Re: AWS applications and domain hosting

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Martin Dowie wrote:

> If I wanted to buy a domain name (e.g. www.<my_domain>.co.uk) and
> wanted to run an AWS application within it, what should I ask for
> when purchasing such a domain from a web hosting company?

The domain name itself is a completely independent "product".

What you want from your hosting company is probably:

 a) Access to run your own network daemons.

 b) A platform you also run "at home" or access to compile your
    daemons locally.

 c) A webserver running as a proxy in front of your own daemon - and
    maybe also serving plain documents.

As long as you have access to run your own network daemons on the
server and to configure the proxy server, you shouldn't need root
access on the machine.

I run a system like that at <http://da.speling.org/random_words/>
using Apache as the front end proxy server.

Greetings,

Jacob
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