Victor Stodell

When e-mail, files and blog are already in the cloud the Cornball is the only application left on my hosting provider. It is now getting really exciting because there is no doubt that the Corball should move to the Microsoft cloud, Windows Azure . The Cornball is a Silverlight  application which communicates through a  WCF  service with a  MySQL  database, all on the same hosting provider. This is about to be converted into a  Silverlight  application which communicates through a  WCF  service on  Windows Azure  that in turn communicates with an SQL Azure  database. Microsoft have published a lot of information to  get started with Windows Azure , but basically it is quite simple. After downloading the tools and SDK it is just to get on with the development. Through my MSDN subscription I have got some free Azure capacity so just by logging on to the Windows Azure portal  I am ready to configure ...

This blog was previously published using  WordPress  at a service provider. There were no problems at all with that setup, on the contrary WordPress  is a great platform. But if I am going to the cloud, I am going to do it fully. A quick solution would be to register an account on  WordPress.com  which offers free  WordPress  hosting. The only problem is that if you would like your own domain name it is not free anymore. Not that it is expensive, it is just not free. After investigating som other options i finally ended up using Google's Blogger . Maybe not bacause it is the best solution, but mainly because it covers my needs just fine. As always it is very easy to get going, and the transfer of my existing posts from  WordPress  worked perfectly thanks to WordPress2Blogger . So after about an hour with configuring and converting this blog is now in the cloud.

I would really like to recommend  Dropbox  to store your files. The free version offers 2 GB of storage and the software can run on all my computers and my phone. There are of course several services that do almost the same thing, but so far I have not found anyone that does it as good as  Dropbox . Moving the files to the cloud was easy. I just created an account, installed the software and moved my files to the designated directory. Since then my free account have been upgraded to 3 GB because I made some friends join Dropbox. The next step was to move my e-mail from my current service provider to Gmail . Wint  Google Apps  I get exactly the same functionality as a previously had, but also a better web user interface. The challenge in this move was to move all existing e-mails to my new  Google Apps  account. It turned out to be pretty easy by activating POP-mail in  Gmail  and get all the e-mails from the existing mail server. When...

I cannot with words describe the hype around the cloud today, and of course I had to join the croud. I have transferred all my applications, files and services to the cloud. I thought I would share some of the experiences and difficulties I have hit during my jourey. These are the steps I have performed in order to complete my move to the cloud: Most of my files are safely stored with  Dropbox . E-mail accounts for stodell.se  were moved from service provider to  Google Apps . The Cornball was moved from service provider to  Windows Azure och SQL Azure . This blog was moved from Wordpress at a service provider to  Google's Blogger . Even though  Loopia has been a great service provider during many years I have now been able to cancel all my services except the domain hosting with them. The replacement being free services and the Azure capacity that is included in the MSDN subscription.