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It depends :-). Google uses a number of factors for geotargeting ( http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html ), they include the TLD (are you using a .co.uk or a gTLD like .com?), the Webmaster Tools setting (for gTLDs), the hosting location (that would be what you're asking about) and a bunch of other ...
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While many domain name registrars also provide basic DNS hosting services for domains registered through them, it looks like your registrar may be one of the few that don't. In that case, you basically have two or three options:
Use a third-party DNS provider. There are way too many of those around to list here, but just searching Google for "DNS ...
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You have to question some confusion, so I'll talk about ways to do a redirect from www to no-www:
1.Create two VirtualHost for two domains and use 301 redirect:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
DocumentRoot "/path/to/site"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example.com
Redirect ...
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We currently use both EC2 and Rackspace. Both have their pros and cons. We prefer rackspace because it is definitely cheaper and comes with built-in back-ups and excellent support. EC2 requires a lot more knowledge than rackspace and support is extra. We have easy deployment on both platforms for our customers ...
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The free tier isn't unlimited. If you go over the limits, how do you expect them to charge you?
From the terms:
When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates (see each service page for full pricing details).
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At its root, this is almost certainly a database problem. The first thing to check is the indexes on the tables. If the full-text search is fast and the SELECT is slow, then there are most likely JOINS being performed that could benefit from indexes, possibly even composite indexes.
You will need to profile the application (run a trace using SQL Profiler) ...
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You can take steps to optimise the DB. For example, you can have full-text index fields which increases the reponse time for SQL search queries dramatically (particularly when it includes medium - large bodies of text).
Beyond that, You need to have a look at what the problem is. Without access to source code it's difficult but it seems to me that, if the ...
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I use SendGrid.com with Azure. There is an API, but the easiest way is to just use their SMTP server. Pricing is very reasonable, a couple of dollars for thousands of emails per month.
I previously used Google Apps but there are limitations, like 1000 emails per days, which could be a problem if you have to send in bulk.
Regarding receiving emails, I use ...
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You could consider using Microsoft's Window Azure cloud platform instead of Amazon's cloud as there is good in-built support for the technologies you have mentioned.
To start experimenting with Azure, you can try it out with a free Windows Azure Platform 30 Day Pass & see if it fits your requirements.
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This is the Time to First Byte and is determined by how long it takes the application to return any information. You would need to provide more information on the system you are using for specifics but I would look first at the application setup rather than the hosting for optimisation.
For example Magento can be a very "heavy" application without some form ...
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This could be caused by the settings you are using in WordPress.
When you first install WordPress it remembers the host name you used to run the installer, and uses that.
Log in to your WordPress admin panel, go to Settings > General in the menu.
Check that the fields for both 'WordPress Address (URL)' and 'Site Address (URL)' have the correct site ...
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You could use the hosts file on your local machine (were you are browsing from) to temporarily set an ip on the domain in question. On a windows machine this file is: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
So make an entry like so in that file:
101.102.103.104 mywpdomain.com
Now when you go to mywpdomain.com from that machine it will resolve the DNS ...
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It's always best to serve as much content in the same zone that way the hops between servers is much greater. If host both the RDS and EC2 in the same zone/region then the traffic is internal and therefor SUPERFAST.
If you host RDS in one Region and EC2 in another then they are having to talk to one another from a much larger distance therefor the response ...
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Your first question has already been answered above. As for your second question, afaik there is no way to be absolutely sure that you won't get charged. You have to be cautious when you experiment with AWS and always verify if the service you're using is covered by the free tier. A good way to prevent unpleasant surprises is to set up a CloudWatch alarm, ...
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This tutorial explains how to setup a virtual host in ubuntu on apache2, it's really quite easy. https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/httpd.html
Though you do not need a CNAME, what you should be adding is an A record. Basically in your DNS management create an A record with the subdomain name and the server IP. Give it a few minutes and your subdomain ...
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Pingdom rates your site 77/100 (which is good), so, with the report of malware above I'm wondering if the problem might be local antivirus or anti-malware software blocking an attack - Microsoft security essentials often appears especially slow. It could also be a slow pickup on the database connection, which is common on shared hosting for wordpress.
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I recommend you read the EC2 pricing documentation carefully and then ask specific questions about parts you do not understand:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing
For starters in your situation, you would pay the most attention to sections like:
On-Demand Instances (probably t1.micro or m1.small to start)
Data Transfer
Elastic Block Store (you'll ...
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From the Cloudera forums
Hadoop HDFS is optimized for large streaming operations and sacrifices certain features - notably low latency file access - to simplify some implementation details. This makes it less than ideal for a CDN storage layer. That said, HBase, a column oriented data store which sits on top of HDFS and provides low latency, random reads, ...
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You may have better luck with your question at the AWS Developer forum and I think this thread may be helpful to you
Partial quote from thread linked to above.
"EC2 data transfer usage will be given in bytes for each type of Data Transfer (for eaxmple, DataTransfer-Regional-Bytes, DataTransfer-Out-Bytes or DataTransfer-In-Byte).
Regarding inbound data ...
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