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Software as a Service

Software as a Service is a cloud principle. It is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally (typically in the (Internet) cloud) and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.

MS Sharepoint is an example of SaaS.

Source: wikipedia

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How can I let my clients use their own SSL on my SaaS

We run a service that lets our clients run their own CMS. Our clients want to use their own SSL Certificate, wether it's self signed, or signed by another company. Our application runs PHP. I was thinking of a reverse proxy technology, but we have…
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log bash command centralized server or any auditd saas

I'm looking for a way to track our sysmin work, in the servers. Lets say sysmin 1 and sysmin 2 have access to any server but we need to make sure and track anything that they do in our server. Something like: server 1 ---- auditd or…
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How can our customers use our SaaS with their own SSL certificate?

We offer software as a service that is fully hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). We mainly use Elastic Beanstalk (elastic load balancer + ec2 instances) and RDS (database service) plus many other services. Many of our customers use our services…
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Building an S3 type of Storage Cloud

Are there any open source projects to build Storage as a Service type of Clouds like Amazon S3 ??
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Best practice for ONLY allowing MySQL access to a server?

Here's the use case: I have a SaaS system that was built (dev environment) on a single box. I've moved everything to a cloud environment running Ubuntu 10.10. One server runs the application, the other runs the database. The basic idea is that…
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single apache instance vs multiple apache instances

I work in a SaaS application built with Django (Python) and runs with Apache/mod_wsgi. The registration site creates an apache virtual host config, wsgi and settings files. And finally restarts the apache server. This means that every time a new…
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Google Analytics used for SaaS website behind login

Is Google Analytics a good way to track page hits even if the website is a SaaS website behind a login?
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Server Density or Scout-like Services for Windows?

I've been very impressed with agent-based / SaaS-like monitoring services such as Scout and Server Density. They both provide very nice trending, alerting, and reporting capabilities for my *nix boxes, and I need to find something similar for…
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how to manage thousands of DNS subdomain records for SAAS service?

Question: We have 7000+ DNS subdomains under cotoso.com, we want to map them to 2 IP address, e.g. subdomain1-4000 to IP1, 4001-7000 to IP2. What's the best way to do this? Background: Our company provides SAAS software. We have 1 root domain (let's…
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SaaS with bring-your-own-key - at what point do you need something for key management?

We're starting to use some SaaS providers, including Office365 Exchange Online, that allow bring-your-own-key or hold-your-own-key for encrypting data at rest. These are, to my understanding, simply one key per provider, not something per-user or…
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how to monitor client bandwidth in saas app?

I am building a SaaS which allows customers there own space. They get a subdomain but they can also add their own custom domain by setting their CNAME to my server. The subdomains and custom domains are not parked, they just point to my server and…
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Atomatic SaaS scaling

I'm thinking about how to best setup my SaaS application for automatic scaling and have reached a step I'm unsure of how to tackle. To properly describe the problem, I better start by explaining how I see this whole process going down: First of,…
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Are multiple ADFS instances needed when federating to the same party multiple times?

I'm currently in the first stages of an ADFS roll-out. It looks like you need to install multiple "federation services" or instances of ADFS if you want to federate with the same party or SaaS application multiple times. Let's say that you have…
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Best way to setup hosting and scale SaaS application

I'm a software developer with experience setting up hosting environments for small applications and no more than 5k hits a day type of traffic. I just built a SaaS application and I'm wondering how to setup and plan my server configuration to scale…
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Hosted application, DNS server setup?

Currently I'm allowing users to have an hosted application. Currently they have to point A-records to our servers (sometimes this is to hard or get's messy). I've seen other players using 2 dns servers, so that the user only needs to change these.…
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