i am hosting 3 sites on my shared hosting plan at startlogic. I need to upgrade but i have a small budget. Gridservice is cheaper and it does not require as much server work. I don't really know anything about server work if that makes a difference.
Which option should i go for and what are the pros/cons of each.
I've narrowed my search to VPS and Grid service for my website. Which do think is better for a forum with 1000-1500 members. 50 online simultaneously?
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Any recommendation? VPS - there are lots to choose from and Grid service - I just feel mediatemplate.net is best?
how's media temple these days?
In particular the grid service.
Does their service stay up? How often is it down? I heard a lot of horror stories back in the day, and went with another provider.
Sadly, my current provider has had a string of downtime each day and I'm looking to switch.
Before I go with another provider, i want to make sure that MT's grid service is good.
And how it would compare with their dedicated virtual service.
Especially when you consider their dedicated virtual service compared to the gs with a mysql container.
I currently own a reasonably sized VPS paying around 40/$80 a month for it. I am extremely happy with the service but I have recently move from freelance to being hired by a company.
I wish to scale down my costs so looking at other options.
I hear a lot (mostly good) of things about MT and was wondering what peoples experiences are - particular with ease of use, support and uptime.
I would also like to know about how the normal shared hosting option works for people hosting some clients website and email. I currently have around 10 clients hosting with me and 100 emails. Is it easy for clients to use and i assume pop and imap are supported.
I currently run my VPS on cpanel. would it be easy to transfer everything or is it very much of a manual job?
i have a mt site and it is being moved. when the dns propogates, how will i be able to access my mt site? i have the ip address and it doesnt load anything. i want an address to give others until the new site is working.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI'm attracted to the luster and flexibility of the grid server world and have spent time with on the phone with ENKIconsulting.net (great people) and Mediatemple (salesy people).
ENKIconsulting.net is out of my price range to start and I have been hearing less than nice things about Mediatemple.
---Situation---
I am launching a site running wordpress blog, php bullentin board, customer service support suite, and amember membership script.
My goal is to have room to grow (very quickly) but start off small/cheap with no/minimal downtime or switching costs involved in migration to a dedicated.
My actual "hard numbers" are unknown... visitors, bandwidth, and page KB size, but what is known is that the marketing behind the launch could draw 1000 visitors to the within a day and up to 10,000 and want to be ready.
My budget is pretty small, and need to stay under 100 a month (during the alpha and beta of the site) but once live money will be much less of an issue.
I'm not a webmaster or server admin, and need excellent customer service from the hosting company (telephone and email) and I'm comfortable to used the fun and easy GUI of cpanel to run the show.
---With the above said---
(1) Is there a grid solution out there that is recommended?
(2) If not, what specifications CPU/RAM/HDD fit my needs
(3) Dedicated? Semi-Dedicated?
(4) Are their hosting companies that allow some degree of scale (RAM/CPU/HDD)within a shared semi dedicated environment?
(5) If not and my resource need jump, how difficult is it to provision and migrate an the entire site to a dedicated box?
Basically I am looking for a strong recommendation for hosting that has a platform that allows quick and easy scalability, excellent customer service, reasonable prices (not cheapest), and a friendly web-admin backoffice.
I have 4 of these xeon servers, i want to setup a grid environment...
View 6 Replies View RelatedI recently heard of a new term i.e. Grid Hosting?
Can anybody explain what exactly it is?
In our company we want to start working with grid hosting, but where to start? What is the best software solution?
View 7 Replies View Related3Tera's AppLogic could be the expeditor of a lot of small and medium dreams. I read the whopping 28 pages thread about TGL, it sure got my juices running. With enough time, the grid could evolve into something close to a Matrix (and hence the thread title).
Yet it seems it wasn't stable yet (at that time). And 3Tera and TGL were talking about features yet to come. So my question is:
Is their service stable yet?
if anyone is/has used the new grid hosting system from MediaTemple? It seems like a breakthrough to me. Kind of like Amazon's S3 service which we are using for a new super cool 3D Internet technology vastpark.com (Shameless self promotion).
But back to MT. It's $20 p.m. and gives you 100Gb and claims to be fast, so I'm going to give it a go soon, but wanted to know if others had and what they thought. It seems to be missing a backup process. You can buy backup as extra but I think it's still up to you to script the backups and damn it, I'm lazy!
By the way, I'll want to host Joomla sites and SugarCRM sites (both are fairly greedy and I normally run them on a dedicated machine with 2 gb of ram). I reckon it could be a nice way of offering cheaper hosting to some of my clients.
I was looking at Godaddy's grid servers and it says you can have unlimited concurrent connections:
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With dedicated servers if you wanted to have 2 million concurrent users you would need hundreds of dedicated servers in a cluster, but Godaddy grid hosting can do this for $4.99/month:
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Of course currently give users unlimited compute cycles so if they start charging it could increase the price but godaddy don't charge for ram. Of course if you needed more bandwidth you can buy more.
Sure, Godaddy grid hosting doesn't allow videos on your server(embed's allowed) but you wanted to have a website that was at the top of digg and worldwide media outlets reported it, Godady grid hosting would be great for this.
So i guess if i had to choose between a dedicated server and godaddy grid hosting for a forum, i would choose grid hosting because i can have unlimited users online at the same time and not have to worry about cpu load.
I'm planning on launching a php-based web application within a month or two and am weighing different hosting options. I was almost certain with my plan to use two dedicated servers (one for web, one for db) but I can't help reading about all of these new grid/cloud/utility hosting solutions that promise instant scalability and deployment - which sounds like a blessing. I know there is a lot of garbage and marketing hype so I felt I should ask what the real deal is. Are these services reliable, worth using, really that easy to use, powerful, etc? I was looking at gogrid's demo videos and to instantly launch a few web servers, a db server, load balancer, etc, in 15 minutes for 30% of the cost - I can't ignore it.
So whats the deal?
I have a Server with Centos7 + Plesk 12 and in the service configuration say that the Bind service is not installed, from command line i have install named services and make a manual configuration the first domain, but when I return to the service page in plesk... the problem is the same, the Bind Service is not installed; then the problem is when i want create a new hosting i need to go to the ssh to make the DNS configuration...
View 1 Replies View RelatedGot following Problem: Unable to find service node for web service on domain with id = 0
After a Check from [URL] ....
I tried this: [URL] ....
Result:
+--------------------+--------------+---------------------------------------+------------------------------+------------+
| Domains | Service Type | IpAddressesCollections.ipCollectionId | Current value of ipAddressId | Have to be |
+--------------------+--------------+---------------------------------------+------------------------------+------------+
| XXXXXXXXXXXXX.org | mail | 30 | 0 | 1 |
+--------------------+--------------+---------------------------------------+------------------------------+------------+
Resolution:
mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -Dpsa -e 'Update IpAddressesCollections SET ipAddressId = 1 WHERE ipCollectionId = 30'
Result: ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 1: Duplicate entry '30-0' for key 'PRIMARY'
Deleted a domain workspace in Parallels Plesk and now I am getting this error when signing into the panel:Looked at the logs and been trying multiple commands (including the bootstrapper repair etc.)I found the full error from the logs:
[13-Jun-2015 16:35:33 UTC] PleskDBException: Unable to find service node for web service on domain with id=6
file: /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/PhDomain.php
line: 1404
code: 0
trace: #0 /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/Smb/Subscription/Domain.php(490): PhDomain->getWebHostingServiceNode()
[code]....
We are currently using Parallel Plesk 11.0 version and there is one requirement from microsoft provider to add the exact same values in SRV Records.
Priority of Service = 100
Weight of Service = 1
but these values are not available in the dropdownlist. attached are the screenshots.
Clean install on openSUSE 13.1
After deleting a domain, we got the following error which rendered the panel useless.
Internal error: Unable to find service node for web service on domain with id=5
Message Unable to find service node for web service on domain with id=5
File PhDomain.php
Line 1402
Type PleskDBException
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If i wish to start up a business with the VPN service.. do i need to install any specific software on the server side? Can it be run on Windows?
View 4 Replies View Relatedhow to setup a Windows server to provide SSL service to other web sites. I'd like to offer a free service to my local customers and anyone who wants to secure their online operations.
can OpenSSL do the job?
I am trying to find the best economical solution regarding my email address but I need some advice pls.
I have a very small package with asmallorange and I have set up one of my business email in it. I didn't calculate that this business email could take so much space. I have some assistants which work in other places. One of my problems is these asistants who need to access this address too, are not allowed to access any free email provider like gmail, yahoo at their work computers because of their work policy. So I can't do forwarding and I need to have this email address under my domain.
I am thinking of these options:
1) Get more space . This will become expensive for me.
2) use a dedicated email service under my domain name.
I have no experience here and I wonder if using a gmail service under my domain will be blocked for my collaborators.
3) change host ( I am afraid to lose my data and my website database).
I'm going to start offering a KVMoIP service for my customers and am trying to get ideas on the pricing. What do y'all think about it? I know most places that I know about charge a setup + hourly fee, well, I like to be just a little bit better, so let's see what y'all have to say.
View 14 Replies View RelatedDo you use any uptime monitoring service? If so, which one do you use? Do you use a paid monitoring service, or a free one?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI was thinking of putting together a DB of all the IPs I block due to spam, hackers, known proxies etc... this would help cut down on malicious use of services such as spamming forums, if I catch them once, they would not have chance to spam up my other forums if each forum checks the same block list. I could also auto block proxies by having it query up online proxy lists.
But before I reinvent the wheel, does such service online already exist? Kinda like RBL, but for web services. So you can basically block IPs off your site before they get used maliciously.
To be even more advanced some special port scanners could go around scan networks for infected machines and block those too.
How it would work:
Site A has a spammer from IP 1.2.3.4 and submits it to the block service. Spammer then goes on site B to try and spam that forum, but that IP is already blocked because the owner of site A submitted it to the list and site B checks against that list.
The VPN service owner can he track and know all his customers activity
I mean let's say am a customer and I bought VPN subscription and then logged in with my new vpn ip and I login to my email , in that case the VPN service owner can he read know my email password or other sensitive data like if If I login to myspace.com can he know what password I used using his vpn server logs?
Anybody using their service? Prices are low, plans look good.
View 5 Replies View Relatedi ordered my server on monday,it took 80hrs to get the server,but the login panel can not be opened,then i ask them,their support is online in msn,i talk with them,but when i ask them about the login panel link can not open,they didnt reply me.it really disapointing,i ordered it one monday,but now almost friday,i still havent used it,regret to order it...
View 14 Replies View RelatedIv been with steadfast for almost 6 years,
we have small vps account and 1 shared hosting account,
our vps is working very very slowly, we cant log in to direct admin, we cant do anything, i contact support personally to check this issue , the response i received was
"
We are aware of the problem with slow disk access this VPS server. We will be adding an additional VPS server and migrating some of the VPS containers to it shortly to address this issue. Under the resources we have immediately available, we are unable to get the problem corrected. Thanks, Ben Galliart Steadfast Networks Support [url]
"
WTF? unable to get the problem corrected? our clients that use our vps are going crazy, 1 client even threaten to leave us,
i don't know that to do, i was thinking of sue them, what do you think? I'm very disappointed ..
I am located in China and I have websites hosted in the US. Some of my sites and servers are being blocked by my ISP. Do you know of a good VPN or Proxy service that will allow me to reach my sites and managed my servers?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWe have been trying to get our rDNS set up for 2 months with Bionhosting on our dedicated box.
and yet RDNS Entry null
Is this normal? Why would it take 2 months to set up a Reverse DNS does this somehow involve the White House and red tape?
We are really getting slammed by our clients in forums that are very important to our business. This is killing us!
What exactly is involved in setting up RDNS why is this so difficult?
We are hosting multiple servers for a site, web, db, media etc and all of them are in the same DC. I am getting worried that incase a server goes down, it would take DNS down along with and will also take emails out.
I was looking to use a good and reliable DNS service which would ensure that we are reliable and emails don't go out incase of an outage.