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I know there are a million ASP.NET hosting options, but what are the premium options if you have some money to spend and want maximum performance and uptime? We currently use MaximumASP and they are generally great. I know another good option is Rackspace. Does anyone have any other suggestions? This is one of those things that is hard to Google, because everyone calls their hosting option premium or professional.
I'd say Rackspace is a good choice, but I use discountasp.net because I needed .NET 3.5 SP1 hosting with SQL 2008 and they delivered.
If you want something between shared hosting and Rackspace dedicated, check out their newly acquired cloud offering. I've been using it for a few months with a lot of success.
http://www.rackspacecloud.com/
The obvious choice would be to get a dedicated server, other than that I love: DiscountAsp.net as they always have the most up-to-date frameworks on their servers. Useful if your trying a new technology such as when MVC was in beta
I have used SoftSysHosting for a multitude of clients, and they have never let me down...plus, their Customer Support is excellent, accompanied with a Knowledge Base of FAQs.
I use ORCS Web for one of my sites. I've never had any problems with them in over 2 years. They asked me to fill in a survey a few months back asking what I thought of their support and I had to admit that I'd never really had to use them beyond the initial setup.
You should consider AppHarbor. AppHarbor provides sophisticated scaling and load balancing and a catalog of great add-ons. We also provide tools to make it easier for developers to move their code onto the platform using their favourite revision control tool (Git is supported and the platform is integrated with Github, Bitbucket and Codeplex). Here's a good overview of How AppHarbor Works.
(Disclaimer, I'm co-founder of AppHarbor)
Terremark.com
http://www.terremark.com
Managed Hosting and Enterprise Cloud options.
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Sir I am a student, I want to develop ASP.NET website. There are 2 developers in the team. So, how can I develop the website at the same time from 2 different locations (1 developer is residing in one city and another one is in another city). Please guide me about that.
Use a source control system that will allow for distributed teams. Git/Github is one of the first ones that come to mind. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it should fit nicely for your needs.
https://github.com/
Microsoft offers free TFS hosting. It integrates with Visual Studio nicely and is much more intuitive for a new comer for simple uses than Git/Github. You can find info on the free plan here: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/pricing/information/
In essence, you need source control.
Git is a common choice for this, and it's very powerful, but it can be pretty heavy for a beginner. Mercurial is similar, and something like TortoiseHg makes it somewhat easier to use (there is a TortoiseGit as well, but the complexity of Git can have you back at the command line fairly frequently). Microsoft's solution is TFS, which integrates with Visual Studio and includes a load of very nice tools.
As for hosting, there's GitHub, but like Git, that can be a bit tricky to get into. For Mercurial (and Git as well), there's Bitbucket, which is easier to use. For TFS (and now supporting Git as well), Microsoft offers the Team Foundation Service, which is free for small teams.
It depends what you're after. Personally, for a small team of relatively inexperienced developers I'd recommend Bitbucket with TortoiseHg. If you're feeling adventurous, then use Git instead (but still with Bitbucket because I much prefer their UI) because Git is well worth learning. If you really want a high level of IDE integration then TFS is the way to go, although you can replicate parts of that funcitonality with various VS plugins.
You can use;
Git with GitHub or Git with Team Foundation Service for Source Control Management
Trello or Scrum that comes with Team Foundation for User Story
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I am making a Adobe Air software which needs to work on Windows, Mac and Linux. One of the issues that has confused me is the registration/licensing process.
Basically, I want users to try out the full version of software for a month and then buy if they find it useful. What I am not able to figure out is how the licensing would work on all these platforms.
There are no registries in Mac and Linux where I can store the trial information.
If I somehow maintain things locally in a db, post trial, if the user simply uninstalls and re-installs the software, the trial would start again for 30 days.
Don't want to store things in filesystem as that's not even close to actual authentication.
Doing an online activation of the software is a little resource consuming and has network dependency, so that option is also out of scope.
What way should I choose? what other options do I have? Does adobe provide any support for this... any 3rd party libraries that I can use for free?
I use LimeLM (https://wyday.com/limelm) to do licensing for my Adobe Air app (Windows and Mac, no linux). Like you I have a 30 day trial, LimeLM has a trial feature which is tied to the hardware, so uninstalling/reinstalling won't give users another free trial.
LimeLM requires network activation BUT you can allow for grace periods, so someone must connect to the network, say, once in 30 days of use to activate.
I agree with the above post that EncryptedLocalStore is a good idea as well.
Unfortunately the licensing options for Adobe AIR is limited. LimeLM is functional and cheap (they don't take a cut of purchase price). I looked at NitroLM, which is very expensive (I think they take 30% of purchase price) and very complicated - I could never make sense of it. Zaqon also is out there. I didn't like the way their licensing interface looked to our users. LimeLM was the most flexible.
Have you tried EncryptedLocalStore? Data stored in ELS remains even after app uninstallation.
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Starting a new project. It's basically a blogging/commenting system.
We're considering node.js as the back end server. Is node.js ready for this sort of thing or is it too early and experimental?
We need HTTPS and gzip compression - perhaps a front end nginx server could provide this?
What's missing from node.js that would make developing a web app difficult?
From a production ready perspective, we're wondering if it is stable enough for building a commercial app on top of.
Thanks
UPDATE:
Almost a year has passed and now I'd definitely use node.js for live systems.
It's not ready. It sure is an awesome piece of software but it's not suitable for production use yet.
The developer of node.js himself stated in a talk, that it's probably full of bugs and security issues.
This is the talk: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/05/20/video-dahl/
He recommends that IF it is to be used in a production environment, you should place it behind a stable http proxy like nginx but he discourages doing that at all.
I'll wait for a production release and until then, play with it on my local machine.
Node.js is really great. But it's complicated for a production use now. Actually, the API change several times in each version and can be change again a lot of time. So you need fix to a particular version. The migration can be painful.
I'm using it for a production site. It's been live for a few months and I've had no issues with the node runtime. Stick with the latest stable release (currently 0.2.6).
The 3rd party modules written by the community are where you may run into issues. Some modules are more stable than others. The node community has standardized on github, so it's pretty easy to fork and fix things you run into. But be prepared to roll up your sleeves and hack -- it's probable that you'll need to fix a few bugs in the modules you use.
Overall I've been happy using node.js
It's just another tool, with different pros and cons. If your project is planned carefully you shouldn't run into major problems. Node.js is a very active project and it shouldn't be long before it reaches stable. If your team finally decides to use node.js please contribute any findings / solutions / code or any kind of valuable information back to the community while you're at it. That would really help. The more people active, the faster node.js will progress.
It's still got some rough edges, but I'd say it's ready to use (I'm about to launch a production site based on it). Here's an article describing how 3 companies are using it in production.
You may still find yourself finding/fixing the occasional bug, but that's where the community really shines.
(Updated answer) On June 2013 (version 0.10.12):
Node.js is ready for production, it's stable and really fast.
I am using it on live servers with Redis, using a SmartOS VM with dtrace and flamegraph for profiling (on a dev server). It also replaced quite well my Apache/PHP stack for creating websites.
The best ways to find up-to-date modules are Nipster and npmjs.
As some modules are not mature enough, finding the right one is sometimes an iterative process.
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(Old answer) On May 2012 (version 0.6.18):
Node.js and its API seems stable enough for production use.
However, its ecosystem isn't: most modules are not stable yet and a lot of them aren't maintained anymore (last commits from 8 to 18 months - you can check on the github pages of modules)
Currently, using a module often require an active participation: subscribing to its mailing list and patch it when needed.
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Does anyone know of inexpensive "origin pull" CDN service providers.
The only provider that I've found that provides this are SimpleCDN and Akamai. Akamai is crazy expensive and SimpleCDN seems to change their business model daily, so I'm concerned with using them.
We use PantherExpress in "pull mode" (not sure they do anything else, really) and it's great. Also very competitively priced. They're now owned by CDNetworks; I haven't talked to their sales people at all so I don't know how much changed.
LimeLight were also much better priced than I expected when we were getting quotes; but they had this stupid "oh, a little more for this feature and extra for that feature" pricing where PE just gave me a simple price including all their features.
When we were evaluating EdgeCast was missing some of the features we needed, but I think they've caught up now.
We use 10-20Mbit/sec on the CDN to give you a ballpark.
Few other CDNs:
Edgecast
Highwind
Reflected Network
Afaik most of pay-as-go CDN providers, as CDN77.com or Maxcdn, has this feature as the simpliest and standard one. You can find more about Origin Pull providers also in discussion CDN: "Origin pull" service providers?.
As I'm using CDN77 I can confirm you that they are providing this without any problem, with 14 day free trial version, on about 50 or 60 PoPs.
I've used LimeLight with an origin pull model and it works quite well. The only issue is their edge network is constantly expanding so if you want to employ any kind of security for your content on the origin (i.e. firewall ACL's) it becomes a constant maintenance PITA. OTOH, if your content if wide open to the public then I would highly recommend them.
I don't know how cheap they are for a new customer. I guess it depends on how much traffic you are expecting (and ultimately how much money you will give them). My company does a fair amount of CDN business so we got really nice pricing, but YMMV.
Also, if you are a Rackspace customer you might be able to leverage their pricing - they use LL exclusively for their own content and for their cloud offerings (http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/files).
Good Luck!
You might want to give VPS.net CDN a try:
https://www.vps.net/cdn-signup
According to their wiki they support "Origin Pull".
I don't work for them
I haven't used their service
but their pricing looks very competitive.
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The Nabaztag I ordered has arrived. I know there is an API to interact with the critter from your own software. Have also seen links to libraries in Perl and .NET among others, and have started work myself on a simple .NET Compact Framework 3.5 library for interacting with the bunny from my mobile phone.
I have seen at least one application claiming to interact with the Wifi bunny: the TFS Build Notification application by Rob Aquila. (Not related to this question, but this does look like a nice app to have running on a central monitor in a large TFS Team...)
I'm just curious to experiences by other people with the Nabaztag:
Have you ever used the Nabaztag API to interact with wireless rabbits?
What did you do? Is it freely available to try it out on my bunny?
How did you like working with the API? Did you just use the HTTP API yourself or did you use a library? And if so, which library did you use?
Even if you did nothing with the API yourself, what applications and/or websites do you know of that can interact with a Nabaztag?
Any other tips?
This is a bit of a shameless plug for my employer, but someone wrote a quick and dirty Perl script to make a bunny read out log events from ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager).
The Perl script (and further up that page, how to plug it into ZXTM)
Video of the bunny
VMware image of ZXTM suitable for use on a desktop to try this out
I extended the start on a python api wrapper that others had made, and have a few apps (ugly control panel, personal weather and traffic reader, Google calendar events of the day). They are all available for download at www.mcgurrin.com/nabaztag.
I created a CruiseControl.net plugin with it. Had some issues with the default API because it is not that good documented, so needed a lot of experimenting. Furthermore it is not that easy to develop to the default API.
So i made an .net API (c#) which abstracts the violet api away and gives you more help while developing, specially while creating choreographys (pain in butt they are Yoda would say).
Currently both are not available to the general public but i am in the process of releasing.
Things that can be neath to implement on your bunny, i don't know, local traffic information (nice to have) new releases for music you like, interfacing with your phone? (send command from phone to bunny)
Hey peSHIr, congrats for getting a rabbit. Now as violet got bought by Mindscape, it's sure it'll continue living...
I would like to develop funny stuff for the rabbit as well, but it seems like a big fuss and it's hard to get started - I checked out several APIs and proxys to get a grip on it - found many projects but either useless or outdated. Although it's written in PHP, the OpenNab Project seems to be one the fewer active around. Maybe worth to check it out?
http://opennab.sourceforge.net/
I hope Mindscape will provide a better API, or even better, open source the rabbit!