DNS is the Domain Name System, a hierarchical, distributed database where the keys are domain names.
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Add domain to VPS
I have a VPS server running Ubuntu 11.04 with webmin installed on it. How can I add my example.com domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?
Thanks.
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Can I host a website on a different address to the webmail?
I have what is to me an unusual situation.
I have a client for whom I have built a website which I will be hosting, they have been using their domain name for their email addresses for a long period ...
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Google Blogger Website CName and/or Text File Issues
I have a blogger Blog website and I would like to have it show up on my company website. I have read a couple articles out there on how to do it. A hand full of them talk about using FTP which is old ...
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Files uploaded to hosting account but DNS is not finding the new files
I got a new domain http://alfer-ks.com. I have upload files to the server using cPanel, but when I try to load the website, it just shows the cPanel default page, which shows that Apache is running ...
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Should I use a domain name registrar's free DNS hosting, or host DNS servers with another company?
Should I use my domain name registrar's free DNS hosting service, or host DNS servers with another company? (or both?)
What are some advantages to using a DNS hosting company separate from the domain ...
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How to Configure Name Servers using Webmin in Unmanaged VPS on Centos
I want to configure my site's name servers and all related stuff. I'm not able to find any good documentation steps to do it straight-forwardly without understanding the natty-gritty of this. I wish I ...
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Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?
Simple question:
I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing www.mydomain.com to my Google Sites site.
I want to add another, pointing mike.mydomain.com to ...
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How to map URL to IP?
I'm completely ignorant when it comes to hosting.
Suppose I have a web application up and running on IIS 6.0 locally, and then I publish it (somehow?)
I assume the site will be accessible from ...
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subdomains apache rewrite rules
Let's say I have my web folder as public_html. In there I have a sub folder. I can view the folder at:
www.mydomain.com/sub & mydomain.com/sub
What I want is:
sub.mydomain.com
This will show ...
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How to forward non-www to www. Using Godaddy DNS Manager
so I've set www.mydomain.com to point to ghs.google.com, which correctly loads my Google site, but if you go to mydomain.com, it doesn't redirect/forward to www.mydomain.com, it just hangs. is there a ...
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Should your Nameservers be under a Different Domain
I notice that, with most of the web hosts I use, they provide nameserver addresses under their main domain (or a related domain).
For example Mediatemple provides name servers which are:
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?
If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers.
Example:
1.1.1.1 A example.com
1.1.1.2 A example.com
1.1.1.3 A example.com
But how does web ...
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Recommended Site Redundancy Options
I am developing a site for a client who is emphasizing "no downtime allowed".
Now even cloud hosting doesn't provide a 100% up-time promise, so I've been thinking about mirrored hosting, where if ...
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DNS question and Google PageRank from domains
I'm not so good at DNS at all but I do know some basics.
A while ago i have noticed, that my blog have different Page Ranks, PR 3 for domain www.example.com and PR 1 for domain example.com.
In dns ...
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Is it possible to create a 301 redirect and MX records at a naked domain?
I'm wondering since I found out that creating a CNAME and an MX record is not allowed.
I want to create a 301 redirect from example.com to www.example.com, and have email with @example.com addresses.
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Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?
I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still ...
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Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?
I'd like to host a website on Amazon S3. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both example.com and www.example.com?
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Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com?
Background
From my understanding, http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg, can help the ranking of http://mywebsite.com in a search engine, such as Google (obviously the search engine of primary concern).
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Most efficient way to forward domain.com to example.com/subfolder?
Title says my entire question. I think I saw someone forward domain.com to example.com/subfolder and have spent about a week trying to figure out how to best do this..
My goal is to have user type in ...
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Is it possible to find all subdomains for a certain domain?
a client of mine is currently hosting a web-project on one of his servers with some sub domains for previews, testing etc.
Those are really hard to guess sub domains like:
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Show other domain using DNS instead of iframe
I have two domains bought at different providers and I would like http://aaaaa.com to show http://bbbbb.com/aaaaa.
Is this possible using only DNS? Must I transfer the domain to my hosting provider?
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DNS domain redemption policy
I want to know if my registrar could have done what I expected, and if they could still fix the mistake. See QUESTIONS below.
I intentionally deleted a domain name with my host/registar, because I ...
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Is it possible to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS?
I need to use cloudflare without having them managing my DNS, My DNS server have much more options that I do need.
Instead of setting cloudflare as my dns server, I have added it as a NS record from ...
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What are different types of redirects and when to use them? [closed]
The main types I know of are:
doing a 301 redirect in htaccess, by putting few lines in the .htaccess file, all requests are automatically redirected to a new address.
doing a CNAME redirect (not ...
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Sharing one static ip for both ftp and www service
Trying to figure out how to update the Zone record and configure webserver so that one application on the webserver is accessible by public. I'm completely not good at ...
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Which way to forward alternate domains?
I have a few alternate domains that I want to point to my main domain:
Main: awesomewebsite.com
Alternates: awesomewebsite.net, awesomewebsite.co, awesomewebsite.me
Which is the best way to forward ...
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How can I route traffic between two hosting servers?
I have a web site. It is designed for two target groups of users: one from Eastern Europe, second - from USA. I also have two hosting accounts - one in USA and one in Europe.
I'd like to route the ...
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Two Web Servers - User directed to nearest [closed]
Good news, my business in the UK (offering a cloud service to customers).
is growing, and we are seeing a large increase in US customers.
However we are seeing a performance hit due to to service ...
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How to externally host a mobile website?
I've built a cool mobile website/app using JQuery Mobile. I want to offer that to clients, but I want to use my own hosting.
Here's what I want to do
If a user uses a mobile device to visit ...
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http keep-alive with multiple A/AAAA records
I'm trying to estimate the performance impact of publishing several IP-addresses for a given web-site hostname.
Do browsers choose addresses in a random order?
Do they use the same address for all ...
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DNS add-on domain setup and redirect
I have several domains which I'd like to point to another (I'll call it foo.com). A couple of things aren't entirely clear to me.
First, the DNS. I'm using Kloxo/HyperVM. Do I need to create separate ...
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Redirecting WWW.website.com to website.com
I ranked my site at Nibble.com and i was going through everything, checking for ways to improve my website, and I noticed that www.website.com was classed as a duplicate of website.com. How do I ...
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How can I host a website on a dynamically-assigned IP address?
I recently upgraded my internet to the point that it is much faster and more reliable than my current webhost. I would like to move my current domain to be hosted at home, but my IP address is ...
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Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers?
I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price.
I've looked at the usual suggestions ...
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curl to itself behind firewall
I have a server A which is configured behind a firewall and has 30.x.x.x public adress and 172.x.x.x internal address.
I'm trying to make a php Curl call from a script located on that server, to the ...
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How can i point wildcard domains to a folder in apache
I am developing an app using PHP and deploying it on Apache on the Amazon AWS environment.
This app requires to be made available to customers from their own chosen domain name?
How can i acheive ...
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Firefox Addon to override system name resolution for certain host names?
Is there any Firefox plugin that allows to change how Firefox perform name resolution? I want to override the system-wide hostname resolver to attach some IP to certain hostnames.
Let me explain. ...
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What does an asterisk/star in traceroute mean?
The below is a part of traceroute to my hosted server:
9 ae-2-2.ebr2.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.132.106) 19.433 ms 19.599 ms 19.275 ms
10 ae-72-72.csw2.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.151.141) 19.496 ...
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Pointing a godaddy domain to a rackspace windows 2008 server
Note: Question was moved here from stack overflow after being closed as not being related to programming
I've searched through a number of similar questions on stack overflow but to my surprise I ...
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Can't connect to my website
I'm unable to connect to my site http://grantschneider.com (also the site where it is hosted http://2freehosting.com) from my home computer. I'm able to access both from the office, though.
I've ...
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mirroring of the website
I have three Shared Hosting Servers (2 Linux Apache and 1 Windows)
For my (low traffic) static websites, I want to create mirror server accounts (will keep same contents) for them so I need not to ...
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How can I set up my server to also be a mail server?
I'm running apache2 on Ubuntu Server 12.04 and I have my website up and running fine with 2 virtual hosts, and I was wondering how I can set up my server to also be a mail server, preferable for both ...
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One domain name - two servers?
I am launching a website now and my boss has bought a hosting service in one webservice company, but they don't support what I need, then we bought another one where we get the support that we need. ...
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Create subdomains via C-Panel or via domain registrar?
I am a novice, so excuse me if it sounds dummy. I read a few similar questions on this topic here but they did not answer my question.
I have a personal website, hosted with C-panel control panel. ...
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How to bulk migrate domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap without downtime?
I have about 5-10 domains registered by GoDaddy. The DNS on most of these is provided by GoDaddy as well.
I'm using SOPA as an excuse to migrate away - I've hated GoDaddy for several years now, and ...
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Where can I find the most up-to-date information on my domain's name servers?
I just switched registrars for a bunch of domains and the new registrar didn't copy over my existing name servers. Now all my pages appear as "parked" domains when you visit them.
I've gone in and ...
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Which is better between changing Nameservers and changing DNS “A” Records?
I have my hosting on Godaddy and domain on another server. So I was thinking which would be a better option to point the domain to Godaddy hosting
Change the name server to that of godaddy.
Change ...
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How to manage DNS from multiple registrars in one place?
I have domains from different providers (GoDaddy, domaindotcom, namesilo, namecheap, etc)
is there any way to manage DNS from one panel?
Sometimes when move to a new hosting server, we need to change ...
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Nameserver problem
I recently bought a new VPS, and I was trying to set private nameservers in my domain cPanel.
I went ahead and added 4 A records:
ns1.mydomain.com - points to my IP
ns2.mydomain.com - points to my ...
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What nameserver should I use?
Let's say that I have site.com website that I bought at one place, but want to host on another place. I don't know what to do. Here is scenario.
I bought site.com on company that is using their own ...
