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Cheap 'n' easy AIX hosting services?

I'm working on a product that's written in generic, cross-platform-friendly Java. However, this Java component plugs into a natively-compiled, platform-specific third-party SDK. A potential customer runs AIX, so I need to create an AIX distribution…
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EC2 vs VPS for hosting

I started out with Amazon EC2 as a monthly host for my project. I am running a 'small' Windows 2k8 instance with SQL server. This is the HW that I am getting: 1.7 GB memory 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit) [2.7 GHz…
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How do I setup a site-to-site VPN between two Windows 2008 servers?

We have a Windows 2008 server that we want to move offsite to the cloud (we're using Rackspace). It has to talk to our Active Directory domain constantly, so we need a stable site-to-site VPN between it and our datacenter. Rackspace doesn't offer a…
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High CPU performance on a cloud hosting platform

We need a cloud hosting platform that provides high CPU throughput for a very specific high-CPU utilization application we have. Can anyone recommend a cloud hosting platform whose virtual instances that actually performs well for such an…
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S3 Static Website hosting - restricting access from IP Range

Is there way by which can we enforce the access only from a Particular IP Range for S3 Static Website hosted site ?
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How worried should I be about unsecured HTTP on a "private" network?

So I've joined a new team, which develops and operates a service available on the Internet. It's aimed at B2B use rather than consumer, although anyone can sign up for a low-tier account to check it out (you don't get anywhere if your potential…
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How to assign a reserved / static public IP Address to a virtual machine on Azure

I am running this command on Azure Power Shell to assign a reserved public IP to an existing virtual machine: PS C:\> Get-AzureVM -ServiceName sk-cs-name -Name sk-vm-name | Set-AzurePublicIP -PublicIPName sk-public-ip | Update-AzureVM VERBOSE:…
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Is it realistic to host ESXi on a cloud VPS?

We are striving to avoid any on-site infrastructure at our startup. A combination local and cloud-hosted virtual machines have been working for us so far, but now we need an ESXi host as well. Currently I'm hosting ESXi under VMWare Fusion on my…
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Microsoft Exchange Solutions

We have an 800GB (and Growing) Exchange 2010 SP1 environment and a 3rd Party Archiving Solution on top of that. We have grown without bounds for years (No retention polices outside of Sent/Deleted items and no mailbox quotas. We no longer have…
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What NFS hosting services exist?

My situation: I manage a small business, and would like to migrate the files on our local file server to a 'cloud' service. There are a large number of 'file storage' and 'file hosting' services (S3, Rackspace Cloud Files, Dropbox, ...). They…
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How much downtime does Rackspace Cloud have?

I'm doing my due diligence in developing a plan to migrate to a cloud based server provider. We will need a small scale group of hosts. Rackspace Cloud Servers seem to provide exactly what we need. I've also investigated Amazon, Voxel, Linode and…
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How can we protect data on managed hosts(vps, cloud, etc)?

These hosting facilities tend to be great, they are cheap and work well compared to other alternatives. Though while being cheap, there is a compromise to be made and I want to know if there is a way to not make that compromise. The compromise…
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What is a "Cloud Provider"?

Sorry if this is the wrong S/E for this type of question. Well, I am asking what is a "Cloud Provider"? Is it just a hosting site? Is it something special? I know that the "Cloud" means internet, but thats all.
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Which one to go Dedicated server or Cloud Hosting?

We are going to outsource a solution from the data-center (for some reason), it is a web solution built on .NET and SQL server and it has scheduled night services. I searched for Cloud Hosting (IaaS) and I found some nice prices and offers and see…
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I need a relatively cheap host, which will be able to handle sudden peaks in traffic?

We're launching a product in a few months, which will obviously have a website. Judging from our current traffic, we believe that overall traffic will probably not be that much, but we are aiming at promoting the site heavily using social media.…
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