Best Practice To Administer A Website
Apr 15, 2009Do you access your server remotely (RDC) and administer your website or do you use SSL from any machine?
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VPS Best Practice
Nov 4, 2008Anyone have any input on best practice for running vps servers it seems that there is a grey area when it comes to different configurations.
Ive seen so many
OpenVz
Hypervm with openVz
Virtuozo
Vmware
way to go about running a vps server and or servers and recomended configurations for each type.
Routing Practice
Sep 6, 2007Our colo has two carriers, call them A and B. I have discovered the colo provider is round-robining traffic out it's two carriers on a per-packet basis, not per flow.
Assume we want to reach destination IP a.b.c.d.
%> traceroute -q5 a.b.c.d
Results show that at the hop leaving the colo's border router, some packets transit Carrier A and some Carrier B, to the same destination IP, during the same traceroute.
Is this a routing Best Practice, or am I correct in thinking this is the Lazy Man's way of load balancing across multiple circuits, multiple carriers? BGP route selection does not seem to apply here (i.e., either Carrier A or Carrier B but not both at the same time).
Shady Lil Practice At Softlayer
Sep 21, 2009Well I was quite surprised to see this but basically if you cancel a server at softlayer unless you go through after the fact and cancel all the associated orphans like ip ranges, vpn users, etc that was allocated to the servers you cancelled they will still bill you for this.
I have seen the notice on the cancellation process and I have always stated in cancellation ticket to cancel this server and all addons for it.
I find out today that I have been paying for at least 20 ip ranges, 15 vpn users and even a cpanel license for servers that I have cancelled months ago. How insane is that?
When a person cancels a server, they expect that server and all addons such as ip ranges, licenses and vpn users that was allocated to those servers to be cancelled as well. This seems not to be the case at softlayer and this is nothing more then an obvious way to bill clients for things that they are not even using or really cannot even use.
I guess that is what someone can expect from some wal-mart style network but I think this is simply an unethical practice. Most people would assume all items associated with a cancelled server would be cancelled with the server, that is what softlayer depends on .
IN the end I guess it is my fault for not reading "the fine print" but Im about sick of this fine print crap where hosts can outright decieve you and rip you off and then later point out some fine print validating their reasons.
Has anyone else had this issue at softlayer?
Best Practice For Web Hosting On Your Own Server
Jun 27, 2007I am currently web hosting my own site (at home) through port 8000 using firewire. My activation is by invitation only. This means that I have to manually activate you before you can post on my board. I do this for security reasons and plus there is no need to invite the outside world. However, anyone on the outside world can view the site. The url is in the form of xyz.abc.uvw.rst:8000/forums/ where xyz.abc.uvw.rst is the IP address and 8000 of course is the port.
In order to make my site more secure, I have also changed the admin dir so that you can't just url to .../forums/admin/ and then start typing in passwords.
In addition, the version of my board is hidden and html is disabled.
I believe that I am secure but I would like to know other best web hosting practice methodologies that will allow me to be even more secure, particularly in the case where I am hosting on my own computer in my own home.
Conduct Or Legal Operating Practice
Jun 29, 2008I have a ethics and legality scenario I would like to pose here. This is to be considered a fictional scenario and any similarity to any real company or person is unintentional.
COMPANY X has colo racks in DATACENTER and hosts a client named COMPANY Y. COMPANY Y also hosts 50 small web sites on cpanel and 40 VPS servers on their linux VPS node in exchange for a discount or other compensation. During the month of may and COMPANY Y's bill raises from being 3000 past due to over 12000 past due to various reasons including purchasing of hds from the DATACENTER using COMPANY X's account, tech work dont by DATACENTER for COMPANY Y needed also billed to COMPANY X's account, as well as BW and rack costs. Seeing this alrming bill by the end of May COMPANY X begins putting pressure on COMPANY Y to pay some invoices as no payments were received during the entire month of may and COMPANY X is also having a hard time paying DATACENTER due to not being paid by COMPANY Y but makes efforts to pay 25% of the outstanding bill in June.
Near the end of june COMPANY X has had enough and arrives at the datacetner to attempt to move theritr clients off COMPANY Ys hardware so they can suspend service of COMPANY Y completely. On the visit COMPANY X brings 2 new servers in and begins moving clients of their over and COMPANY X notices this action and begins to suspend and remove access to all of COMPANY X's clients. COMPANY X then decided to power off the boxes of COMPANY Y and removes drives containing COMPANY X customer data for offline recovery. and because they beleived the DATACENTER might be untrustworthy enough to release hardware fromt heir rakcs without their permission. The drives were for as much colatteral purposes as for recoverying customer data. They then pack the drives in boxes and a bag and leave the datacenter having spent nearly 20 hours working and head on a long trip home and signs out of the data center in front of various techs holding the server parts and tools.
Upon arriving back to their office/home
They were informed that the removal of the HDs was not allowed byt he datacenter because the account was past due and it was discovered that several drives with cOMPANY X's clients were left in the datacenter which COMPANY X now wishes they had remembered to get. DATACENTER is furious and demands the account be paid in full by a fixed time or the entire colo will be cut power. COMPANY X scrambles to find others to help them and another major client who has alot at risk decides to help and a payment of $7160 is made to DATACETNER but it came in a few minutes past the deadline. DATACETNER had suspended servuce, and cut power but stated they wil return service shortly. Shortly after this it is discovered that several servers belonging to COMANY X and two other companies who were supsended in the same day were not int he rack anymore. DATACENTER accout rep responds with the following message in ICQ/AIM .....
Best Practice How To Mirror (or Sync) Site To Another Plesk Host
Sep 28, 2008I'm looking for a method to basically clone my plesk site to another hosting provider also running plesk, the idea is so if my site A is down, I can just re-point the dns entry to Site B, and minimize downtime.
It makes sense to me to pay 2x hosting costs so I can have a site mirrored in case the main site goes offline, then I can just switch the dns to the new host. The trick is how can I automatically keep Site B mirrored as part of site A. Using Plesk Backup doesn't seem practical as it's not automatic. Does Cpanel have a site mirroring feature?
Would something like rsync work? Doesn't this require shell access? I'm looking for best practices to be able to mirror Site A to Site B in an automatic method..
No HW Raid - FreeBSD Gmirror (soft-raid1) As Best Practice For Data Integrity?
Jul 30, 2006Dedicated server has 2 HDD but I am not going to pay another $25/month for the hardware RAID solution (already stretched too far).
My plan is to install FreeBSD 6 and use Gmirror to establish a raid-1 "soft" mirror.
Advantages: Entire drive is mirrored including the OS. Drives can be remotely inserted or removed from the mirror set using a console command so its possible to uncouple the mirror and perform software updates on a single drive then re-establish the mirror only after the updates have proved successful.
Disadvantages: Lower I/O than hardware solution (not a problem for me) others???
I rarely see people consider software raid for a tight-budget server and I am wondering why? Could it be that other OS's dont have a solution as good as gmirror? Or is it just that crappy soft-raid in the past has left a bitter taste in admins mouths? Or perhaps admins need the extra I/O of hardware?
How To Point Www.website.com To Website.com (or Vice Versa)
May 3, 2008If I type google.com in my address bar, it forwards me to www.google.com. This is not happening for my website right now. I think its a good idea to do this, since then search engines will have only 1 main URL for the website to index.
My question is:
How do I implement this? I think this may involve mucking with CNAME settings...
How To Redirect.. Www.website.com -> Www.website.com/forums
May 15, 2009I want my users to be redirected directly to my forum
so when they type in www.mywebsite.com it will redirect instantly to www.mywebsite.com/forums
I know this can be done on Cpanel... any other ways?
How To Set Up A Website Using A VPS
Nov 2, 2009I m tired with Shared Hosting so i bought one vps but i haven't any knowledge how to run site through vps and how to change nameserver blah blah
I Have Window VPS
Can any one help me step by step for setting up site through window vps ..
FTP To Website
Apr 30, 2008I use Ian Lloyd's book and that's where I found out about this forum. Looks like a great forum.
I downloaded Fliezilla FTP and I'm trying to transfers files from my computer onto an angelfire web site.
Filezilla asks for a server address and I put in the URL address that I registered with angelfire. It then asks me for an administration password, and I put in my password to the angelfire site. I keep getting: Error: Connection to server lost...
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong here? I would like to use Filezilla to upload my files (web pages) to the angelfire site.
Website Down
Jan 16, 2007I hosted website and sometime it is going down. Same server some of my websites working fine. Please just know why going down my website sometimes..
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Oct 23, 2008I have a website which is currently hosted with streamline.net on their shared msql 11 server.
We have had several issues with them over the last few weeks where someone is using most of the server and slowing everyone elses sites down so much so they crash.
This week and weekend are my busiest time of the year (I sell fancy dress) and my site it totally unuseable.
We have phoned them and they have done nothing except ask us for a log which we have provided for short periods of time.
The down time has now got so bad that I have had only 2 sales today. I estimate I am losing approx 400 per day at the moment due to this problem.
Is there anything that I can do urgently to prevent my business from being killed by someone else.
Website Hacked
Jul 27, 2007So I'm interviewing with a company and when I typed in the URL to their website, I was met with a nasty surprise: a "hacked by so and so" message! However, after looking closer, I see that I had accidentally appended a period (".") to the end of the domain name, for example: http://www.example.com./
When I removed the period, the site appeared as normal. I don't know anything about the server other than it's IIS. Is there anything I can suggest to them when I go in to interview? I'd like to point this out to them; it may even help my chances at landing the job! (It's not related to networking, though.)
Website Mirroring
Jan 6, 2007Does anybody know how I can mirror a websute using PHP?
I have 2 dif domains on different servers different OS, and I need PHP to collect the page from the other server from another domain.
Hosting My Own Website
Jan 10, 2009Is it possible to buy a dedicated server off eg Dell and host your own website on it from home ie with a www prefix to the url- Do ye know any good tutorial on it. Would 20Mbit bandwidth be enough bandwidth for a fairly busy php ,mysql site? Completely new to this.
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Jun 29, 2009This is probably a pretty complicated answer so please forgive me as I'm a newbie to making my own ecommerce website.
What steps are needed to protect/prevent one's site from being hacked? I have domain privacy (on WhoIs) but I feel this isn't enough.
Redirecting A Website
Jun 27, 2009I have a domain name websiteexample.com and its hosted with somebody, I have built a new website under a new domain .co.uk on a new server and need to redirect my .com to the .co.uk, how the best way to handle this with serach engines in mind, I dont want to loose my .com listing if possible, is a framed forward a good way?
View 9 Replies View RelatedDNS - For Mail And Website
Jun 2, 2009I want to have my email and website going to different servers:
At the moment i have it setup so that the nameserver records point to the ip of the website. That means that both site and mail go to the server where i host my site. I have then set up an mx record to point the mail to another server...
however can i make this split at the start?.. i.e. from the domain registar? can i set up an A record to point to the website and an MX record for the mail? instead of pointing them both to the website and then redirecting the mail to another server?
Website Has Been Hacked
Apr 30, 2009Just this week, I believe one of my site has been hacked...or potentially my whole server! When accessing the website (a vBulletin forum), instead of going to the main page, we get a screen that looks like Window's "My Computer" and there is a scan running. Firefox has blocked the site for suspicion.
I am stumped. Where to begin? I have full SSH access to my server (after rebooting it). Thank you in advance.
Server: CentOS Linux 4.3
Starting Website Up
May 18, 2009I have a wordpress site, and am trying to find someone good and reasonable price to design me a template for the website so I can still use wordpress but have access and control to everything.. I am going to buy a domain as well to hook wordpress up to it so I can edit themes etc.. I was looking at maybe using mmhosting..
Also, I have a forum, but not sure what type of forum I need to be able to arrange it and add and use features don't I can't now, so basically upgrade..
My site, as I said is wordpress but I want it to look like the forums I am using..
Rss Feeds On New Website
Jan 18, 2009I'm thinking of starting a website that pokes fun at news stories and photos, but I'm a complete rookie at this. All the RSS feeds I found say they are free for non-commercial use. I want to be able to sell t-shirts and caps on my site, or at least advertising. Any ways to use current news and photos that are free or inexpensive?
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Jun 29, 2009if i were to have 1 website get have a DDoS attack to it, would it knock out my server for a while, and can i recover the server by restarting it?
View 14 Replies View RelatedStolen Website
Apr 6, 2009I've discovered that a site of mine has being completely copied
The sites are in a different country
[url]
[url]
The original site, that is still currently under construction with a lot of copy, rewriting and pages still have
[url]
Now, I don't mind someone taking inspiration or borrowing ideas. I'll admit as a web designer I have 1000's of book marks of sites that I've liked and will look at for ideas and inspiration, but I don't just download and put up.
Now as the sites are in a separate country I don't know yet if it is worth all the hassle as our customer base are separate, but I presume that having identical content means that google ranking could be damaged?
How To Know Hosting Of Any Website
Jun 9, 2009How to check web hosting of any Website and which hosting is more valuable and why?
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Mar 7, 2008My website down several hours ago, I have submitted two tickets already, but none replied and none contact with me.
my site has a daily 10k+ traffic, I will lose 10 dollar every hour... And there are pending ads. I need to put on.
Activate Website
Aug 31, 2008I registered my domain with domain.com several weeks ago. Then, when I tried to get web hosting services! but I had the worst experience over the internet by professional internet company.
Anyway, the issue is not that, I did lost my money with this company but I did manage to purchase web hosting services with another web hosting company (webhostingpad.com).
However, now I am stuck with how do I manage to activate my web address at (domain.com) to be directed to my website at (webhostingpad.com).
I tried both companies support with no respond at all.
So, My question is;
What is needed to do now:
How do I activate my web address over the internet?
How to make this address point to my website at webhostingpad.com?
How to make my address shows in all search engines?
Hosting For PTC Website
Aug 19, 2008I wan't to start a PTC website. Therefore I need a host with a very fast and stable SQL server.
I don't need much space.
Wich one should I take? There are hundreds of them...
Which CPU To Consider For DB Intensive Website
Aug 2, 2008my client a dedicated server which could handle the following things.
1). Intensive DB queries done from many operators for custom project.
2).DB when info process completes, Generates a PDF which would be upto 10MB in size.and also runs MAPLAB Applications.
3). should be able to run back-up's or please suggest an alternative to always have a copy of recent data.
4). pro-active scanning on Incoming FTP content for Viruses. (is it possible ?)
Considering softlayer with:
either
Single Processor Quad Core Xeon 3220 - 2.40GHz (Kentsfield) - 2 x 4MB cache
8 GB RAM
+ 147GB SA-SCSI 10K RPM
OR Preferring
Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5335 - 2.00GHz (Clovertown) - 2 x 8MB cache
8 GB FB-DIMM Registered 533/667
+ 147GB SA-SCSI 10K RPM
Hosting Your Own Website
Sep 15, 2008Whats the benefit of putting up your own web hosting server in the company to host your website?
Obviously its going to be more economical and Im sure there are plenty of documentation online on how to do this.
why most people wont go with this approach and rather find a hosting company to do this for them instead.