Re: AWS applications and domain hosting

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

On 26 Jun 2005, at 10:36, 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?

This subject greatly interests me too, as I plan to deploy AWS-based 
websites soon. I'll add what little I know, and join the original 
poster in asking for help.

As others have told, yes, domain and hosting are formally separate. But 
many hosts offer registration, e.g. Yahoo!, and often the package price 
beats buying the two things separately.

Anyway, the information related to AWS belongs to the hosting part only.

I think that, unlike someone else said, a separate web server, or proxy 
(Apache), is neither required nor useful. The host system only has to 
open a port (?) to AWS sockets, right? And allow the AWS-based 
executable to run with the right 
parameters/permissions/ownership/priorities...

It is these (currently, to me, slightly fuzzy) elements that I'd love 
to see well described.

They are in the realm of the operating system, or at the most of some 
network software (IP?), but in any case below the level of webserving 
or Apache, right?