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I have a total of 5 Play applications that I have been working on my spare time. They are small projects, serious enough to be published to the world yet not enough to invest large sums of money. I would anticipate a maximum of 10k visits per month, they are read only (information comes out of a database, nothing comes in).
What are some good inexpensive options to deploy these 5 websites? They will have 5 different domain names.
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You'll need to pay for the 5 domains regardless of the option.
Note: I can only speak for GAE, I have no experience with AWS.
In GAE you might be able to stay within the free quotas:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas
Free quotas are higher for a paid account which might be overall more cost-effective than a non-paid account.
If the apps share the DB (not directly possible in GAE at this time, see is it possible to share a datastore between multiple GAE applications and maybe related Q&As) I'd recommend making them just modules of a single app instead of separate apps. All domains would be mapped to that single app and routed to separate modules using a dispatch file.
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My team and I would like to develop a project that incorporates an Android, iOS and web app. Scalability and big throughput potential is a key feature. We have started to work with Parse.com, and it provides exactly what we're looking for - except for the prohibitive expensiveness of scaling and the absurd limits on queries and requests/second. What are some alternatives to Parse in this sense? We most likely do not need any complex database actions and limited cloud processing.
Thanks in advance.
Perhaps it's time us Parse users go to the big boy of cloud services: https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/
Parse is an outstanding option for getting up and running quickly. Don't underestimate the value in being able to rapidly bring an idea to market.
Long term, potential competitors to Parse (e.g. Firebase, PubNub) will not provide meaningful savings when operating at scale. If you are concerned about that you will want to look into developing your own backend services and running them on infrastructure like AWS (Amazon Web Services). At a high level, Parse uses MongoDB for its core database and is entirely hosted using AWS. AWS offers tons of services for managing data, performing computations, load balancing, and so on. They also offer AWS API Gateway which allows you to access AWS resources and automatically creates client SDKs for you.
As a general rule of thumb, it's much better to focus on building the best possible user experience than to focus too much on scalability. By and large, issues of scalability rarely come into play because most apps fail. Not saying that to be discouraging — just something to keep in mind and prevent you from falling into the trap of over-engineering at the cost of time :)
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I am trying to decide on the best connector/plug-in to use for connecting JIRA with SalesForce. If you have an opinion, please let me know. So far, the two most inviting products are ServiceRocket's Connector for Salesforce and JIRA and Go2Group's CRM Plug-In.
I have 2 main issues: 1) I do not want to give all my Salesforce users access to JIRA. I know this is ok for Go2Group, but I can't find the relevent info for ServiceRocket. 2) Preferably, any comments made on a JIRA ticket would not be visible to the SalesForce users.
Please let me know if you have used one of these (or any others) and why you chose it. Thank you!
Personally, I liked Service Rockets connector a lot more than Go2Group or ZAgile. Pricing wise, Service Rocket was a great deal. Service Rocket is easy to setup as well and you can play around with an eval license before committing to a production license.
http://marketplace.servicerocket.com/product/connector-for-salesforcecom-and-jira
The ease of use was there as well as I felt like Service Rockets connector offered much better connectivity and control over how it interacted with JIRA / SalesForce.
Their documentation has improved over the last year as well and support wise I have never had an issue communicating with them.
I hope this helps in your decision. It was a really tough one for us to make as all three products seem to be on par with each other parity wise.
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AMAZON VS GOOGLE
Compared to the prices and features and service
what platform should i go for if i want to host a small sql db some small apps webservice and a small storage?
What are the main differences between them?....
Has anybody experience with the these services and would like to share some Information ....
Everything is welcome!
Since you've used the word "small" 3 times, I will venture to say that, in my opinion, GAE is the best fit. Small apps remain inside the free quota on GAE, and you can't beat $0 a far as price goes. Also, GAE handles more of the messy, time-consuming backend tasks. I doubt you want to spend much time maintaining or setting up a "small" app, so having to deal with fewer of these tasks is beneficial. I have some small apps on GAE which I have not even touched for a couple of years. Time is money.
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Goal: I want to create a website for my High School's Soccer team to show game info, player info, and historical stats/records for as little $ as possible.
I originally planned on writing an ASP.NET site, so I spent some time setting up and loading all the data into MS SQL. However, I've realized I'd rather find a simpler solution than me trying to come up with everything that goes with creating/maintaining the site.
The biggest factor here is tying the database to the site. I want to continue to update the data going forward without messing with the front end too much. I've developed in ASP.NET/C#/VB.NET and am comfortable with CSS/web dev/blogging, so I'm able to do a little dirty work if need be.
Question: Is there a good CMS option for my situation? Also, where to host it on the cheap?
I was a CMS developer for 5 years. Having been through all that, I wouldn't write my own for a single, relatively simple site.
There's SO many options out there. Obviously, the standard Joomla/Wordpress/Drupal solutions are there and are SO cost effective to build. Free software + $5 a month hosting (my personal fav is HostGator) and you've got yourself a very good site. Joomla offers some plugins such as calendars, groups and authorization, etc that makes it ideal for a club or sports team setting. Joomla even has free plugins that are specifically made for tracking sports stats and results. I did sports stats on websites professionally for the US Swimming and Cycling teams as well as two NCAA conferences.....and they aren't fun to deal with at all!
That being said, none of those are .net based!
DotNetNuke is where everyone on the .net side seems to turn. This is my personal feeling, but DotNetNuke and Wordpress both fail in that they are somewhat strict with layouts unless you really know what you're doing. For example, look at a bunch of sites and chances are you'll be able to tell which ones are Wordpress based. That was always my top measure of flexibility.
I'm intrigued right now by Concrete5 because of its ability to content manage any layout with minimal modification. Again, it's PHP based. My personal feeling is that you'd actually come out ahead "switching sides" because of the considerable amount of work product and community that the big free CMS packages offer. Setup is a breeze, so knowledge is less of an issue. But ultimately your comfort zone is what matters.
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I need to look up artist/album/track information for song titles.
Is there a free database I could download or a open source web service/api I could use?
Try the last.fm api at http://www.last.fm/api.
If that doesn't work for you, you can look at the various APIs listed in this search result:
http://www.programmableweb.com/category/music/api
This is a Silverlight tutorial, but since this is an HTTP REST API, it could seem agnostic to you to get started: http://www.devx.com/VisualStudio/Article/40158.
I'd go with musicbrainz.
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XML_Web_Service
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libmusicbrainz
I would personnally recommend Discogs, which is free and doesn't limit the per day usage. However, it limits the amount of requests to one per second per IP address.
The API is quite clear and documented. It uses JSON over HTTP, and has wrappers for various programming environnements (Python, Ruby, Perl, .NET, PHP).
Plus, it has data about a massive amount of artists, releases and labels.
Yes! The Echo Nest. Pretty hot startup outside Boston that just got more funding. Their API lets you search by artist, album, track, and more.
FreeDB is free, but may or may not have an API. It is user-generated content.
http://www.freedb.org/
And apparently Gracenote is the new CDDB (but probably not free). I guess they finally figured out that they didn't want to limit their database to CDs.