Virtual Private Server - a term used by internet hosting services to refer to a virtual machine.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

0
votes
1answer
256 views

Creating Hosting Accounts in WHM on a Single IP

I've just purchased a VPS with the hope of transferring multiple shared hosting accounts onto it. The problem is that I've only got 2 IP addresses with my VPS. I can create an account and assign it ...
1
vote
1answer
20 views

Setting up VPS: How to configure name servers

So I got a VPS set up (LAMP) and have transfered a couple of sites over. Now I want to point my domain names from the old host to the new VPS host, which does not have any name servers yet. On my ...
0
votes
0answers
9 views

Create A record from the terminal

I have contracted a linux VPS and a domain (www.myproject.com). After that, in the same site from my user area, I have registered a pair of DNS (ns1.myproject.com and ns2.myproject.com) associating ...
1
vote
1answer
114 views

PHP accessible shared content between two websites on the same VPS on different domains/IPs

I have two ecommerce websites, selling music digital downloads, on the same VPS, currently using cPanel/WHM (but thinking of switching to Virtualmin). They have separate domains and IPs of course. ...
0
votes
1answer
19 views

Should I create zone for each domain that I want to host on my server

I'm setting up a web hosting on my VPS, I want to host several websites on my vps, I have two domains, domain1.com and domain2.com and a website for each hosted on iis, I know that I should add these ...
2
votes
0answers
27 views

Set nameserver in WHM with VPS that has no domain name?

I have a new VPS I want to use to manage sites on. I need to set up nameservers so that I can point the domain names to the new servers. I know nameservers usually look like ns1.example.com where ...
1
vote
1answer
95 views

“NS1” and “NS2” A records suddenly required?

I have a VPS server that I host several sites on. One of the domain names I use for a site hosted on the VPS is registered through a different company. The site was working fine until this morning ...
1
vote
4answers
102 views

Hosting a site that stores a large amount of images using asp.net MVC 4?

I am working on a website that is kinda like Flickr, for my photography course. Now every student has an account and is able to upload their photographs, which can be seen by everyone who goes onto ...
1
vote
2answers
116 views

cPanel email doesn't seem to work - error 550?

I am fairly new to the web hosting game, so bear with me :) Recently set up a VPS with cPanel and WHM. Everything is going well so far, I've created a user domain and transferred my website there, ...
1
vote
0answers
13 views

Windows hosting - Shared | VPS | Cloud [duplicate]

I'll begin with stating what I require for a new website project: ASP.NET (probably 4+) SQL Server (not fussy, probably 2008+) IIS 7 SSL Not a huge list which is nice. However, the behaviour of ...
2
votes
1answer
35 views

Unmanaged Ubuntu Server - What would I be getting myself into?

I'm considering purchasing an unmanaged VPS with a Ubuntu 12.04 server to host smaller sites that aren't very important yet. My plan would be to install webadmin and basically administrate the hosting ...
0
votes
2answers
65 views

How many SSL certificates are required?

I have the following domains, all inside one single VPS (one IP address): www.example.com classmates.com john.classmates.com mary.classmates.com blog.classmates.com If I need https for the ...
0
votes
2answers
190 views

trouble setting up dns for vps

I had registered a domain at namecheap and forwarded the DNS to my host at vps.net. The strange thing is, when I did that the site was showing up. I even uploaded files and everything was displaying ...
1
vote
0answers
18 views

What are my options for a hosted vps service with shell access? [duplicate]

Disclaimer (some folks marked this question as a duplicate): I DO NOT want suggestions for things like a hosted wordpress providers, nor am I asking what web hosting is. This question is not a ...
2
votes
2answers
382 views

Remote desktop to Ubuntu

I have a VPS server running Ubuntu OS and also have shell access to my server. I wonder is there any way to connect to Ubuntu desktop and see its UI from windows using remote desktop tools such as ...
4
votes
3answers
104 views

Multiple IP addresses to a server

I am trying to figure out the best option for web hosting of a startup business. I want to get a VPS hosting for this business and one factor that affects the price is the number of IP addresses. I ...
2
votes
3answers
649 views

how do i create name servers

I have recently signed up for a knownhost vps package. My account has been set up on their end. They want me to create ns1.outsourcingnepal.com and ns2.outsourcingnepal.com in my registar and point to ...
0
votes
2answers
335 views

DNS records: make mydomain.com work without www

I am trying to configure DNS on my domain, however, I can only get it to work with the www prefix. Right now I have the following DNS A records: @ A 123.456.789 www A ...
4
votes
3answers
1k views

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.
1
vote
2answers
412 views

Redirect to subdomain port 8080

I have my domain registered and running. I have installed lifray which is running on tomcat 7, my site url is iloveliferay.com:8080 and I want this to be at themes.iloveliferay.com, which file I need ...
3
votes
4answers
105 views

Two websites (and domains) on one hosting

So I am a poor college student, thus I can't afford dedicated hosting, cloud or anything fancy of the like... However I managed to purchase myself two domain names say http://abc.com and ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views

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 ...
4
votes
4answers
244 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
26 views

Multiple websites on a VPS [duplicate]

I am going to create my sites network. I have to create at least four site: e.g. myblog.com, myfreebies.com, mystore.com, my2ndstore.com. I do not want to buy one host for every one of them, just ...
4
votes
1answer
80 views

What VPS spec would I require to run WordPress [closed]

I am looking to move an existing WordPres website to a VPS. It will be a Debian (Minimal install) running ISPConfig3, Squirrel Mail, Apache 2. The wordpress site currently accepts 40-60 online ...
1
vote
1answer
39 views

Primary domain in vps has been deactivated

This is my scenario: I have a vps with two domains (example1.com, example2.com). When I started with this vps I set example1.com as primary domain and the nameserver were configured with the pattern ...
1
vote
2answers
128 views

How can I make a webmail URL available from any hosted domain?

I run Roundcube webmail on my VPS. At the moment, it is only accessible from one virtual server hosted on the server, unless a separate Roundcube installation is created for other virtual servers. I ...
0
votes
1answer
356 views

Setting up domain name and email servers for VPS [closed]

These are very beginner questions. I just got an instance of VPS with no domain name yet. The only way I can access my VPS is through SSH to a static IP. (1) How do I register a domain name and host ...
5
votes
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 ...
4
votes
3answers
106 views

Backing up VPS and Database Servers for website

I currently have an "un-managed" (no help from hosting company) windows vps server. I am working on a good backup solution to return my site back online within a few hours. I am pretty comfortable ...
0
votes
0answers
6 views

WIndows Plesk VPS with both Australian and US Servers [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm looking for a hosting plan that provides the following: Windows Server 2008 or 2012 on a VPS Plesk server ...
3
votes
1answer
193 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
27 views

Delete Perl install files?

I have a VPS that is managed and am mysteriously running out of space, I think I found a few files I can delete. So just double checking it's ok to delete the Perl install files: ...
0
votes
4answers
346 views

My VPS cannot send email

Webmaster Newbie Question I have a low end vps (128MB RAM)running on Debian.I used a bash script by ilevkov to setup the site. After some trial and error, I managed to set up a WordPress on it. Just ...
5
votes
7answers
974 views

linode.com/slicehost.com/vps.net what to chose? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for a new VPS for http://hotelpublisher.com. At the moment it is either linode.com, slicehost.com or ...
0
votes
0answers
550 views

index.html redirecting to cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

This problem has been persisting over the last couple of days. I thought I fixed it Friday only to get in on Monday morning and see that cPanel is still giving me issues. On Friday, all incoming ...
6
votes
2answers
149 views

How steep is the learning curve when moving from shared (cPanel) webhosting to a VPS (e.g. Linode)?

In all shared hosting environments, one can be agnostic to the running OS. What happens in the case of Linode? I know it allows pretty flexible Linux installations, but for starters, besides choosing ...
0
votes
0answers
132 views

Wordpress : Automatically transfer media files to Amazon S3 [closed]

I've been using VPS to host 7 Wordpress websites, most of them require big storage but very little RAM and traffic. So I'm thinking of moving the static files(uploads folder) content to Amazon S3 and ...
3
votes
1answer
98 views

Why do some Linux VPS host companies restrict access to time/date settings?

Is there a reason on why some Linux VPS host companies restrict access to time/date settings? I had two VPS hosts running on CentOS from two different companies and both were restricted and I had to ...
3
votes
2answers
87 views

way for teachers to post homework assignments

What kind of product would work to provide a feature on a school website to allow teachers to post homework assignments and allow students / parents to quickly find the assignments by class and ...
3
votes
3answers
256 views

How to calculate maximum number of request in 128 MB VPS performance?

I am a newbie here, please let me know if I'm using wrong webmaster terms. I am currently setting up a VPS for a multi site WordPress. The VPS uses Debian 6 LNMP setup and the DNS is being taken care ...
0
votes
3answers
265 views

Alternative to CPanel

I want to develop software and host it on a website. I am considering purchasing a VPS from Linode to store the source code; however it does not provide CPanel (what I used to configure my webspace on ...
0
votes
0answers
57 views

VPS/Proxy Setup

I want to set up a Virtual Private Server that I will also be able to use as a proxy server for purposes of emailing Newsletters to subscribers. The subscriber list is old and I want to send out an ...
-1
votes
1answer
328 views

Where can I host my app? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I'm creating an web app which is PHP based. Some more info about app: Image processing (not heavy processing - GD ...
0
votes
1answer
74 views

server downtime solution?

I am managing a few sensitive websites, that need to be up and running 24/7 how ever I worked with many VPS and dedicated server providers over the time. The problem is that downtime is inevitable, at ...
1
vote
2answers
128 views

Any High Availability CF 8/9 Ent VPS / VDS hosting out there? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? Will apreciate it if you could list some that you may know of. Those that I could find are standard. I fould one that ...
0
votes
0answers
16 views

Best and reasonably priced VPS in UK [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am looking for a VPS, they must be good and competitively priced. The one I like the look of so faris: ...
0
votes
1answer
392 views

Port forward based on external IP (for VPS hosting)

What I want to do is to host a VPS. First, I'd like to set up a static IP address that forwards to my home IP address (so I can have more than one IP coming into my house). How can I do this ...
0
votes
0answers
20 views

my website has been suspended because it exceeded the traffic limit - shared hosting [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? i need some guidance on my site isshu,should i need to upgrade my hosting plan what is the best solution VPS or ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views

Multiple websites on a single IP address, HOW?

I have a VDS server and an dedicated IP address. the question is how to add multiple sites in a single domain? For example I have 3 sites as below: www.company.co www.webdesign.com www.inet.com ...

1 2