This service allows for the creation of web applications and web services that are of interest to the scientific community. Web based applications often represent better solutions compared to desktop applications, the latter entailing manual software installation, software copyright and licensing, software updates, operating systems compatibility, and finally dealing with system requirements. Many of these issues are solved by the adoption of client-server architectures where users can access services hosted on a remote machine. This includes both full-fledged web applications, available through a web browser interface, as well as lower-level services such as APIs.