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Outages on cloud platforms and lost revenue - what recourse do I have?
Inspired by today's EC2 outage, if I build a webapp on a cloud service, and they have an outage which affects my business, is there anyway I can hold them responsible for lost revenue? Or should I see ...
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Any tips on using DotCloud for IT for a web site startup?
I came across DotCloud this weekend. It looks like an awesome way to build a web based startup with pre-configured modules.
Here's how they position themselves:
"Assemble your stack from ...
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Is developing a backend for a mobile application costly?
I'm developing mobile apps for a time and I feel I'm spending nearly 50% of my time for backend development, choosing the technology, etc.
Now I have a new idea for a mobile startup. I want to ...
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Is there an affordable way to host an ASP.Net SaaS application when you're a nascent startup without much capital?
My very small company is building a hosted product and looking for options for hosting. Having done RoR for a little while, I love the fact that I can choose between options like Heroku, Linode, or a ...
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How does a one man operation turn into a subcontractor?
I've been working with contracting companies for about 6 years now and was wondering how I can go about becoming a contractor.
I reside in Atlanta, GA and have an IT background (virtualization/cloud ...
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What monetization ways I have?
I plan to start business like DropBox. It's not exactly like DropBox but something similar. DropBox is charging monthly fees for their subscription but my service is total free of cost. It's cloud ...
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What are some of the recommended cloud services for start-ups? [closed]
What are some of the recommended cloud services for start-ups?
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Percentage of enterprises who have policies against using Cloud solutions
There is a lot of hype about cloud solutions and I am considering whether to develop a piece of software to be sold in the Enterprise Segment as a cloud solution or as a regular software solution with ...
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How to calculate prices of my service based on Amazon Ec2 prices?
I'm going to provide some service for media content management. I will use Ec2 instances for service hosting. So, what are reasonable margins to Ec2 prices? What guides exist for such a matter? I want ...
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recommendations for PHP/HTML CMS for a Cloud database
I am working with a web development and design company that has posed a custom CMS for my business. Since this will eat up 60% of the budget for the site, and also I fear tie me to the company, I am ...
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Legal aspects of internalization - selling software online
I'm making an engineering software. It's for a very specific market. The market size of the software, if I take only my country, is too small. But since I'm planning to launch it "cloud based", from ...
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Does anyone have any evidence of cost-per-user scaling on AppHarbor?
I'm trying to work out the viability of a web service and I'm trying to wrap my head around the impact that increasing numbers of users will have on costs. This is mostly a concern about not running ...
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Does uploading music files from the hard disk of a user to a music player app illegal?
I was just thinking of building a web app(for learning purposes) that would let users upload their music files on to a server and then create playlists that could be heard from anywhere in the world ...
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Technical Infrastructure Required for New Startup - questions about server, internet, cloud
I'm defining the technical infrastructure required for my start-up
We currently have in our possession a physical Dell PowerEdge T310 server
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-t310/pd
We ...
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Is there such thing as a “real virtual computer” [closed]
Myself and a few others have been doing a bit of research and couldn’t find anything on the following.
A virtual pc, where I could use my not-so-good current pc but have access to a much better, ...
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what is the best way to convince your prospect that cloud hosting is Safe
We have product hosted in Cloud Server.Now when we speak to our prospects some of them have concerns on how safe and secure is Cloud.
What is the best way to convince them that hosting in cloud server ...
