Questions tagged [cloud-hosting]
Cloud hosting is hosting a service, commonly a website, on multiple distributed servers. Like a server farm, this provides greater performance (through load balancing) and availability than using a single server, but the distributed nature of the cloud means requests can be serviced closer to the client and makes it more tolerant of network failures.
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Dedicated IP vs CDN
In times of shared hosting, it was a real plus point for Google, if a site has a dedicated IP address.
What changed in this terms in the current time, where sites are hosted in the cloud and run ...
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Is it possible to export an Azure Custom Vision model for lower running costs?
A customer has a webapp that is reliant on an Azure Custom Vision (ACV) model to recognise drawings sent in by users.
Currently, ACV eats about 75% of the budget for this webapp and the customer is ...
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WHM RAM usage amount needed?
I currently have a cloud server that is overkill for my use. When I talk to my hosting company they give me the run around because they do not want me to downgrade (and they lose money.)
My question ...
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Issues with WP Engine! [duplicate]
I am looking for the best server to host our WordPress website. The website is a blog website which publishes articles each day. It is a multilingual website(8+ Languages) that uses WPML for the ...
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Mixing hosting providers
Is there any benefit from using all the services from 1 hosting provider (like Firebase) vs. mixing and matching?
For example,:
Option 1: I host my React app on Netlify, but use Firebase for ...
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Which type of hosting/server to get for 100 wordpress blogs with 30000 daily unique visitors? [duplicate]
I am launching 100 Wordpress text based blog websites with light themes on them. I expect to get 30000 daily unique visitors with an estimated peak of 1000 simultaneous visitors across all sites.
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What is better for SEO? Host on a cloud with virtual CPU/RAM located in my country vs host from neighbour country on a dedicated CPU/RAM?
Search engines look at various variables to rank a website. One of these variables is: site loading speed.
At the moment I have 2 options to choose from to host my website on:
Host on a cloud with a ...
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Moving my domain hosting from Bluehost to Heroku
I registered and hosted a new domain with Bluehost because I thought it would be a simple WordPress site. Since then, I have instead created a custom MERN stack application. I understand that Heroku ...
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OpenShift nameservers / public IP [closed]
I have configured a website on openshift it is working fine with the openshift's generated url. But I am unable to find a valid publicIP or nameserver on which I will map the domain name. Any idea?
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Does cloud hosting improve low latency on a a small global website?
I currently have a website that is used globally around the world with around 7000 users.
I do host my website on a VPS on https://www.netcup.de - now for users outside Germany, like people in Brazil ...
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CPU and RAM usage per WHM subaccount
I have a cloud server from a well known hosting provider using WHM and CPANEL for hosting. I have been dealing with capacity issues on a very random occasions but almost once every day.
Under WHM I ...
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What is the advantage of traditional hosting over cloud hosting?
There are many articles listing the advantages of cloud hosting over traditional hosting, such as more flexible and security. However, is there any opposite? Surely if cloud hosting is dominantly ...
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Can CodeIgniter Website be deployed to Cloud Hosting?
Currently I'm thinking of making a website in CodeIgniter and planning to deploy it in cloud hosting but I don't know if that is possible.
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Can I turn off my website at certain times to save money and schedule when Googlebot crawls to maintain SEO?
Is it possible to schedule Google crawlers' crawling at a time when my website it turned on?
I host my website with Google's cloud product: Google Compute. To save costs I am thinking of turning ...
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How do I identify the company that hosts my website when the hosting was set up by somebody else?
So me and my friend created and funded a website for a business venture. However due to some complications I no longer want to be part of the venture. My friend on the other hand will not remove my ...
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Wordpress site showing up with IP address rather than domain name after transfer to Google cloud
Domain name is changed to the IP address. Website URL is working fine, new posts are working fine.
Old posts images are breaking as it's changed to the IP address instead of the domain name. I've ...
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Is it possible to use Google Cloud to host a Wikipedia-like website (Wikimedia open source code)?
I am wanting to create a small Website similar to Wikipedia that uses Wikimedia open source code. I plan on hosting it on free Google Cloud platform, and then use freenom.com to obtain a free domain ...
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Hosting a blog on Google Cloud could help in SEO ranking?
We usually host our blogs on shared hosting providers. These service providers use same shared space and IP for hundreds of blogs and websites.
Are there any chances that Google considers such ...
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What is the difference between "infrastructure as a service" (IaaS) and "private cloud"
Despite searching Google and reading articles, I have been unable to figure out the difference between Infrastructure as a service and Private Cloud. What is the difference between them?
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Uploading images for Wordpress in AWS Elastic Beanstalk application
How do I go about uploading images in an AWS Elastic Beanstalk Wordpress Application?
I am using the high-availability method from this tutorial.
It's a large WooCommerce website and I have 2gigs ...
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Unused webspace as cloud storage
One of the websites I maintain has 50GB storage but the website uses under 100MB and will not increase in size significantly. Would there be any problem isn using 10GB for independent cloud storage ...
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How to find out if a server uses VPS or dedicated hosting?
How can I find out whether or not a server is hosted on VPS or dedicated hosting?
I'm trying to find out about a cloud hosting service I use. It has some other services too and their IP address ...
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How can I calculate the maximum cost of an instance or prevent clients from exceeding pre-paid limits?
I am considering moving various VPS servers I mange on behalf of clients to AWS (EC2). However, I would require a fixed monthly cost to estimate what I would charge my clients for the hosting/support ...
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Google Cloud Platform - Application suddenly start charging billing hours?
I have several Java applications running on Google Cloud Platform. There is a free quota of 28 frontend instance hours a day. I have a cron job running every 5 minutes to keep one instance running all ...
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1and1 Cloud hosting scaling of DB and Instances
do have anyone experience with 1and1 hosting? I've tried to read over their "transparent pricing".
They have a configuration panel, that allows to select amount of CPU/RAM/SSD storage.
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Hosting options for running a daily run python script which creates a CSV file? [duplicate]
I wish to run a Python script that daily pulls in some prices and creates a CSV file from them.
What web hosting and cloud options exist to do this.
The script will only run for literally seconds ...
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How do I upload 500 gigs on my wallpaper site? [duplicate]
I have a wallpaper site. I have around 500 gigs of wallpapers on my local computer. I want all of them to be uploaded on my site. I started uploading them on my site. But after uploading 40 gigs on ...
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Is there a specific protocol or strategy to get more responsive support from a managed host? [closed]
I've been building websites since 1995, but I am not a full time developer. However, I have a habitual problem of finding good support from the hosting companies I choose. I get so frustrated I end up ...
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Cheap high-capacity (disk, not bandwidth) hosting options [duplicate]
So, the website I run is up to 8TB of photos now. I store them on a cheap dedicated server (€64/month, 3x4TB RAID 5), and back them up to Google Cloud Services. GCS is costing me about $80/month now.
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Can I get bill-shocked by Linode?
I am looking at going with Linode for my cloud hosting needs. I want to start off cheap with their $10 plan. Looking at the 'fine print' I got alarmed by this:
If you exceed your monthly bandwidth ...
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How many cloud regions to be considered global?
I'm making a global app for a client. It will be hosted on Digital Ocean and I will redirect users to the closest datacenter and region, depending on their IP.
Is there a rule of thumb, or industry ...
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Data center locations for hosting an international website
My web site is currently hosted in the US in NYC and SFO data center locations. I'm not too familiar with DNS, but both IP's point to my domain and the visitor's computer probably would pick the DNS ...
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Can multiple websites/domains be hosted by the same Platform as a Service [PAAS]?
Sorry if this is trivial, but I am still learning the basics of PAAS, so I appreciate your patience...
Can separate websites both be hosted by a single PAAS (used via single account with a given ...
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Ordering managing Web hosting separately from the hosting itself
I have my own VPS running Debian Linux and serving several Web sites.
I have no trouble to manage it on my own, as I am a self-taught Linux expert.
However, I am afraid that the data will be lost in ...
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Storage for a video app [closed]
I'm currently developing a video app that enables it's users to upload and stream videos from the app. Knowing fully well that videos are resource intensive, I am stuck on deciding a cost effective ...
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Image/Gallery hosting? [duplicate]
I am looking for an image hosting solution where:
I provide a user with a dedicated link
That user clicks it and lands on a gallery management page where they can upload and remove images
In ...
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For shared hosts using CloudLinux, what is the difference between Entry Processes and Total Processes?
I have searched a lot to find the difference between "Entry Processes" and the "Total Allowed Processes"...
Here is the problem: I found a shared web hosting provider that says that the number of ...
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Private folders which are not indexable
I have a requirement where I need to distribute about 400 copies of a pdf document (about 6 MB) and .pub files, that are personalized for each user. Every user must have access to only his/her set of ...
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Point custom domain to single webpage hosted on Dropbox
I have a static html page that I would like to host in Dropbox's public folder and make accessible by a domain of mine, e.g example.org.
The html page has the following url structure https://dl....
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I need to host large mp3 files & link them on website for download [closed]
I have a requirement where i need to lost large mp3 files on a web server. file size may vary from 1MB - 120MB (where most of the files are more than 20MB)
With large size in mind i cant host these ...
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Is there a use case for not employing Elastic Beanstalk? [closed]
Being fairly new to the AWS ecosystem, is there any reason I wouldn't want to use Elastic Beanstalk for my python+django+yeoman web app (still being prototyped, but want to be ready to scale quickly ...
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Using an external mail sending provider for my websites?
Let's say I have made 20-30 websites, that send emails such as contact form responses, welcome emails, forgotten password reminders, and similar transactional emails.
What is the benefit of using a ...
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Dropbox vs Google Drive vs other for free static cloud hosting [duplicate]
I need to host a static website, single page deal, and instead of paying for hosting I thought I might use a cloud service, however an issue I can see of this is bandwidth allowance. Does anyone know ...
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Editing hosts and hostname files for multiple servers
I have a cloud server running Debian 7. My domain (www.domain.com and domain.com) both have an A record pointing to the static IP address of my cloud server.
On the cloud server itself, what should ...
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Domain registrar that offers CNAME settings [closed]
I have looked and couldn't find one. Please recommend a domain registrar on which you can change CNAME settings without having a hosting account.
I have to change CNAME setting for my domain to make ...
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How to spread XML Sitemaps over several webservers behind AWS loadbalancer?
We have a web portal with almost a million products and way more other urls.
I wrote a script that checks database. If there is a new url needed or an old one update, this script will update/create ...
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Images from remote source - is it possible or is it bad practice?
I'm building a management system for websites and I had an idea related to image galleries. I'm not sure it's a good approach. Since image space needed is related to how many images a user might ...
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Are there security considerations with choosing shared vs VPS vs dedicated hosting
Are there security disadvantages to using a shared hosting environment instead of a VPS or dedicated server? Could using a shared server or a VPS be considered negligence in the event of a security ...
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How to allocate cPanel resources to customers
We are wanting to start offering hosting services to our customers with dedicated email and all those bells and whistles. We have the servers - both Windows and Linux. (Cloud Instances)
The question:...
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How do VMs in the Cloud work?
I have been exploring moving some of my high traffic sites to the HPCloud over the past few days. While I have a general grasp of the idea behind a VM in the cloud there are things that are not quite ...
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