From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,27c24ba68e621eef X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!darth-vader.mobilixnet.dk!newsfeed.orangenet.dk!news.hacking.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AWS applications and domain hosting Date: 26 Jun 2005 14:36:26 +0200 Organization: hacking.dk - Doing fun stuff with open source Sender: sparre@hugin.crs4.it Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: xyzzy.adsl.dk 1119789716 12955 80.241.165.47 (26 Jun 2005 12:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hacking.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:41:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11666 Date: 2005-06-26T14:36:26+02:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > If I wanted to buy a domain name (e.g. www..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 using Apache as the front end proxy server. Greetings, Jacob -- "Preserve wildlife, pickle a duck."