Questions tagged [vps]
Virtual Private Server - a term used by internet hosting services to refer to a virtual machine.
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How to compare Shared versus VPS hosting? [duplicate]
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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
While shopping around for a new hosting service, I have find that I have no idea how to decide between shared hosting (...
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Does using LiteSpeed instead of Apache speed up WordPress?
I've read that Litespeed is a lot faster than Apache. I use mostly WordPress and Joomla sites and am looking for a new server. Will I see a significant increase in speed of WordPress being on a ...
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Trouble setting up DNS for VPS
I had registered a domain at namecheap and forwarded the DNS to my host at vps.net.
The strange thing is, when I did that the site was showing up. I even uploaded files and everything was displaying ...
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Shared versus VPS versus Cloud?
Short form: I'm trying to decide between shared, VPS, and cloud hosting for a few Django webapps.
Long form: I'm currently hosting around half-dozen sites (a mix of Django and PHP) on two ...
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Is there any service for Linux Virtual Private Server comparsion of providers? [closed]
I'm going to buy Linux Virtual Private Server, but I would like to compare offers that hosting companies have. I would like to compare servers memory, disk, bandwidth, cpu and price per month. So far ...
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Redirect to subdomain port 8080
I have my domain registered and running. I have installed lifray which is running on tomcat 7, my site url is iloveliferay.com:8080 and I want this to be at themes.iloveliferay.com, which file I need ...
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Two websites (and domains) on one hosting
So I am a poor college student, thus I can't afford dedicated hosting, cloud or anything fancy of the like...
However I managed to purchase myself two domain names say http://abc.com and http://def....
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Retry cron job until it successfully excecutes
I'm running a python script on my VPS every day with cron. It only has 768mb ram, and when I run the script manually I often get memory errors from python. However, I usually can just try a couple ...
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Hosting rails sites; vps or shared, and how much ram? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I have 3 rails sites to launch, all of which are fairly small and consisting of a custom cms, one with an online store, and ...
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Applying domain name to a directory
I have a Linode instance of Ubuntu 10.4 using the LAMP stack to host an instance of Magento and a couple other things. I currently have Magento set up at: http://123.459.780.123/magento.
When I ...
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How to check VPS is performing optimally?
Like for measuring Load time of a website we have Pingdom tools, do we have something similar to measure if the VPS I currently have is good or not.
I'm looking for some kind of metrics, because I ...
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How can i monitor my VPS real bandwidth usage?
I have a VPS that suspended for use out of bandwidth limitation. In DirectAdmin report I have no change in the use of bandwidth and all things are normal (bandwidth usage is less than 4 GB and my ...
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Add domain to VPS
I have a VPS server running Ubuntu 11.04 with webmin installed on it. How can I add my example.com domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?
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a good VPS to grow into (cheap at start, multiple sites, php and python, easily custom-configurable) [duplicate]
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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
We develop and host for many clients. I am choosing an upgrade over shared hosts, preferably a VPS. The new site should be ...
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Remote desktop to Ubuntu
I have a VPS server running Ubuntu OS and also have shell access to my server. I wonder is there any way to connect to Ubuntu desktop and see its UI from windows using remote desktop tools such as ...
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What does the user "nobody" represent in server process logs
I am new to vps hosting. I checked daily process logs on my server and found a user with name nobody consuming more memory than others.
So what is the user nobody related to and why is it consuming ...
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What's the practical difference between dedicated and virtual private servers?
I understand the physical differences but in a practical sense, what will be the differences? Speed?
I understand that I have full control over a virtual private server in a software aspect as with ...
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How do i Seperate WebHosting Space and Email Hosting Space
I have a VPS account from knownhost. I have clients who have their website hosting on my server.
Some have subscribed 50MB, 100MB, 500MB or 1 GB as per their requirement. They are also allowed to ...
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Web Hosting Advice for Project [duplicate]
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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I am working on a project that will be released as open source in the latter part of the year. I am starting to think about ...
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What hosting solutions help with traffic spikes?
A web application is hypothetically featured on Digg or Reddit, and the server load immediately spikes up by a couple of orders of magnitude. What kind of hosting solution will allow the website to ...
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Things we can do with VPS Packages
I am planning for purchase of VPS Package. Beside Webspace hosting, what other features can we provide to our customers?
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Is there a way I can test which one of my VPS's is better?
Is there any profile tool to tell which VPS I own is better? I have a VPS from rubyringtech & a VPS from burstNET. Both are CentOS 5.6 one is a intel i7 2600 & the other is a Xeon.
Is there ...
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I need a cheap, reliable, virtual webserver service [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
So, we used linode.com for a while, and that was awesome, but I need my own virtual server now, and the problem with linode ...
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Should I move to Linode?
I am looking for insight, because I have the tendency to run full throttle into things with (at times) too much confidence. To summarize my somewhat lengthy explanation below, I am looking to see if ...
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How do I create name servers for my VPS package?
I have recently signed up for a knownhost VPS package. My account has been set up on their end. They want me to create ns1.outsourcingnepal.com and ns2.outsourcingnepal.com in my registrar and point ...
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What are the options for hosting a small Plone site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I’ve developed a portfolio website for myself using Plone 4, and I’m looking for someplace to host it. Most Plone hosting ...
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Alternative to CPanel
I want to develop software and host it on a website. I am considering purchasing a VPS from Linode to store the source code; however it does not provide CPanel (what I used to configure my webspace on ...
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Looking for VPS Hosting for a LAMP Web Application [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
Trying to find a Managed VPS Hosting Solution for a LAMP Web Application.
The more CPU, RAM, and Disk space the better
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How to setup VPS(Virtual hosting server) in Godaddy
I recently purchase a VPS from GoDaddy. Now i need to Setup the virtual server to go ahead and install my website.
Please guide how to go about.
Thanks in advance
gourav
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place to host a simple php socket server [duplicate]
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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
i am running a small project that occasionally requires me to run a php socket script through ssh. it uses a few bytes of ...
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Could you suggest me the cheapest and most "basic" hosting/server solution for my website? [duplicate]
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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
My website (a soccer portal, containing Joomla and SMF) in the last months has grown so much that the shared-hosting ...
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Any High Availability CF 8/9 Ent VPS / VDS hosting out there? [duplicate]
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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
Will apreciate it if you could list some that you may know of. Those that I could find are standard. I fould one that is ...
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Dedicated Hosting 101
I've been running small websites for years, but recently developed a site that is attracting more traffic than expected. My shared web hosting provider has warned me that this is causing a high load ...
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Where can I host this?
I'm looking for a VPS or dedicated that can have a web crawler running all day long. It would gather data and then add it to some websites.
These websites currently have around 1k unique visits/day, ...
HappyWebMaster
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linode.com/slicehost.com/vps.net what to chose? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I am looking for a new VPS for http://hotelpublisher.com. At the moment it is either linode.com, slicehost.com or vps.net (...
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Blog, News, Slashdot effects & Video
We want to set up a WordPress 3 with the multi-site option enabled in order to have several (2-3) sites for news, photos & video. The expected audience is around 10-15k visits/day.
One of the ...
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Best Way to Backup and Restore Linux System in VPS? [closed]
I might be opting to using the daily versions of some VPS services. I want to be able to continue from when I started after shutting down and removing the server.
What is the best way to backup and ...
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How Can I Secure A VPS Installation?
What are the basic steps to securing a VPS installation that I plan to install Webmin on to host my blogs and personal projects?
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How difficult is an unmanaged VPS?
I have some sites hosted on a shared-hosting/cpanel environment and need to make a move up. I have some experience running my own server, but it is very basic (a local box to do live testing/file serv)...
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Could you suggest a good VPS hosting for my own exercise? [closed]
Could you suggest a good VPS hosting for my own exercise ?
I would like to have a server for development where I can have a lot of space, good performances and the ability to install my own software.
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What are the best options to backup a hosted windows VPS [closed]
I have a Windows VPS hosted at some web host, I have remote desktop administrator access and I can install whatever software I need on that VPS.
This is a basic low cost VPS, so the system resources (...
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Whats is the best Windows VPS hosting? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
I'm currently using shared hosting.
I want more control over my IIS and also I need to run in full trust.
There are a lot ...
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How widely used is VPS hosting for personal sites?
I'm considering a move from my shared hosting setup to a Virtual Private Server. I'm aware of the major benefits and downsides of this idea.
I have a few personal sites I would be running. Given the ...
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