cloud-hosting

I'm making a small Chrome extension and would like to keep its data online. I need a free and very small(<1MB per user) cloud hosting provider that has painless authentication. Ideally, I'd just like a Google API that does localStorage, but in the cloud and different for each username. Why can't you use Google App Engine? The API is pretty easy to use. Or use other Google services tied to each individual user such as Google Docs. That is how Google Chrome Sync stores bookmarks that are synchronized in your browser through Docs. Concerning localStorage, localStorage is a key value storage API

Currently we have a development cloud services (acme-dev-service) and a production cloud service (acme-prod-service). Our current setup in our solution has a cloud service project called acme.application that uses transformation of the .cscfg and .csdef files for deploying the project to the two environments (production and development). I don’t like the transformation method because it feels like a bit of a hack to me. So after doing some research it seems that you can have multiple configuration files which solves some of the issue but I am running into problems because you are only allowed

I've heard that Capistrano supports deployment to multiple servers, but I haven't found a practical way to set it up. When I say multiple servers I mean servers running the same application in a production environment. At any time I would like to deploy to 5 or 10 servers if that is what I'm currently using. Thank you. Using multiple servers is one of the main reasons to use capistrano versus just doing things by hand. Your deploy.rb just needs to define what actions should be performed on what servers, which is done by setting which servers belong to which roles. You can create your own roles

I have a project and I'm planning to start the web app as an Azure Web Site and then migrate it to an Azure Cloud Service (also called Hosted Service) if it is needed as a scale strategy. The decision is because I read that Azure Web Sites are more simple and fast to develop with almost no Azure-specific configurations or code. So starting fast and simple is a good starting point for the project. But, is that a good starting point for you? Is migrating an Azure Web Site to an Azure Cloud Service the same as you were migrating a normal ASP.NET Website to an Azure Cloud Service? Would you start

I looked this up on Google, but wanted more opinions before I committed to either service. Has anyone had experience with either (or maybe both) services? Are there any advantages or disadvantages that stood out about either one? Particular areas of interest are: Security Stability Scalability. Price I am presuming that you are talking about Engine Yard's EC2 hosting, rather than their full-service stack? I am working with Heroku, and love it. On price, Heroku is the clear winner for me. Bandwidth costs are abstracted by Heroku, which is a big win. On the security fronts, it's a bit hard to

I am very new to cloud computing. I was wondering can i develop a website using LAMP stack on cloud. And which cloud to use. Is there any open source cloud out there to use it. Sort of. You can use Eucalyptus to develop applications that would run on Amazon's EC2 using the LAMP stack. Eucalyptus is open source. Everything you run on an EC2 instance can be open source, but the actual EC2 instance is paid for (if that's what you were trying to avoid). EC2 is cloud computing in the Hardware-as-a-service sense. You can use Java or Python (and soon Go) to develop applications on Google AppEngine,

Is there a free cloud based database service I can use for an asp.net application (hosted online and not on my own server) and a winform desktop application (running on my pc). I'd like to use one so that both apps can use the same database. SQL Azure looks like a good solution but has no free option. Have you tried Appharbor.com? They have a number of free database providers including SQL Server, mySQL, Mongo and Cloudant. They'll also build and test your software providing it's hosted on Github, Bitbucket or Codeplex. If you don't care about that, they'll still give the connection string to

Amazon's EC2 service offers a variety of Linux and Windows OS choices, but I haven't found a service offering a similar "rent by the hour" service for a remote Mac OS X virtual machine. Does such a service exist? (iCloud looks to be just a data storage service, rather than a service allowing remote login, etc.) Such a virtual machine service would be very useful for testing software in a reproducible, "neutral" location. Update 1: Just to be clear, I'm referring to services similar to EC2's on-demand or spot instances, where the machine (or virtual machine) is rented per hour, rather than