Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread David Connors
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:41 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: Are my calculations correct? You're focussing on the smallest possible element of the cost of launching one of these sites. You also need to consider the ones that are going to make up 99% of the cost: -

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
Godaddy has .com registration for about US$6/year, and free DNS Agreed with David that this is probably a fraction of the cost. Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burela Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 1:42 PM To: ozDotNet

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread David Burela
All the production quality issues are non-issues. The goal here is a website to support hobby projects. Trying to get the yearly costs down to support the hobby project is the #1 priority here. The best way I've been linked to so far is hosting a site on GitHub and using a mark down generator

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Joseph Clark
Bitbucket supports basic website hosting, too: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Publishing+a+Website+on+bitbucket On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, David Burela david.bur...@gmail.com wrote: All the production quality issues are non-issues. The goal here is a website to support

Re: Checking if I can write to a folder

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Minutillo
The DMS in question is TRIM. The rest of the app will need to handle exceptional circumstances for when things go bad we just want to cover the basic scenario of when the user first starts the app (especially for the very first time) that they can write to the folder. If they can't then something

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
plug If you're an MSDN subscriber, then you get Azure usage as part of that subscription. You can host multiple web sites on a singe Azure instance. In fact, what you might want to do is have 2 extra small instances running multiple web sites so you've got the umpteen 9's SLA. /plug

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Mitch Denny
Too right. I'm hosting my blog on Azure now. http://mitchdenny.com/ I've also started documenting how to get FunnelWeb running: http://mitchdenny.com/running-funnelweb-on-windows-azure The good news I am doing the hard work so you don't have to :) Mitch Denny Readify | Chief

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread David Burela
*The TC on the MSDN credits for Azure, don't they state that you can't put production sites on it, only development sites?* * * Looking around, I can't find any specific details on if you can use the MSDN credits for production use.

RE: Win 8 Tablet (second try)

2012-04-02 Thread Mark Thompson
Once you start a metro application, is there a way of shutting it down outside of ctrl-F4? Try clicking (or swiping) from the very top of the screen and dragging down to the bottom.

Re: Checking if I can write to a folder

2012-04-02 Thread mike smith
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Michael, the only reliable thing to do if TRIM is down is to write to a substitute well-known local folder such as CommonApplicationData where the permissions are reliable. I don't know what difficultly this would present in your

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Grant Molloy
David, Why not start with shared host first? Usually much cheaper than vps! If your needs expand you can ramp up in future. Places like mochahost have reasonable costs, plus allow multiple domains, multiple database types and number for any future expansion. They even offer free domain names on

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
Special offer for MSDN Subscribers: If you are an existing Visual Studio Professional, Premium or Ultimate with MSDN subscriber, you get free access to Windows Azure each month, and up to $3,700.00 in annual Windows Azure benefits at no charge. This offer provides a base level of Compute,

Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Stephen Price
Damn it. Now I can't use cost as an excuse for not getting off my arse and learning more about Azure. Ok, I've put it on my list of things to learn, right after Db. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13639/Db-The-Future-Is-Coming http://thenextlanguage.net/ I'm really excited about the

RE: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread Andrew Coates (DPE AUSTRALIA)
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Re: The cost of putting small websites online

2012-04-02 Thread DotNet Dude
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Price step...@perthprojects.com wrote: Damn it. Now I can't use cost as an excuse for not getting off my arse and learning more about Azure. Ok, I've put it on my list of things to learn, right after Db.