|
I do use it but for a very low volume site so not a real-world recommendation. That said I have not had any problem with it.
There are restrictions on the free level - I think around SSL and using your own domain name...
|
|
|
|
|
WinHost[^] has been recommended by others here in the past, I found it easy to set up and administrate. Currently though, I have a couple servers running on a free EC2 instance, and I just configure it as I want with whatever database, web server, etc.
I did an informal performance comparison between Amazon's free offering and a paid subscription (with better VM and bandwidth, supposedly) and found no difference in performance! Might be my website, and I certainly didn't do any load testing, since that's not of concern anyways.
I wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer a truly free Azure instance - that's why I'm using Amazon.
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
Agreed: I'm using RDS and it works really well: the free version appears to work wonderfully well; very quick response. Now just working up the courage to put a website up there as well! 
|
|
|
|
|
I've been using Arvixe [^] for some time and really like them.
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
|
|
|
|
|
I've been using Arvixe for several years and the have generally been fine, but in the last month their support has been virtually non-existant. I think they have been upgrading their systems and I suspect things have gone badly wrong. Support tickets don't get addressed for days on end (if at all), their discussion boards have been closed down (I suspect to head off user complaints) and there have been quite a few service interruptions.
I'm hoping this is temporary, and they get back to their normal ways soon.
=========================================================
I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
=========================================================
|
|
|
|
|
I haven't had any problems in quite a while but I hate to hear they're having these problems that's why I edit my last hope.
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've been using Azure (2 Web Applications sharing a sql database) for over 4 months now. I had it all working on the first day with no problems.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
|
|
|
|
|
If you don't mind me asking how much does that cost you a month? I've been looking to moving to Azure but don't know if they can beat Fasthosts 7 quid a month I'm paying!
If you do mind me asking then just ignore the post 
|
|
|
|
|
No problem...it's around $70 USD per month. One Web App is Free and the other is in the Basic (Small) plan and runs about $42 and the S1 level SQL Database is about $26.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
|
|
|
|
|
This is a relief to know, but, I suspected this about myself all along: [^].
I expect further testing to establish that programmers who prefer PhP, Visual Basic, or, Objective C, have a greater percentage of Neanderthal in their genome; of course, I say that with no intent to commit Sapiens-chauvinism.
"O wonder!
How many chimeric creatures are there here!
How miscegnatious mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such interbred hominiform mutants in't." Miranda not speaking in "The Tempest" not by W. Shakespeare
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
|
|
|
|
|
It isn't going to be a very prolific species - their default answer to everything is "Unable to reproduce" 
|
|
|
|
|
Well I liked that Iron Maiden disc!
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
|
|
|
|
|
"
Furthermore, the team found that his Neanderthal ancestor lived only 200 years before his death.
Only? Only?! I think 200 years is a pretty decent age to die at. :p
(yeah, yeah. I know)
|
|
|
|
|
Furthermore, the day of his death was the last day of his life! 
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
|
|
|
|
|
Half men, half coffee and half expletives.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
|
|
|
|
|
BillWoodruff wrote: programmers who prefer PhP, Visual Basic, or, Objective C, have a greater percentage of Neanderthal in their genome
Ruby on Rails programmers have the highest. No, strike that, they're a completely different species altogether.
Marc
|
|
|
|
|
I am told that a lot of us have ADHD but I also think that people that are good at the job are not taught but born.
Nothing wrong with visual basic and it uses the same p-code (Sorry MS calls it MLIC or something else) as C# that i use today. It's the bloated .NET framework that you need as an interface into windows were the trouble starts.
|
|
|
|
|
What I want to know is, how Neanderthals got so much of our DNA. 
|
|
|
|
|
BillWoodruff wrote: This is a relief to know, but, I suspected this about myself all along: [^].
This is really fascinating stuff, anthropologists will have a ball. This means that the Neanderthals didn't actually die out and we are a different subspecies of homo sapiens from those that didn't interbreed with them. They could name us homo sapiens sapiens somewhatneanderthalensis to distinguish us. A hybrid between homo sapiens sapiens phpensis and homo sapiens sapiens mysqlensis could be named homo sapiens sapiens backendis and a hybrid between homo sapiens sapiens csharpis, homo sapiens sapiens pythonensis, homo sapiens sapiens htmlensis and homo sapiens sapiens lispsiensis could be named homo sapiens sapiens multipracticus. A hybrid between homo sapiens sapiens vbsixis and homo sapiens sapiens vbdotnetsis could be dubbed homo sapiens sapiens unluckyensis.
|
|
|
|
|
So still doing Oracle development.
Best and fastest SQL database out there if I am to believe the fans.
Tooling isn't so good though...
I'm using Oracle SQL Developer as it's free and provided by Oracle themselves.
So I have this XMLTYPE field and I put in some XML that looks like this:
<Text><p>Bla bla</p></Text> Just a little XML with some encoded HTML, no big deal.
But then I want to show the value and it shows me this:
<Text><p>Bla bla</p></Text> Why is it showing me those >'s??? 
At first I was thinking I had a bug in my software and I didn't encode the HTML correctly.
Turns out it's a bug in SQL Developer... It views > as >, but leaves < as it is 
Thanks Oracle, you're a real help...
A nice moment for this week's poll... 
|
|
|
|
|
I told you! You should not use JavaScript!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
|
|
|
|
|
Ask the Oracle for the answer; she knows all!
|
|
|
|
|
Tim Carmichael wrote: she knows all
Sure she does, you just have to know what to ask for... 
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
