CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2013/ch1 1w30 ps

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Ruby on Rails Web Hosting Services

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Typically, while hosting web applications, it becomes essential to host the core website component, databases and other resources necessary for running the application. There are many web hosting options available like free web hosting, shared hosting, dedicated server, and the list goes on. Today, many companies provide services for hosting web application where they manage the infrastructure along with maintenance and the application developer needs to focus only on the actual application development. The service charges depend upon the factors like disk space, bandwidth, email account or FTP access. Nowadays, many companies provide Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) to deploy and scale applications in Cloud.

Some popular PaaS providers are : 

> Amazon Web Service
   - Amazon Elastics Compute Cloud, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Relational Database Service
> Heroku
> Elastic Yard
> Google App Engine
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