I am just wondering if the Global financial crisis has any negative impacts on hosting providers and IT sector? Do the crisis consequences lead to hosting sales decrease? How does the World hosting industry experience financial crisis? How can hosting business owners comment the current situation in the World?
View 14 RepliesI am just interested if the Global crisis has brought any negative consequences in web hosting business? Does your own hosing company experience any negative impacts?
View 19 Replies View RelatedI'm doing some research on the ages of owners of companies in the current hosting industry. It seems like there's increasing numbers of minors starting up hosting businesses every month. I've compiled a short list of providers that have been mentioned on WHT to be run by minors. I want to see what's the general perception of minors running hosting businesses on WHT.
Can any customers of these companies comment on their experience with their provider?
Crissic Solutions, LLC
VectorLevel LLC
PC Core Hosting
Addictive Hosting
Also, how are they getting LLCs registered? Isn't that illegal?
If I change hosts, will that affect my google pagerank?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to host a service that has to have best possible speed anywhere in the world.
I am unable to find anything comparable to Hurricane Electric.
They own 15+ transit nodes in America, 4 in europe, 1 in asia
And they provide dedicated hosting.
I am looking for the alternatives because HE's service is very rudimentary, they just provide servers and you're on your own.
Especially, there's no KVM-over-ip, to reinstall or upgrade you have to pay them $200 every time.
But the connection rates, network uptime are best you ever get.
So there's not possible to get both: level 1 connection and great dedicated hosting service?
There are either backbone providers or service providers.
Is Hurricane Electric the only one who does both?
I work for a small financial service provider and we are currently designing a new server side application for which we are now evaluating colo options. The service will employ direct connectivity to several exchanges (NYSE/Arca, ISE, Nasdaq, etc.). So, one point is the cost of connecting to other data centers.
Our bandwidth consumption is pretty low (<1Mbps), however we do require the lowest possible latencies.
To begin with, we only need about 6u but as most centers require a half rack min, we might do that just as well.
Also, we need 24/7 on-site support in case of emergencies. The facility should be very professional, with minimal down time and high security.
On my list to check out right now are:
Savvis Weehawken (NYSE primary facility)
Voxel
CRNC
Navisite
Which other centers in that area might be suited for our requirements? Also, what kind of cost are we going to be looking at?
Has anybody worked on similar projects and can give some additional insight?
Is data theft common in dedicated industry? such as source code theft, especially in fully managed hosting situation?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI recently moved a client of mine to a dedicated server with a hosting company called the NYNOC. After losing a few weeks of data for my client in the incedent described below, I am wondering if what happened was industry standard, or this was a case of choosing the wrong hosting company.
After signing up and paying the initial hosting charge, I received two notices - one on 18 july, and the second on 26th july - for a bill that was due 25th july.
On 2nd august I get a complaint from my client saying the website is down. I figured the hosting company had cut me off for a late bill. Fine, I figure i go and pay the bill and the reconnection charge and they put me back on.
After waiting 8 hours to get a support person (they dont have 24 hours customer service), I was told that I no longer had a account with them! No client log in. No server. Nothing. The disk was wiped clean and the server was sold to another customer. Without any warning that this would happen.
So my client lost a few weeks of customer data and I lost my credibility.
I was just wondering if this is standard practice in the dedicated hosting industry, or these guys are just bad news.
One more thing. When you talk to these people (they have only one customer support person) its almost as if they really really dislike their customers. As in, they talk down to you even as they exhibit complete disregard for your interests. This I know is not an industry standard. I have several accounts at Hurricane Electric, and they are tops. Unfortunately they do not offer well priced dedicated hosting.
I think I will try Interserver next. I spoke with one of the support guys on AOL late at night, and they seem good, and more importantly, are able to have a pleasant conversation with their customers.
I would liek to know if changing the hosting server affect the PR or the indexing for my current sites?
View 10 Replies View Relatedi have a server with whm/cpanel,
i use the "Apache Update" to compile the php4Aphp5 of the server,
and i set the "PHP 5 Handler" as cgi,
some account tell me his php script can not login any more,
i want to ask,if i changing to cgi will affect it?
if yes, how can i solve it?
How do packet losses affect running of a website, say i get packet loss for some site like around 30-40% but can still browse their websites, so how do packet losses affect working of a website ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have ever made a DNS Server change and I was curious how this is going to affect my e-mail.
Lets say this is my URL - www.testURL.com
I also have my e-mail setup as MyName@testURL.com
I now have a new host so we are going to change the DNS settings so www.testURL.com now points to the new web host. Is this going to affect my e-mail address MyName@testURL.com or do I also have to make a request to get the e-mail changed as well?
I set up my own webserver earlier this year using a dedicated server from my hosting company (IIS, win2003), for some reason two of my websites on there are not being listed by Google (or any search engine) at all. Could there be something wrong in my setup that can cause this to happen?
View 3 Replies View Relatedtoday i got a email form my web hosting:
"Lunarpages Web Hosting is scheduled to undergo maintenance this Saturday, January 17, 2009, at our San Diego location in order to upgrade our internal systems to be more energy efficient in our power usage, a major step in our initiative to Go Green in 2009. Unfortunately, this means that some of our servers will be unavailable for a short time while we upgrade these systems. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Below, you will find information on how to track the progress of our upgrades and the scheduled times that our servers will be undergoing these improvements.
The following times are our three scheduled maintenance windows for this upgrade. Please note that the information is in Pacific Standard Time (PST):
* Saturday, January 17, 7am-10am
* Saturday, January 17, 10am-1pm
* Saturday, January 17, 6pm-9pm
"
will this maintenance affect the rank of my website in google and other search engine?
our company is ordering a new dedicated server and we are a little unsure what we should choose as far as the full hostname and nameservers of this one server.
This server will have a couple different websites on it, but really, there is only one BIG website on it... let's call it abcd.com.
While most would pick a hostname of host.abcd.com for instance, if at all possible, we would like the domain name part of the hostname to be something different than abcd.com. We own a domain name that doesn't point to anything yet (unuseddomain.com) and we were wondering if we could use that domain in our hostname.. host.unuseddomain.com.
And instead of using abcd.com as the domain name for our own nameservers (ie. ns1.abcd.com, ns2.abcd.com), we would like to again, use the unused domain name we own (unuseddomain.com) for the nameservers domain name: ns1.unuseddomain.com, ns2.unuseddomain.com.
So...
Will this work? Is this perfectly acceptable?
And lastly...
Since the one website we really care about on this server (the one we got the server for in the first place) is abcd.com, is using the unuseddomain.com for the hostname and nameservers (as above) a bad choice in anyway regarding email deliverability? I understand that mail ISP's (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) do all kinds of checks on hostnames (PTR), etc... and we want to make sure that we aren't hurting ourselves in anyway by using an "empty" domain name that we own as our hostname's and nameserver's domain name.
For instance, if we send mail from the abcd.com account, it will use mail.abcd.com (1.1.1.1) as it's outgoing mail server... Hotmail will see this... do a reverse-dns lookup on 1.1.1.1 and see host.unuseddomain.com. See what I'm saying? It all will work, but will it toss up red flags?
I am considering a server from Iweb wich is based in Canada.
My question is about search engines especially google. My site will be targeting US visitors and I am in the US. When google and other search engines see that my IP address is in Canada will it have any affect on search engine ranking for the regular us google.com? I don't care much about rankings on google.ca since my visitors will mainly be in the USA. anybody have any insite on this? I also want to mention my domain name will be a .com domain
I have seen 1 vps provider having very poor ping results in few online ping sites and they have a very cluster slow loading pages as well.
One of my friend has a package with them, the ping results are very poor even for him as well. Just made an traceroute found its on some node1.vpsprovider.com
Ya, one more major important similarity noticed was, the vps provider emails weren't set properly to yahoo mail, and my friend's emails sent from the server to yahoo weren't delivered as well.
So if the vps provider has poor content may be due to firewall or internal settings do the systems under the node also be affected?
I have no problems with my host so nothing to be worried about, but need to help him as he is just starting it out with a cheaper vps
I have maindomain.com addon-1.com addon-2.com addon-3.com
The addon domains are folders in main domain's root.
The problem is maindomain's htaccess is affecting the addon domains. I want the add on domains to have their own htaccess. The addon domains should not be influenced by main domain's htaccess
I did some research online and someone says this method works:
Code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?addon_domain.com
RewriteRule .* - [L]
But the above assumes you only have one addon domain. I have multiple.
Which code is correct? This
Code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?addon-1.com
RewriteRule .* - [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?addon-2.com
RewriteRule .* - [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?addon-3.com
RewriteRule .* - [L]
Or this
Code:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?addon-1.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?addon-2.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?addon-3.com
RewriteRule .* - [L]
do I put the code at the beginning of main domain's htaccess?
Just have a question for everyone. Does having a Dedicated IP on your shared service affect your purchase decision?
(i.e., When searching for Shared Web Hosting, do you make it a requirement that you get assigned your own Unique IP or do you not care if you are assigned the Main Box IP.)
In an environment where there is no webmail enabled for hosted sites and no sites have registered names (eg; they all belong in "our name space"), what is the affect of NAMED not running?
One affect that I have seen is with Site Scheduled Tasks that need URL resolutions. This appears to fail if Named is not running. All OTHER site content seems to work just fine. Apparently even in WordPress Multi-user/site situations.
I FULLY understand bind/named (and /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf), but it seems that it some cases, virtual hosted sites do not need Named (active) to function. This is NOT a case of incorrect DNS definitions created by Plesk for any hosted site.
SO - what is the "affect" of Named NOT running in a PLesk-12 Linux environment - not only for hosted sites but also the Plesk server itself?
i have both PHP(php4 & php5) together
PHP4.........CSO (defoult)
PHP5.........CGI
i have already transfered a site from another server to my server !
this website using PHP5 and they asked me to enable register_global
but i don`t know how to active register_global when PHP5 set as CGI
value will not be accepted when PHP5 set as CGI : php_flag register_globals 1
* i think the last server used Suphp ( i found some files like : php.ini in FTP)
Looking for quick, easy global load balancing solution. This is actually for a temporary situation (we need to move to a new DC and need to make this seamless as possible). Linux solution preferred if possible. What can we use to get this achieved?
How exactly does it work? does it need VPN between locations or is client redirected to a different IP somehow?
We would consider dedicated hardware solutions provided that we can get 2 pieces for under $2,000 total (ebay i guess).
Is there a way to use DNS system (eg. Power DNS) so that based on geographical location Googlebot will locate a localized version of the site and hence will get a higher ranking for that country?
View 4 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have an Global Crossing contact?
View 6 Replies View Relatedmy server there it one site
but this site His alexa ranking of 7.000
i need Apache Global Configuration
StartServers = ?
and this
MinSpareServers = ?
and this
MaxSpareServers = ?
and this
MaxClients = ?
and this
MaxRequestsPerChild = ?
browsing heavily on the site, which lead to stoppage of the Apache
Server Information
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
8GB Ram
I have just saw on leaseweb noc site that there has been a public release of a Apache DoS tool and all All versions of Apache are vulnerable.
So can anyone confirm this and give some possible solution or advices? ....
I don't know if this website exists but... is there a website that shows Global Bandwidth usage to the world?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe currently take transit from Level3 and Tiscali in addition to peering at LINX in the UK. We reaching capacity on our 100Mbps connection to Level3 which we take through a Reseller. I plan to keep our Tiscali transit as we receive great routes to Europe.
I have received quotes for increasing our Level3 to 1Gbps with 100 Mbps CDR and also switching to Global Crossing direct which are I think are fairly competitive at ~ £12 per Mbps?
Does any one have direct experience with either of these two providers in the UK and can recommend who has the best support/routes etc? Additionally I see a number of other UK providers are using Telia and NTT. Having had no experience with Telia or NTT I am unsure if they are in the same league as Global Crossing and Level3. Also are there any other Tier 1's we should be looking at?
It seems the more places we can put servers, the more places boss-man wants them
We're setting up an external network to test back into our network from geographically/carrier diverse locations. We've got about 15 hosts up, but most are in the states, one in london, one in amsterdam, one in frankfurt and one in hong kong.
The current wish list of locations includes -
- Japan
- S. Korea
- Australia (holy cow bw is expensive in sydney! is anyone charging less than $500 per Mb?)
- Paris, France (we have one quote in, but it is pretty pricy)
- Italy
- Spain
- Sweden
I'm doing research and have submitted rfq's to companies in most of these locations, but was hoping for personal recommendations of hosts you have used.
Is anyone here running GFS? The responsibility of managing a small cluster of them is about to fall into my lap, and the only documentation I can find is on Wikipedia, which is troubling. I've got the man pages, but I was hoping for more of a document outlining how it works.
Why would lock_dlm2 or gfs_scand take up close to 100% CPU with minimal traffic on the machine, for example? What do those do? How can I tune it to not do that?
I'm not so much looking for specific answers here about tuning, but am more curious about where I should be looking for documentation. I find it hard to believe that there is none?