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How do I use let's encrypt with an Azure Storage Static Site/Azure CDN

i am working on hosting a static site in Azure Blob Storage. With an azure cdn it is possible to have a custom hostname and SSL, which suits my needs. I would like to use let's encrypt and make it ...
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Getting IP suitable for email server

I am trying to use a VPS to host an email server using postfix. OpenDKIM and certbot was used to get DomainKeys and TLS. The data center setup reverse DNS. In case it matters, the IP is 188.68.231.119....
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DNS: Access hosted servers tied to 3rd party domain instead of HOSTS

We are accessing some hosted servers (ex. dev1.hostco.tld, test1.hosted.tld, prod1.hosted.com, bakdev1.hosted.tld, baktest1.hosted.tld, bakprod1.hosted.tld) across a VPN tunnel, that are tied to the ...
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Data Cache (XCache, APC, memcached, etc) on shared hosting / privacy considerations

I have one question. How appropriate is to use on shared hosting a cache system for data? I mean as far as I know the data is written in a shared data cache (not private for each user) across all ...
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Force Apache to kill its children after lost connection ("stop button" pressed)

How can I make Apache kill the CGI's that it has spawned, after the client (browser) has closed the connection? I got a couple of CGI's that perform long-running operations and send output every 15 ...
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choosing hosting for custom ecommerce site, shared, dedicated, what to look for?

I have (almost) developed website for my client and now need to decide on hosting. Most of the users of the site will be located in Australia, and so am I and my client. Now, I want to consider ...
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Changing hosting server to a website without having the certificate from the CA

I have been helping a friend who published a wordpress webpage developed by a company he contacted that on production has a really poor performance, to fix this I created a react static web page which ...
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How to open communication PYTHON socket with a SERVER SOCKET on AWS EC2 to a CLIENT SOCKET on my local pc?

Sorry my english is not good I want to established connexion from my client socket on my local pc to a host server socket on AWS EC2 instance. I'm trying to follow suggestions from here and code from ...
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Hosting resource intensive PHP cron jobs

My website is currently running on a VPS. To make the site work, I have a number of resource intensive cron jobs - and when they are running, my site stop responding/becomes incredible slow. I'm ...
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Cannot get a response from host, but only from my internet connection

I'm trying to connect to a website that I own. It's a domain that points to a shopify store. The browser just hangs when attempting to load the site. When I issue a request using curl I get the ...
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How to host an app for multiple customers?

I built a web app with NextJS that I sell b2b, where users (my clients customers) can check in to a location. They provide their name and get a check in number. The app shows client related ...
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Prevent access from add-on domain root to other folders

I've been trying to figure out if add-on domains can be prevented from accessing folders outside its specified root folder. I host multiple websites on one big hosting plan and am trying to avoid a ...
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HIDS: Need a trip wire for a honeypot, best approach?

We run a small VPS hosting company, each vps is based on a fixed 18.04 template. We run a honeypot, a fallow server, to verify the template continues to be secure. We look at it probably once a month ...
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IMAP email not persisting read status and reply status - what could be the likely cause?

So I have the following setup: IMAP mail from TransIP (a pretty big host in the Netherlands) Thunderbird on my PC Mail on IOS phone Frequently when I'm reading emails on my PC they are being marked ...
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All administrator page login are not working and showing "Service Unavailable"

Let assume I have websites aaa.com, bbb.com and ccc.com aaa.com - working. aaa.com/about - working. aaa.com/services - working. aaa.com/administrator - Showing the below error message. "Service ...
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How to edit my host file to enable three Cassandra nodes?

This is my /etc/host cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 jholmes-System-Product-Name My nodetool status nodetool --host 127.0.0.1 status Datacenter: datacenter1 ======================= ...
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Optimize Apache serving as backend behind Nginx

Apache (2.4.x) is a well known server and performance optimization is widely discussed and well documented. Nevertheless, for those cases where Apache is reverse proxied (behind Nginx or other any ...
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Exim restrict send emails only from predefined list of emails

I use Exim MTA. I need to restrict hosting (lamp) send emails only from predefined list "From:" emails per user to prevent massive spam if website was hacked. Users use php to send emails via builtin ...
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Which PHP setup should I use for a shared hosting environment (fpm, fcgi, proxy, module)?

I'm currently working on a web hosting management panel for running PHP websites (like Plesk or cPanel). I was researching the best possible ways of running PHP with Apache. mod_php is out of the ...
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mpiexec won't run mpi4py script when two hosts are utilized in an MPI cluster established through LAN

So I have this other desktop PC, that serves as my server, primesystem and a laptop as my client, zerosystem that is connected to it. They both serve as my ssh-server and ssh-client respectively, and ...
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Site farm server with multiple users - best aproach

I am buliding kind a hosting server for static sites, and i am wondering is it better and for what reasons to: 1) use linux users ( i dont need ssh or something advanced function, there is only ...
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Atomatic SaaS scaling

I'm thinking about how to best setup my SaaS application for automatic scaling and have reached a step I'm unsure of how to tackle. To properly describe the problem, I better start by explaining how ...
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CentOS 6.5 Server Lockup

Today one of our CentOS 6.5 KVM nodes from OVH crashed after 46 days of uptime and we were unable to find the reason why, we had this issue before with the OVH kernel on another server but this one is ...
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Migrating email host from local MS Exchange to 3rd-party host

This may be a simple question, but so far I've had trouble finding any help that corresponds well to my specific situation. The very small business I work for is planning on "phasing out" the local ...
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How can i detect and diagnose local network problems on a multi-server environment?

I'm a software engineer who trying to detect (and solve if possible) weird local networking problems since 2 weeks on multi-server hosting environment. We bought 3 dedicated boxes with 32GB ram 8 ...
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Server dropping all clients at intervals

I administrate large-scale servers for Minecraft: Pocket Edition. For the past couple of months, I have had the issue where at intervals the server will close all active connections to it (VNC and in-...
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How can I set up a load balancer to direct all Search Engine Bot traffic to one server?

We have a simple load balancer set up on Rackspace to 3 web server nodes. After reviewing our traffic and expenses, the largest bandwidth hog is Google Bot. Since on Rackspace we pay for bandwidth ...
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Change domain (vhost?) on Gandi simple hosting

I have a Gandi Simple Hosting account and a domain (domain 1) which I also registered through Gandi. Gandi hosting is unfamiliar to me as it uses instances that don't have IP addresses. Currently I ...
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Reach self hosted server from LAN

I have a self hosted server with Apache2 pointed with the domain example.com. I have also some virtual servers www.example.com, cloud.examle.com, etc. This server is in my LAN, and when I try to acces ...
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Windows Server 2008 - Setting Up DNS and Web Server (IIS) to host personal website?

Okay, I have a server, (Windows Server 2008 R2 to be more precise) and I have installed PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, for web hosting purposes. I have set up a static ip address internally. I have ...
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Apache 2.2 mod-vhost-alias with multiple document roots

I’m a beginner in working with apache and in need of your help. My task is to build a dynamic webserver (Debian 6.0.4, Apache 2.2, one public IP) which can host multiple websites and files (like ...
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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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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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Server Vs Desktop vs Hosted for RAM Intensive, Low Traffic Application Serving Response to API

We are a startup looking at putting our semantic search system for resumes live. The system needs to provide responses to api queries for resume search by running through inverted index data of size ...
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categorize website based on visitors count

my site is having around 300 unique visits/5000 pageviews per day. i want to know how many unique visits/page views (approx.) a site should have to be called low , moderate and high traffic website. ...
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How to automate LAMP+mail domains deployment?

We manage our more-or-less standard set of systems to do the usual hosting business: authoritative dns servers Mail eXchangers (with the first stage of spam filtering) mail scanning server (amavisd ...
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Hosting provider recommendation for site to accomodate a php http proxy

Recently discovered my current hosting provider doesn't allow php proxys. Unfortunately for a site I'm building, there is no other option (Flash based web application to consume Twitter API) Can ...
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Highly random PostgreSQL database host

We're working with PostgreSQL very successfully on a moderately large project (approximately 12GB of data in our working set) Currently we're on a 2GB RAM machine with 7200RPM disks. You can imagine ...
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To host a medium to high traffic website would I be better off purchasing 1x32-64 core XEON/EPYIC Server or 20x older i5/i7 desktop quadcore machines?

I'm looking to host a website that could get anywhere between 200-20,000 active users. I'm wondering if I should buy a modern dedicated server with dual socket and a lot of cores (32-120) to run ...
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TLS 1.2 IIS hosted ssl sends reply 403.7 to Firefox but 200 to Postman on one server

I have an issue with IIS on Windows Server 2019 and TLS 1.2. I replaced the ROOT CA, and there are new installed trusted root certificates. Now on IIS i have some sites that require ssl is set to true....
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Unexplained DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

I have a website hosted on http://app.mytender.io. It works half the time, but the other time I get DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN. The DNS entries are done in the hosted zone of AWS, and all looks ...
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Hosting subdomains on external Windows Server - Need advice on how to proceed

Would appreciate it if someone can direct me to the right approach to do further research and set up a secondary server hosting subdomains. I've got a couple of dedicated servers, all Linux, and a ...
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Website Hosting Error after Google Cloud Trial Ended

Issue: My website has a hosting error. It was working while I was using a free trial with google cloud and when the trial ended settings changed and the website hasn't been working since. I'm using a ...
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Moving host from windows 2008 to windows 2022

I am trying to change the host of my website. (Windows 2008 IIS moving to Windows 2022). We are stuck with IIS cause the site runs in classic asp. I need to move 3.5 million files from one remote Host ...
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BIND MySQL / MyDNS

Good afternoon, after successfully failing to ask that Question on Stackoverflow, I have to post it here. Problem still exists. I need your power for another project. I want to have a DNS-Server, wich ...
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Access a Docker container remotely using my domain

I have a computer running Debian 11 and I’m trying to set up Supabase self-hosting. The Supabase official documentation only goes as far as starting the Docker containers and accessing them from http:/...
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Use "root" to install server and panel or install using another admin "user"

I have a website and some subdomains installed on Ubuntu server. I also have cron jobs running. webserver is OpenLiteSpeed and Panel is CyberPanel. I have a "root" user. And an admin "...
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Hosting .NET Core Razor Application on Ubuntu 20.04 with NGINX

I have started trying to self host some projects to get a better understanding of the Networking/Hosting principles and I have been having an issue with hosting a .NET CORE app in Visual Studio ...
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Have godaddy point to specific path on custom ip

I have an ec2 machine running nginx. It has a lot of projects and typically I access it via: https://ai.mydomain.com/myproject One of these projects is spinning out to be separate. Assuming the ip was ...
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Forwarding emails while keeping From header intact

What I want to achieve is mails sent to a specific user on my domain get forwarded to "subscribed" addresses I manage while preserving sender information and extending that with forwarding ...
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