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Hosting refers to the commercial service offered by companies that let you run websites using their servers. Questions about server technology should be asked at serverfault.com and more general questions should be asked at webmasters.stackexchange.com.

Hosting refers to the commercial service offered by companies that let you run websites using their servers. Questions about server technology are probably best asked at serverfault.com and more general questions at webmasters.stackexchange.com.

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How many Rails apps on 1 Heroku dyno?

I just can't find how many apps you can host on heroku with one dyno? I plan to host a lot of small apps with little traffic. Thanks for your answers
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Best hosting for Ruby on Rails (as of 2012)

I was wondering what people think is currently the best host for Ruby on Rails. I found some older posts on here on the subject but I wanted to know what the current agreement is. Shared hosting is ok for now but I would like an option from…
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Troubleshooting Site Slowness on a Nginx + Gunicorn + Django Stack

Issue I Was Having I was having an issue where some sites were taking a long time to load (By "long time" I mean up to 16 seconds). Sometimes they might timeout entirely, which generated a Nginx 504 error. Usually, when a site timed out I could…
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Good Options for Java Developer who needs Inexpensive Web Hosting

As a programmer with limited experience, and interest, in server management, what are some good options for having space available online that makes getting to the actual development and deployment of Java web applications simple? Needs: - ability…
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Any file-hosting site that supports direct downloading?

I don't know if this should be on here or on a different SE site. I am working on a program, and to check for updates it downloads a file using URLDownloadToFile(). The file contains a number indicating the most recent version, and it is compared to…
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How to host my WCF service in my website?

I am new to WCF. I have developed a sample WCF service. My service uses the basicHttp binding. I host my service in local IIS 7.5 using WAS and it works fine. Now I want to host my service in my website. I search Google but there most of them are…
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Is there any place to host your code online?

There are many free online services which provides you with large spaces to store your personal materials, mails, etc. But is there any place that can let us host our code - which keeps the change history? Google Code or SourceForge may not be a…
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Can you recommend a good shared hosting provider for a webapp made with Lift framework with Scala?

I've got acquainted with Scala recently and found it beautiful. I am willing to give up using PHP and use Scala instead for all projects of mine. Now I Use BlueHost for hosting my PHP-based sites. Can you recommend a good alternative that will…
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Does a folder in my user site conflict with a project site?

GitHub Pages allows each user to have one User Site (maybe a home page) and unlimited Project Sites. When you set up your User Site, you must name the repo [username].github.io (where [username] is your GitHub username), and the URL is by…
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Can node.js run in any hosting provider?

Sorry for this newbie question. Can node.js run in any hosting provider like Fastdomain? We have an account in fastdomain where we upload our Website made in PHP. I allowed SSH in our host and tried installing node.js but it didn't work. I've been…
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Cloud Computing: What does it take to setup a Cloud

What does it take to setup a cloud. I have some friends in the middle east who want to setup clouds similar to Google and Amazon and are wondering if there is any open technology that they can use to setup a cloud hosting service. Any ideas?
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Why do some websites require "www"?

Why do some websites require the "www" before the rest of the address, while others seem to resolve just as well with the "www" as without it? Is there some compelling reason why you would set up your domain name to work like this?
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Hosting your own JavaScript scripts files (other than Jquery) on fast free CDNs like google?

Inspired by Dave Ward to host javascript files externally, I have several questions concerning the hosting of Javascript files externally: Everybody knows that known libraries can be directly sources to, for…
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How many dynos would require to host a static website on Heroku?

I want to host a static website on Heroku, but not sure how many dynos to start off with. It says on this page: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-requests that the number of requests a dyno can serve, depends on the language and framework…
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Ruby - hosting private gems

By any chance, is there any place it's possible to host private ruby gems? So I could allow it to be pulled only for specific places by using public key or something like that? Thanks
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