Questions tagged [hosting]
A broad term for a service where a third party "hosts" (physically stores/runs) computers, content or services that are managed and/or maintained by the customer. Questions that are specific to the current point in time (such as prices) are likely to be closed.
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Best procedure for moving from name-based to ip-based virtual hosting?
We currently use name-based virtual hosting for two websites on one IP. The DNS entries for both point to the same IP at a 3rd party web host.
We've purchased SSL certificates for both which means ...
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Is my server a relic?
I'm kind of clueless when it comes to the hardware end of things. I have a dedicated server from rackspace that runs me about $200 a month.
I host about 15 sites or so (mostly brochure-ware/PHP stuff)...
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Hosting part of a website under a different domain
I have a website where we want to move the admin portion to a different URL (for security purposes, according to the site owner). So, to make the admin section accessible only from this new domain ...
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EC2 vs VPS for hosting [closed]
I started out with Amazon EC2 as a monthly host for my project. I am running a 'small' Windows 2k8 instance with SQL server. This is the HW that I am getting:
1.7 GB memory
1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 ...
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Beginning the process of searching for dedicated server
I need help about choosing the right dedicated hosting service, one which will suite my needs, and what equipment I will need. All I can tell you is that while most of the computers will be dells ...
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What are the major issues that affect the selection of a hosting provider country?
I am in the process of setting up a number of servers and was just wondering where I should locate these servers? There are so many providers in so many countries.
So, I am just looking for some ...
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Testing and choosing a host for increase the speed
I'm going to choose a best host for increase speed and performance but I am in doubt with How I can recognize why my site is slow ? is there any way to find out why it is slow I don't want to copy all ...
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Hosting a Server Written in C++ [closed]
I want to host a server program written in C++. What are the best/easiest hosting options out there for native apps? I know for Rails there are EngineYard and Heroku. Is there something similar for ...
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What is Virtual Rack?
I was looking for a good dedicated servers hosting but I found one of the providers offering virtual rack and gave good specifications with good price too, I looked for it and all what I found is ...
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Renting a server vs buying one in an auction off Ebay?
I am currently running a 4gb PC which I've turned into a Hyper-V server on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. This isn't exactly server-spec hardware for doing dev stuff in free time. At the moment, because ...
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Is Python a commonly provided programming option for web hosting?
I am considering writing a web application in python, rather than more traditional PHP or ASP.net MVC. For my application (which will be opensource) to be useful, I need it to run in paid hosting ...
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Best Server Hosting Technology for unscaled code
Ok so i changed my question to make it more clear.
If I have a social networking site with 1000 users online at the same time what would be a better solution. A dedicated server with one box? or a ...
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Hosting providers who can do mix of virtual and physical [closed]
Looking for some suggestions on hosting providers who can provide:
Mixture of physical systems built to our specifications, as well as a virtual "cloud" service that allows dynamic growth and on ...
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Get Hosting or use my own server?
I just switched my sites over from shared hosting to what I thought was a step up ( dedicated ). One of my websites is built on Wordpress and already I am having problems with the folder permissions. ...
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Things I should look for/tread cautiously if I am moving to the cloud
What should I be looking out for when moving to a cloud like Rackspace? Another user at serverfault had issues like compute cycles (CC) exploding and I did not want to have the same experience.
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Can you recommend a free control panel app (cPanel alternative) or a special Linux distro (featuring such a panel) for a small shared web hosting? [closed]
My company CEO has decided to move 3 websites the company runs to our dedicated server (which runs CRM, accounting, e-mail etc, and is not loaded much) from a shared web hosting where they are now. I'...
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understanding how to choose a virtual private server
i want to but a vps service but i have a few questions to understand wich really fit my needs.
How many websites may i set in a vps? what are requirements to run about 30 small sites?
May i set my ...
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Should a 404 ever be used in conjunction with a 301-redirect?
I'm working with a hosting company. I need them to setup a 301 redirect for one of my pages. I really care about the ranking on the search engines for this particular page.
They claim that in order ...
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Recommend a reasonably priced email provider?
We have around 50 domains that aren't core/key business but ideally we want to be able to have the MX records pointing to someone to accept mail for the following:
abuse@ and postmaster@ for all the ...
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Check if website is down
My webhost seems to go down more often lately. This is really annoying and right now I don't know how often this happens. To be able to check if my website is offline I need something (maybe an ...
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Host small office email on Snow Leopard Server or external host company?
I have a network of about 30 users. We are migrating from a Windows environment to Macs. We currently have a Windows 2003 server hosting the email accounts with the help of an external spam filter. ...
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Homebrew large data cluster access for 2 user levels?
The title probably makes little sense, so here is an example.
I have a file hosting site, that serves a large amount of semi-randomly accessed files.
The setup is as follows:
High horsepower front-...
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Productive uses for an idle web server?
I have been renting a Windows 2008-based Virtual Server from 1&1 for the past few years. It is located in a well-connected server farm, has 10 gigs of space, and unlimited Traffic. I used to host ...
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Dedicated hosting provider in Ireland [closed]
I am looking for a decent dedicated (or cloud) host in Ireland. Can you recommend someone or share your experience?
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Getting rid of Plesk on a VPS [closed]
I've been using a relatively expensive VPS for hosting about 30 domains and I want to migrate to a cheaper one, without Plesk. Both use CentOS.
My users will not care, they don't use Plesk anyway.
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what is an A record and how it is related to DNS?
i dont know what A records do.
and are they necessary for a web server to host multiple domains and how are they related to DNS?
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Cheapest Place to Get Windows Server Licenses for Hosting [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing question?
So I have a hosting business and I tired of paying M$ an up front payment for Windows Server Web 2008, it screws up the ...
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CNAME redirection record
I just registered a domain name (say http://www.abc.com ).
I also have a website with content on it (say http://www.freehost.com/mywebsite).
I would like to redirect visitors that type http://www....
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Mail Hosting with Shell Access
I'm looking for an email host (ideally one who will allow me to use my own domain) that will give me shell (ssh) access to my mail. A lot of webhosts provide shell access, but only to the file ...
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How can I forward a specific google apps mail account to a specific mail server?
I've recently migrated a non-profit to google apps but I'm trying to keep the existing mailman listserv running. The problem is that all mail sent to @mydomain is now sent to google apps, but I'd like ...
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Domain Transfer
I'm going a bit crazy. I have a domain name, buzzonstage.com, registered with GoDaddy(not my choice lol) and the hosting is with linode. I set the nameservers at GoDaddy to ns1.linode.com, ns2....
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How do sites such as Google achieve high availability? [closed]
As I understand it, when I open a website such as Google, the hostname is looked up and my browser uses the resulting IP address to connect to the server and retrieve the page.
However, how do high ...
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dig returns status of refused?
I am dealing with a barrel of weasels on this one. Ad agency registered the domain in mid-August with Network Solutions. 72 hours ago I updated the DNS to point to a host provided by an associate of ...
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All my domain's outgoing mail received as spam in gmail/yahoo/hotmail [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
All my domain's outgoing mail received as spam in gmail/yahoo/hotmail
All my domain's outgoing mail received as spam. I am not bulk emailing or anything like that. I know ...
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Good GUI for creating only a nameserver on a VPS [closed]
I want to run my own nameserver for all my domain and client. Now I have a very small OpenVZ VPS which can run debian or centos.
Now I am a windows user, so I am not that good with SSH and text ...
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What's the difference between Rackspace Cloud Servers and Rackspace Cloud Sites? [closed]
I'm looking to host a video-centric PHP site. Video will be served from CDN.
What does Cloud Site's $150/mo get you?
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Seems like with cloud site you get:
web server that's ready to go
a web-...
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ASP.NET Future on linux?
I was wondering. What do you guys think about ASP.NET future on linux? I dont know much about IIS and i know some things about linux. I dont want to program anything in php and while searching for ...
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Do we have to be PCI compliant to store Social Security Numbers in our hosted database?
Do we have to be PCI compliant to store Social Security Numbers in our hosted database? We are hosting a CRM database for nonprofits in South Carolina.
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Host multiple websites from Web Server 2008 R2
I am moving our company's website to a colo web server running Web Server 2008 R2. We will be looking to host multiple sites from this server that are for public/customer viewing as well as other ...
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Specifying virtual machine hosting requirements?
Currently, our customers install our application (services, database, etc.). Some of our customers are asking us to host it for them.
We're looking into hosting providers, but I'm not sure how to ...
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How one user can access our server and copy file there
Can anyone explain how an user can access my hosting account and then upload files there. Is it because I dont change my ftp details frequenltly. Because recently I found in all my domains a sample ...
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How do big internet shops manage hosting services provisioning and configuration?
We're starting to expand our hosting business and I'm wondering how big hosting providers manage their services, like creating directory structures and configurations in email servers, web servers, db ...
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Using the same service for hosting AND domain name registration?
We're having a site setup at a very good hosting provider, but I'm thinking if its a good idea to transfer the domain name to them as well.
On the pros side, it should be faster + less hassle from ...
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Setting up a server / What should be the hostname?
I'm purchasing a server from a hosting provider and the order form is asking for the following pieces of information:
Hostname eg. server1(.yourdomain.com)
NS1 Prefix eg. ns1(.yourdomain.com)
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Multiple instances of Apache
I'm running a VPS and have several websites being served under 1 Apache instance. Issue with this is that I'm working on a Django application which would probably require me to restart Apache. Is ...
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Site hacked - any ideas of what to do, where to look?
A site I host was recently hacked. The index page had the following code added to the bottom (just above the closing body tag):
<script language="javascript">document.write('<div style="...
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Hosting for the Fastest Download Speeds
Hello I'm developing an iPhone app that downloads some reasonably chunky database files (10M-50M) my current server is hosted in the US, I am based in the UK, my download speeds aren't great, ...
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Saas application, is managing seperate mysql db's per client pretty straight forward?
When it comes to managing a database, its obviously easier to manage a single database that has all customer data in it (multi-tenant).
If I was to create the application with a single client in mind,...
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Suggestions for reliable cheap VPS ($10)? [closed]
Does anyone have suggestions on reliable and cheap VPSes (up to around $10 each)? I found this link on a related question and was wondering if anyone had reviews for these services or others:
http://...
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Canadian enterprise level hosting
A client is looking to move some of their servers from a Canadian west coast DC, to another provider due to some poor vendor response times.
The requirements are:
Canadian Based
Hardware is fully ...