Current Technology and Website Hosting Services

Hello: I am a 'one at a time' - small business website developer who is looking at renting website services hosting. There are companies that offer ASP.net and Microsoft servers. What is the current state of small business technology that I should be looking
for in a hosting service? Mindful of the importance of keeping cost to clients as low as possible, and yet offering the security of Microsoft servers, is ASP.net among the important technologies that should be on my list? What technologies would you recommend
in a hosting package - given an added criteria - that growth from a 1 person to a few persons business is being considered?

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/
you will find your technology and hosting choices above. run anything / anywhere. SaaS. SSO.
Regards.
Rob^_^

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Is MobileMe a regular website host like Fat Cow, etc.?

Hi,
I was looking at the various website hosts like Yahoo!, Fat Cow, etc. so that I can start a website for a small business. Then I remembered MobileMe and the iWeb software. I was wondering if a MobileMe account can be used like these other website hosting services? Would I be able to use a registered domain name like www.mydomain.com, or would I be able to register through MobileMe?
Also, I was wondering if there were any services that could be embedded like PayPal, or an Amazon.com link.
Thanks!

imuhlhauser wrote:
...start a website for a small business. Then I remembered MobileMe...
The _MobileMe Terms of Service_ state:
The Service is designed for personal individual use and is not intended to be used for commercial business purposes, including, but not limited to, transacting online sales or software distribution via an e-commerce site.

Best web hosting services compatible with iWeb

Hi all! I just started using iWeb a month ago after Apple's keynote, and renewed my .Mac account. However, I am very dissapointed that Apple only provides 1GB of storage and 10GB of bandwidth versus the 5GB+ & 200GB+ yahoo and other hosting services provide.
If Apple does not provide larger bandwidth and storage for their users, I am thinking about changing next year with a different company. The only downside is having to start all over again with other publishing software like Macromedia Dreamweaver etc.
I want to know if there is anyone out there with success publishing their sites with iWeb on to different hosting companies other than .Mac. I am talking seamless uploads with the click of a button from iWeb (like the current .Mac service). Has anyone had great experiences? Please post your thoughts. Thanks!
MACPOWER

If Apple does not provide larger bandwidth and
storage for their users,
You can buy more you know.
I want to know if there is anyone out there with
success publishing their sites with iWeb on to
different hosting companies other than .Mac. I am
talking seamless uploads with the click of a button
from iWeb (like the current .Mac service).
Only .Mac can be done with the click of an iWeb button. Any other normal server requires a separate ftp program (.Mac does not use ftp but a different protocol called webdav).
Publishing via ftp is not a problem. Some tips for using other servers can be found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebserver.html

What FREE hosting service should I publish my iweb site to???

What's the best free website hosting service I should use to publish my iweb folder to through FTP???
I dont get how to use FTP to publish my iWeb site folder to a website server also?? I have Cyberduck.
Please, any suggestions will be much appreciated!!!!:)

You publish to a folder and then use an FTP client like the free CyberDuck to upload to your selected host server. You'll need to search for free hosting servers and select the one that will work best for you. You will get ads embedded in your web site when you use a free hosting service.
OT

Clone DB and Delete Oracle Service

I have to clone a Prod DB to the test environment to refresh the test.
I have to keep the test db with the same name .
I know how to clone DB with a new name, bout not how to keep the same name like to existing db .
I think the right way is to
Shutdown the current db and delete it service.
Do I really have to delete the current service or may I leave it?
And How To Delete The Oracle Service ?

Sagi wrote:
I have to clone a Prod DB to the test environment to refresh the test.
I have to keep the test db with the same name .
I know how to clone DB with a new name, bout not how to keep the same name like to existing db .
I think the right way is to
Shutdown the current db and delete it service.
Do I really have to delete the current service or may I leave it?
And How To Delete The Oracle Service ?for rename the database using DBNEWID Utility , refer the link, oracle obe series, with snapshots
Changing Your Database Name and Database Identifier
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/paa/obe-mdb/html/Chg_DB_Name.htm
Do I really have to delete the current service or may I leave it?if you delete database files there is no need for service anymore, so delete it
if you use dbca to drop the database it also deletes the oracle service.
And How To Delete The Oracle Service ?To remove OracleService , go to the command prompt and type:
oradim -delete -sid SID
or
C:>sc delete [service name]

Need help with a currently "in-use" form we want to switch to Adobes hosting service

Hi, I am in desperate need of help with some issues concerning several forms which we currently use a paid third party (not Adobe) to host and "re-distribute through email"...Somehow I got charged $14.95 for YOUR service, (signed up for a trial, but never used it)..and now I am paying for a year of use of the similar service which Adobe is in control of. I might want to port my form distribution through Adobe in the hopes of reducing the errors, problems and hassles my customers are experiencing when some of them push our "submit button". (and I guess I am familiar with these somewhat from reading what IS available in here, and I also know that, Adobe is working to alleviate some of these " submit" issues, so let's don't start by going backwards, here) I need solutions now for my issues or I can leave it as is, If Adobe's solution will be no better for my end users...
We used FormsCentral to code these forms and it works for the most part (if the end-user can co-operate, and thats iffy, sometimes), but I need help with how to make it go through your servers (and not the third party folks we use now), Not being cruel or racist here, but your over the phone "support techs" are about horrible & I cannot understand them or work with any of them, so I would definitely need someone who speaks English and can understand the nuances of programming these forms, to please contact me back. (Sorry, but both those attributes will be required to be able to help me, so, no "newbie-interns" or first week trainees are gonna cut it).... If you have anyone who fits the bill on those items and would be willing to help us, please contact me back at your earliest convenience. If we have to communicate here, I will do that & I can submit whatever we need to & to whoever we need to.
I need to get this right and working for the majority of my users and on any platform and OS.
You may certainly call me to talk about this, and I have given my number numerous times to your (expletive deleted) time wasting - recording message thingy. So, If it's not available look it up under [email protected]
(and you will probably get right to me, unlike my and I'm sure most other folks', "Adobe phone-in experiences")
Thank You,
Michael Corman
VinylCouture
Phenix City, Alabama 36869

Well, thanks for writing back...just so you know...I started using Adobe products in 1987, ...yeah...back then...like Illustrator 1 & 9" B&W Macs ...John Warnock's Helvetica's....stuff like that...8.5 x 11 LaserWriters...all that good stuff...I still have some of it working on a mac...much of it was stuff I bought. some stuff I did not...I'm not a big fan of this "cloud" thing Adobe has foisted upon the creatives of the world...which I'm sure you can tell...but the functionality and usefulness of your software can not be disputed, so feel free to do whatever we will continue to pay for, ...I am very impressed with CC PS on the 64 bit PC and perhaps I will end up paying you the stipend that you demand for the other services.
So I guess that brings us to our problem.. a few years back and at the height of the recession and near bankruptcy myself, I was damn lucky and hit on something and began a small arts and crafts supply service to sell my products online to a very "niche market" ...I had a unique product and still sell that product (plus others) online...My website is www.vinylcouture.com...Strange? Yes...but there is a market it seems, for everything now, and this is the market I service...Catagorically, these are 99%+ women that use these "adhesive, sticky backed vinyl products" to make different "craft items" that are just way too various and numerous to go into... generally older women, women who are computer illiterate for the most part...and all this is irrelevant to my problem, but I want you to have every bit of background on this and especially the demographic we are dealing with, so we can get right to the meat of the problem.
OK...So about two years ago, I decided to offer a "plain sheet" product of a plain colored "stick back" vinyl... it is available in multiple quantities of packs ( like 5 pieces, 10 pieces, 15 pieces, in a packi & so on)...and if you are still on my site.. go to any "GO RIGHT TO OUR ORDER PAGE" button, scroll down a little...and then to the "PLAIN VINYL" section...you will see the Weebly website order process.) You can back out from here, I think,..but, anyway this product is available in 63 colors + or - a few. So then the problem is, how do they select their individual colors within that (whatever) pack?... .
So my initial idea was to enable a "selection form" for these "colors" that would be transmitted to me via email as 'part" of the "order process".. We tried getting our customers to submit a " a list" ( something my competitiors still do, lol, poor bastards)......but that..is just unbelievable..I can't even begin to tell you what a freakin' nightmare that was...these people cannot even count to 10, much less any higher... figuring out what colors to list and send me... well, lets just say, it wasn't working......I had to figure out a better way...Something had to be done.
So after thinking this all out, and yeah...due to my total ignorance, i figured that we could make a form with Live Cycle Designer (Now Forms Central)...(back then something that was bundled with Adobe Acrobat Pro), I believe, and thats what this thing was authored in... and it would be all good...LOL!
Well not so simple...as you well know, Adobe Acrobat would NOT LET YOU EMAIL anything from itself.....it just wouldn't work (and I know why, and all that hooey), but not being one to take NO for answer,.I started looking for a way to make my little gizmo work.. So I found this company that said they can "hijack" (re-direct actually) the request to email, bypass the wah-wah, and re-transmit it to the proper parties.....for less than $100 a year, I think...its called http://pdf-fillableforms.com/.
A nice gentleman named Joseph Silva helped us program the thing to go to his servers and back out. Please dont hassle them...I need them...for now..it basically does work...try it...you should get back a copy of the form that you filled out...good luck however, if you're on MAC OSX or similar...
I have included a copy of both of our forms (and feel free to fill it out and play with it)...just put test somewhere on it...(and you must include YOUR email or it will balk)..they are supposed to be mostly identical, except one seems to be twice as large....generating a 1.7 meg file upon submission, while the other one only generates a 600K file or so...thats another issue for another day or maybe you can advise on that also...
OK so far so good......In our shop, once Grandma buys a 10 pack (or whatever), Only then she gets to the link on her receipt page ro the relevant "selection form" ,(this prevents "Filling and Sending" with "no order" and "no payment", another early problem we had)... which they can click on and it will usually download and open up on their device if all goes well...Then our little form is supposed to be fillable and is supposed to ADD UP all the quantities, so grandma knows how many she is buying and so forth right on the fly, and even while she changes her mind..., and IT'S LARGE so grandma can see it, and then it TOTALS it all up for them, ( cause remember, they can NOT add).., except there is a programming bug (mouse-click should be a mouse-up probably or something..) which makes you click in the blank spaces to get to a correct TOTAL...about 70-80% of our customers can enable all these features and usually the process completes without problems for them especially on PC's running Windows OS and Acrobat Reader X or XI...at least for most... Unfortunately it is still not the "seamless process" I would like or had envisioned for the other folks out there that do have trouble using our form.... Many folks report to us the following issues that we know of. First of all it takes too much time to load up...We know its HUGE...is there anyway that you can see, to streamline this thing? I would love for it to be more compact...this really helps on the phones and pads as I'm sure you well know.
Some just tell us,"it WON'T work"....I believe this is because they are totally out of it and dont even have Adobe Reader on their machine, & don't know how to get it ( yes, we provide the links).....or it's some ancient version....no one can stop this one...
It almost always generates some kind ( at least one time) of "error message" which we do warn them about..., telling one, basically that "Acrobat doesnt even like this happening at all, and it could be detrimental to ones computer files", blah-blah...(this freaks grandma out really bad)...& usually they end up not even trying to send it... and then I get calls that even you wouldn't believe...& If they DO nut up and push the Red "Submit Form" button, it will usually send the thing to us (and also back to them at the "required email address" they furnished on the form, thats what the folks at the "fillable forms place" do) so, if it's performing it's functions, why it is having to complain?. What are we doing wrong?....and how can I fix it?...Will re-compiling it or saving it as a newer version of "FormsCentral" correct any of these problems ?
Ok, so that should keep you busy for a minute and we can start out with those problems...but the next thing is, how can I take advantage of YOUR re-direct & hosting services?, And will it get rid of the error messages, and the slowness, and the iOS incompatibilities ? (amazingly, the last iOS Reader version worked almost OK.. but the newest version doesnt seem to work with my form on my iphone4) If it will enable any version of the iOS to send my form correctly and more transparently, then it might be worth the money...$14.95 a MONTH you say. hmmmmm...Better be good.
Another problem is, that I really don't need 5000 forms a month submitted. I think its like 70-100 or less....Got any plans for that? Maybe I'm just not BIG ENOUGH to use Adobe's services, however in this case, I really don't care whose I do use as long as the product works most correctly for my customers as well as us. Like I said, If I'm doing the best I can, I won't change anything, and still use the other third party, If Adobe has a better solution, then i'm all for that as well. In the meantime, Thanks for any help you can provide on this...
Michael Corman
VinylCouture.com
(706) 326-7911

Dropped my hosting service to use the Creative Clouds "free" service. How do I get my website to go live?

I have already created a website and am currently using my web designers hosting services. Since I bought creative cloud last week, I have cancelled my hosting service so I can use theirs. What are my next steps so I can publish my site using Muse?
Thanks for the help!!!

Guarav, you are so helpful and I sincerely thank you for your help and my
website is live.
Now that it is live, all of my pages are linked correctly besides my
paypal page and I need some additional help please. I have created a
ribbon and a drop down buy it now menu with many options to choose from at
all different prices. I created the ribbon via muse and have imported the
html generated when I completed my button from paypal.com. When I paste it
in, I look at the preview and everything looks great and I am satisfied
with its looks and performance. When I publish it and view it via Google
Chrome, I get this error:
Page Not Found
We could not find the Web Page you requested. This is either because:
- There's an error in the address or link.
- Or you have entered the address or link incorrectly.
Click here <http://www.omnipicks.com/> to go back to our Home Page.
How do I remedy this so I can start collecting money again and make this
page available? I switched words in the menu in my master in my recent
revisions as one of the pages is now called Buy Packages instead of Sports
Packages. The master and the child have been switched accordingly.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Ryan
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Can I create a form in muse and have it work with a different hosting service?

I contacted a hosting service that I need to upload the site I built in MUSE to. (Hosting has already been purchased). I asked OMNIS:
I want to create a form with Muse and then upload my site to OMNIS, not muse, the forms will display as I designed them, but they will not function. I have someone to help me who is experienced in working with code. I can use Muse to export my site and then open the files in an HTML editor. "Update the source code of the form to make it compatible with the form processing technology used by your hosting provider (OMNIS) before you upload the files to their server." Can you help me with this? Do I need to get a script or something from you?
OMNIS ASKED me:
What are MUSE's site requirements?
I will be building other sites and my clients may want to have the site hosted elsewhere. Can you give me the easiest way to deal with forms?

Thank you for getting back to me Morgan.
I read in another forum:
There's a handy piece of software from CoffeeCup Software called "Web Form Builder". It's pretty affordable and easy to use and it can be hosted on the server of your choice provided that server uses an up-to-date PHP script.
This is what I have been using....but I would rather not have to deal with a third party form builder at all.
Do you reccommend this?

Mobileme and iweb as a good website host

I was wondering if you guys know if mobileme is a fast website host for a popular blog, or are there faster ones. My blog www.applejunky.tv is becoming more successful and getting pretty good traffic (enough to earn a little google adsense revenue). Should I switch hosts or keep mobileme?
Thanks
www.applejunky.tv

If you have built your blog using iWeb you will lose the commenting feature if you publish anywhere other than MobileMe
The Apple server seems to be faster than it used to be but reliability is not its strong point and tech support is weak.
The blog is not iWeb's greatest feature and the general advice in this forum is to move to Wordpress. Lots more features, more reliable and you can publish to a better equipped hosting service.

Error: Windows Azure is currently performing an operation on this hosted service that requires exclusive access.

Hello,
We are creating 2 cloud services in parallel with one deployment(VM Role) in each cloud service. For both requests (Sometimes only on 1) we are getting the following 409 Conflict error as a response to create hosted service POST request:
409 ConflictError :
Windows Azure is currently performing an operation on this hosted service that requires exclusive access.
On getting the exception we have a cleanup call and in retry we are trying to create again. On each retry we are using a new cloud service name.
The error occurs few times, every time we invoke the creation of 2 cloud services with VM in parallel. And on 2-15 retries, its getting created successfully. However when we invoke 1 cloud service creation with VM, we are not seeing this error.
Not sure why this error is thrown during simultaneous creations. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Sowmya,
We are using the REST APIs for all our operations – Edit:
Creating two cloud services with one virtual machine (IaaS) each having
two different deployment IDs.
Step by Step procedure for creating the services:
1.
Create an Affinity Group
2.
Create a Virtual Network
3.
Create Hosted service
4.
Create Deployment (VM Role) under that hosted service
Step 3 & 4 are executed concurrently for two different VM Creation where it is failing with 409 Conflict error.
Also, the two cloud services are being deployed under the same Virtual Network and same Affinity Group. Apart from this there are no shared resources
between two cloud services.
Please let us know if you have more queries.
Thanks.

Relationship btwn Virtual Host Services for Groups AND WorkGroup manager??

Can someone please explain the relationship between Virtual Host Services (as specified in the Sites section of Server Admin) AND "Enable the following services for this group on ... and the options"?
And where does one go to "create wikis on this site" when one is give the authority to do it in Server Admin > Sites > Services for Groups (Allow the following to create wikis on this site)?*
Finally, why do all my groups seem to show up on all my virtual hosts, even though they are only enabled on a particular site?
Thanks in advance for any assistance. Hopefully any answers will help others with their efforts to understand this set-up.
Cheers,
Ashley.
* I'm assuming they mean actually create new wikis rather than just add pages to the current one.

Thanks Angus, I see that error too.
I understand that Virtual Sites are web-related Apache settings. So, I guess the "Services for Groups" functionality there-in (Sites > Web Services) is just to indicate that this virtual site can have wikis, calendars, blogs etc.
I also understand what a Group is but I am confused as to how they relate to wikis (especially when the config item (Sites > Web Services again) says "allow the following to create wikis (plural) on this site" - my emphasis).
Is it saying that from all the users/groups only the following users/groups can turn on a wiki which will run on this virtual site? For me it sounded like a user/grous could create multiple wikis. So I would like to know if wikis are one-to-one with users/groups?
Cheers,
Ashley.

Invalid security certificate for my website host-they say the problem is Apple Safari and use Firefox instead

For the past few days, I keep getting an invalid security certificate in Safari whenever I select Edit My Site from my website homepage (http://annaporterartist.com), or whenever I select anything requiring a secure log in from my website host main page (FASO.com). I have contacted technical support at my website host (fineartstudioonline.com) and they say that this has been an intermittently recurring problem in Safari for years and they recommend that I use Firefox instead. As proof of this they emailed a link to an Apple Support discussion, but it was for Mac OS X Lion v 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1, even though I told them I am using Mac OS X Mountain Lion v 10.8.2 and Safari 6.0.2. I do not get this error message anywhere else on the web using Safari. I did try Firefox and it seems to work fine, but I prefer Safari and I want to know why Safari is not working as it should be. I am concerned that there is a real security problem with my website host and I need someone to explain why I am getting this error message, what it means, and if it is, in fact, a known problem with Safari or is my website host corrupted? Really tired of technical support playing pass the buck or pretending the problem does not exist.
The specific error message is:
Their response to my inquiry and my reply is shown below:

Back up all data.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Keychain Access in the icon grid.
From the menu bar, select
Keychain Access ▹ Preferences ▹ Certificates
There are three menus in the window. What is selected in each of them?

HT5654 I often travel abroad and my host has changed Internet provider. Then my service was interrupted and I can't update iTunes. Any tips to stop the error messages?

I often travel abroad and my host has changed Internet provider. Then my service was interrupted and I can't update iTunes. Any tips to stop the error messages?

Wow! At least on Apple TV, problem solved. Apple: what's not to love? Please give me credit if you use it in marketing campaigns... ;-)

How to set same domain name for Azure Storage and Hosted Service

I have a web application running on azure and using azure storage with blob. My application allows to edit html files that are in the azure storage to save with another name and publish them later. I am using javascript to edit the html content that
I display in an Iframe but as the domain of my web application and the html that I try to edit are not the same, I got and this error "Unsafe JavaScript
attempt to access frame with URL "URL1" from frame with URL "URL2". Domains, protocols and ports must match".
I have been doing some research about it and the only way to make it work is to have the web application and the html that I want to access using javascript under the same domain.
So my question is: is it possible to have the same domain name in azure for the hosted service and the storage.
Like this:
hosted service: example.com
storage: example.com
By the way I already customize the domain names so they looks like this:
hosted service <mydomainname>.com
storage <blob.mydomainname>.com
Actually I have my application running in another hosting and I have no problem there since I have a folder where I am storing the files that I am editing so they are in the same domain as the application. I have been thinking in to do the same with Azure,
at least to have a folder where I can store the html file meanwhile I am editing it but I am not sure how much space I have in the hosted service to store temporary files.
let me know if you have a good tip or idea about how to solve this issue.

Hi Rodrigo,
Though both Azure Blob and Azure applications support custom domain, one domain could have only one DNS record (in this case is CNAME record) at one time. For Steve's case, he has 3 domains, blog.smarx.com, files.blog.smarx.com and cdn.blog.smarx.com.
> I would like to find a way to storage my html page that I need to edit under the same domain.
For this case, a workaround will be adding a http handler in your Azure application to serve file requests. That means we do not use the actual blob url to access blob content but send the request to a http handler then the http handler gets the content
from blob storage and returns it.
Please check
Accessing blobs in private container without Shared Access Secret key for a code sample.
Thanks.
Wengchao Zeng
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If you have any feedback about my replies, please contact
[email protected]
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How to get service name and listening host to connect to oracle DB server?

I have successfully installed oracle db client 10g release 2 on my winXP. But when I tried to use Net Congiguration Assistance to connect to oracle db server. I do not know what is the "service name" and listening "host" I supporse to enter. Where can I get the names?
PLEASE HELP! THANKS!

machine name or IP = machine name or IP address of the database server
To know the service name do the following on the server :
$ lsnrctl services
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 10.1.0.3.0 - Production on 30-DEC-2005 00:24:28
Copyright (c) 1991, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=127.0.0.1)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "PLSExtProc" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "PLSExtProc", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
    Handler(s):
      "DEDICATED" established:0 refused:0
         LOCAL SERVER
Service "test10" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "test10", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
    Handler(s):
      "DEDICATED" established:0 refused:0 state:ready
         LOCAL SERVER
The command completed successfully
$The service name is test10 in my case. Of course you have to use yours.

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