I have searched for setting up automatic secondary DNS, but couldn't find anything, if I missed it, please post a link
I have 2 VPS's one running cPanel/WHM with about 15 low traffic sites on it. The other is a very slow spec VPS, hopefully just for DNS services.
I only have 1 domain server running currently, this is on the same server as the all the websites, what I want is a secondary DNS mirroring that of the DNS on my cPanel VPS, automaitically....
I was thinking of writting a little script to scp all the .db files in /var/named/ to my secondary server, then login to the secondary server and restart BIND?
I am trying to figure out how to do the following:
Say I have a URL like this: www.myreallylongsiteurl.com and I want it to automatically redirect to www.myRegularURL.com.
How would I go about doing this? Do I actually have to setup a whole new site in IIS and have a page there that just does a redirect or can I set up some sort of alias for this?
Also, my customer would like me to set it up so that myRegularURL.com redirects automatically to www.myRegularURL.com. they don't want to have to do the www in the url. Do I do this the same way as above?
The web host I use for personal web hosting (non-work-related) recently renewed my annual hosting package to my credit card automatically. The invoice was generated at around 11:45PM and I received an email reminder. By 12:03AM, I had been billed the full amount, before I even saw the 11:45PM reminder email.
Either from a client or provider standpoint, what is your take on automatic annual renewals? With or without advance warning?
In my case, it was billed to a card I no longer use, so I had to make a payment to that card that I would not have otherwise made. In other words, no serious harm done, but it was a hassle nonetheless.
I do not have a specific take either way on automatic annual renewals, so I am wondering what the community thinks.
I've been searching for a tool to automate website backups for me, that is to keep regular copies of files and databases in case of unexpected data loss. So far I found Site Vault that handles both FTP and MySQL backups at the same time. Does anyone know good alternatives to consider?
I have around 750 megabytes of data on a Windows 2003 server, and I would like to find an off-site / web service that I can use to back this data up incrementally at least nightly. Nightly incrementals would probably be 1-25MB in size. Full backups could run every other week or monthly, as the update rate is fairly low.
Ideally, I'd like to find some software to make this set-it and forget-it. Of course, periodic audits of the backup would be performed, but I don't want something I have to nanny constantly.
As I said, this is a Windows server, so a service would be ideal. A scheduled task would be just as good, I suppose.
I have 2 different shared hosting accounts with 2 different hosts. On 1 hosting account I can install Wordpress plugins by clicking on the "install" link and everything is done, all I have to do is activate the plugin and I'm in business. On my other hosting account I signed up for yesterday, when I try to install a plugin I'm taken to a "Connection Information" screen. It says, "To perform the requested action, connection information is required" and there's a box for the hostname, username, password, and connection type (FTP or FTPS).
I also noticed that when I search for a plugin, the rating stars are all white (no yellow) on the hosting account that asks for the FTP info.
Both of these accounts were installed with Fantastico. Any ideas why my new hosting account acts this way?
What's the best way to set up an automatic file backup to Amazon's S3 service? I have a Linux cpanel VPS. I have minimal VPS administration knowledge but at least the VPS is managed by a good team
Is there any way to do incremental backups to save on the bandwidth charges?
(a full backup for me would be about 15 gigs each time)
I've been pondering something for a long time here, but never really knew the right question to ask, or how to word it... so I never even know what to search for. So I honestly have no idea what I'm asking or if this is even under the right topic. What I'm looking for is answers, links, tutorials, or just some words I can search for to help me do the following:
I have a MySQL database filled with accounts. People have to pay to get these accounts. All the accounts are set to expire on different days. I need to send an e-mail out to accounts, for example, to let them know they're expiring, say, a month before this will occur. Right now the only way I know to do this is to have MySQL queries on a PHP page that, every time the page is loaded, runs through all the accounts, checks their expirations, and sends emails to those that need it. I know there has to be a way to have this happen automatically without having to load a PHP page every day, for example.
Is automatic renewal of a colocation contract for a full year enforceable? I've been with a place for over two years, never got a notice that my contract was being renewed, never got a special price for renewing for an entire year, but as I see now, I'm going to be challenged to pay 100% of the remaining months of a contract I thought I was paying by the month after the end of the first year.
In real estate, most tenants have to sign something that renews their contract for a year, I thought. If I had received notice of renewal at the end of the contract periods, I supposed I would have been more aware that the lease was for a full year each time.
I had no idea that this was standard and, of course, no idea this renewal was buried on page 6 of a 15 page contract. This starts to resemble a health club contract from hell.
Oh, and I just love the early termination fee. It consists of the remainder of the months' lease fees. Like as if I still had the server connected.
I have a virtual dedicated server which i currently host a couple of clients websites on, the control panel i am using is Simple Control Panel.
What i would like is an automated program or script that automatically sets up a users FTP access and creates a directory with a mysql database - I also require it to bill the customer on a monthly basis and if no payment is received from the customer the account then goes offline (but is not deleted)
how i can set this up and what is the best thing to use.
I signed up with cheapvps.co.uk a month ago, and I'm very happy with them . Now I'm looking for a very small VPS to host a secondary DNS server, and maybe a backup MX server.
It's just for personal use.
I think 5GB disk space would be enough, and I would like not to spend more than $10 USD/month. Do you know any VPS that suits my needs?
I encountered a strange problem when installing apache 2.2 or 2.4 as a service and set the service to be automaticly started.On restart of windows, apache service crashes with an access violation.
I am trying on a customers Site to install joomla 3.2.x (latest available)Unfortunately an error ist coming up after entering the datea (admin Login, db, thigns, etc..)
We need a secondary DNS for our cPanel server, as we want to have separate nameservers. What is the cheapest vps anyone knows that is hosted outside of Bluesquare House (UK). Global location isn't important.
I have a VPS with LXADMIN Hostinabox single server and want to use this VPS as a secondary/slave DNS server. My primary/master DNS is hosted elsewhere.
Does the LXADMIN Hostinanox interface facilitate the ability to setup the secondary zone?
What happens if your primary nameserver goes down? Meaning that it goes completely off the net, not even denying dns requests but completely ignoring them.
I'd guess that resolvers would query the secondary NS after a specified timeout, but what is that timeout set to? Does it differ from ISP to ISP? How much of a slowdown are we looking at for end users?
would it be possible to have my main box running apache, a second box for dns/other and an offsite secondary dns such as DNS1.PUBLIC-DNS.NET?
Is it possible to authenticate the primary and offsite secondary nameserver so the zone is transferred to the secondary? Would i need to pay for a special service, or do free ones exist? Are there any security implications with zone files being transferred out over the public internet, would a vpn need to be configured or can the process be encrypted via the transfer procedure?
Finally, how would this affect the way the entire virtual hosting works? I know when the nameserver on the host machine serves resolves a name request for a computer trying to browse the site in question, but when the actual http request goes to the web server does it incldue the domain it is looking at also?
i'm asking about the script which install in linux servers and automatic suspend sites which over it's limit resources in ram and cpu , like used in big hosting company ....
We are moving our hosting to a new supplier . We offer hosting services to our clients and our present system produces automatic emails with all the clients log in details passwords etc. when you join or buy a new URL.
The new hosting supplier tells me that using Parallels panel this isn't possible .
have to produce manual emails is not really an option as I see massive problems
