Questions tagged [shared-hosting]
Shared Hosting is normally associated when more than 1 user is using a web host that uses the same resources to serve their web content to internet.
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How can I factory reset a Namecheap server?
One of my Namecheap shared-hosting servers is badly messed up. The database, files, etc, are all deleted or screwed up and PHPMyAdmin doesn't even work anymore.
Rather than to try to fix this by hand ...
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Mysterious ico files appearing on webserver
Files are unexpectedly appearing on one of my shared web servers. They can appear in pretty much hundreds of directories and they are always called something like favicon_1166f9.ico. The first 6 ...
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Linking Subdomain to Shared Windows Business Hosting
I have my main domain on GoDaddy.
And have purchased a Business Shared Windows Hosting from BigRock as GoDaddy has only 200mb limit on MS SQL DB.
How can I link a subdomain I create on my main domain ...
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Multiple web hosting for one domain?
I'm wondering how you're supposed to manage a failure from your web hosting provider (server breakdown, ddos attack, server maintenance...)
For instance, is it possible to host your website on ...
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Adding another domain SAN to a shared hosting server's multi-domain SSL certificate?
I am familiar with simple DV certificates, but not any of the other fancier stuff - like EV, wildcard and Multi-domain SSL certs.
As the title suggests, I'd like to know what the process is for (and ...
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Is shared hosting appropriate for a forums site, or do forums need something better?
My website attracts fairly medium amount of traffic. Does a forum need something stronger?
I think choosing shared hosting for a blog site will depend on how large it is and other factors. is it the ...
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Internal redirection: Serve “/site” as “/” and “/sub/blog” as “/blog”
I have a website with a shared hoster. There are a few things that I have there, like main site, Piwik, a blog and other standalone things.
Right now I have the following structure:
~/subs/www gets ...
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Redirect subdomain to another sharing host without dedicated IP
example.com is hosted on VPS Host1 and I want to redirect blog.example.com to the shared host Host2. Since the sharing host doesn't provide a dedicated IP address so I could not set A record for the ...
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Is it normal for SSL certificates to be inaccurate for newly created subdomains on shared hosting?
We created a bunch of subdomains on our shared hosting account for testing and noted that:
a) For the first few minutes of the subdomains life, the SSL certificate being served was for a completely ...
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Do i need to go from shared hosting to vps or a dedicated server? [closed]
I currently have a website and once i write a new blog post i send out the link to my contacts in my whatsapp groups
since there will be an inrush of requests to the same blog post, will my current ...
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Google search keeps indexing hacked URLs
I have a Wordpress website that is indexing some URLs on Google that seems like my website was hacked.
I've tried:
Search my host for infected files and folders, but didn't find anything. Both ...
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Google App Engine instead of shared hosting for low traffic sites? [closed]
I have a non-profit Drupal site which attracts very few visitors (like 50 per day) and has about 500MB worth of data.
I'm wondering roughly how much should I pay to GAE to host such site?
Currently ...
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Privacy policy & Web Server Log data on Shared hosting?
I am very confused with how shared hosting works?
I asked my web hosting provider that, "How can I delete all my website's web server log files/data which gets automatically generated by APACHE ...
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How do I make my website show up in the browser bar with the "http://"?
After moving to a new web host my site shows up as example.com instead of http://example.com. What steps do I follow to fix this? The new host is GoDaddy and my site was http:// at the old host.
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Does my hosting provider have an impact on my website loading speed?
My website size is around 3.3 MB and takes 7 seconds to load!
My hosting provider is some x.com and my nameservers are yz.webhostbox.net. Do I need to have the nameservers from my hosting company?
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Shared Hosting Plans With Cpanel Duplicating Websites On Subdomains
I have a shared hosting plan at one of the biggest hosting company. I host there a 3 sites. Today I just discovered that every site is available under a subdomain of my main domain (that was required ...
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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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shared hosting explicit site on same IP [duplicate]
IM doing shared hosting via godaddy.
I have just done a check and found that there are some "explicit" aka spammy porn sites hosted on the same IP address as my website, can this affect my rankings?
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Godaddy Resourse limit reached for wordpress site
Before jumping into the question let me give details about my site.
I have a blog that is a coding blog so I have tutorials and code
samples on it.
I am running WordPress self-hosted as my platform.
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cPanel - prevent addon user from accessing main root
I have an unlimited cPanel shared hosting account, which I stopped using since I moved on to VPS. I can still access the account, and kept the files undeleted as a backup. Since I have addons enabled, ...
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php.ini changes not taking effect in Siteground
I am importing an sql file for a magento website, however, It gives me this error:
Unknown: Input variables exceeded 1000. To increase the limit change
max_input_vars in php.ini
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Client isn't receiving emails from my web form, but I can
I've got some generic contact forms on my clients website. When I test them I can send them to my email address (and my gmail account and my work mates addresses) successfully, but the client claims ...
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Can GoDaddy unlimited bandwidth hosting handle 8000 simultaneous users or should I purchase a dedicated server?
I developed an online admission software for College Admission.
I have a Deluxe shared hosting in GoDaddy. As per them, I am getting Unlimited bandwidth for my domains.
The software will be hosted ...
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Strange host IP Addresses showing up in Awstats
I've just put up a website and checking Awstats a couple of days later I noticed a number of strange IP addresses showing up - wondering if anyone knows what this means, in amongst a list of ...
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Is it possible that a shared host is really offering unlimited inodes?
I was searching for a hosting service with unlimited inodes and I found one: IPAGE. But everywhere I read says that there is no hosting with unlimited inodes. If that is so, then how can Ipage can ...
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What is difference between WordPress installed on shared hosting and WordPress hosting
Just wanted to learn about shared hosting environment configuration.
There are many Hosting services providing WordPress hosting (example: http://www.hostgator.in/apps/wordpress-hosting and https://...
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Hosting a Wordpress blog subdomain on another server
I wish to add a blog to my online store, but due to security issues with Wordpress and just for peace of mind to keep it away from my ecommerce site data, we want the blog hosted on another server/...
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Unable to access shared server space with IP and modified host file (FTP is fine)
I've set up a new shared server space (standard LAMP stack).
I've been able to FTP to it using the IP address, but cannot access it through the browser, eg:
https://103.xxx.xx.xx/~username
I get a ...
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What are the options to gradually upgrade from shared hosting if the traffic to my site grows? [duplicate]
I have a site with php+mysql on shared hosting and it works well, has good traffic and I want to plan for the future when traffic to my site grows and shared hosting can't handle it.
Since the code ...
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Avoiding downtime after DOS and change of IP
I have a small company designing, programing, and maintaining websites. I host my websites on a shared hosting plan (cpanel). I received an email 2 days ago that there was a DOS attack and the ...
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Hotmail account is not receiving email from web server
I have a client with an ecommerce site. It's working fine but we realised that Hotmail accounts are not receiving emails from the site (eg: the receipt when someone orders a product).
We tested by ...
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How to specify expiry to a (css/js) files of a website in a shared hosting?
I have read the other answers but all are based on editing the .htaccess file.
Is there any way to set expiry without touching the .htaccess file?
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How can I find out what other websites are hosted from my website IP address and why is that important from SEO point of view?
I heard that is important from a SEO perspective what other websites are hosted on the IP address on which my website is stored. Do other websites hosted on my server/VPS affect my search results in ...
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Changing the protocol to HTTPS shows a completely different website (I never even bought SSL)
When I am checking Google indexing of my site and I saw that https version show another site.
My site: http://avse.edu.vn
HTTPS version showing another site: https://avse.edu.vn/
What could be the ...
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SEO scope for multiple domains hosting on the same IP address
I have multiple domains hosted on a shared hosting plan which provides a single IP address for all domains hosted. I want domains such as:
www.plumbersinnewyork.com
www.plumbersinwashington.com
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Can not having sha-256 encryption cause gmail to not work?
My website is on a shared host platform. For over five years I was able to send smtp email via gmail from server side script but it stopped working a few months ago and Google support says it is most ...
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Visiting website without nameservers
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I am migrating a WordPress website from a Plesk server to a cPanel server. Before I change the nameservers to point to the new website, I would like to test that everything is ok (e.g., ...
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Multiple domains in one hosting account
Several hosting services allow you to host multiple domains within a single hosting plan or account. For example, for Namecheap's Value package [ https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared.aspx] allows ...
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Nginx 502 Bad gateway on shared hosting
I have a website on a shared hosting provider. Since the very beginning my visitors have randomly got several types of errors, including 502 Bad Gateway / nginx (blank page with the error text). I ...
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How to find how many concurrent connections per one pageview?
My web hosting provider has terms of services saying I can have only 20 concurrent connections.
1 page view = 1 concurrent connections or more?
If 1 page view can have more concurrent connections ...
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IIS Management Console doesn't see the share on other domain: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password
Web server (W2008) is in domain1, I configured a web site to use a network share in domain2 with a username/password of domain2. I don't have admin rights on the NAS server but only on my share. there ...
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ssl subdomain shows content of main site but does not redirect url (wildcard cert)
I have a wildcard cert installed on my site *.pcgcp.ca which works beautifully, but when I go to my subdomain store.pcgcp.ca with HTTPS it shows the content of the main pcgcp.casite. I have contacted ...
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How to completely purge shared hosting account through cpanel?
I have a shared hosting account that I was using to check out various web applications (the account came with scriptaculo.us scripts that made for easy installation).
In the end I had installed about ...
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How to install a Windows application on Shared Hosting?
So basically i am making a niche site and i want to add a video downloader into it where user adds the URL and downloads video in multiple formats.
I have a Windows application of that video ...
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How to change document root of main domain in cPanel shared host?
I am in a shared host that I have basic cli access.
Inside public_html/ I host several addon domains, each in its own dir. Is it possible to make my main domain's document root inside another folder ...
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Best web hosting for photo blog sites with several photos and month visitors [duplicate]
What hosting provider would you recommend for photo blog sites with large / several photos upload as well as large traffic?
The hosting must be able to:
accommodate 10,000 - 50,000 monthly visitors
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Unable to locate phishing URL in CPanel file manager
I received an email from Google that there may be phishing pages on my website. Below are example URLs on my site which may be part of a phishing attack: http://www.uooart.com/~impots/file/...
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Cannot restore account from cpmove backup
I hope some one can point me in the right direction here, I am trying to move a Cpanel account from a dedicated server to a small VPS however when I try to restore the account on the destination VPS I ...
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How to safely replace live site (without database) with staging site using Apache shared hosting?
I have a PHP website of around 20 pages without a database on shared hosting - it has quite a lot of forms and a significant amount of visits. I have a staging subdomain on the same server wherein I ...
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How to delete a parent folder that holds php and html files
In my hosting structure I have website1, website2 etc. I made a mistake and placed my files and folders inside a folder called source while uploading them to the website1 folder. So now I'm stuck with ...
