A computer program running as a service, a physical computer dedicated to running one or more such services or a software/hardware system such as a database server, file server, mail server, or print server.
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When did you decide to use a CDN? How did you measure the “success” of using a CDN?
When did you decide to use a Content Delivery Network?
How did you measure the "success" of using a CDN to help justify the additional cost?
Added a bounty. Hoping to get interesting stories from ...
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Is it worth looking into a webserver other than apache?
I've traditionally deployed my sites under apache, simply by default. I've heard things about NGinX though and I'm wondering under which conditions it would be superior. In addition to apache and ...
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6answers
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How Can I Secure A VPS Installation?
What are the basic steps to securing a VPS installation that I plan to install Webmin on to host my blogs and personal projects?
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Why chmod 777 is not secure?
chmod 777 file change the permissions of the file file to read, write,
and execute for all.
Ok, so the file can be manipulated in any way by any script on the server. But why is this not ...
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What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming (but not live) video?
What's required of a web server in order to offer up streaming video? Where would you start?
Edit: Let's assume it is not real-time or live streaming, just canned videos.
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6answers
953 views
Cloud hosting vs dedicated hosting: advantages and disadvantages
I'm currently looking for a hosting company that can provide a very solid service with a 100% SLA.
In the search both cloud hosting and managed dedicated hosting have come up. (I'd rather not manage ...
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2answers
170 views
what would happen to my domains if my domain provider company bankrupted
I am thinking to transfer all my domains to one registerer so that the control will be easy.
But I am a little bit worried about the following question;
what would happen to my domains if my domain ...
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How can I update my site without forcing users to wait?
Downtime is inconvenient for users and currently they have to wait any time a site's engine is being upgraded. Additionally, when using off-the-shelf scripts there's a risk that a setting change won't ...
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Fast, Cheap, Dedicated Hosting [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm looking for dedicated hosting with at least 1GB of RAM that doesn't hurt the wallet too much. Specifically it ...
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How to find who's accessing my server? My server is Ubuntu
I want to know all the people who access my server, is there a log that shows when and how the people access my server?
--EDIT--
Sorry for not providing any more details awhile ago. My server is ...
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1answer
244 views
Disqus-like comment server
I'm looking at setting up a blog, and I think I want to go the static website compiler route, rather than the perhaps more conventional Wordpress route. I'm looking at using blogofile, but could use ...
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3answers
291 views
Dedicated Hosting 101
I've been running small websites for years, but recently developed a site that is attracting more traffic than expected. My shared web hosting provider has warned me that this is causing a high load ...
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3answers
159 views
Suggestions on a Music Server
We have been using gnump3d as the music server for some 3 years in our college. But as of now the development of it has stopped and it is not that much reliable anymore, as it crashes whenever the ...
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3answers
591 views
Server Space / Server Cost
Okay basically, I want to know some details about how much it would cost to buy a web server for what I want to do.
The site we're making is going to accept uploads from users. A LOT of uploads. How ...
4
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6answers
303 views
Web Hosting Advice for Project [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I am working on a project that will be released as open source in the latter part of the year. I am starting to think ...
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4answers
6k views
How to host a single website on multiple servers?
I'm planning on releasing an iOS app that downloads video from my server. If hundreds of people on the launch day try to do this, then my website and the services that my server provides will clearly ...
4
votes
2answers
5k views
How can I diagnose an Internal Server Error?
I was trying to host a zend-framework project on new host provider.
After uploading everything and configuring the database connection I have encountered Internal Server Error message. My service ...
4
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2answers
298 views
How would I tell if a prospective client website is under DDoS attack?
I have a person asking me whether the DDoS Mitigation Service they're using is worth it. This is out of my expertise, but clearly at some point someone sold this service to the client.
Assuming I ...
4
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1answer
224 views
Single IP multiple servers
I have seen that some IPs are tied to multiple servers (physical machines). Example: check the ping times of one of GoDaddy's nameservers:
...
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2answers
382 views
how can I see who is connecting to my websites on my server and possibly their ips?
1) How can I know how many people is connected to the server in a specific moment (or previous hours of the day). (Even in real-time)
2) How can I know which one of the websites on my server they are ...
4
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1answer
266 views
Apache KeepAlive - why should I ever need it?
I've read several blogs about turning KeepAlive off in apache. When I had it turned on, and a spike in traffic, people started timing out, or had to wait +10 seconds for a page load. However, when I ...
4
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2answers
294 views
Installing Ruby on Rails without access to command line
I'm VERY new to this whole web dev thing but I can program and I liked Ruby when I used it before.
Now, I've got web hosting and a domain and a site on there that's currently ran under Joomla but ...
4
votes
1answer
72 views
What should you do differently when designing websites for an embedded web server
When designing a website to be accessed from an embedded webserver such as KLone, what do you need to do differently compared to a 'standard' web server. I'm talking about considerations at the front ...
4
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1answer
103 views
How to professionally update your server configuration
I've installed several websites on my Ubuntu server and I need now to add an extension and some modules to my php configuration file.
Since I have some e-commerce websites I was wondering if I should ...
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2answers
185 views
How do I edit/modify a file on a webserver using php file in the same location? [closed]
I have an XML file on my server. In the same directory I have a PHP file which modifies the content of the XML and saves it. In this, the save part doesn't work. In my knowledge the code is alright ...
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5answers
1k views
Does it matter where a server's physical location is?
I am located in the UK, and most of my client's are also in the UK, however I find some of the products available in the US to be easier to use, I won't name specific companies, but the pricepoint and ...
3
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2answers
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Is there additional overhead for status code 500s?
We have these web applications that require specific information in a query string. If that information is not provided, the applications throw an error. It seems to me that we should explicitly ...
3
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2answers
417 views
Good Book for Managing a Linux Web Server?
I'm being thrust into the role of managing my own web server. I will have access to some managed support, but I need a comprehensive resource I can turn to that covers: command line basics, apache and ...
3
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1answer
54 views
How do you register a private name server?
I have moved my website http://technojourney.com recently from VPS to Dedicated Server. I have been given private name servers. I have added it as child name server and also have added A records. Yet, ...
3
votes
2answers
107 views
Traffic fall after a server problem
I have a website from which I analyse the traffic with Google analytics.
Day after day the traffic (mainly from Google SE) incresed until I get a problem with my server.
For one day the server has ...
3
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3answers
978 views
Where to store large amounts of images for my site?
If i would want to deploy a site, like ebay, where people will be able to sell something, i would need to store large amounts of images, like many thausends of them and i would need to display about ...
3
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1answer
878 views
How to diagnose slow loading web pages?
Pages at my domain sometimes load very slow.
The domain is registered at 101domain, server is in Europe.
Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=60
Reply from 91.185.209.164: bytes=32 ...
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4answers
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One domain, multiple IP addresses
I have a domain-name, and I want to host the website on two servers. One server is located in Europe and one in Asia. How can you route European people to the European server and Asian people to the ...
3
votes
2answers
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Finding/hiring help with server administration
I need to install the fileinfo extension for PHP on my server. My hosting service does not support help with this. I know I could learn it and do it myself, but since I am an independent contractor ...
3
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2answers
46 views
Turning off Webalizer and/or AW Stats
On our dedicated server, we have AW Stats and Webalizer both running.
I see I can turn them off in WHM.
We use Google Analytics, but also AW Stats sometimes. We never use Webzlier. My question is: ...
3
votes
1answer
100 views
Difficult Client wants me to deliver project before payment [closed]
I am currently working on a project for a construction company. The payment due for the final milestone is coming up and completes the entire transaction. The contract states that the entire project ...
3
votes
1answer
705 views
Do Parallels Plesk Panel 11 have free inbuilt firewall?
I am new to Linux Dedicated server hosting and plesk panel 11 , i am looking for inbuilt firewall module
. Is it comes with free in plesk 11 or i need to pay or plesk 11 doesn't support firewall?. I ...
3
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2answers
50 views
email server services for websites
I have a growing website and I don't want to deal with setting up a mail server to send emails through. Currently I am using Google Apps and sending emails via a Java program that I wrote. However, it ...
3
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1answer
61 views
Cost effective way to provide static media content
I'd like to be able to deliver around 50MB of static content, either in about 30 individual files up to 10MB or grouped into 3 compressed files, around 5k to 20k times a day. Ideally I'd like to put ...
3
votes
1answer
117 views
Dedicated server: managed hosting or manage it myself?
We're currently hosting a number of sites on a self-managed dedicated server.
Some companies, however, offer a managed dedicated server hosting service. They offer:
Roughly the same server spec
...
3
votes
2answers
228 views
How many production servers should I start with?
I'm building a site that I plan to grow to the size of SO.
I'm only planning to have one prodcuction server to start off with. This will host everything including the database.
I know it's very hard ...
3
votes
1answer
44 views
Mirroring of Apps across servers
We wish to host multiple apps across multiple servers. What we are looking for (ideally) is an existing solution which will work. For example, normally to do it we'd follow a route (for failover) ...
3
votes
2answers
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How to configure apache to allow access to subdomain on my local ip address
I would like to have others inside my local network access resources on my computer at outsideprojects.192.168.0.10. I am running Apache and have a virtual host configured so I can access it at ...
2
votes
4answers
879 views
How can i check how many users can visit my website at the same time?
i have my website on a shared webhosting account.
I would like to check how many people can visit my site at the same time without the server slowing down or crashing.
I don't have SSH, if that makes ...
2
votes
2answers
142 views
Optimizing wordpress to handle 7 times spike in traffic
My Wordpress site jumped from 3,000 visits to over 20,000 via organic traffic. How can I optimize it to handle the current load?
I know their are some brilliant minds on here. Any illumination in ...
2
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4answers
844 views
Page loading problem. Page is very slow
Regarding the domain http://www.pravninasvet.com, there is a problem where it sometimes loads fast, sometimes very slow.
The domain is registered by godaddy, the server is in Germany. But when the ...
2
votes
2answers
283 views
Should WHMCS hacking attemps that never succeed be important to me?
I have WHMCS and I use it with no problem for my hosting purposes.
Almost every 2 or 3 days, I can see a spam with malicious content submitted as a new ticket that tries to hack.
The last one was:
...
2
votes
3answers
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Will the rest of my clients be affected if google blocks a site on the same server?
I am about to take on a client who is a mutual friend of someone I know. He has a legit business, but one of his competitors somehow complained to google and got his whole site blocked.
He's ...
2
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1answer
232 views
zlib compression issues
I'm having some issues running zlib compression on my site ..
Firstly if I enable zlib compression in .htaccess using: php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler then I receive thousands of lines of the ...
2
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1answer
209 views
netblock ip - own hosting - home servers
I host 2 websites that generate a pretty substantial traffic (about 6000 unique visitors a day both). I have business Internet at home and I own one static IP from my ISP. I run my own servers. ...
