Dropbox is an online storage company that offers multi platform access as well as version control. While they received a funding of $1.5 million Sequoia Capital, their initial incubation and seed stage funding was through Y Combinator.
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Rediff Business Solutions - Rediff Hosting
Rediff business solutions consists of domain registration, hosting and e-mail solutions.
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Many users of wordpress face a problem wherein the visual editor stop working or is stuck after an upgrade. The below screenshot shows the problem.
Wordpress Visual Editor Problem
Even though this is a serious, annoying and quite widely observed problem, there has been no official fix for it. Lot of posts describe various possible solutions (see links section at the end), this is the one that worked for me.
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Amazon AWS
Today is a big day for Amazon EC2- now production ready with SLA, windows support and 4 new capabilities.
All these long awaited features are set to go live today.Which in effect can be summarized as
How does all this affect the existing customers and lure new customers?
Production ready – Amazon is now in a better shape to take on traditional hosts now that its production ready. Having used EC2 for the past few months and not having to reboot any of my instances, this makes me feel that I can now run a full production house in the cloud.
SLA – The service level agreement of 99.95% minimum uptime is a great value addition. This means that a downtime of 36 hours per month is permissible. Even though this may be unaccepatable for many sites to run production machines on EC2, its a start.
This turns out to be 0.36 hours per month which is very good. I have hosted around 20 servers till now for the past several months in the could and all of them have had 100% uptime. The only downside has been that I had to migrate around 5 instances once due to “degraded hardware” of which I was notified by the EC2 team. This by itself is excellent support!
Windows Support – All the developers itching to get their hands on Windows in the cloud rejoice! The beta support of Microsoft Windows provides developers with access to the instance using the Windows Remote Desktop or the rdesktop client. The AMI for both 32 bit and 64 bit are available with the pricing starting at $0.125 per hour.
Microsoft SQL Server – Windows as well as MS SQL now provides a complete platform for Windows based computing technologies.
The Interesting part is that the things which are now in the pipeline include AWS management console, load balancing, auto scale, monitoring services, all of which is essentially RightScale’s business.
A complete circle
As Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels hints in his blog about “Using the Cloud to build highly-efficient systems” about the cost efficiency of these services in view of the current US economic crisis, it sure is a big day for cloud computing and IaaS.
