I've coded a small blog / file management system that I'd like to charge for space after 25mb (or so). In looking for hosting what should I consider? Will most hosts allow me to resell space like this? Will they even notice? What about when I need more space? Backups?
View 7 RepliesI've just purchased a Windows Server 2008 VPS plan with a hosting provider. With that I have needed to open up several ports - 21 (FTP), 25 & 110 (Mail) on Windows Firewall.
My first question is about security on those ports. So far I've just opened them in Windows Firewall and that's it. Is there anything in particular I should consider to keep those ports secure?
I've also had to install a mail server. So far I've installed the standard version of MailEnable and have it running fine. The problem I see is that the standard version has no spam filtering and no virus checking.
So I did some more looking into all this and found SmarterMail, the free version. The thing that gives this potential comes straight off their site... "SmarterTools understand what it is like to be part of a growing company. Budgets are tight, and often money is not available for software expenses.". This is exatly where I'm at, a small business with no software budget, at least not for now.
After looking into it, it appears as though we would have to pay for spam/virus protection when using MailEnable, because this is for commercial use (Maybe there's some free spam/vrus software for MailEnasble I'm not aware of), but we would have that included with SmarterMail. As an added note, this VPS facility is for a single domain and I realise that SmarterMail only allows for 10 accounts, but we can live with that for now.
Does anyone have real world experince using MailEnable vs. SmarterMail in this kind of scenraio? If so, from experience, what do you think is the best option?
which case is more preferred: a shared web hosting service with unlimited space/bandwidth, or a dedicated one with limited space/bandwidth?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am planning to create a website for my business. Its a bulk exports business and there will be very few visitors, less than 1000 a month. Also space needed should also not exceed 100 mb as I will only have some html information pages and a few pictures of my products.
However, the webhost should be reliable and have an easy to use interface as I am a beginner in this field (I hear cPanel is good). Also I have 2 more domains/businesses which I hope this same hosting should cover so it should have addon hosting.
Please recommend a reliable hosting provider with a good interface and price under $25 per year.
The registrar I will be using for the domain is Namecheap as I am planning to register a .in (India) domain name and very few have that option.
I'm the webmaster for a church website: stpetersbraunstone.org.uk and our domain & hosting renewal is coming up, so I'm looking to see if there's a better deal.
We're with namehog.net (and have been for 2 years with no problems at all) on their Professional package. The renewal fees are 105GBP (web hosting) + 5.90GBP (domain name) + 17.5pc VAT to cover the next 2 years, which comes to 130.31GBP.
The site is powered by WordPress, so PHP and MySQL are needed. And we upload lots of photos, so need at least 250MB webspace I'd have thought. So far, our highest monthly bandwidth usage has been under 800Mb, and our visitor numbers are increasing and our highest monthly figure so far was 401.
Any recommendations gratefully received. There seems to be many different companies out there who offer what I want, so I'm after some personal recommendations please.
I've already used this site to discount streamline.net due to bad reviews.
I'm looking at fuzioned.com and redfoxhosting.co.uk - any thoughts?
I've also come across no-wires.co.uk - has anyone had any good or bad experiences with them?
And yes, I have submitted my details to the "request quote" thing.
im running out of space on one of my sites but i have more then plenty of data transfer.
Unfortunately my hosting packaged it weird where they provide not enough hd space. Im trying to figure out is there a way where i can use another server or hosting company that can provide space only and use their servers just for space?
i think amazon.com offered this but wasnt sure how exactly this works.
Apache 2.2.25 on windows 32
I have a ProxyPass that looks like
ProxyPass /Share Documents http://partner2/Shared Documents/
But Apache will not start with spaces. I tried
ProxyPass /Shared%20Documents http://partner2/Shared%20Documents/
Apache would start but the passthrough doesn't work. What do I need to do? I have several url's with spaces.
BEWARE! of this company or operation: "Hosting Space for you" are definately crooks and a scam. After they got my yearly subscription, my account was activated for 3 weeks and then it disappeared. I mean LOST, not able to login, sites down, etc...
4 weeks of writing to their support resulting only in one automated reply that I will be contacted soon.
I have a 30gb vps which I only have used about 6gb. This 6gb is a live site so if that means anything.
I want to take 15gb of it and use it for personal ftp storage where I can access it at work and via at home so I don't have to always copy things to media discs.
My question is that will doing that and just leaving 9gb give or take on my live site affect performance or anything.
I read an offer from a company a month or so ago that offered some plan where you were given a certain amount of space on an ftp server. I'm not sure if it was hosting as well or just ftp space. Then each month you paid $5 or something and for as long as you have your account with them they give you and extra 5-10GB per month. So your space on the server grows with your needs.
Does anyone know the company? I can't find it anymore but I'd like to take another look at them.
Does any know of any UK companies who do public IP space? aka putting a request into RIPE for some IPs (with justification). We only need a class c and we cannot justify the fees of joining ourself to RIPE.
Getting IPs from our current provider isnt possible as we want our own IPs so if we ever moved away we could take the addresses with us without having to change.
I want to know which directories take up the most space in /usr and /var. What is the ssh command to do this?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a site and I have a download section on it. The download section is already hosted by a different host company. I'm now looking for a different one.
The only thing is that I'm looking for a cheap hosting company with big web space where I can have all these stuffs files.
Does anyone here know a good one? The best would be within europe.
The last time I applied for a portable block from ARIN was about 7 years ago, and it was pretty easy to get when you could justify a /22. I'm just about to begin this process with my current company. Right now we're using a a /24 and 2x /23's from 3 different providers, and are hoping to get a portable block from ARIN.
Basically needing a /21, do we stand a chance of getting a portable block, or are we still stuck getting our prefix from one of our providers?
what is needed is a dedicated server or colocation in which my portable IP space (a class c assigned to me in 1995) can be routed to in its entirety. We will then have a VPN back to our own site. This could be accomplished by the ISP BGP peering, or simply announcing the routes themselves. We've got clue in routing, both in OpenBSD and IOS.
The machine doesn't have to be too powerful, and needs little storage space, but the bandwidth provided has to be decent. This is for a hobbyist rather than commercial project, so price is an issue.
I'm starting to get annoyed with companies stipulating that is it considered a waste of space to store your own files, and backups or whatever on your shared hosting account.
I don't understand why that is considered a waste of space you purchase that space and bandwidth. So why can you not use it for whatever you want in legal terms.
In fact I would be confident to say I have not seen a single terms of service NOT state that you cannot use your space as storage.
We delete LOGS.
We delete QUEUE mail.
After we add up all the space of the counts.
space of count1 + space of count2 + space of count3 + ... ALL COUNTS
And TOTAL < to 2GB included MySQL space
But space used (say Vistuozzo), is 8.47 Gb!
How we can understand this?
Ok, maybe 2 GB of CENTOS + cpanel + WHM+ MySQL + Files config = 2 GB
Home + MySQL = 2GB
4 GB is very different to 8.5 GB!
Ok think in 3 GB of SO+WHM+CONFIG add 2 GB of files this = 5 GB
I am using FreeBSD with Cpanel.
df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a 496M 491M -35M 108% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/twed0s1h 86G 67G 12G 85% /home
/dev/twed0s1d 248M 21M 207M 9% /tmp
/dev/twed0s1g 15G 6.9G 6.5G 51% /usr
/dev/twed0s1f 4.8G 3.6G 827M 82% /var
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
This is creating Problem at Cpanel,How can i recover space from /dev/twed0s1a.
I have a server with cpanel/WHM. The file system says I am using 26GB of my 40GB:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 40G 26G 14G 66% /
none 257M 0 257M 0% /dev/shm
/usr/tmpDSK 243M 4.1M 226M 2% /tmp
/tmp 243M 4.1M 226M 2% /var/tmp
however the total of my accounts is less than 5GB.
How can I find out where all the other disk space is being used?
I have a partition /dev/sda2 which is mounted to /webroot.
Today, I find that I can't upload any files via IPB (running on lighttpd)
So, as usual, I went on SSH and tried df in order to see how much space is left on the server:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
<deleted>
/dev/sda2 20641788 19483292 109856 100% /webroot
Since lighttpd is running inside chroot, I thought it was the log files but even after I deleted them, it is still at 100% usage.
After spending some time, I couldn't find any large files so I did du -hs to see which folder is using large amount of space.
web1:/webroot# du -hs /webroot
2.2G /webroot
I'm without a clue on this as what du -hs is telling me and df is different but it seems like the partition is really full.
Any ideas?
Here is the output of tune2fs for reference:
web1:/webroot/var/run/lighttpd# tune2fs -l /dev/sda2
tune2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Filesystem volume name: /webroot
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 62625b28-9ad6-4258-8acc-0bfa0e7b5f48
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large _file
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 2626560
Block count: 5242880
Reserved block count: 262160
Free blocks: 5123494
Free inodes: 2626465
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 16416
Inode blocks per group: 513
Filesystem created: Fri Jun 27 13:34:27 2008
Last mount time: Sun Jun 29 01:11:27 2008
Last write time: Sun Jun 29 01:11:27 2008
Mount count: 7
Maximum mount count: 36
Last checked: Fri Jun 27 13:34:27 2008
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Wed Dec 24 12:34:27 2008
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 128
Journal inode: 8
First orphan inode: 820811
Default directory hash: tea
Directory Hash Seed: de38e2ce-4ee2-4ecd-a562-16ecb5982500
Journal backup: inode blocks
Also /etc/fstab entry for /dev/sda2:
web1:/webroot# cat /etc/fstab|grep sda2
/dev/sda2 /webroot ext3 defaults 1 2
One of my hosting accounts has tons of extra space on it. Both bandwith and disk space. Enough to easily run one additional site. How can I use that extra space as hosting for another separate domain?
So its like using one hosting account for two different domains.
In a VPS package, the space designated, say 20 GB... contains all OS files, Control Panel files, and other utility files. and it will be say 25% of the space remains for data .. I mean for the /home/ folder/..
I wonder if someone has done any research on space taken by different OS's and CP's. Since for me, who cant afford to pay more to get more space, space allocated/remaind for my /home folder matters a lot lot.
Also, for example, if the the monthly/weekly/daily backup is enabled, then the space for home folder becomes almost half!
I would like to hear any advice to choose the best combination of OS/CP and the Backup settings, to get the maximum of spaces in the homefolder, say on a VPS package of 25 GB.
Does anyone know how most hosters would handle this situation?A hoster has a customer with a certain config, let's say 2 servers and a firewall
This customer anticipates growing, perhaps later in the year, and will likely add a number of servers
In an effort to avoid migrations within the DC, does the hoster reserve space in the rack?
Would the hoster charge the customer for said reserved space?
I'm just wondering what standard practice is, if there is one.
I've got a server in a local colo facility. both the facility and my server are slowly falling apart. Rather than investing in hardware and then shipping it to some location and hoping it doesn't break, I've decided to investigate VPS.
What I am finding is puzzling me. Why do providers charge so much for disk space? My current old p3-733 has a 30gb drive, I could deal with about 15gb but with some 'flex' room (i.e. a virtual drive for uncompressing files or some such). It's a personal server for me and a couple of friends, it doesn't get much traffic, I don't need a heck of a lot of bandwidth, nor anything flashy, just Ubuntu 8.04. I see places offering plenty of traffic for a decent price, yet little in the way of storage. I just don't get it.
A year ago I was here wanting to trade my class C for a dedicated server. I realize now that it would be pretty difficult for providers to do this, because if I wanted to yank my class c they'd have to renumber. But if anyone is still interested, let me know.
how much do u need for a vbulletin forum?
I only want my forum to have 500-1000 registerd members..
I have a VDS with 20GB drive, currently its running at 81% capacity, I have looked around but am of the opinion its not the accounts that are using that much space.
Is there a simple method of finding out whihc folders are using all the space?
Does anyone believe that they receive 250 GB storage space on the servers since an average hard drive comes with ... let's say 300 GB disc space?
View 3 Replies View Relatedoff server Backup FTP space. Anyone can recommend some hosts which provide these services and have any experience with them.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have purchased several VPS from a provider and found they do not provide swap space with VPS, and even with 256MB ram, I get 'out of memory' trying to compile a perl library... Creation of a swap file by myself doesn't work (operation is not permitted).
Hosting providers runs HyperVM.
So the question. Is it common or is it a misconfiguration? For now I got just 'checking on this for you' and three days of silence from their support.
I'm not opening hosting provider name, but I will if they say "You must pay for more RAM", just because other 5 VPS providers support my VPS servers with swap space.
Quote:
Number of processes running now: 0
070924 15:56:00 mysqld restarted
070924 15:56:00 [Warning] Asked for 196608 thread stack, but got 126976
070924 15:56:00 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 24343504
070924 15:56:00 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Error writing file '/var/lib/mysql/server3.dotcom.sg.pid' (Errcode: 28)
070924 15:56:00 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: No space left on device
I took this out from the error logs, and realized that the reason why my mysql connections all ended up in error is due to insufficient space left on the device.
How am i able to increase the size of it? It is currently taking up 7.2G. I removed a log file that's 2.4MB in size, and i suppose it'll be filled up soon again.
I have a dedicated server with 80 GB H.D.D and host one site, this site have about 11GB files and about 10GB data base but every time I check the free space of my hard , the disk is full! what's the problem?
my server in Linux and control panel is cPanel