Hosting Our Own Server ...
Aug 18, 2008
We'll its time our business finally moved off of the Godaddy $30/month VPS server. We're setting up an eCommerce site with X-Cart and need a better server. Rather than paying $80 or so per month for a good VPS, we're considering buying a server (maybe a Dell) for around $1000 (Dual Core Xeon, 1gb ram, 80gb HDD) and running it off our Bell Business High Speed Ultra 6mb package (with dedicated IP) at our business. I'd likely install CentOS and a free control panel.
What are your thoughts on doing this? The site isn't super busy and we don't use much bandwidth. Would our customers likely have speed issues with the site if we ran off our own connection?
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Mar 5, 2009
I'm hosting wmv,wma,mp3 files, streaming of video can be done with Windows hosting, but my website script is with php.
Do you suggest Windows Server 2008 hosting or redhat linux hosting?
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May 6, 2008
Do website builders generally go with shared hosting or dedicated server? I mean, if they work on several websites would they get a dedicated server instead of shared? From what I understand through reading shared hosting is basically if you only have one website. So one with multiple websites would go with a dedicated server?
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Mar 14, 2007
to get the best/right configuration:
DNS records in DNS server and DNS records in Hosting Server.
So, I have one VPS acting as DNS server and few VPS for domain site hosting.
I have it now (working ok) like below but can You please comment if there is something 'extra' or something I should reconfigurate (or delete) to make better performance/clear
ns1. & ns2.server.com are registrated and working ok
DNS server DNS Zone for <customer.com> (cPanel output):
Zone File for customer.com
$TTL 14400
@ 14400 IN SOA NS1.server.com server.server.com
customer.com 14400 IN NS NS1.server.com.
customer.com 14400 IN NS NS2.server.com.
customer.com 14400 IN A 11.11.11.11
localhost.customer.com 14400 IN A 127.0.0.1
customer.com 14400 IN MX [0] customer.com.
mail 14400 IN CNAME customer.com.
www 14400 IN CNAME customer.com.
webmail 14400 IN CNAME customer.com.
ftp 14400 IN A 11.11.11.11
Hosting server DNS Zone for <customer.com> (Plesk output):
11.11.11.11 / 24PTRcustomer.com.
ftp.customer.com.CNAMEcustomer.com.
customer.com.NSns2.server.com.
customer.com.NSns1.server.com.
customer.com.A11.11.11.11
customer.com.MX (10)mail.customer.com.
localhost.customer.com.A127.0.0.1
mail.customer.com.A11.11.11.11
webmail.customer.com.A11.11.11.11
www.customer.com.CNAMEcustomer.com.
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Aug 8, 2008
Does a typical LAMP setup for a high enough traffic site(s) take enough resources to affect the performance of a game server? (we'll say 1million page views per day)
I'm speaking of say, 2MB of ram, dual xeon 2.8 type machine, with IDE drives. Nothing too fancy. 1 milion page views per day may be pushing it, so what about say, 200 per day?
Just wondering if anyone has a setup like this and how it fairs out at the game server end. I'm thinking of moving my websites over to my game server + add more sites over time, but don't want it to lag the game. I know as a fact bandwidth would not be the issue, I'm thinking more ram/cpu. The game I host (Ultima Online) uses very little bandwidth with even 30+ people online. I use less then 1% of my link capacity at most times. I've seen it spike to 5% and that's most likely when I was downloading data.
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May 17, 2007
Purpose: I want to make my site load faster
Different Options Host images under the same domain - So no additional three way TCP handshake required.
Different subdomain for images - Browser pipelining can be utilized.
Different domain altogether - Browser pipelining can be utilize and also can avoid the site wide cookies with every request.
What is your opinion about this?
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Jun 4, 2008
I recently came from a VPS server where my provider gave me the names of their DNS servers which I then pointed my domain name to with GoDaddy.
I recently signed up for a dedicated server and asked my provider for their DNS servers. They replied that I needed to run DNS on my server.
Is this normal for dedicated hosting providers? Do I just need to point my domain to the public ip address on this server or do I need to load/configure DNS on my server? Is there sofware that I need to install?
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Feb 26, 2008
I have found few web hosting services with support for:
- ASP.NET 2.0
- SQL Server 2000
Can anybody recommend such a provider with a solid reputation? In addition I should mention my site will be accessed by visitors in Europe (besides the US), how would I know the page load times are going to be acceptable? Do some providers 'specialize' in hosting sites for which a large part of the traffic comes from abroad?
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May 27, 2007
.NET hosting that has SQL Server 2000 or 2005.
I also want to know if there are .NET hostings that support SQL jobs or automated tasks (like the cron jobs feature under Linux). All the ones I found don't have this available.
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Jul 21, 2006
im looking a free hosting server, let me explain what im looking for, i have some free softwares on my hard drive, i want to host them so other people also downloads these and its give me also a web location to store them in one place, for this im looking a free hosting server which support a great amount of web space and bandwidth.
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Sep 17, 2007
I need to make a dns hosting for a client of mine. He will change his domain name nameservers to point to my server.
His website is hosted on another hosting company. On my server I will create all the necessary CNAME and A records to point www on the server of the other company.
My problem is with the MX records though. Because my client owns a local mailserver, (I think it's MS Exchange server) I need to create a primary MX record to deliver all the mails to that mailserver. No problem till here.. But he also needs a secondary MX record in case his mailserver is inaccessible ,so all the mails have to be queued on my VPS and when his mailserver is accessible again to deliver all the mails.
Any idea of how I can configure my dns zones for that?
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May 29, 2008
I need a good but cheap DNS hosting service for hosting 4 domains of mine. Any ideas?
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Oct 5, 2009
I have built a website based off of The Beer House template/book and am about ready to launch it. I need SQL server 2005, and ASP.net functionality. I will either use the included forum module or am considering a third party forum such as aspplayground.net.
I would like to spend $10-$20/month, I don't mind paying a bit extra to have a fast loading site, but I don't want to spend too much. I would appreciate any suggestions.
The database will handle the forums, the store, the users of course, and a custom database I am building for some vehicle information. To start out the database is not very big (maybe 20mb), but I expect it to grow to support the forums and users, etc.
Also, I have already built a database (mdf) file on my computer through visual studio 2008. Is it true most shared hosting accounts wont allow you the access to copy and paste the database file directly? I don't really want to have to recreate all these tables on the host server.
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Mar 25, 2009
I have a client that wants to expand their website with a downloads section that has thousands of files and tens of gigabytes. I'm considering two options:
1. dedicated hosting:
- Is it an advantage to use a dedicated hosting service in the same city as opposed to one in another country?
- How would I go about changing hosting providers if one doesn't work out?
- How would I go about making and restoring backups?
- How does one access a dedicated hosting machine nowadays? Is it still via Telnet or something like that?
2. own hosting
- Do you think it's practical to have a dedicated server and link in company offices?
- Do the benefits of being easily able to change internet link providers and to make snap daily backups outweigh the benefits of a hosting provider's reliable infrastructure?
This dedicated server would only be a file server. The website itself would be on a normal hosting platform that would just redirect users to the dedicated server for the files to be downloaded. How is this kind of thing usually done?
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Mar 29, 2009
if im going to open a web hosting business, which processor works best for a server, AMD or Intel?
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Apr 29, 2009
I've been getting requests for a VPS hosting from a few clients and I was wondering what everybody's input on the best server hardware configuration for a hypervm server is.
Was thinking something along the lines of the following server configuration:
Quad core processor(s)
16gbs of ram
2x 100GB RAID 1 Main HDD (Do I need this much space?)
4TB RAID 5 VM HDD's
That would allow me to keep the main OS separate and redundant due to HDD failure and leave the VM's on a RAID 5 for the same reason.
What would you change or advise me to do on this configuration? The goal is to host as many VM's as the processor/ram/HDD's will allow without much of a performance hit.
how many we can host with this configuration? Obviously depends on the packages that I haven't thought about yet.
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Apr 25, 2009
I want to host a personal FTP server for myself and friends at home. I have 30Mbit/30Mbit unlimited optical fiber net with a static IP, so that isn't my problem. I also know how to setup the FTP on my computer.
The thing I need help with is the domain. How can I make files.mydomain.com be hosted at home while the main domain (and the other subdomains) is hosted by a host? I don't own the domain or a host yet, so I'm open for all options.
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Jul 23, 2008
we going to running a hosting company
but not sure how to manage the backup server
Server A = 10 host accounts
Server B = 15 host accounts
Server Backup use rsync to get 25 account
will it be work?
and each domain the name server
ns1.host.com < - Server A
ns2.host.com < - Server A
ns3.host.com < - Server B
ns4.host.com < - Server B
ns5.host.com < - Server Backup
ns6.host.com < - Server Backup
www.abc.com
ns1.host.com < - Server A
ns2.host.com < - Server A
ns5.host.com < - Server Backup
ns6.host.com < - Server Backup
if server A down, so auto point to backup server
so is it work?
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Jan 30, 2008
I would like to help my friend to host his email service on my VPS server. His current shared web hosting unfortunately has a quota limit on the number of emails he can send each hour, which is very inconvenient for him.
I know how to modify the MX record of my friend's domain in his current web host using Cpanel, but I don't know how to set up my server to accommodate his email service. I'd appreciate if anyone can teach me how to do it. My server also has Cpanel/WHM installed.
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Oct 24, 2008
is there a way that i can have a web server that runs windows server 2003 and be able to have file hosting on it...so people can upload files to it and be able to access it without having to have a domain name?
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Aug 27, 2008
I am currently selling hosting from my reseller account. Planning to buy a dedicated server. I will be hosting around 250 hosting accounts with PHP and Mysql on a centos 5 OS with Cpanel. The 250 sites will be controlled by normal terms and conditions that comes with shared hosting. Now I am confused about the configuration to go for:
My Budget is around USD 200 per server.
Here is the config I thought to go for initially:
Xeon 3060 Dual Core
2 x 250 GB SATA II HDD
4 GB RAM
Cpanel/WHM
10 MBPS Port
Then I found this config for 20$ extra.XEON 3220 Dual Core
2 X 250 GB HDD
4 GB RAM
CPanel
10 MBPS Port
will 3060 is a good config or do you think should go for the 3220. Or should I save that extra 20$ and use them to get a hardware RAID 1 for 3060 server...?
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Apr 7, 2008
Got a person potentially developing an ecommerce website for me. Part of the agreed price is 1 yrs free hosting on their server. However what are the pitfulls since i am concerned with security (customer credit info), and if anything untoward happens like the site going down.
If a proper webhosting business is required, essentially i need these:
"Linux server with PHP, MySQL, an SSL certificate, register_globals turned on, a c-panel to admin the MySQL"
Which provides a great qualty and cheap service (not godaddy) - if it helps I am bested in the UK.
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May 18, 2008
some hostings around WHT have a small "feature" enabled on all shared or reseller servers. This feature allows read/write on local files. Php safe mode or open_basedir won't help here
CREATE TABLE data (text LONGTEXT);
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/etc/named.conf' INTO TABLE data;
This SQL query allows me to load local 'named.conf' to mysql database.
Code:
SELECT text FROM data INTO OUTFILE '/etc/file';
This SQL query allow me to write data from mysql to local file.
Last year I bought some shared and reseller packages, it worked 100%. None from 17 providers have disabled it. Also some of them are well known and big.
I've wrote emails to them, reported this "feature", hope they have disabled it ;-).
To disable add to my.cnf file :
Code:
[mysqld]
local-infile=0
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Jul 15, 2008
on april 19th, we started a new internet radio station and now 3 months later, we're using up over 250GB of monthly bandwidth and have quite some listeners throughout the day. Therefore we want to have more security for our listeners that our stream stays online. I currently just use WinAMP to broadcast to my shoutcast server and CentovaCast takes care of the rest, but if I don't stream, listeners don't hear music and that's becoming a bigger problem everyday.
So I wondered. Can I buy a Windows dedicated server or VPS, install WinAmp on that machine and use a remote desktop to control and configure our stream, like I now do on my local PC? And does anybody has any experience with that?
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May 5, 2008
I have a sql server 2005 database which is 5gb. My current host only allows 2gb and charges and obscene amount for extra space. Does anyone know of an inexpensive host that I can put a 5gb database 2005 on? It doesn't need much bandwidth, it will just be for storage/archive purposes.
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Jun 29, 2007
I have a site which has 67000 visitors per day, and around 200 requests in second. On index page I have around 17querys. Site is hosted at some provaider...
Now I have a problem because site is opening very slouly. Yesterday I put mysql on difrent server then apache, and it was working OK since this morning. I have optimize my pages written in PHP for best performans and put out anything that I could. Mysql is set to take 3000 requests in second.
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Jul 26, 2007
Do you know of any good large-scale SMTP server hosting? I've seen ads for SMTP serving but they seem to be talking about hosting your own email accounts, because they mention number of inboxes.
I'm interested in a service where, rather than hosting my own SMTP server, I can point my mail application code to smtp.theircompany.com and it will send through those servers.
Is the service I'm looking for technically possible, and is this what is meant by "SMTP hosting"? If so, why can't I seem to find any - could you recommend some? (I don't want POP3/IMAP hosting and don't want their other hosting services bundled - just SMTP hosting.)
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Jul 19, 2007
Which methods is need to protect a hosting server?
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Jun 27, 2007
I 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.
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Jun 25, 2007
I am about to host my sites. We have a lot of data that we do not want to put in hosting companies.
My specs are:
Intel Xeon processor
Chipset: Intel E7520
Independent PCI buses: 4
Total Slots: 3 x GB LAN
Memory capacity: 16BG DDR2 400 ECC Registered
Integrated LAN: 2 x GB LAN
Integrated Graphics: ATI age XL 8MB
Server management support: Intel Serer Management 8
RAID support: RAID 0, 1, 10, 50
Drive bays: 12 x hotswaps SATA II
Will this be okay to host around 10 websites? I am knowledgeable in Hosting hardware.
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Apr 10, 2008
Let's say, I want to setup a hosting company in 3 different location (US, EU, ASIA) and I want to host 3 different servers on each datacenter. They will not be cluster. Customers will have an option to chose their datacenter location on the ordering page. But I want to use only one IP block /24 for all 3 different location.
Is it possible?
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