Good post! As this continues on Mosso, I'd be interested to hear more about the performance aspects, ex. how many simultaneous connections is it supporting, etc?

Looking forward too to seeing how this compares to Amazon's soon-to-be-released Windows cloud hosting.

I will be sharing as much as I can! The complication is that my client will not allow me to use their name or url in anything as they don't want to say they are on DNN right now.....

But I hope to start getting some numbers after their public launch in the next 2-3 weeks.

It was great talking to you on the phone about Mosso. I was quite pleased that I picked you at random out of Twitterers talking about Mosso, and invited you for the chat. It was very interesting, and informative.

Please keep engaging with us on how we can improve your performance and experience on Mosso (and yes, we need a public-facing ticketing system, but until then, feel free to ping support - they are all people that LOVE talking to customers!).

Rob La Gesse,
Director, Software Development
Mosso

Great post Mitch!

Many of us were wondering about DNN & Mosso. Look forward to the step by step post you spoke of - that should be a really good one!

Good to know, we had a client about 12 month ago that was trying to get DNN running on Mosso and we tried assisting them and it was a nightmare. Sounds like their cloud computing arrangement they have worked those kinks out. Support guys at Mosso were responsive during the process. Mosso control panels are pretty good, creepy though that its used to setup Linux and Windows and they try to blur the line there rather than making it obviously separate like other companies.

Ryan Doom
<a href="http://www.webascender.com/">Web Ascender</a>

Did you happen to use any parent portals? How was the DNS stuff handled? One of my complains with various hosting providers is how many places I have to mess with DNS and its IIS's DNS needs.

/DaveS

David,

Not directly, however, it looks like it is easy as cake! (They have a pointer option when setting items up in their control panel!)

i'm dying to see the guide to setup dnn on mosso. this is a must for me. please please please publish it. just change your clients domain name to example.com or such. thank you so much.

let me see what I can do!

I too want to know about the setup process. I am new to DNN, doing most of my development on the LAMP side but I have a client sold on it so we'll be learning FAST!

Any progress on getting the OK on pubishing that step-by-step guide to setting up DNN on Mosso?

Sadly not yet. I don't have an account with them, and can't use my clients accounts.

I'm trying to work through a *major* issue with Mosso. Their calculations are showing that I single handedly used up more than a 2.8 ghz processor last month. I'm not sure how that is possible, I must type fast!

baronrojosj,

Let me know if you have any issues, also, be sure to check the frequency of your scheduled tasks!

hey mitchel,

i'll be emailing you soon about it - i'll probably cry if i have to leave - their staff is absolutely first rate!

steve

I’m sure many of your readers are interested in an easy way to manage their Cloud Files containers and objects .. especially, for those who'd like to have more than one user but don't want to give out access to their whole admin panel!! There are many options to access Cloud Files by a single user, but we needed a way to create sub accounts, assign containers, etc..

Enter, Cloud9.
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Cloud9 is a new web-based service that allows users, or Web Designers/Programmers, to manage their Cloud Files more easily. It’s accessible, secure and fast. Basically, it improves upon the Mosso Cloud Files manager in these ways:

1) Multiple file uploads!! Up to 20 at a time! No more waiting, file after file, or trying to teach our clients how to use Cyberduck / FireUploader, et al. Easy online access from nearly anywhere.

2) You can create unlimited ‘user’ accounts and give them access only to containers that you assign to them. Unlimited Users, Unlimited Containers.

3) You, as the admin, stay in complete control over the users, containers, objects (files), etc. You have global read/write/delete access.

4) Each user can manage their own objects (files), upload/delete, etc. as well as add containers to their user account without taking up your valuable time.

5) It’s super easy for you and your clients to use.

6) Each file name listed in a container is pre-linked to the file, so using the URL for that file is as easy as, Right Click, Copy Link!

So, be sure to check it out.. it’s pre-launch time and everything is getting the file check off for the launch date… Cloud9 will be issuing a limited number of FREE accounts during the beta phase. After which, the service will start a little above that Venti Mocha Frap you had last week, and will offer plans for different usage limits :)

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Hi:
This was a great post. Mitchel - you are a terrific resource for the DNN community.

I'm starting a new project for a portal that I hope will grow to a user base of 100,000. There will be a fair amount of video as the portal is focused on e-learning.

My current plan is to build the portal in DNN using high quality commercial modules. I'm intrigued by the idea of using cloud computing rather than a dedicated server if it can reduce the administrative complexity and make growth easier to manage.

I was looking at the Rackspace website for Mosso and it seemed as if they don't offer Windows hosting as an option. Everything I saw was some flavor of Linux. I'm wondering how you host DNN in that case?

And I'd be most interested in any advice that folks have.

Best,

Charlie

OK. I found what I think is the answer, which is that Mosso does provide Windows server on their Cloud Sites product but not on their Cloud Servers.

Do you think Cloud Computing is a viable option for DNN. Or would dedicated servers be better?

Charlie

*DO NOT* use Mosso for DNN - I alone "apparently" used up more than the share of compute resources allocated in their base config. The server speed was "spotty" at best. Sometimes it would be decent, and others *very* slow. One of the founders seemed nice enough, and said he would look into the issues, but they ended up ignoring me so I went elsewhere. Even if they "could" have figured out the problem with DNN consuming resources, it didn't give the consistent performance I (and probably you) would require. To me they seemed like the perfect solution, but it ended up being a really bad experience. They also have issues with their redundancy solution that takes up the variable used for the user's IP address - not a good thing if you should need to block someone. I paid to have code modified to accomodate that and it ended up being a waste of money.
Steve

I honestly believe that if you have experience manually configuring DNN or any other similar application such as AspDotNetStorefront than it is always a straight forward install.

Here is a url to an exact walk through step x step for installing DNN on the Rackspace Cloud: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/-1/threadid/333475/scope/posts/Default.aspx

I hope this information and the walk through helps you get your business online sooner.

Best Regards,
Joshua Hatfield