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Hi I want to develop my own hosting site but i do not know how should i get hosting names ??
How these hosting companies get these domain names ????
Here's the ICANN Accreditation Overview.
Some notes I got from another website (disclaimer: may be out of date)
You need a $500,000 liability policy
(around $5k USD per annum)
$70,000 liquid funds
$2,500 application fee
$4,000 annual accreditation fee
An alternative and cheaper route is finding a reseller, but you will have to pass some serious volume to make any meaningful amount of money.
Find a better niche.
Domain names must be purchased from a domain name registrar. Hosting companies are often resellers for registrars.
Many hosting companies and registrars offer easy-to-use reseller or affiliate programs - they will typically include lots of information on their website. This is by far the best way to get into selling hosting and domain names, as they will take care of the technical side of things. If you have a unique way of selling hosting, this can be quite profitable, but beware of trying to sell online, as this market is extremely crowded and competative already.
Not sure I understand what you're asking, but if you mean to say that you want to start a business hosting other folks's web sites, then you let your customers worry about getting their own domain names. It is nevertheless possible for you to become a domain-name registrar and add that to your business model.
Although I have to say that this is not a typical Stackoverflow question (supposed to be programming questions here). I think this question fits better on ServerFault, and would probably get better answers. You should make the question clearer, though.
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I would like to put a domain in my free heroku app, because I don't have a international credit card (I would like to pay, if it is possible with debit card, if it is how can I pay with a debit card?). The domain is a Brazilian domain, and I would like to know if is possible with a free account, and how can I do this?
Thanks very much!
Yes, you can have custom domain names for free apps as well, checkout: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains
Domains can be added to both free and paid Heroku apps and adding
domains does not incur extra charges. For verification purposes, you
must verify your Heroku account to add domains to apps.
As for payments, as long as it's a Visa/Master Card (or such) debit card, you can simply put those details in the billing section and it'll work fine. I've been using such a card to pay for heroku services for quite some time now.
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So in my network I have the main domain controller and a backup domain controller. The backup domain controller has exchange on it.
The exchange services have been shut down as I have moved email hosting off site. So I now have no need of that backup domain controller that was running exchange. I want to shut it down for good.
What would be the proper way to remove it from its role in active directory and a backup domain controller?
Both domain controllers are Server 2008.
Thanks much!
Firstly, just don't do it, this is a SysAdmin SIN! Your shooting yourself in the foot. Even for my smallest customers with only 10 members of staff, I often have them purchase a second server to act as a secondary domain controller, DNS server, DHCP Server etc.
It is the first and few things Microsoft recommends as best practice when setting up a domain and one of the first things that is taught to you when you do the MCSA course: When creating a domain a secondary domain controller should be set up. If you have more than 20 Users its a must IMHO. Many things can go wrong and too many times clients have incurred big bills(man hours) because they didnt spend that extra £2000 on another server. I strongly recommend you keep it. It's not just availability, it prevents a large number of corruption issues which can linger for weeks before presenting themselves which makes 7x daily backups no help. It's your sefety net.
If you must get rid of it, first check is doesn't hold the FSMO roles and run dcpromo following the steps here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771844(v=ws.10).aspx
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I'm trying to work in a more organised way and started adopting user stories.
I think I have misunderstanding of how should I use user stories for technical stuff.
Let's say I'm coding an app that gives me the ranking of my site for a certain Keyword in Google.
The user story goes like that:
As an Internet Marketer
I want to find out where my website ranks for a keyword
So I'll know whether my SEO efforts work
Now this is pretty straight forward and user centric... However, what happens if I need to introduce Proxies into the loop.
On one hand, Proxies are technical implementation detail on the other hand, proxies is part of the Internet Marketer's domain.
How should I craft such story?
As an Internet Marketer
I want to use Proxies when searching in Google
So we'll be able to check a lot of keywords without Google blocking us
The above scenario doesn't sound right for me... Maybe I can rewrite it to be something like:
As an Internet Marketer
I want to be able to check a lot of Keywords at a time
So it'll save me time
This sounds more right, however what acceptance criteria can I give it? try scraping google 100 times in a min? Isn't it waste of time?
Here's another scenario. How should I craft a user story when the feature I want to implement is that a proxy can be used once in 30 seconds? I don't have any idea of how to approach this problem from a user centric perspective...
Another thing I thought of doing is to present another Role. Instead of being centered around Internet Marketer, I can say we have a role called Google Scraper. I can say that Internet Marketer is in relation with Google Scraper.
Now I can write a user story like:
As Google Scraper
I want to change proxies every Search
So Google won't ban me
What would you say about approaching technical implementation details like above? It can also help breaking the system down into modules...
You don't write technical stories. User stories should meet the INVEST criteria.
Proxies do sound like an implementation detail and should be avoided. You should not be mentioning proxy servers in your story. Even if they are part of the domain, there are potentially other ways to achieve the same effect.
Instead of writing "I want to use a Proxy, so that I don't get blocked", you should write, "I want to disguise my identity, so that I don't get blocked". If I was your customer, I wouldn't know why you wanted a proxy? Is it a forward, open or reverse proxy? There are loads of uses for a proxy server. You should pick the feature that you want to exploit.
However, you shouldn't get too hung up on perfect stories. The agile manifesto says, "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools".
When writing a user story, you should also consider the 3 C's: Card, Conversation, Confirmation. Do both the customer and you understand the meaning of the story?
Does the card meet INVEST criteria? If you answered yes to both those questions then the story is fine.
User Stories should not include technical details. During Sprint Planing technical details should be added as Delivery Team tasks nested below the User Story. These tasks should be created through discussion by the delivery team. You should not attempt to document every implementation detail under the sun as you will reach a point of diminishing return. Aim for 60-75 percent coverage on implementation details (tasks) for each user story as the details may change as coding begins. Any additional details developer discover during coding can be shared and documented briefly during the daily stand-up. should The User Story can be simple and non-technical while the Delivery / Development Team will flesh out story details as nested Tasks.
These Task should be visible to Developers through their Integrated Development Environment (IDE). As Developers complete tasks they can associate their checked in code with the task in your work item tracking tool (Jira, Team Foundation Server, On-Time)
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I re-designed a few sites for a marketing & events company, and they are asking me to spear-head a host change because they don't like their current host, so they pay very little.
They have:
Five static sites (total of about 3GBs of disk space)
All five sites probably get 20,000+ visitors a month.
They currently pay $10 a month for shared hosting.
They have about 15 active e-mail addresses.
Their servers always go down, and their email always goes down.
They want to switch hosting and are looking into www.hostgator.com . They want to effectively pay the same yet get better results. I have recommended better hosting locally in Toronto that would cost about $50 a month, but with a very reputable company.
As I mainly deal with front-end design, I'm not sure how to best explain to them their best option. Should an established company use cheap ($10/month) hosting? Or is this asking for trouble? Should I politely explain that a company with 15 employees needs to invest more than $100 a year in their web presence?
That is a very low amount of visitors so any host should handle it, and space should not be a concern either. I agree they should invest more but it depends on how critical the sites are to their business, or whether they ARE the business.
It sounds like the current host is unreliable but you can find another host that has more reliability. 1and1, godaddy, ipower are 3 that come to mind and all typically under $100/year but I believe that is per-domain so they might still have to pay about the $50/month you are recommending for the 5 sites.
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SEE: http://www.ipower.com/ipower/web-hosting/unix-compare-plans.bml
SEE: http://www.godaddy.com/products/websites-hosting.aspx?ci=72738
Your question about established company using cheap hosting: sure they can and if the host is not reliable they can find a better one and still stay cheap.
Your question about explaining they need to invest more: that depends on how critical the sites are to their business and their needs. If just brochureware about their company, and not their actual product, it might be acceptable to them. If their product is a web application and they are expected to be reliable for their customers, definitely have the talk. They can get a dedicated server with control panel to manage all their domains, email, etc. for less than $150/month, or leverage the 24/7 support of the vendors I mentioned above.
20000 visitors a month is only about 27 visitors an hour, or 1 every 2 minutes or so. That's a pretty light load, unless you're doing some real heavy-duty server-side processing.
As far as the user load goes, I think the basic shared hosting setup is probably sufficient. As an example, Go Daddy's setup is like $7.00 a month (US) and is pretty reliable. I've got a few clients hosting their sites there and we've had very few problems. I've also heard pretty good things about HostGator and their prices are similar.
If you want to go to a VPS (Virtual Private Server) setup, you don't need to spend $100/month. They start off at about $20.00 or so a month for a relatively basic setup, and go up from there depending on things like RAM and disk space.
The biggest advantage to a VPS might be the flexibility to install whatever additional software you want, something you can't do with most shared hosting setups.
The answer depends on the type of site they're running, or more precisely, how much money they gain by having a web presence.
If they're running a basic site that says who they are, what they do, and how to contact them, then they probably don't need decent hosting. 20k visits per month isn't much, so it's certainly not worth spending a lot of money on. In fact, you're probably better off spending the money on getting a nice professional redesign every 2-3 years or so, to keep the company image up to date.
If they're running an e-commerce site, where some of their orders come directly from their site, they should definitely invest more in their hosting. Keep in mind that for every hit that occurs during hosting downtime, you lose a potential customer. Paying $50 per month for hosting is good value for money if you're making $100 per month or more from online orders, which I hope would be the case for a successful business.
If they're looking to gain a bigger online audience, perhaps you should convince them to spend some money on an SEO campaign, and set aside money for the extra hits when your current hosting plan can't cope with the load.
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I have been doing webdesign for a small business in Denmark, which alrady have a deal with a larger company to create the final site.
Among this companys proposal, I see that they charge a rather large fee for installing Magento on my clients server, and an additional fee to integrate the design.
Same company forbids my client from having FTP or similar access to the server, and they are therefornot able to install this themselves.
My question is : is resale of the Magento really allowed by the licence? This company wants to charge a rather steep amout for even installing a blank version of it, no Magento-licencing included.
Ihave looked larger company up, and this company does NOT have a standing licence for Magento. And even if they got one, I have a sneeky feeling that something is legal/licence wrong here.
The reason I share this with you is that I have a guts feeling that I should raise some critical questions and suggest that My client uses another company for their webaite, but I need to be certain that Im on the right side.
The IT company has no partnership with Magento/Varien, and have a somewhat tarnished reputation already...
I have mailed Magento about this, but have not had any response yet.
Your question is not entirely clear. But a company can certainly charge for installing a licensed product on behalf of the licencee, this is just a consulting or service fee (unless the licence specifically prohibits a third party from doing this, which is possible (although unlikely) if a) source code is being exposed, or b) there are other commercial sensitivities such as NDAs. But then that is not your risk, it's the licensee's)
As for Ubuntu, a company can again charge for installing or maintaining an Ubuntu install, again this is consulting/service. In fact you can SELL a copy of Ubuntu too, if someone is willing to pay for it that is their perogative (and they in turn can sell it themselves). You just have to provide the source and the licence, not just a compiled binary in order to comply with the GPL.
I can understand the position of the 'large company' providing the managed hosting for the Magento build. However, I also understand your concerns.
Assuming that you are only working on the design, there is no reason why you cannot implement your design on localhost with the Magento 'demo store' products. You can then take your design along to the 'small company', get your designs signed off, archive the /skin/frontend/default/macguffin and /app/design/frontend/default/macguffin folders, hand them over to the company providing the 'managed hosting' and then collect your pay-cheque.
By not allowing you access via FTP the 'managed hosting' provider are ensuring that their clients have no third-parties able to access any-of-their-stuff. Furthermore, design is not that big a deal in a Magento build, there is also the payment gateway, the shipping setup, analytics and everything else that happens on go-live. They are also taking the responsibility of providing uptime, availability and the aforementioned security.
You and I know that you can do all of that on a virtual-private-server and get it done in a matter of days, with lots of testing but no client liaison meetings, office overheads to pay for, an expensive project manager to explain everything to, excessive time-sheeting to keep up to date and so on.
However, the 'small company' will have reservations on allowing someone other than the 'large company' doing all of that. Given that their web presence is pivotal to the success of their business, given that they may not have management resources, given the fear of the unknown, given a lack of in-house expertise, politically the solution they have arrived at can be considered as making business sense to them.
There is nothing wrong with the business arrangement from a legal/licensing point of view. From your point of view of getting the job done, you can do your design offline, i.e. on localhost, deliver the deliverables and collect your cheque.
If the deal with the 'large company' does not work out then, if your work is good, you will be well placed to take on the project, to charge 'freelancer' rather than 'agency' rates and build a long term relationship with the 'small company'. However, you are not there yet, your best bet is to forge a close working relationship with the 'small company' and the 'large company'. For all you know, the 'large company' may have other clients, and, if you work well with them (i.e. drop the suspicions and animosity-from-the-outset), then you will possibly get other design work from their other clients.