Posts Tagged ‘ Instance ’

Moving a IIS WordPress Site to Amazon EC2 (New Prices!)

2017/10/16
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Modified: 2017/11/12
RDP-Options

What is Wrong with Home Server? After a RAID drive hiccup on my local Windows 2008 Server, I was more inclined to consider an external hosting options.  And one of my friends already uses Amazon hosting for at least 4 years now.  So I decided to invest some time to explore this option.   What is Covered Here? – Terminology – Pricing – How to  extract your original ADMIN password – How to open a Custom Port on My Amazon Server – How to transfer files using RDP – How to launch an instance with Instance Store – What if I am Using SQL Express and need a regular D/B Backup…

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SQL Error 80004005 – “Specified SQL server not found” – Solved

2017/10/08
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Modified: 2017/09/16
SQL CFG Manager - Enable TCPIP

  Environment ASP or ASP.NET site is running on IIS 7.5. SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (10.50.1600.1) running on Windows 2008 Server R2 (W2K8 R2) x64.     Problem You will see one of two errors depending on whether you dealing with ASP or ASP.NET sites. On ASP.NET sites you will see  “Server Error – Error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified” Server Error in '/YourApps' Application. A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26…

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