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Dedicated server or Cloud Hosting?

This is a Canonical Question about Cloud Hosting When deploying my application to the Internet: Should I chose a dedicated server, cloud hosting or a VPS? What factors should I consider when ...
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How to prevent DDOS attack impact on Netlify? (downtime + bandwith usage/cost)

Situation: React app that was initially running on a VPS A few days ago, we were the target of a DDOS attack that took the site down. During the attack, we decided to migrate to Netlify. Once ...
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Hosting diferent wordpress websites on google cloud

I've just started working at a company that creates wordpress websites for many other companies. Since I don't have much experience with both wordpress websites and google cloud. I am in need of help! ...
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Basic Understanding of Cloud Hosting (e.g. AWS EC2)

,Hi everybody. At the moment I am looking for a good way to host my MERN Stack application and found that Cloud Hosting via AWS would be a great solution. Before proceeding I wanted to clarify some ...
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How to enable incoming and outgoing world wide web traffic in IIS

Goal: Access website hosted on a remote cloud's IIS via web-browser. Case: I wanted to open my IIS server (Windows server 2012 virtual machine hosted on Google compute engine) so that the website ...
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Cannot SSH into Ubuntu 10.10 running on EC2 as new user

Please help me understand how I can solve my SSH problem: I can SSH into my EC2 instance running Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' no problem with: $ ssh -i MyEC2Key.pem [email protected]...
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Did google cloud have Singapore zone? [closed]

Based on this link Google Cloud Zones I know that Google Cloud only have one Zone in Changhua County, Taiwan. But some post in 2014 Google Cloud Asia Regions note that there are two available ...
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What NFS hosting services exist? [closed]

My situation: I manage a small business, and would like to migrate the files on our local file server to a 'cloud' service. There are a large number of 'file storage' and 'file hosting' services (S3, ...
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How to download the saved images in the Rackspace cloud server?

I wonder if someone know how could I download the saved server image in a Rackspace cloud server. I have been searching and nothing found even in the Rackspace knowledge base. I know it is stored in ...
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Migrating resources between different Azure subscriptions

I have a few questions for the Azure gurus out there. I work for a software development house and I have been asked with coming up with our Azure infrastructure. The idea I had is to set up three Pay-...
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Cheap 'n' easy AIX hosting services? [closed]

I'm working on a product that's written in generic, cross-platform-friendly Java. However, this Java component plugs into a natively-compiled, platform-specific third-party SDK. A potential customer ...
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Cloud hosting for windows domain controller, possible?

We currently host our own domain controller (small company) locally on dedicated h/w. However to mitigate disaster we're considering the use of virtualisation and cloud hosting. One thought is ...
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Azure CPU Memory And Percentage

my question is, the memory percentage seems high. We had a client say they couldn't get a response from our APIS over the weekend, and so far i can't see anything in the logs. I can see that they didn'...
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How do I share a cloud node among different Web apps hosted through Docker?

I want to have multiple Web apps hosted on the same cloud node running as separate Docker containers. The Docker setup actually isn't much of the problem for me, but the fact that only one of the Web ...
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I need a relatively cheap host, which will be able to handle sudden peaks in traffic? [closed]

We're launching a product in a few months, which will obviously have a website. Judging from our current traffic, we believe that overall traffic will probably not be that much, but we are aiming at ...
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Internaly hosted alternative to cloudbased nobackend solution like Firebase

In an environment where I can't use a cloud based service like Firebase, I'm looking for recommendation for an internally hosted nobackend solution. I could use node or meteor but really am just ...
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What is a VPU (versus CPU)?

I know that VPU stands for Virtual Processing Unit (versus CPU), but what does that mean exactly? Is it just the new terminology for referring to processor resources in a virtual server versus a ...
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How to create many cloud servers on behalf of many customers

I am trying to figure out a way to create cloud servers for customers that I wouldn't have access to. For example, if I have 100 customers, I need some type of sign up process for the user to create ...
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Virtual Machine with Two NIC's Losing Internet

Please Forgive my newbieness... I'm just a developer trying to learn a little of the hardware side. I've tried to look this question up but all results produce VMWare which I am not using. I've ...
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Which hosting provider for website whose audience spans China's Great Firewall? [closed]

We are building a website which will have a large proportion of its audience in mainland China. Another large proportion of the site's audience will be outside China. We estimate the split to be ...
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Fails to create a Cloud66 stack

I'm using Cloud66 and trying to set up a stack from my git repository. Cloud66 however returns the error: Analysis error: The space character ‘ ’ is not allowed in your database username or password ...
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Will adding CPU cores or RAM to my cloud server improve speed in my situation? [duplicate]

I have a Siteground cloud server, and I know nothing about servers. It hosts 8 websites, although 3 of them have their own dedicated IP addresses and cPanels. It's on a Linux server, but there's ...
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Inodes limit on VPS and Cloud Server

I'm currently stack with a VPS server, so I'm planning to move on a Cloud server. but I don't have enough knowledge on Linux (Centos or Ubunto server), so I asked the Cloud server provider and here ...
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ec2 volume and data

I am new to EC2 and following their tutorial. I created a t2.medium server and would like to install java/tomcat/mongodb. I read in Best Practices "Use separate Amazon EBS volumes for the ...
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Supervisor 3.1.3 installed on Cento OS 6.4 hosted on DigitalOcean giving error while adding process

I have live server on Digital Ocean with Cento OS 6.4 hosted. I am trying to install supervisor for the Laravel-5 processes. But, when I try to add the process it gives me error as undefined process. ...
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What's the difference between scaling memory and scaling instances in cloud hosting?

I've been playing around with a free account on appfog.com and this question came to mind. What's the difference between scaling memory and scaling instances? For example, what is the real world ...
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Administration of IaaS versus PaaS

Am I correct in understanding that generally IaaS (looking primarily at rackspace cloud servers) will provide a virtual server where OS updates, software updates, anti-virus, managed backups and other ...
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Website is down and unable to login via SSH / Putty on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 Digitalocean

I have a Magento website on degitalocean.com and I am unable to login via SSH or SFTP. Almost every alternate day I'm facing this problem and I have to restart my droplet via digitalocean account to ...
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S3 Static Website hosting - restricting access from IP Range

Is there way by which can we enforce the access only from a Particular IP Range for S3 Static Website hosted site ?
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Open Source Network Monitoring Primarily for Linux Cloud Environment [closed]

How are you currently monitoring your Linux network in the cloud? We run several (read 7) CentOS instances that host several websites as-well-as a couple of MySQL instances. I am trying to find an ...
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KeepAliveD, Rackspace Cloud, Unicast - both LB's enter MASTER state...?

I have set up two HAProxy Load Balancers in an Active->Passive pair. KeepAliveD will be used for failover between MASTER and BACKUP servers. Like most clouds, Multicast is not supported so I cannot ...
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How worried should I be about unsecured HTTP on a "private" network?

So I've joined a new team, which develops and operates a service available on the Internet. It's aimed at B2B use rather than consumer, although anyone can sign up for a low-tier account to check it ...
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can I keep company-purchased IP addresses when migrating to AWS (or other hosted service) [closed]

We currently run our own data center and want to migrate to AWS. Because we send a lot of email, we want to retain the IP addresses that we have purchased (they have a good reputation with ISPs) Will ...
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How to assign a reserved / static public IP Address to a virtual machine on Azure

I am running this command on Azure Power Shell to assign a reserved public IP to an existing virtual machine: PS C:\> Get-AzureVM -ServiceName sk-cs-name -Name sk-vm-name | Set-AzurePublicIP -...
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Software to record service level [closed]

I provide a cloud service (SaaS) on an Ubuntu machine and will be faced with service level agreements (SLAs) soon. I.e., we'll have to see what service level we can provide (probably on daily or ...
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Office 365: is it fully online solution (i.e. syncing isn't required)? Can it be used with other cloud storage services? [closed]

For some reason unknown I just can't find a good techical explanation of how exactly Office 365 functions, and, particularily, can I completely disable all kinds of local caching/syncing/downloading/...
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is it better to use several small machines or fewer big ones to deploy a stack? [closed]

Is it better to split the different components of a stack over several smaller machines or get 1 or 2 bigger machines and put several components on a same machine? My thought is that if I start with ...
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In cloud environment is it better to get two separate instance for mysql and php-app or get one large instance [closed]

We are using cloud environment for our web-apps, i need an expert opinion on hosting our applications. our application built on php & mysql, i want to know which is the most efficient and/or cost ...
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Understanding: cloud-server, cloud-hosting, cloud-computing, the cloud [closed]

There's a lot of buzz about these subjects and there seems little consensus on the terms. Is that just me not understanding the subject, or is there a clear meaning for each of these terms? Are there ...
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Google App Engine vertical scaling

I know Google Cloud (Google App Engine) can autoscale instances horizontally: you have 1 server with certain parameters, when it's overloaded autoscaler launches new server and balances load between ...
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Three separate VMs for webserver, database, and data crunching. Good idea? [closed]

I'm writing some quantitative marketing research software, and have a bit of a "blind leading blind" situation at work. I'm not really used to writing web apps or configuring servers; most of the ...
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Getting rid of centralised Windows server in 2014 [closed]

Some context first: I've been maintaining a Windows server for an SME for the last 10 years; the company has changed size and shape over time (5 people in 1 office, then 10 people in 2 offices, now 15 ...
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Is it realistic to host ESXi on a cloud VPS?

We are striving to avoid any on-site infrastructure at our startup. A combination local and cloud-hosted virtual machines have been working for us so far, but now we need an ESXi host as well. ...
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Planning to go for hosted dialler from UK. Call center is india and they will dial to Australia and USA [closed]

Planning to use cloud hosted dialer (megacall.com). The call Center is in India and vendor servers are in UK. Call centers will be calling Australia and USA.. Will there be any latency due to long ...
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How to manage resources in a multi-cloud service environment?

I am trying to setup an environment which will allow our development team to centrally manage all our cloud-based resources/services available. I have already looked at a variety of tools, but I am ...
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GPU (Specifically NVidia) Cloud Computing Centres [closed]

In the CPU computing world, you have giant cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. You have also smaller companies that provide dedicated hosting services. Amazon EC2 has ...
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"Mount" cloudfiles on a Linux server?

Is it possible to 'mount', for ignorance of a better term, a cloud service like as Cloud Files or S3 to a linux / ubuntu server? Ideally I'd like to be able to browse the remote location as if it ...
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CloudStack New Install / Infrastructure Questions

I’d like to set up a public cloud for web hosting (cloud shared hosting, cloud vps, cloud servers) for a new venture, using Apache CloudStack platform. ----- Question #1 ----- What is the proper way ...
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When should an org invest in a private infrastructure as opposed to a partially or fully hosted solution? [duplicate]

Not referring to militaries or governments, but for other organizations or shops that needs an IT infrastructure (who doesn't nowadays). Similar to this question, but purely in regard to hardware and/...
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Rackspace Cloud Sites: Compute Cycles exploding. Very expensive

Since last week my compute cycles (CC) went through the roof (Rackspace Cloud Sites). Normally I stay under the 10,000 cycles per month . Now this month I already have more than 75,000 compute cycles. ...