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Move site to new DNS and web host with lowest downtime
Disclaimer: I have read too many questions which appear same.
However, my exact use case couldn't be found.
Scenario:
Domain bought on GoDaddy
Current nameservers are AWS R53
All R53 records work ...
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Scheduling the task in the plesk control panel
How to run web socket scripts coded in PHP in the Plesk web hosting control panel. I need to run the PHP WebSocket scripted in PHP 24/7/365. The path of the script named websocket_server.php lies in ...
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Is it necessary to edit DNS settings at registrar when using CloudFlare?
I need to point a subdomain to a different web hosting service. The domain is registered with my registrar, the DNS is managed by CloudFlare, and the hosting is managed by a third party hosting ...
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VPS with single IP and nginx reverse proxy
I have a VPS with a single IP assigned to it. I am going to set up an nginx reverse proxy to hopefully serve a number of websites from the same server.
As far as I understand, I can have various ...
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Plesk git for multiple domains
I have two websites on plesk, let's call them
main.com and test.main.com
I want to create one central git repo hosted on my server.
Then I want split it into two branches, main and dev.
A folder of ...
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Is there a way to find out if Plesk is having problems?
I run 2 websites, and their emails, on a VPS. I use Outlook for the email needs.
Recently, I sent out 6 emails. 5 of them went through with the last one getting stuck in Outlook's Outbox. The ...
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What to do when the VPS you have purchased comes with a control panel that does not support your application runtime environment?
I am totally new to web-hosting.
Recently, I have purchased a domain name and a VPS that comes with Plesk Onyx 17.0.17. After consulting the technical person from where I have bought the VPS, they ...
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set the nameserver of my hosting on the settings of my domain
I have a problem with the setup of my domain, to be able to use it with the nameservers of my host.
immediately after confirming the settings the site of my domain (register.it), warned me to wait 24 /...
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What DNS records do I need to update to change email hosting but keep the website hosted as is?
A friend's domain is registered with 123reg. The nameservers point to Host A, who currently host the website and provide Exchange email. He would like me to keep the website with Host A, but change ...
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Buyer wants to rent my domain - risk of 301 redirects and other issues?
I have a domain that has some value. It used to be a big site with a lot of backlinks and SEO ranking history. I tried selling the domain, but a buyer doesn't want to pay the asking price. He instead ...
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CDN setup without nameserver AND cname manipulation
Is it possible? Does somebody know, how is it technically possible to setup a CDN without nameserver and cname manipulation?
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HTTP website returns 403.4 even when using Plesk Permanent SEO-safe 301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
My domain has a valid and activated "Let's Encrypt!" certificate, and going to https://example.com works as it should and shows as being secure in the browser.
Through Plesk Onyx 17.5.3 I have ...
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What entry should be put into the Domain Name, when it comes to SSL Certificates for a Plesk VPS?
I am currently in the process of securing a VPS of mine, with the Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate.
Referring to the below image, was is required, when 'The domain name must resolve to your server'? ...
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Binding a domain to a webhost
I've bought a domain name from GoDaddy and I decided to host it on Ali Baba Cloud. I am abit new to that stuff so I'm wondering, what do I need to change beside the name servers? Any record I need to ...
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Changing nameservers from Weebly to another provider for email, will it affect my site?
I have a Weebly site and I wan't a free custom domain email. There is an option of G Suite that's like $4/m but I found a Migadu which is free. The thing is that Migadu wants me to change the name ...
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How to use a domain on cPanel without pointing name servers
Until today, I thought that we should point the name servers to hosting company to set add-on domain, sub domains, etc.
But, I read this article from inmotion hosting.
You can find following ...
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Slow website by Plesk [closed]
Have a good quality server with good performance. Till now I don't had this kinde of problem. So,I have installed Plesk panel,four months ago. I develop an ecommerce project using Laravel framework. ...
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Becoming a web host as an experiment, can anyone explain to me the name server concept? [closed]
I understand everything from nginx virtual hosts to php-fpm user isolation to ssl certs to generating user sub-domains. My question relates to when a user wants to use his own domain he brought from ...
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Is Cloudflare's auto-minify feature compatible with Railgun?
I have burned the last two days wondering why the minification from Cloudflare doesn't work and what is happening. First I thought it was related to caching. Then it got me by reading something ...
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How do I whitelist a user with a dynamic IP address in GoDaddy Plesk?
I have an ASP.NET site hosted on GoDaddy Plesk. I'm restricting site access using a whitelist of IP addresses to prevent web crawlers from seeing it, but the clients who need to see the site have ...
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When buying a domain what are the differences between nameservers (NS records) and other DNS servers?
When I buy a domain I always get confused between the two and manage to make a mess of the settings before I finally get it right, but still without clearly understanding what their roles are in ...
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ALL Djibouti (.dj) domains suddenly no longer being resolved on most devices/DNS (DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN) [closed]
.dj domains appear to suddenly not resolve almost anywhere (lots of complaints incoming from users on .dj websites' social media) i.e. http://www.dj http://plug.dj https://click.dj
Going to any .dj ...
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How to use CloudFlare and web host at same time?
I'm trying to set up a (.tk) website for a school project using 000WebHost, but at the same time I want to integrate CloudFlare DDoS protection into my website as well. The two ways to hook up a ...
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What is the recommend procedure for changing nameservers with DNSSEC enabled?
Do I need to disable the DNSSEC DS record and DNSSEC, let that propagate, and then change nameservers only after that has well propagated?
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Can changing from public nameservers to running your own harm Google rankings?
I'm currently on SiteGround, which means I'm on their public nameservers.
I wanted a unique private nameservers so I created a NS records in the DNS zone,
And forwarded my domain to it.
Here's ...
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.NET Nameservers require additional configuration of some kind?
I must say I think Namecheap have told me something possibly not true as I have never come across this issue before. I admit it's been a few years since I've changed nameservers for a .net domain but ...
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How to setup nameservers at Freenom [closed]
I've been trying to set up a DNS at Freenom for my home server, but every time I change the nameservers it says:
Invalid nameserver given
The nameservers in my Ubuntu server (/etc/resolv.conf) are:...
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Use custom DNS records
I have a dedicated server running Ubuntu and Plesk. I have a primary domain on this server but will also be running several other sites and I would like to be able to set the DNS records for those to ...
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Change Nameservers on a domain that I don't control
I'm working for a client that's in a bit of a pickle. Their domain is hosted through Nearly Free Speech by a webmaster who has fallen off the face of the earth. The domain is pointed from Nearly ...
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Web hosting inventory listing [closed]
I need an efficient way to manage our massive inventory of clients and domain names. We must be able to organize where the domain is registered, what are the nameservers, which mail service it uses (...
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Why is my GoDaddy Nameservers (NH) field empty?
I chose GoDaddy to host my website and I need to change the nameservers at Google Domains. GoDaddy's official guide says to follow these steps to find out your nameservers when your site is hosted by ...
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Domains hosted on Ubuntu Server(Plesk) can only send outgoing mails
I have a dedicated server(Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS) with Plesk installed. I have few domains hosted on the server.
I am only able to send outgoing mails(from webmail), none of the domains are able to ...
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How do the authorative domain name servers know which IP to point to?
This is a question that has been bugging me for a good 20 years. I could just never really get my head around it. enlighten me, please.
I best explain with an example:
I have a domain set with the ...
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How to add custom site installer to plesk?
I have my custom framework and I want to create lots of website with my framework.
I use Plesk to manage my host , so I want to know if we can create a custom site installer like Plesk built in ...
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How to add a binding to an existing web site in Plesk
I've created a website in Plesk, and in my DNS records, I've added a record that resolved to the IP of the server which hosts Plesk and website.
Now I want to add that IP to the bindings of website ...
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Missing name servers reported by parent [closed]
I'm changing servers and using private/custom nameservers. I've set up those I think it is using glue records (so assigning an ip address to a custom ns).
It's been over 24 hours.
When I run it ...
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Propagation of NS records specified in Cloudflare
I own a domain, example.com.
At my registrar, the NS records of my domain point to xxx.ns.cloudflare.com and yyy.ns.cloudflare.com.
Now I would suppose that when I add NS records on Cloudflare (in the ...
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"errors in configuration templates" - how to troubleshoot?
My Plesk says "Error: New configuration files for the Apache web server were not created due to the errors in configuration templates: Can not restart web server:. Search in KB"
The "Webserver ...
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How can I add more than 3 additional FTP accounts for the same subdomain/subscription in Plesk?
Using the option "Subscriptions > (mysite) > Websites and domains > FTP Access" I can add up to 2 additional FTP accounts (in addition to the first one) which I can use to point to other folders in ...
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Custom domain GitHub and HostGator
I've read all about my theme but just can't get trough!
So, I have a website on GitHub and it is published as https://namesecondname.github.io/repositoryname/. and I bought a domain on HostGator. I'...
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Trying to understand white label nameserver aws route53
I'm having a problem understanding how "white label" nameservers might work, at Amazon Route53. Here is what I have:
Domain destination.com is hosted at hosty.com and registrar has ns1.hosty.com and ...
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Changing nameservers in WHM
I have a WHM that was configured to have the following NS.
ns1.domain-old.example
ns2.domain-old.example
However domain-old.example expired and is already in the open market. Therefore I asked the ...
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How to access addon domain on cPanel hosting via URL when the root hosting domain is hosted on another host
I've GoDaddy cPanel hosting account. The main domain is registered with GoDaddy and I've cPanel hosting. Main domain is hosted on other host and using other host's nameserver. I'm trying to add addon ...
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Can I use different nameservers for different subdomains?
Suppose I have example.com and the nameserver I'm using is the one from the hosting server where I'm hosting the main site, say mainhosting.com.
Now suppose I add a new subdomain e.g. bla.example.com ...
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Apache2 vhost SSL configuration running on Plesk [closed]
I have a problem with configuring ssl in apache 2 vhost configuration running plesk.
My Server is running on a virtual machine with plesk 12.
And basically I just want to setup ssl for the domain.
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Plesk scheduled task not working
I've got some problems with the scheduled task feature in Plesk while setting up a task that should execute a php-file every minute.
As you can see in the screenshot, everything should be fine and ...
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DNS resolves my hostname to 2 different IP's back and forth within minutes
We recently switched webhosts from Databse Mart to Liquid Web. This weekend we updated the name servers with our registrar and about 48 hours later, we saw our new site on insidestl.com. Now, a day ...
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How to add SSL certificate to Plesk?
I have created a Free SSL certificate at startssl.com. Now, I am trying to add it to my hosting, which runs on Plesk 12.0. But the problem is, when I try to add it into the server, I am getting the ...
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Plesk 410 Directory
Plesk allows adding "Additional nginx directives" for hosted websites.
I'm trying to use this to set a 410 header on some old directories, but I can't find anything as simple as RewriteRule ^rss/ - [...
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Is it important to point the domain to server IP to get them linked?
I am trying to link my domain registerd from exabytes.com.my and I want to link it with my server in GoDaddy.
exabytes.com.my allowed me to modify nameservers only , I set name servers as :
ns1....
