In the web hosting industry, a dedicated server refers to a server which is leased in its entirety to a single customer, usually an individual or small business.
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Server co-location in Hong Kong [closed]
We are building a website that need to be dedicatedly hosted at some point.
We are physically located in Australia, but the colocation/dedicated hosting is ridiculously expensive in Australia, ...
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Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’
Overnight one of our servers had too many connections. Upon rebooting I now get the following via Plesk:
ERROR: PleskFatalException Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket ...
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Hard drive on server which hosts public_html folder is full. What to do?
The dedicated server is running Cent OS, has 2 x 1TB hard drives. One domain is hosted on this server. I've been uploading files to the public/html folder no problem, but I've reached the maximum ...
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Linux Server eating all my memory
I run all of my websites on a 512MB dedicated virtual server, which up until now has served me very well.
On 10 Jan, for some unknown reason my memory consumption went up from averaging around 50% to ...
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hosting country for a global site
For a high traffic global web site is it efficient to change the hosting country to out of US ?
I have to make a decision between colocating our own servers nears us vs dedicated server solution at ...
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What should I know before considering a VPS or dedicated server?
I have a plan for the future for an application and web service. The client will have an application that will send requests to a server-side Java backend that will process requests, and the server ...
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Amazon EC2 + EBS , is it financially smart for smaller startups? [closed]
I am trying to consider where to host my website and I am really sold on Amazon web services but I can't really decide if this is the course I want to take because of pricing. For one thing, I am not ...
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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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Centos Dedicated Server Security
We have clean CentOS 5.6 setup and virtualmin on it, that's all. What type of security steps would you suggest are appropriate?
http://www.wiredtree.com/supportservices/servershield.php this page ...
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Why do modern routers not require clock settings anymore?
From my Cisco books (CCNA level) I learned that in a WAN connection one router must be configured as the DCE and the other as the DTE. In real life I have a DS-3 between two routers. There are no ...
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Which one to go Dedicated server or Cloud Hosting?
We are going to outsource a solution from the data-center (for some reason), it is a web solution built on .NET and SQL server and it has scheduled night services. I searched for Cloud Hosting (IaaS) ...
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RAID10 without write-back cache = horrible write performance?
I have just provisioned a dedicated server on singlehop.
I'm running it through some tests to know what to expect performance-wise. On the I/O side (with 4 1TB disks in RAID 10) I get:
write-cache ...
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Hosting a bunch of sites on a server with Verizon DSL?
I have 50 demo sites (running on .Net 3.5) that are very resource intensive. So shared hosting or using a Virtual Server is not working out.
These sites are not production and do not use a lot of ...
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What's involved getting domain name pointed at my dedicated server (Win2008)?
I am paying for a dedicated server (2.66GHz Duo, 2GB RAM) from GoDaddy.com; it is running Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition, and I have a static IP address.
The server is being used to host a web ...
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What is this service called in English?
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I'm not familiar with server administration and am trying to find the name of a particular service offered by a Japanese website provider. The service is for a dedicated server. I have ...
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How to configure dns server for new server
Scenario:
I've purchased a new server with ABC company. In return they've given me two IP Address e.g (10.10.1.1, 20.20.1.1)
I've already a domain (www.example.com) working with a different company ...
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Will a low-end dedicated server be enough for my application?
I'm looking for a Windows server for my startup search application, and need some advice. The application downloads a few megabytes worth of text from a remote server and processes it (regular ...
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How do you keep existing server configuration when migrating from different dedicated server hosts?
I am trying to migrate from my old server (Server 1) from provider 1 to a new server (Server B) at provider 2, keeping the process as seamless as possible.
One of the first things I noticed in the ...
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Managed Hosting vs Co-location
I am working on a project that will require for us to upload huge HD video files to a server.
For simplicity, I was considering Managed Hosting at Rackspace with Cloud Files.
However, the main work ...
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Correctly configure nameservers with cPanel
I just bought a VPS with cPanel/WHM. My hosting provider gave me 3 dedicated IP addresses with my plan. I read on the internet that I should use 2 IPs for my nameservers and the other one as the main ...
