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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CMS / Server setup to easily host multiple sites [closed]
I'm looking for a simple CMS to use for a bunch of micro sites. These are generally sites that are only ever a few pages and are often for friends or simple microsites for work.
What I really want is ...
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The proper term for Hosting a P2V image
I have a legacy system that has been converted P2V style to a virtual machine image. What is the proper term for a hosting solution that will use the image I have created?
For some reason I am ...
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Moving all internal servers to the cloud
Background
One of my clients is an IT-dependent workflow-driven law firm with about 50 seats. They have been audited by one of their clients (an FSA regulated mortgage lender) and told that their ...
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Changing DNS when I have different email and web hosts
I've just built a new site on a NEW host at this domain www.new-domain.com
The current live site is at a different domain www.old-domain.com and different host
I want www.old-domain.com to redirect ...
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How do I get the internet speed that of a hosting company? [closed]
I own a popular website, heavy on traffic and space.
I can't solely trust my hosting company with backups, plus - hardware is expensive to rent. So I am looking into hosting the website in-house. I ...
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DNS Error Randomly Takes Down Site All Day [closed]
I need some help on why one of my sites constantly goes offline and back online all day like 30 times a day!. The downtime varies from 10 Minutes to 55 Minutes and its really affecting me. I have ...
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How to share domain name with multiple servers?
I have a website on shared hosting and would like to setup another host (semi-dedicated server) and use the same domain name as the shared hosting.
Is it possible to have two separate servers share ...
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Website has become slower on a VPS, was much fast on a shared host. What's wrong?
My shared host suspended my website stating system overload, so I moved my website to a VPS which has 4GB RAM. But for some reason the website has become very slow.
This is the vmstat output -
procs ...
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What different is there between Snapshot and backup hyper-v vps?
What different is there between Snapshot hyper-v vps and backup hyper-v vps ? can I restore my vps from a Snapshot ?
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Script to search out outdated/insecure OSS LAMP applications on web server
Some time ago I ran across a script that reported outdated/insecure versions of Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, OS Commerce, etc on a server. It did this by traversing the file system and looking for ...
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Why are some users still using the old DNS records?
I moved from my reseller hosting to a VPS about a month ago now. I transferred a bunch of client accounts and changed the nameservers on their domain names to match the new server. All of the accounts ...
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GoDaddy parker site when viewing site on mobile phone
I have this URL hosted on GoDaddy: http://timkl.com
When I view it in Chrome on my Desktop it works fine.
However when I view it on a mobile phone, I get a GoDaddy parker site.
I'm flummoxed, what ...
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can't see hosted website
I cant get access to website hosted by my PC.
when I type my ip for ex 83.12.12.123/website.html I get error
Object Not Found
The requested URL '/website.html' was not found on the RomPager ...
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VPS hosting for a user-generated content site like fmylife.com?
I'm in the process of creating my very first website and I wanted to make a clone of fmylife.com and bought a script called fmyscript for that purpose.
The requirements to run fmyscript are as ...
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How to point domain names to a windows server 2008 Web Edition and manage subdomains ect
I really don't know where to go with this as I don't normally have to sort domains out on this level. Hers is what I want and have:
I am using Windows Server 2008 Web Edition (so no DNS Role).
...
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In what country should I host my web app? [closed]
// I'm not sure if this is the right QA site, but I will just have a try
I'm currently developing a web app that aims at an international audience and that will have an english interface. I'm living ...
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Need some advice on a deployment
So I am about to get started deploying a complicated infrastructure as a hosting environment for several high traffic sites. I will be using ec2 for the servers and other different services from AWS. ...
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Dedicated server hosting with your own server
Is that possible?
I notice that monthly prices go up when the more powerful your server.
I'd like to avoid the raise in pricing by using my own home-built rackable-server. I would like to send my ...
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How Long Do DNS Records Take to Propagate when Swapping Data Centers, and How Should I Do It?
We have hosted a site on a particular data center. Now we would like to change it to another data-center.
What is the best way to migrate my web-server, and what is the correct way to update my DNS ...
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DiscountASP.NET/shared hosting [closed]
I am in the process of trying to source an ASP.NET MVC3/SQL2008 host and think I'm happy with DiscountASP.NET however I have a few questions which I can't seem to find answers to:
1) What sort of CPU ...
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What are the benefits of having an unique IP address?
I just signed up with DreamHost VPS, and their sign-up process offered an unique IP address for an additional ~$4/mo.
I know what IP addresses are. Why would this uniqueness matter? Visitors are ...
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Deleted file from server using cuteftp.No local backup.How to restore
Files on server is deleted from my windows hosting server (Dedicated Hosting Server -Leaseweb.com).
I deleted files using cuteFTP.Can i recover files by logging in to my dedicated server remotely.
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How does Dreamhost Restrict User Accounts?
Browsing around my shared hosting account on Dreamhost, I noticed that I could not create users if the name is already taken. I can cd /home/username if I created the username, but I can't cd ...
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How much should I charge for setting up a client web server? [closed]
I have quite the eccentric client who wants to move all his ecommerce websites (about 5-10, all PHP/MySQL) to his own web server that I'm supposed to build. He doesn't want to hear anything about VPS ...
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What ways to host a service are there except owning a server or renting a cloud service virtual machine? [closed]
Suppose I want to host some web-service - a bunch of code that will accept HTTP requests, do something useful and serve results as web pages.
AFAIK there're two options. I could buy a server and host ...
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Hosted fault-tolerant (replicated) memcache solution in amazon ec2 cloud?
does anyone offer a fault-tolerant (replicated) memcache solution that is hosted in amazon ec2, needs zero maintenance and works with providing just one IP?
I know that amazon offers ElastiCache. But ...
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Data storage solutions for rapidly running out of space [closed]
I have 2 web servers (1 live and other backup), the issue I have is our storage is rapidly running out.
All the data on the server is used by our customers and new documents are uploaded to the ...
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.net and php on same host?
I apologise if this is an idiot question but I've not had much expertise in this area.
I have a php website which needs to work under the same domain name as .net website, how can I go about ...
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Wkhtmltopdf on shared hosting (execute)
I use Wkhtmltopdf at the moment, and installed it on my shared hosting.
I found out that my shared hosting does not support to op exec files.
Is it possible to run Wkhtmltopdf on my shared server in ...
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AWS Large Instance: /mnt does not show all the space that should be available
I just created a Large (m1.large) 64 bit instance which comes with 850 GB instance storage. Look at the Large Instance http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
A 'df -h' from the root folder gives ...
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How to set up the CNAME in DNS zone record to work with Unbounce
I'm trying to run split testing on some landing pages I "designed" with Unbounce, but it requires that I set the CNAME record for my domain/sub-domain and I'm having trouble figuring out what is the ...
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Just got (Array Networks) SPX2000. What now? [closed]
I do quite a bit of webdesign and have always wanted to host my own sites and custom servers that I make in C#. Today, somebody just gave me an "Array Networks SPX2000". It came with just the power ...
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DNS records to have website on different server
I've been asked by my client to set up their website on a different server to where their domain currently points to. They have their email and the domain name hosted with one company at the moment ...
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2answers
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Naming convention for multiple sites hosted on a single dedicated server
I have several sites and several friends' sites I plan on hosting on my dedicated server (most are already established, but on a shared hosting service).
Is there a good and/or standard naming ...
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DNS foward request to our server
Hello we are hosting here own web site. We got our own DNS server.
I remark that some site whoe are not our web site, direct our Web server and MX records on our mail server.
It's there a way to ...
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List of bare minimum services needed to run WCF, SQL Server 2008 and IIS 7 on Windows 2008 R2 box
List of bare minimum services needed to run WCF, SQL Server 2008 and IIS 7 on Windows 2008 R2 box
Situation
We provide Finance products on Windows Platforms.
We are migrating our technology stack ...
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Securing a hosting with SSL
I've got a hosting server (Windows Server 2008 + IIS7) where I'm hosting tens of sites... some of them need to be secured with SSL.
For now I've opened a new IP and certificate for each such site - ...
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Cloud storage options for client downloads
I'm looking for a way to distribute sample files to clients.
Requirement is that it's (relatively) simple to upload files, a link can be sent to a client who can download the file with a browser, the ...
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Email Hosting Service [closed]
Due to my tendency to transform my webservers into a messy playground, I need to move my client's emails into an external server dedicated to that subject. I never worked with a service like this, so ...
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Website integration: Frame, redirect or virtual domain?
I'm overwhelmed by the many choices one has in website design. I'm probalbly asking something really easy to set up, but since I don't have any experience, I'm looking for help.
Current Setup
I've ...
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Using mod_rewrite as a stand-in for VirtualHosts to host two domains on one GoDaddy hosting account
I'm trying to do something like VirtualHosts using mod_rewrite on a GoDaddy hosted site. I have a single hosting account and two domains, a.com and b.com. I want requests for b.com/document.html to be ...
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1 domain name, 2 servers (one for web hosting, one for email)
I help out a charity with web development and any tech related things and out setup was (until recently):
domain purchased from one company (123-reg)
web hosting + email provided by another company ...
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Migrating one (addon) domain from an account in Cpanel
I'm looking for a best solution to make migration for domain (let's call it 2.com) that is addon domain to an account hosted with Cpanel.
Situation is this - user has one hosting account on ...
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Best place to host a moderately CPU intensive Django WSGI app
I recently made a web app with Django, and (in development mode, where I've been using it), it works great. I'm an academic and need to quickly find hosting for my app somewhere so that I can submit ...
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European cloud hosting provider [closed]
I'm trying to find a good european cloud hosting provider. For legal reasons we can not host our service in the US or with an american company operating in the European union (rackspace).
All we want ...
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Setup a good game servers? [closed]
I have a very bad experience in setting up a game server. My fail experience was that I put all the servers into one (mail, database, game and web server). In the end, mail server did not handle mails ...
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What should I consider when offering my clients to host their websites on my VPS?
In the past, whenever I had a client who needed a website (usually simple PHP stuff), I always pointed them to a shared hosting provider to host their website.
However I'm always running into ...
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Can I use a CNAME to point to a 3rd Parties NS Servers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
In DNS can an IN NS point to a CNAME?
I am in the process of migrating hosting providers.
Currently I have significant number of domains pointed at my current NS ...
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Does the number of files slow down the server?
Having numerous files will obviously slow down the OS; but how much this problem is serious? Consider that the files have been well distributed over multi-level folders. Does still the number of files ...
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How to take full ownership of an IP address?
My business is... troublesome.
What I do is legal in every country on earth, but some people don't like it, and make it so tough on my poor ISPs that I am forced to go looking for new providers more ...
