The setting up and running of a server to serve web pages via the internet or LAN. Technical questions about the server (if you have access to it) maybe best asked on serverfault.com. Read the answers to this question: ...
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How to download /var/log via ftp cpanel
I have a cpanel based server and I want to download /var/log so I can analyze why the server crash yesterday. However, if I login as regular user I can't download the file because it doesn't give me ...
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A record point not working
I'm trying to do an A record point to transfer the hosting of a domain from one provider to another. I don't want to change the nameservers as this will result in emails going down.
The output when ...
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How to view Web Server Activity via a command line or terminal
Is there a way to monitor the activity of a web server via the command line.
I have seen in many movies webmasters watching a command line screen in which data is continuously moving up, seems to me ...
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3answers
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Directing from a 1und1 hosting solution, with urls intact
I have done this before on GoDaddy without a hitch, but I cannot seem to figure out this particular case.
I have a domain space with temporary url http://yogainun.mysubname.com and am hosting the ...
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2answers
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Buying a domain in other country: larger response times?
I bought a domain in a very well know provider of domains in USA (Godaddy).
Now I want to use that domain for a site (local bussines) hosted in a server in Spain, and I'm wondering if I will get ...
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3answers
156 views
Set up development site on another server/host
I'm developing a site for a client. They've got a site now that's hosted at hosting.com. I'm going to move them to my VM hosting solution at edge web but I want to run some tests and have the client ...
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2answers
226 views
Multiple IPs for customer in Plesk 11
First of all, please forgive me if my question sounds dumb, as I'm not very skilled in sys admin...
For a shared web hosting plan, my host (which is a reseller) used to provide 3 different IPs for a ...
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3answers
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How to restore plesk files correctly?
Recently my server crashed. So I reinstalled Plesk and uploaded all databases to var/lib/mysql and site files to backup/vhosts.
How do I get it all back to normal?
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Increase Servers folder depth limit for running scripts?
I have a CMS on my site that utilises TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor). The issue is that TinyMCE cannot browse for files (example: images) on the web server. I get the error:
Error 324 ...
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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 ...
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35 views
Link building campaign for externally hosted subdomain
I am launching a link building campaign for a subdomain. I plan to ensure that the subdomain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and increase ...
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1answer
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Reverse proxy with no httpd access
I'll outline my requirement, proposed solution and if anyone has a better idea please feel free to suggest.
Requirements / Desires - I want multiple clients to be connectible to an address ...
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2answers
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Prevent hotlinking or leeching bandwidth on PHPBB
My site uses PHPBB as a forum, and we would like to use it as a place to store and share large files up to 1gb.
I'm afraid that if one of our hotlinks is overly shared, it will cause problems with ...
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3answers
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What books or articles are must reads for learning about SSL management
I have found it very hard to find any books or articles that assume no understanding and take you from nothing to a master at managing SSL certificates on web servers.
Most articles I have found deal ...
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46 views
Weird popup/malware showing on my website
Can someone please help me figure out what this is. It looks like some ad pops on my website for no reason when opening website through google search results.
I've tried looking in the code and ...
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1answer
35 views
Getting an agency to release a client's domain [closed]
A friend of mine has a website with Therapysites.com (they create therapy sites for alternative therapy providers). She wants to move to a different hosting, but the service provider is charging 15 ...
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2answers
113 views
How to move my custom GoDaddy domain from Blogger free hosting to GoDaddy or other dedicated hosting services?
Currently I have a GoDaddy custom domain with Blogger free hosting; now I am planning to move from Blogger to GoDaddy hosting. What is the best way to move without losing my search results?
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1answer
82 views
Cannot alter file permission on server (550). Is this because I have no domain name?
I am building a site on a CMS (modx) for a client who has not decided on their domain name. I have access to WHM so just set up an account with out pointing any domain name to it and began developing ...
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2answers
111 views
host and share files in my hosting
I currently have a domain+hosting with unlimited hosting space for our website. On the other hand, I use Dropbox to share our organizational files and photos between about 10 users. The thing is that ...
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4answers
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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
This question is here so we can offer users who are looking for information on how to determine which web hosting solution is right for them some guidance. All future questions pertaining to finding ...
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9answers
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Can I buy a domain from one company and use it at another web host?
I've been out of the loop of this kind of stuff for a while but can someone please explain to me how buying a domain name and then getting it hosted works. Let's say if for example I bought a domain ...
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0answers
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DNS: forward part of a managed domain to one host, but sub domain services to another (Google Apps)
I was going to post this as a comment against DNS: Forward domain to another host, but I don't seem able to do that.
I'm in a similar situation. I have a DNS registered/managed by enom, except with ...
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3answers
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Accessing PHPMyAdmin via URL (without cPanel)
I am having issues accessing PHPMyAdmin from cPanel. It will not allow me to as I am logged in a root.
I cannot seem to be able to make another account for cPanel either, and research indicates this ...
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1answer
42 views
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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510 views
Configuring osTicket to fetch mail from an email account
I'm trying to use osTicket to implement a ticketing system but I'm not able to fetch the mails from an email account even after configuring the host, port, user name and password.
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Application Hosting Software [duplicate]
For years I've been hosting my websites on a local Shared Hosting Provider, but since traffic increases on my websites, and my websites become more complex I am looking for a different solution. I ...
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1answer
29 views
Running CLI on web hosting
I currently have a hosting around from Solid Shell Security and one from Blue Host (both great web hosts not trying to cut them down here) and I can't seem to run CLI applications on either of them. ...
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2answers
130 views
Change domain name for existing site, what is the easiest and cheapest way?
Suppose I have an existing site and I want to change the domain name without changing hosting.
I could set up a 301 redirect from the new site to the old site, but that doesn't actually change the ...
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1answer
24 views
FTP: Cannot change permission or write to 1 directory via FTP client, but all others are OK
I have a site with loads of directories. They all work fine but one. I can read from this directory but I cannot delete files from within it or upload files to it. I cannot change its permissions ...
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1answer
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Malware/Viruses on Server
I was contacted yesterday for a potential freelance job. The guy told me he has a WordPress site and that his host told him was hacked and there are code injected files in the install. The host has ...
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3answers
816 views
How to find out if my hosting's speed is good enough?
There are lots of different online performance tests:
Google PageSpeed Insights
iWebTool Speed Test
AlertFox Page Load Time
WebPageTest
Also there are several desktop/client software such as:
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5answers
95 views
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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5answers
982 views
Can PHP Site be hosted on Windows Hosting?
This might be the stupidest question but I would like to know whether we can host PHP site on Windows hosting? Are there any special tools for publishing php site?
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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 ...
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2answers
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Where do internet businesses get their internet for their servers? [closed]
All the large internet companies (Facebook, Google, etc) have tons of servers running to host their data. However, where do these server centers get their unlimited bandwidth? This is just baffling ...
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Transferring emails from one web server to another [duplicate]
I have set up a new web server to transfer a website from an old web server. I wish to also transfer the saved emails on the old web server to the new webserver (as well as restoring the email ...
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Can you have plesk / cpannel, phpmyadmin, and ftp access to Heroku [closed]
Ive got a large shared hosting account which i use for the majority of my sites. Ive recently made a small web app, which relies on php 5.4 and also needs shh to be setup, neither of which are ...
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0answers
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Best server setup for a website that streams videos/audio [duplicate]
I have a entertainment website that host both videos and audio, these are the 2 problems I'm having:
Storage is a issue on my dedicated server, I'm going need more space soon
The site buckles when ...
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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 ...
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4answers
173 views
Best location for a websites CMS
As part of my job I recently started making numerous content management systems for websites. So many that obviously my next step was to set up a 'template' for the websites so I could quickly remove ...
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3answers
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If I use a joomla hosting provider, am I able to customize the PHP *completely*?
not sure if this is the right place to ask.
Joomla is offered by many hosting providers. I have set up joomla 1.7 on my local machine, and I've found a nice template to start with. But I customized ...
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0answers
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hosting images on image hosting websites [duplicate]
my website traffic has increased a lot and now in some cases has difficulties handling these users specially on busy hours. I want save some of the images on the website on image hostings so that they ...
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1answer
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Using godady account and uploaded files successfully but site is not running [closed]
I am tring to upload files in godady files are uploaded successfully but site is not running which i have uploaded.
I am using CuteFTP and setup with ftp.####.com, ftp username and password and port ...
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4answers
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How to consider geographical location when selecting hosting provider?
I am going to buy a hosting service (re seller) where mostly people from Ethiopia will be using it. I am going to host my applications in this server and also partition and sell for other developers ...
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2answers
101 views
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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Should I be wary of web hosts with very cheap bandwidth? [closed]
Having spent a few days choosing a VPS provider, I've observed a huge variation in outgoing traffic price charged by various hosts:
Amazon EC2: $120 per TB for bandwidth alone
PhotonVPS: $0.70 per ...
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2answers
3k views
How to move a website and domain name without experiencing downtime for emails or site?
Okay, I have a pretty complex problem, so I'll get right to it. I'm a designer who built a new website for my client. Their old site is hosted at GoDaddy, as well as their email. Problem is, the ...
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Domain only forwards with external hosting
I have a domain with Namecheap and hosting with 1and1. Forwarding is no problem - domain.com goes to the right page. The problem arises when I navigate to another page on the website, when it reverts ...
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Windows Hosting for ASP.Net MVC 4 Application in Europe [duplicate]
I have completed my application development on MVC4.
Now looking for hosting this. All the user will be accessible from Sweden.
I have no idea about the best hosting provider who can able to perform ...
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3answers
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issue with Domain, DNS and Hosting
I bought domains from GoDaddy.
I bought hosting from NFS.
I changed my DNS from GD to NFS.
Do I require to host DNS on NFS for website to work properly, or can I host DNS back on GD?
I am paying ...
