHz
RAM: 8GB
HDD: 2x 1TB
Comparing this to a cloud configuration ...
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Comparison of Major Cloud Providers [closed]
Preface: I am aware that there are other questions closed asking the same basic thing; however, I cannot locate the actual answer or anything in the FAQ that tells me I cannot ask this here. I could ...
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Scalable cloud based PHP-supported equivalent to Azure? [duplicate]
I am looking for a company that can sell me infinite scalable cloud based hosting for PHP projects like WordPress and other PHP/MySQL-based sites.
I just tried Azure, only to realize that they have ...
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Web hosting service that allows posting of content using REST calls [duplicate]
I am looking for a web hosting that allows posting of new content to the website using REST APIs. I am developing a client application that needs to post content to a website. But the only way to ...
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Strategy for hosting 700+ domains names, each with a static HTML site
I have a portfolio of more than 700 domain names, and ideally I'd like to put up a single-page HTML/CSS/JavaScript webpage for each domain. Is there a system/strategy/workflow that will allow me to:
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Cloud computing - database loading question [closed]
Following is the situation, I want to know whether what I want is possible in cloud computing and is it the best way for me:
1) My main site has a Database with tables with millions of rows, and ...
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Recommanded cloud/cdn for my website? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
Currently we are using Cloudflare (Business) and it's great, except that our website is crushing for around 1 minute ...
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which service to use among Amazon's free tier for Java app [closed]
this is the first time I am going to host a java app, Amazon offers a free tier which provides free usage for one year, and I am going to use it. But there are so many services (S3, EC2, etc etc), I ...
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Is there any reason to still use a standard shared web host? [closed]
There are a few PAAS providers that now provide a free tier of service and cheap prices afterwards. Some, such as AppFog and OpenShift, also offer easy installations of common web apps such as ...
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webhosting for chinese website [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
We want to put online a website (built with Joomla 2.5) that is intended for chinese customers. However, due to the ...
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Which Framework or CMS is best for Web Hosting Sites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I've posted this question on StackOverflow but no response from the community there. Kindly provide any solution to ...
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How to consider geographical location when selecting hosting provider?
I am going to buy a hosting service (re seller) where mostly people from Ethiopia will be using it. I am going to host my applications in this server and also partition and sell for other developers ...
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Scaling a cloud-based ecommerce site
I'm researching cloud services to host an e-commerce site. And I'm trying to understand some basics on how they are able to scale things.
From what I can gather from AWS, Rackspace, etc ...
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What is the difference between Cloud hosting and cPanel hosting?
I just want to know whether both of these hosting model provides easy to use interface? Like phpMyAdmin and FTP server to upload file from FileZilla?
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starting up with VPS or cloud hosting? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
Summary: I want to start hosting my product. I'd like to register domains (at some point). I'm a linux beginner. ...
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$5 File Hosting with API [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
Could anyone suggest a reliable file hosting service for personal use with developer API that will not cost more than ...
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Who can critique my site architecture? [closed]
I'm designing a website and trying to decide on the technologies to use. Cloud (amazon) vs traditional server setup and the different technologies that could be put down on each.
If I typed up 2 or ...
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Heroku dyno vs vps performance [closed]
I'm trying to get a sense of how a Heroku web dyno compares to a standard vps.
For example, how many web dynos would be equivalent to a Linode 512? or a Linode 1024?
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How to create a cloud server based website? [closed]
i have bought a domain from go daddy. i have bought a cloud hosting windows 2008 server from rack space. how do i link my domain to my host server and how do i utilize Dreamweaver/fireworks to create ...
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Is there a free file hosting service with an exposed API for accessing content (or hotlinking for GETs)?
For a small business site we are looking at possibly free file hosting solutions such that a file can be uploaded by the user and our backend (Java) web service is able to update/modify the data at ...
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Security of cloud server hosting [closed]
Is cloud hosting by nature more secure or less secure than VPS hosting? I'm having trouble understanding this matter because each hosting company presents cloud server hosting somewhat differently.
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When I get a cloud instance I am getting the same thing as a dedicated server?
When I get a cloud instance I am getting the same thing as a dedicated server right? Just with a cool name? Can it run custom Linux kernels? If it can, I see no difference between cloud hosting and a ...
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With which criteria should I choose a European server for wordpress sites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I have a wordpress e-zine site with 6.000 unique visitors(150-200 visitors daily). Is addressed mostly to European(My ...
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How can I measure website page load times from different countries?
Recently, I migrated one of my personal projects into cloud and hosted the app on UK based servers.
I reside in Turkey and I would like to see how long it takes for my pages to load for UK based ...
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Shared versus VPS versus Cloud?
Short form: I'm trying to decide between shared, VPS, and cloud hosting for a few Django webapps.
Long form: I'm currently hosting around half-dozen sites (a mix of Django and PHP) on two ...
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Cassandra hosting [closed]
What is needed to host website which uses Cassandra?
Are there any available options on market right now?
What other NoSQL hosting plans do you recommend?
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CDN solutions pros and cons
As the sysadmin in our organization I've been asked to look into CDN solutions as we have plans to roll out a web platform that is targeted at developing countries. Here is my research so far on the ...
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Shared Host VS Cloud server [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to choose between web hosting and cloud hosting?
What the difference between a shared host and a cloud server.
I have a url http://domain.com and with a shared ...
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Hosting server application for global SME
We are planning to set up a complete ERP and CRM system for a medium-sized global company, that might turn into a essential tool for all locations once deployed. For now these locations include USA, ...
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Is Amazon the cheapest cloud provider?
On AWS, bandwidth costs as little as $0.08 per GB and storage costs as little as $0.055 per GB. Are there any providers that charge less? These numbers end up being very costly for a web site that ...
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external website storage
One of my clients is a business consultant, and stores powerpoint presentations on her website for conference attendees to download after a conference.
There are 91 files totalling 111MB.
I want to ...
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GoDaddy 4GH Hosting Experiences?
I've just come across GoDaddy's 4GH Hosting. It's incredibly cheap and the sales blurb makes it sound amazing.
Anyone tried it out yet (particularly for ASP.NET / MS SQL Server sites)? I'd love to ...
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What hosting solutions help with traffic spikes?
A web application is hypothetically featured on Digg or Reddit, and the server load immediately spikes up by a couple of orders of magnitude. What kind of hosting solution will allow the website to ...
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What is your experience with Amazon EC2 hosting?
What is your experience with Amazon EC2 cloud hosting service?
a) setting up and configuring the service
b) maintenance
c) speed / latency
d) reliability?
Amazon did experience some major outages ...
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Looking for recommendation for PHP app hosting with (relatively) painless scalability [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
We're a pre-launch startup with a LAMP based application. We're looking for recommendations for hosting services for ...
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3answers
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Hosting a public dedicated game server with user authentication
I am basically looking for a cheap hosting provider to host a Call of Duty game server in India. But this is not a localized question actually as you will see when you go through the complete ...
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Cloud server or VPS server
I have a website on shared server, which is been suspended , due to high traffic,
Now I am planning some thing higher then shared server,
I have never used or configure VPS.
And after hearing about ...
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What Sharepoint Server Hosting provider would you suggest? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
We run an international organisation that is looking at implementing MS SharePoint.
Who would you suggest we use? ...
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Rackspace cloud vs Softlayer cloud [closed]
has anyone ever hosted a high traffic website with these two companies? I would like to know who has the best service and servers. Thanks
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Dedicated Hosting 101
I've been running small websites for years, but recently developed a site that is attracting more traffic than expected. My shared web hosting provider has warned me that this is causing a high load ...
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Rackspace Cloud Servers in Europe?
We have setup a cloud virtual server at rackspace in the US, but we use it from Europe. I found out I am not quite happy with the response time. Of course I knew that there would be some latency. But ...
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Cloud Hosting Options, what are the differences?
I've looked at what I consider the big three (I could be wrong about that)
Microsoft Cloud Azure
Amazon Simple Web Services
Godaddy Virtual Server Space
I'm not a server expert, I like hosting a ...
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Cloud hosting vs dedicated hosting: advantages and disadvantages
I'm currently looking for a hosting company that can provide a very solid service with a 100% SLA.
In the search both cloud hosting and managed dedicated hosting have come up. (I'd rather not manage ...
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How to choose between web hosting and cloud hosting?
How to choose between normal web hosting and cloud hosting, what are the key points that can make this decision easier.
and does everything i can do in the normal web hosting is possible in cloud one?
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