I have developed an enterprise level application(CRM), And planning to provide it as a SAAS/Hosted Solution.
I am very much worried about the Server & It's Architecture to handle the large traffic. I did some work and reached at, I can use AWS Or Rackspace Claude Service with Load Balancer, RDS, S3.
But still I am not sure it is enough to handle the large traffic or not. I have following questions please provide me some suggestion.
Is there any other good Cluod Service provider than AWS and Rackspace.
How to architect the server(Backup Plan, Highly Available, Data Base Server, Staging etc.)
Please suggest some tool to monitor the server performance.
Server Security.
Tools to calculate the server costing.
Thank You
Is there any other good Cluod Service provider than AWS and Rackspace. - There are options like Google Cloud, HP Cloud, SoftLayer, Azure and many more.
How to architect the server(Backup Plan, Highly Available, Data Base Server, Staging etc.) - Pretty big question to address.
Please suggest some tool to monitor the server performance. -- NewRelic can be one of them.
Server Security. -- Pretty big question to address.
Tools to calculate the server costing. -- https://planforcloud.rightscale.com/ - This would help.
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I'm building a little software activation web service in Java, so I need a cloud-based server which will run Apache and Tomcat and MySQL.
It will get very little usage as I don't expect to sell very much product at first. I'll be very lucky if the server handles one quick activation a day ... if it got 20 in a day that would be an amazing success.
I'm looking at Amazon EC2 pricing here ...
https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc
I see that there is a "Free Tier" which provides "750 hours per month of Linux t2.micro or t3.micro instance". And it's free for year.
STUPID QUESTION #1: 24h/day x 31 days/month is 744 hours ... so, does that mean I'm getting a free linux server running 24/7 for a year or is there a catch that I'm missing?
STUPID QUESTION #2: t2.micro/t2.micro has 1 vCPU, 1GB Memory ... is that enough power to run a simple Apache + Tomcat + MySQL web service reliably?
STUPID QUESTION #3: Any reason why I should skip the free tier and invest in a powerful pay $$$ option?
Yes. No catch. It's just not a very strong server.
That really depends on what that service does. Performance wise you need to pay attention to t2 instances being optimized for burst operations. That means they run full speed for a little while and then get throttled. But if you're talking about reliability, it's a whole other story. Just one machine is usually not enough for that. You want multiple machines in multiple data centers. What if one machine goes down? What if the whole data center goes down? It really depends on just how reliable you want it.
That really depends on what you're looking for. If you don't know yet, stick to free until you figure it out. I would even go for something simpler like Heroku at first. At least you won't have to take care of the reliability aspect as much.
You describe your service as: "Accept an encrypted license key, decrypt it, verify it, return and encrypted boolean response".
This sounds like an excellent candidate for a serverless solution:
AWS API Gateway providing an HTTPS endpoint that the application can call
It then triggers an AWS Lambda function that performs the logic and exits
However, you also mention a MySQL database. This could be provided by Amazon RDS. Or, you could go serverless and use DynamoDB (a NoSQL database).
The benefit of a serverless architecture is that it can scale to handle high loads and doesn't cost you anything (except potentially for the database) when not being used.
There is a free tier available for AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon RDS.
There might be a limitation on network traffic for EC2 instances. You should look into that before deciding to host a web service on it. There is even a possibility it could charge you for using too much network bandwidth, so scalability might be an issue. I suggest you try Heroku instead, and then switch to other app hosting services when if and when you need to scale.
Yes, i have developed an low to medium web application as mysql backend.But, please be sure about number of users , as it depends on the performance and scalability.
If you are looking for very little usage EC2 is the best matching free tire which provides by the AWS.
The EC2 Micro instances to keep under the AWS Free Tier, which covers 750 hours of t2. micro instances. And the servers are available Linux as well as windows
When we talking about the second question it depends on your application type. As per the question that you asked 8GB is enough to run your apache and SQL.
But when it comes to reliability, it's a different story. In most cases, one machine is insufficient. You'd like to have multiple machines in different data centers. So, in that case, it is better to move to another service.
When we talking about your 3rd question, it also depends on the applicability of your application. If your application having a high number of users and many concurrent processes and if you need to improve the reliability, it is good to move to pay subscriptions.
I was making a thinking exercise about how could I deploy a chat service like WhatsApp or Slack (just wondering), so people could really use it. You need two main parts, the client software (e.g. the app running on the smartphones), and the server software. So how would you develop the server-side code and make it work?
The first idea that came to me was the classic hosting service, but it cannot be the simple "web hosting service", probably because something like this should be programmed at a lower level and not working with HTTP requests and responses. Maybe using specific server-side technology like Node.js (any other suggestion?) to manage different type of requests at lower level, let's say at the layer where TCP lives, would be a better solution.
So I heard about the Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is not classic hosting, it's a cloud computing service. The problem is that I don't know exactly how this works. Could I deploy a server-side application that works at that low level of networking and also makes requests to databases? Would it be difficult to offer this kinf of service using AWS?.
I would like to hear all your opinions about any aspect of this. Would you use other kinf of technology on the server? What do you think about AWS, and if you would think it's a good option, where can I get some info to learn how to use it?
Server Side Code
You can create a chat service backend using NodeJS + express(or Hapi) to cater input Http Requests.
For Hosting: Cloud servers are pretty available these days and allow you to scale if your app grows with time.
Database:
if you already have your DB available (cool) just use ORMs ( like (Sequelize) which provides easy interaction of Nodejs service with your DB. (I have used MySQL + Sql Server + Oracle)
If not, you can create a new DB (MySql- free on your hosting server (cloud?)
I used Microsoft Azure to host a Nodejs(+ Hapi.js) Backend Service ,to be consumed by my mobile application, over the internet.
Azure gives you $200 free credit which is sufficient for you to try and make your hands dirty with them. There are numerous tutorials available for MS-Azure Api App hosting which will guide you to a successful deployment.
I have not yet explored AWS as of now, but i trust that they will be similar in their learning curves.
I'm just starting to learn more about the Node.js paradigm and finding it hard to grasp basic concepts. I'm familiar with front-end tools (HTML, CSS, JS) and have been using PHP with Apache server and mySQL db to deploy websites until now.
It seems to be that node is it's own server, and I would then need a SaaS platform like Heroku, or AWS (I'm not even sure if i'm understanding the purpose of these) if someone could explain the difference?
Is the database managed inside this service?
Is the website being hosted there?
In steps how would you get the node app to be served onto your domain name?
For Scalability purposes I understand how having dedicated big infrastructure can help, but if building a low traffic website with small number of members is there even a point in using node?
normal hosting services cost between $4-20 usd. per month and AWS or Heroku seem to start at a MUCH higher price. Is Node only to be used for large scale scaling business model?
Thank you for any answers or good recent external resources (websites or books) you could point me to.
You could easily host a low traffic website built with node.js absolutely for free on Heroku.
To see how easy that is, just go through the Getting Started With Node.js Heroku tutorial, in which you will do just that.
When you build your website with node.js, your own code that your write is the web server. You have no separate web server to configure and interact with (such as Apache). So what you see (or code...) is exactly what you get.
You will probably want to use a framework such as Express to build your web server functionality in your node.js app.
As for NoSQL databases, the way to do this on Heroku is to use an appropriate "add-on" from the Heroku Elements Marketplace. For example, you could easily add Heroku Redis or MongoLab. These are just some of the NoSQL "Database as a Service" options. That means that the Database is itself hosted somewhere in the cloud, and your app simply interacts with it. You don't need to worry about database maintenance, security upgrades etc. You just need to concentrate on your app's interaction with the DB.
Almost all add-ons in the Heroku Elements Marketplace feature a free-tier, that may suffice for your needs, at least initially. So you might be able to get your low-traffic website (including the DB) up and running completely for free, at least initially.
One thing you will need to understand is how Heroku free dyno hours work.
If you need your website to be continuously available 24/7, you may need to verify your Heroku account with a credit card (even though no charges would be incurred as long as you deploy only 1 free web dyno and are on a free-tier plan of your NoSQL DB as a Service). For further details, see this answer.
You also need to consider whether you can tolerate dyno sleeping in your low-traffic app. If not, you would need to prevent your web app from sleeping, which can also be done completely for free. For tips on how to do that see here.
As for serving your Heroku node.js app website from your own domain name, see here. Note that for this too you will need to verify your Heroku account with a credit card, although this too does not incur any charges.
Node.js is supported by many web hosting already, especially for those who use Plesk or cPanel as their web hosting control panel. Here is guide about how to setup a Node.js website via Plesk control, https://www.bisend.com/blog/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-site-in-plesk. As you said, it's very easy to host your website with a cheap shared web hosting.
Here's a noob question. I made a small app in node.js and to see it I have to go to localhost:4000 in my web browser. How can I publish it in an actual website that everybody can see? I already have a domain name and a hosting service.
Thanks in advance
Your hosting service may not actually support Node. If it doesn't let you install and run your own software then you may be out of luck.
Generally you have few options:
You can host it yourself on your own machine but it will not be as easy and efficient as using a service for hosting, unless you have a high quality symmetric internet connection with low latency and high bandwidth.
You can host it cheaply on a VPS using Digital Ocean, Vultr or AWS in which case you will have to configure Node yourself and install all of the databases and other software that you need.
Or you can use managed platforms like Heroku for Node (and Compose for databse like Mongo that you will probably also need) in which case the price will be higher but everything will be taken care of for you.
It depends on what costs are you willing to take, both in terms of service fees and your time and expertise needed to configure and maintain different layers of the system.
IMO the simplest way to deploy a Node app is with Heroku. You can find the documentation here.
It's free, and basically just requires that you create an app and then push your code to Heroku. It takes care of the rest for you!
I am new to cloud services and need somebody to help me in getting started with my project.
I have been tasked with building a web environment for a production .Net application that utilizes DotNetNuke as a front-end CMS.
My end goal (hopefully) is the following:
Create two always-on web servers running DotNetNuke (with the ability to scale on the fly with autoscaling when under heavy traffic)
Create two always-on SQL servers running SQL Server (with the ability to scale on the fly with autoscaling when under traffic)
Ideally, I'd like my servers to have static private addresses configured as such:
Public IP -NAT-> Private IP (172.x.x.x) -> Interface1 -> [Web Cluster] -> Interface2 -> Backend Private IP (10.x.x.x) -> [Database Cluster]
This particular application sees heavy traffic and currently our managed provider is not really giving us what we need in terms of performance (latency issues, stability issues, etc).
That said, I would like these resources to also be load balanced, and continuously identical to one another. I don't have the option of using Amazon's database services for this, nor do I have the option of using Beanstalk.
Is this even possible? I've found some documentation online that loosely relates to what I'm looking for, but I feel like I'm not experienced enough with Amazon to really understand what these tutorials are talking about.
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Jason, don't forget Windows azure. There's an accelerator made to ease the process of installing DNN on azure. Good luck.