Right now I'm using shared hosting for my websites and I'm not very satisfied with it. Someone recommended a VPS instead but I have no idea which one to pick.
I'm developing ASP.NET MVC 3 sites and I have about 4 sites I need to host. I guess I should use IIS to host the sites but I'm a little bit confused.
Is it possible to point 1 domain name to each website I'm making? And what do I do if I want to send mail?
Example.
www.site1.com has some emails eg. info#site1.com
www.site2.com has some emails eg. info#site2.com
I guess I need a mail server? To be able to read and view my emails. like WorldClient
You can any number of domains on one single server. When you create the site on IIS Manager, give the different domain names in the host name field and point the relevant domains to the directory.
For mail server I generally go for Apache James, but this is console based app so configuring this is a bit tedious. Smarter Mail is also another option on windows with full windows GUIs for configuring the mail servers.
The mail servers can be configured in your DNS settings. So your mail.domain.com will become your mail server.
Btw, both mail servers I mentioned give you options for POP access for reading from outlook express etc.,
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I did pore through other similar questions and found answers. I am still having a situation that is not answered and I am not able to comment on those posts to seek clarifications. Thus this new question.
Let me explain my situation...
I have a GCP Project and enabled AppEngine on the same.
I have setup 3 services: 'default', 'api' and 'ui'.
I have deployed apps on all the 3 services and they are all being served through their appspot urls without any issues.
Now I want to setup routing using own domain, purchased from GoDaddy. The schema looks like the following:
www.my-domain.com -> 'default'
rest.app.my-domain.com -> 'api'
ui.app.my-domain.com -> 'ui'
I have the dispatch.yaml to setup the routing rules and I can see the same properly defined in the 'Services' screen. No problems there... The problem is in defining the custom domain mappings for these services.
For the 'default' service, it was easy. GAE identified GoDaddy and requested A & AAAA records for managed security. And then CNAME 'www' pointing to 'ghs.googlehosted.com'. Done and all went well.
Now, for the other services, GAE is asking for the same set of A, AAAA and CNAME records.
Here is the problem. I cannot setup multiple CNAME records pointing to the same value ('ghs.googlehosted.com'). The GoDaddy cPanel/DNS Manager Tool does not even allow adding such records. I have spoken to their support and they confirm that their tool is restricted ti ICAAN policies. So multiple CNAME records is out of question.
As a workaround, I setup a sub-domain pointing to googledomains. I setup 'app' as a new Zone in 'Cloud DNS' in m GCP Project. All name servers are placed in master DNS zone in my GoDaddy. This could allow me to create CNAME record for 'app' in googledomains, atleast theoretically. But GAE Project Settings does not recognise the domain. Its forcing me to make the CNAME records in GoDaddy under the master zone. Not sure how Google doesnt understand the ICAAN policies!! So this option walked into a wall too.
Then I read about the wildcard subdomains. GoDaddy documentation describes the support for this but limited to a specific IP (so only A record). However, GAE needs the value 'ghs.googlehosted.com' and that means I must create a CNAME record only. There are many discussions on this; some saying this will not work and others claiming this works.
This is quite literally my last option and I would like to know how to make this work. If there is any other way to get this setup working, it would save me a lot of time and trouble. I am a developer and all this infra work is just such a hog on my productive bandwidth.
Thanking you in advance.
Finally, the way I have resolved this is to define a single wildcard CNAME in GoDaddy pointing to 'ghs.googlehosted.com' and registered all subdomains as new domain names (actually with different names) in googledomains now. The latter is an alternate fail-safety to ensure my clients can connect. I am now waiting for the current subscription to run out and move away from GoDaddy after. Right now, the pricing I pay GoDaddy is too much compared to Google Domains and for the level of support quality from GoDaddy it is really not justified.
So, I've worked on this for some time and I believe that there is something odd here.
I tried this with a go daddy domain and 2 app engine services. So the steps that I followed are explained next:
1) Go to App engine and on settings/custom domains add the custom domains you'd like to have (with the subdomains in this case)
2) On go daddy you need to go to your domain and admin your DNS records on your domain.
3) Add The Cnames registers with your sub domain pointing to ghs.googlehosted.com
4) deploy your dispatch.yaml
The thing that I don't understand is why you say that is impossible to do the step 3 as it has never caused issues when I tried to do this. Could you specify how are you doing the third step in go daddy?
Additionally, I believe that this same information is better explained on this documentation Is just that I don't get why is it failing on your side.
I have been developing an asp.net core web application and published on the production mode (online server), the users can access it with the specific domain name and will log in and do data entry from three different countries.
But, the problem is sometimes, in one specific country there is no internet access, my client wants that this application should work online and offline, If there is no internet access the local branch must be able to do data entry, then when the internet gets connected data should send to the online server database,
What is the best way to achieve this goal?
Please write your view or add some good forum link below.
Rationally, it is not possible for you to access a Web App without internet. Web Apps are meant for network usage. However, I believe there is a workaround for such requirements. What you can do is that you can create a clone of your database for the third user, who has no internet access and perform all transactions within the local machine and when the connection comes back on line, you can replicate the data from the local SQL Server into the online server database.
And then there is something called Progressive Web Apps , which will allow you below privileges :
Reliable - Load instantly and never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions.
Fast - Respond quickly to user interactions with silky smooth animations and no janky
Engaging - Feel like a natural app on the device, with an immersive user experience.
What are Progressive Web Applications, Google has something more to discuss here
I understand that in order to link my domain to my GAE application I need to setup Google Apps according to this.
But Google Apps seems to take control of SMTP and email addresses. I need to have my own SMTP server in GCS, which is working perfectly right now using the static ip like someuser#xx.xx.xx.xx
What I need is to be able to enter my GAE web application thru mydomain.com but at the same time being able to receive anyuser#mydomain.com at my SMTP instance at GCS. Is it possible?
Your email settings are determined by your registrar, not by Google Apps. If you don't want to use Gmail as your mail server, you simply keep your DNS records unchanged, as Xavier correctly suggested.
Question: How can I communicate between two web sites using HTTPS within one Azure Cloud Service deployment?
Details:
I have architected an Azure Cloud Service deployment (one “subdomain.cloudapp.net”) in such a way as to run two separate web sites inside the deployment by using different ports.
Site 1 is what I’m calling a Service Site that is a standard ASP.NET site that hosts a bunch of WCF Services with no HTML or ASPX pages (except for a default.aspx page that redirects to site 2). Site 1 is running on port 80.
Site 2 is my main site and hosts a Silverlight application that uses the services from Site 1 to access the database and process results. It is only accessible by way of HTTPS and uses port 443.
Both of these sites are defined in a Visual Studio Azure solution with two endpoints, one for each port. Further, each endpoint is associated with the two web site project insides of the VS Solution by way of the ServiceDefinition.csdef configuration file in the Azure project.
I have purchased my security certificate and associated it with a domain name that I am using with Site 2 by way of domain name redirecting and CName mapping at my DNS.
Accessing site 2 using the mapped domain name and an encrypted connection works well via HTTPS. However, when I try to make a service call internally from Site 2 to Site 1, I am going from an HTTPS connection to an HTTP connection because I don’t have a SSL Certificate at Site 1. As a result, when site 2 makes a service call to Site 1, it tries to serve clientaccesspolicy.xml. This causes Internet Explorer to display the ‘Mixed Content’ message (Because of the HTTPS/HTTP mix). Bottom line is I need to get rid of this pop-up prompt. I know it can be disabled on the client end but with over a thousand users, I can’t depend on them being able to turn the message off. I need to make the message go away on the server side.
Back to the question, so is there a way to access site 1 using SSL from site 2 all within the one Azure Cloud Service? What it sounds like I need to do is assign an SSL Certificate to site 1. However, I’m hitting two roadblocks. First, I can’t assign an SSL Certificate to a wildcard.clouapp.net domain name. Second, I can’t assign a second domain name to the Azure Cloud Service since I can’t do domain name forwarding to a specific port (remember that Site 2 is already using domain forwarding anyway).
I could accomplish a solution by breaking out the two sites into their own cloud services but I would rather not because it would double my cost. Are there any suggestions on how to accomplish getting this “Mixed Content” message to go away, either by way of securing site 1 or some other method?
Is it possible to create a google app engine program that would route http requests to a server on a local network?
What would be the best way to build a program like this?
I am trying to get away from buying a server from a hosting provider and simply use a local network server instead, and use google apps as a sort of proxy. The firewall would be configured to allow access to the server from the google app engine servers only.
If this has been done before in an open source project that would be excellent, but I have not been able to find one.
If all you want is a domain name that points to your dynamic IP address, you could give Dynamic DNS a try. It's designed for your use case, and you won't need to write any code; you just need either a router that supports it or a server with cron. There are lots of providers, but I've had good experiences with Dyn DNS, specifically their Remote Access plan.