I'm going to be hosting my clients websites and I was wondering how to calculate how much bandwidth / space I should make available to clients and also how much to charge for hosting / maintenance.
View 11 RepliesI am a front end designer/developer with no server-side expertise. I am probably going to have to provide hosting to my freelance clients very soon. These would be small WP sites with low traffic, but there could be as many as 50 domains being hosted at a time just to begin with.
I need the host provider to do all the tech work and provide support to me, if not to the clients (who will inevitable contact me to deal with problems, which is OK). I am not able to manage/troubleshoot my own server.
I am considering Mosso/Rackspace, but recently I've heard some very negative comments on forums (such as this one) that are concerning me.
Does anyone have a recommendation given my needs and experience level with servers/hosting? I am not looking for a "cheap deal" - I need reliable service and peace of mind.
I'm in the process of forming a web development business and am currently interested in learning the various methods of offering 3rd party services and accounts. How to offer hosting is my current dilemma; I can of course refer the client to a host and receive a referral kick-back, but the idea of reselling hosting accounts is also appealing, though I have no knowledge currently as to how this works, and I'm basically just curious how other's manage this aspect of the business. I do not mind offering customer service on hosting accounts, so this is not an issue
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to move your hosting website, and its clients, without any downtime?
Please consider the following scenarios:
1. Moving between Reseller Plan, VPS, or Dedicated Server
(same and/or different provider)
2. Moving to a new provider
(same package)
Also,
If you have been able to move between packages/servers flawlessly with the same provider.
I think this is the right place to post this if not then please move it to the correct forum. Now, I have IIS 5.1 how do you host multiple websites from the same PC or server using ports, I searched around and found very little of use to me it mainly said stuff like: "Right click you defult website, mouse over the new catagory and click new website" That solution is exactly what I needed!! but it only says New "Virtual directory" please help!
,if this is not possible on IIS 5.1 please tell me how to upgrade to IIS 6.0 or give me some very useful links
I know SCSI drives are better than SATA, but I wonder if the community will prefer SATA or SCSI especially when you will be paying more for less.
Heres an example.
You can get:
2GB SATA for $5 & 500MB SCSI for $5, which will you choose?
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 would like to find out all sites hosted by [url]. Is there an easy way to do that?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have noticed that resellers traffic stats (looks like email) are not being updated and just show 0.
On the server that is for resellers I see there is a file in /usr/local/psa/var/log containing a file mail_traffic_pendings.dat with sender and recipient domain traffic. I presume this has to be processed to go into the database, but obviously it is not. How to debug this issue so that email stats get updated for clients.
I'm about to the point where I am ready to host my website. I already have a domain but no hosting plan. In the future I may want to have several different websites each with their own unique domain. I was wondering if I choose a hosting plan for one site, can I use the unused web space for additional domains/websites?
View 20 Replies View RelatedHosting: VPS Hosting with 320 MB min and 1024 MB burst.
Websites: All the websites (about 20+) on my current vps hosting are very database heavy. They include blogs, ecommerce sites and a few small forums.
Before: In the beginning, when I had less than 10 websites on my hosting, the web hosting worked great. No hiccups and all websites worked flawlessly.
Now: Now that I'm hosting 20+ websites, I find that websites sometimes tend to timeout or not show up in my browser as well as browsers in other locations.
Do you think I need more resources? Do you think that upgrading to Hybrid Server hosting will rectify the situation?
I have been a solid cPanel / WHM user for the past 2 years, we have now since downsized our hosting requirements and also wanted to cut our panel costs and so we moved to PLESK 12 Web Edition.The server is on a trial license and has been working fine with no problems for the past 2 weeks. Today all of a sudden none of the websites are accessible, although I can ping all IP's on server and login via SSH.I cannot access any websites or hosting control panel, I have disabled IP tables as this was the cause of a problem last time.
Why this happened was there an update at around 5AM this morning which could have caused this?I have restarted the server, I can successfully ping / resolve address from SSH.
I will soon be meeting a few people who plan on selling their clients to me that are currently hosting with them.
I have never bought/sold clients before and would like some guidance from the community here on WHT.
Correct me if im wrong.
I should consider purchasing those clients who's contracts are going to expire soon, preferably within the next 6 months atleast?
Should i or should i not purchase clients who they have recently taken a renewal fee from that will last for atleast another 6 months?
How will calculate on what prices they should be selling their clients to me for? Are they going to add up a years worth of hosting before they set a final sale price?
At the end of the day i dont want to take on clients who have already paid for their hosting and wont be expiring anytime soon. I think, if i take them on board now they will be using up my hosting resources at my expense which i will have to wait until their next renewal is due.
The guys i will be buying the clients from have their current hosting plans as follows:
Monthly prices range from £1.90 £5.00 £9.50 £15.50,
Yearly prices range from £19.00 £50.00 £95.00 £155.00
Depending on what packages their clients are on now, how much do you think on average 5 clients would be worth roughly?
Before i purchase what else do i need to look into?
What other questions do i need to ask other than the likelihood of how long they expect their clients to stay with them/(me).
i have issue with my vps, but i cant fix it.
in error log of apache2 it show
server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
my apache config
KeepAliveTimeout 5
MaxKeepAliveRequests 200
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 3
MinSpareServers 3
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 50
MaxRequestsPerChild 2000
</IfModule>
<IfModule mpm_worker_module>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
I did an FTP of a high res photo to a client. They got it fine.
Today I tried to FTP several of my various files to another client. However, it would not go through. Both times I uploaded them to my web hosting service. But when I tried to send several files at one time it did not work. I even tried zipping them.
is there any other good ftp clients beside lftp and ncftp to transfer a whole directory for CentOS4?
I can't get lftp passive mode behind firewall working, it's stuck at [Making data connection...] and there is some problems with ncftp as well, and centos4 is no longer supported too..
How do you deal with your clients in reguards to hosting. Its just I have a couple of jobs coming up. Do you host them yourself or just point them into the right direction of a good host and use them?
View 6 Replies View RelatedJust stopped at the site of photonvps.com and got to know the company offers attractive VPS being narrowly specialized.
Nut really this is the very first time I hear of the host, and I need to know If anybody has experience or knows someting if this provider, to help me making a decision.
I would like to know about cirtexhosting company from its clients. I found this company attarctive by the offered deals, and currently I am looking for somebody to tell me if this company is really worth of getting an account from. I mean how's their shared hosting quality? The pre sales support looks to be fast and informative, but how about customer support?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been developing websites for clients on and off for about 5 years. I've recently gotten more serious about developing as my client base is growing. So, as I get more clients I develop sites for I need to figure out where to host the sites.
So, the question is VPS, Dedicated, or Shared. How do I compete with companies that charge $6.99 for so much data transfer and storage?
Are you also getting a complete lack of service and customer support?
I have not heard a darn thing from them since they got hacked and now I have only about 25% uptime! But yet, I am still paying for the 99% uptime they promise!
Am I alone here?
How can I monitory what ever the server managment company does so that i can be sure they do not do harm to my clients?
Is there any log recording software that they can not delete the record and I get full information of every thing they do?
somthing like email seding all logs so that it does not remain in the server.
We're having a small problem with one of our Ventrilo boxes (Linux) that seems to be blocking users from connecting. The DC (The Planet) is reporting that the issue is likely with the user and my tech is also saying the same thing. I have reason to believe they're both wrong but wanted to see if anyone had any ideas.
Here are 3 tracert's that show normal activity until the user reaches the DC network and then they can't reach our server.
All 3 of these are from different users experiencing the exact same problem.
Tracing route to ca.13.1343.static.theplanet.com [67.19.19.202] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 2 ms 1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 70 ms 72 ms 24 ms 68.86.105.193
4 127 ms * 13 ms 10g-9-3-ur02.longmont.co.denver.comcast.net [68. 86.103.157]
5 103 ms 87 ms 66 ms 10g-9-1-ur01.longmont.co.denver.comcast.net [68. 86.103.161]
6 12 ms 11 ms 12 ms 10g-3-1-ar01.denver.co.denver.comcast.net [68.86 .103.154]
7 9 ms 9 ms 23 ms 68.86.103.150
8 11 ms 12 ms 11 ms 12.125.159.89
9 45 ms 42 ms 33 ms tbr2-p013702.dvmco.ip.att.net [12.123.207.150]
10 31 ms 34 ms 126 ms tbr2-cl33.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.12.125]
11 145 ms 32 ms 31 ms gar1-p3100.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.165]
12 38 ms 32 ms 31 ms 12.119.136.14
13 30 ms 34 ms 32 ms te7-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.18]
14 34 ms 32 ms 30 ms vl41.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.83]
15 59 ms 142 ms 48 ms gi1-0-2.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.19.255.1 34]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
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29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
Tracing route to ca.13.1343.static.theplanet.com [67.19.19.202] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 8 ms 7 ms 10 ms 73.96.20.1
3 9 ms * 7 ms GE-2-37-ur01.aberdeen.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68 .86.98.9]
4 9 ms 13 ms * te-5-2-ur01.olympia.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.8 6.96.6]
5 11 ms * 12 ms te-8-4-ar01.burien.wa.seattle.comcast.net [68.86 .96.10]
6 14 ms 19 ms 14 ms 12.116.25.13
7 69 ms 69 ms 70 ms tbr1011401.st6wa.ip.att.net [12.122.111.6]
8 72 ms 76 ms 74 ms tbr2-cl10.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.12.113]
9 73 ms 66 ms 67 ms tbr1-cl30.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.9.137]
10 67 ms 68 ms 69 ms tbr1-cl3.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.26]
11 70 ms 67 ms 67 ms tbr1-cl20.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.49]
12 67 ms 68 ms 67 ms gar1-p340.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.161]
13 65 ms 66 ms 65 ms 12.119.136.14
14 66 ms 66 ms 65 ms te9-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.22]
15 68 ms 67 ms 68 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]
16 67 ms 66 ms 66 ms gi1-0-1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.19.255.6 ]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
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27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
1 9 ms 5 ms 7 ms 73.101.80.1
2 7 ms 7 ms * GE-2-37-ur01.gigharbor.wa.seattle.comcast.net [6 86.99.9]
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 13 ms 9 ms 11 ms 12.117.243.13
5 64 ms 66 ms 64 ms 12.127.6.50
6 67 ms 67 ms 273 ms tbr2-cl10.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.12.113]
7 67 ms 73 ms 69 ms tbr1-cl30.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.9.137]
8 66 ms 66 ms 65 ms tbr1-cl3.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.10.26]
9 68 ms 64 ms 63 ms tbr1-cl20.dlstx.ip.att.net [12.122.10.49]
0 67 ms 70 ms 66 ms gar1-p340.dlrtx.ip.att.net [12.123.16.161]
1 70 ms 68 ms 67 ms 12.119.136.14
2 72 ms 69 ms 66 ms te9-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.22]
3 63 ms 65 ms 65 ms vl42.dsr02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.85.127.91]
4 69 ms 75 ms 69 ms gi1-0-1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.19.255.6
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
0 * * * Request timed out.
I am trying to find a good solution for email. I use a Linux based server running CestOS, WHM and cpanel. I absolutely hate the webmail clients that come with cpanel (horde, squirrel mail, neomail) so I use outlook instead. Problem is, I use the same email between different computers and end up getting the same messages twice. This does not seem to matter if I use pop3 or IMAP; I still get the same emails in both places.
What I would like to see is a possibility of a mail client that is either web based, or something I can add to my server that allows me to take advantage on IMAP - and have it work like it is supposed to. I like the functionality of pop3 in outlook because it allows you to easily delete and maintain a clean inbox.
I have a client who had me redesign his bands website which is currently hosted at 1and1.com. I've never dealt with them before, so I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are on them. So far the technical support has been giving us a hard time retrieving the cpanel password which is different from the ftp. Other then that, is this a reliable host for a band selling there music, or would I be better off switching to another host such as jaguarpc.com?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have 20 clients who are on different networks and countries but all of the sudden their IP's are keep getting black list in spamhause, CBL, dsbl etc and they can not send email i am so very tired of this,
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have been researching i3d.net as a dedicated provider.
I have searched the archives and in order to take a final decision I would like to kindly ask some current clients and even past clients of i3d.net to share some insight on the quality of this provider and it's network.
I have been using Vista 32-bit with FileZilla for 2-years on this computer. I haven't made any recent changes to my system, but suddently NO FTP clients work.
I tried FileZilla and FireFTP (firefox extension). Neither can connect. FileZilla just gives a timeout error. FireFTP has been "connecting" for 5-minutes. No success.
I tried to bypass my Linksys router and go directly through my cable model. They still do not work.
I *CAN* connect to an FTP site using telnet command.
One of my clients is under a bandwidth attack in the past few days. He went from 6000 "hits" (file requests, not users) on his site Monday to over 11,400,000 for the day yesterday (Friday). Today's just further escalation.
His site usually does about 2-6 GB traffic a month, and he's now over 450 GB for the month of December as of earlier today (being Dec 6th - 6 days into the month).
The traffic is from (or if using proxies, appears to be from) multiple residential IPs - with over 90 simultaneous users on the site at any given time.
First they were hitting a particular image, and when access to that image was removed, they've just been hitting the home page since.
Besides taking his site offline, any thoughts here on how to keep him online?
I discussed with him moving to his own dedicated 10mbps/unmetered system - but with the escalation here, I'd imagine they'd use up all that bandwidth in short order as well.
Any experience on how long these attacks generally continue? All I can think is that he's hurting a competitor who is now using this as a tactic to cripple the online business/success/etc. This business (for the types of products they sell) for the most part is pretty small though, and I can't imagine one of the competitors really has the knowledge on how to do this themselves - or even coordinate it themselves (or they'd be in another business making more $$$). If they're not coordinating it themselves, any idea on how much it might be costing the competitor to have someone else coordinate such an attack?