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General question as a new webmaster [closed]

I am wanting to make my own social forum for friends and workers. I will have about 10,000-15,000 users. I have never made a forum on such a high scale and to this point have only been a developer ...
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Website Systematically Blocking IP Addresses

I have a series of websites hosted at the same server. The issue I am having is that it keeps blocking me access from different means to the sites. Allow me to explain: From my IP, Blocked. From ...
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Compromised private RSA key

What sorts of problems can be caused by a compromised private RSA key? Is this even that big of a deal? I'm getting very little specific info on Google. :(
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Phishing alert but file never existed

I got an alert from Google Webmasters. They say the following file was present in my host: example.com/~jhostgop/identity.php I checked my files and it never existed at all. I've experience this ...
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Webhosting company able to unhash passwords?

Tonight I was using the cPanel of a web-site I host and when I went to change the password I received a warning that I couldn't change the password to my desired password because it was too similar to ...
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How to setup IIS on Windows AIM on a Virtual Port [closed]

I want to host my web server on EC2 at Amazon Web Service. I will use a Windows AIM and IIS7. I want to config a port (such as: 5555) for my web service and bind it to virtual port 80. so that the ...
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blocking bad bots with robots.txt in 2012 [closed]

does it still work good? I have this: # Generated using http://solidshellsecurity.com services # Begin block Bad-Robots from robots.txt User-agent: asterias Disallow:/ User-agent: BackDoorBot/1.0 ...
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1024 bit to 2048 bit certificate differences in how we access our portal

Why now that we have gone from 1024 to 2048 do we need to put the www in front of our portal site when we never used to.
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Can I host my PHP app in such a way that users can verify the source code being used by the server?

I have worked with one other person created a mobile-optimized web proxy to the League of Legends Tribunal (a peer review system). Riot Games, the creators of LoL, made a really nice web interface ...
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discountasp.net / shared hosting for an ecommerce website [closed]

Is there any disadvantage on using shared hosting in general (of discountasp.net) for an ecommerce website? security concerns or performance? The site is new and we dont expect many visitors right ...
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Is it dangerous to keep Thumbs.db on a web server?

Windows Thumbs.db system files that are in most of folders were uploaded with all other files from the localhost to the server. Is it dangerous, if you forget to delete them on the server? I am on ...
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Storing Downloadable Content Securely

For a site where users can purchase videos for download. What would be the best way to store the media? Any other helpful considerations are more than welcome. Outside the root directory? Seperate ...
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SiteAdvisor advice?

At the time I submitted my site for testing with McAfee's Site Advisor as I noticed my site received a bad review as a spam/scam site. See here . From a development perspective, how important are ...
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Are there any risks involved in Hosting your website on free webhosts?

I am planning to host my collage project web site on any such free webhost, is it secure or are there any disadvantages or risks or security issues that i may experience if i go for free web-hosting? ...
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Hacked by our own hosting company!

OK, so our hosting company decided to clone our site and database onto a new serve. Without our knowledge or permission they then edited our code to point to the new database. The old server was left ...
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iFrames from Skydrive: yes, no, how

I have a two-pronged question. First: SEO Concerns aside, should I be concerned about using iFrames on my site as far as viruses etc go? I am using skydrive to host my images and it provides an ...
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Godaddy - folder with password protection

Godaddy windows shared hosting on IIS6, but will probably migrate to IIS7 soon. Is there easy way to setup folder with password protection, so when I try to access secure folder, login dialog pops ...