Hosting Site & Forum On Different Servers. How
Jan 22, 2008Let's say I want to host DOMAIN.COM on one server, and FORUMS.DOMAIN.COM on another server.
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How Effective Can Be Lighttpd 4 My Site ( Forum + Filesharing Site )
Jun 16, 2008I run basicly run two main site.
1.Forum big one .
2.File and image sharing site.
(image sharing site generates thumbnails which produces lots of hits)
In these conditions how much difference can lighttpd can do as compared to apache for keeping my 600 MB Ram VPS host constant.
Hosting One Site On Two Servers Via DNS
Aug 8, 2008I run a website that gets a huge spike in traffic approx. once a month for 24 hrs.
Can you mirror one site on two separate servers and add load balance via the DNS records on godaddy.
exmp.
ns1.siteone.com
ns2.siteone.com
ns1.sitetwo.com
ns2.sitetwo.com
Is this possible? If one server goes down will I loose 50% of visitors or will it all forward to the up server.
Started A Vbulletin Forum And Site
Apr 16, 2008I am about to purchase a vbulletin license in a few days and start a site. I will start the forums first and get the talking going and build the main site afterwards. Of course the site will suck at first as far as visitors. But what is a good hosting plan to support me for a good little while? I project we'll get up to 150 active users at a time within the first 6 or 7 months with about 50 browsing the main site....(nothing wrong with wishful thinking )
So, what hosting plan is best to hold me for a while? Not which company, but what specs of the plan are best to hold 100 active users at a time? I dont want to continue to upgrade my hosting plan alot. I'd rather just buy a nice shared hosting plan now to hold me for at least a year or so....until I have to upgrade.
For those who have dedicated servers, at one point is it time to upgrade to a dedicated server?
Considering A New Host For Active Forum & WP Site.
Sep 9, 2008I've been with Bluehost for over three years. I've really not had any big problems with them. But I've learned that people usually don't have problems with hosts unless they actually have a website that has good traffic.
Well, as my main site has grown, I think I'm outgrowing my host.
I have a forum (SMF) with over 1500 members and close to 80K posts. It's got a good core of very active members. Doing well. The main part of the site is on WP platform.
Friday, I try to bring up the forum and POOF! It's not there. Just a blank screen. No error, no nothing. Call support and they have no clue, but the support guy comments out a line in one of my SMF files and the site comes back up. Don't ask me how he knew to comment out that line or anything.
Things go fine for a few days, then yesterday P.M. I start getting "exceeding CPU" errors and then a 500 error. Keep in mind, I've done nothing to my site in these days to cause any of this or any changes to even make me suspect anything.
Called support two times last night and finally was told to submit a ticket to their scripting department. I could see the PHP errors in my CP and I knew it was something wrong on their end, but no one could figure it out. Well, I haven't heard from support but my site's back up today.
I'm just thinking it may be time to consider switching. Not sure I really want to deal with that, but I'm having more errors and glitches with them in the last year.
I know HostGator gets mostly great reviews. Will my experience there be any different though?
I know lots of people here ask for web host suggestions. I could really use some guidance, not just in companies, but the things I need to keep in mind about my site in particular that would help me choose one.
Want To Start A Blog/forum Site
Oct 8, 2008if somebody wants to start a blog/forum site, what are some certain softwares they would need to create their site other than a sitebuilder of course
View 14 Replies View RelatedHow To Host A Forum With Multiple Web Servers?
Jul 10, 2007I notice that some forums are run by multiple web servers.
They offer choices for visitors from different regions so that they can enjoy a better speed when browsing.
e.g. Visitors from USA use www1 , visitors from Europe use www2
My question is: how to synchronize the contents and files between different web servers?
For the dynamic content, one database server can be setup. So that all php scripts on different web servers can retrieve from the same database source.
But then, in a real-time forum, how to synchronize the files between the web servers? For example, one user from www1 uploads a file. This file will go to www1's filesystem. How to make this file appears in www2's filesytem?
I can think of 'rsync' every minute between servers. But still it's not real-time, and there may be problems if sychronication can't be finished within the minute.
SMF Forum Hosting
Jan 10, 2009I own a smf forum with usually 100-150 online users and sometimes it reaches 600-1000. My hosting refuses to host my forum anymore cause there is heavy cpu usage on their server.
So I want to ask you if there is any share web hosting provider that can host my forum with a reasonable prise.
Hosting A Forum On Vps
Dec 19, 2008I want to host a invision forum. I have a lot of exp admining and modding but I have never run one myself.
I plan on using 15-30 gigs of material on site and the rest will be offsite storage.
I do not know how many members I will have it could be just a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand.
My question. I was planning on going with WiredTree because of all the great reiviews out there. And buying thier vps512 which has 60 gigs of storage and 800 monthly bandwith.
Will that be enough do you think? More, less? I would like to stay within 50-100 dollars. since I am mainly running this for recreation and not looking to make a profit.
I have never hosted a website or such before, but after reading here and doing research I do not really want a shared server.
Hosting A Forum
Apr 2, 2008What kind of webhost will I need for phpBB forum?
Here are the requirements :
A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP
A SQL database system, one of:
FireBird 2.0 or above
MySQL 3.23 or above
MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
Oracle
PostgreSQL 7.x or above
SQLite
PHP 4.3.3 or above with support for the database you intend to use. The optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
zlib Compression support
Remote FTP support
XML support
Imagemagick support
Of course free hosts are preferred, but nothing too expensive will do fine aswell. n_n
Hosting A Snitz Forum
Jan 23, 2008I have been hosting a Snitz ASP forum on a friends Windows 2003 webserver for the last 4 years. The forum has been slowing down recently and my friend has told me to sling my hook!
I'm presuming that our Snitz forum must have a database behind it (think its Access).
This is where I'm getting confused when it comes to looking for web hosting services.
I'm not really sure what I need.
Reliable Hosting For A Vbulletin Forum
Oct 9, 2009I am the owner of the vbulletin forum. The forum is young but it is growing rapidly. It has 11000 posts, 800 members and about 30 users online. I use many mods which are server intensive.
I was on a semi-dedicated hosting (Westnic), which I shared with my friend to reduce the costs. Now I feel I should move on, because this package is becoming too small for both of us.
I wanted to upgrade my hosting package to a bigger one, but now when I have read so many horrible stories about this host, I really don't want to stay with Westnic.
So I am looking for a reliable host for my forum.
I am still now sure whether I need a semi-dedicated, VPS or a dedicated server. Also, I am not sure how much dedicated memory a forum like mine would need. Also, I am not sure about the location of the server - does it really matter?
At What Point Does A Forum Out-grow Shared Hosting
Jan 28, 2009how many users/guests online before a vbulletin forum needs something better?
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Jul 12, 2008I have found this forum through searching google for articles etc about the best/cheapest host for a small forum, and I think this is the best place to ask I have searched the many topics on this but none of them quite answer my question, so I apologise for repeating what may have already been done.
Anyway....
I currently use a free host (forumotion) and have become increasingly frustrated at not having total control over my forum, and not having access to the database.
I figure now will be a good time to move as the forum is only a couple of months old.
So what I am looking for is a basic hosting package including domain name, that can support phpbb version 3. Im looking for cheap and cheerful basically. I dont know enough about this kind of thing to elaborate, but here are my forum stats;
Number of posts 10781
Posts per day 121.13
Number of topics 625
Topics per day 7.02
Number of users 153
Users per day 1.72
Most users ever online 40
Stats generated on Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:31 am
Avatar directory size 1016.43 KB
As you can see it is pretty small.....it may grow over the next couple of years but has a shelf life of 2010 as that is when the TV show finishes (its a Lost forum), and it may continue for a while after that but I dont expect it to go on and on and on
We have a lot of media posted, mainly youtube vids and jpeg, and we also have a small aracde, so i'm guessing I would need a lot of room there? Plus we have newsletters that would need to be hosted as online versions but they are just html documents.
I hope I have given enough information....oh budget wise I am looking at cheapest possible as I dont want to start charging members to fund the hosting costs.
How Do I Create My Own Free Forum Hosting Website?
Nov 2, 2008How would I go about creating my own website for free forum hosting? You know, sites such as ProBoards and Forumer. A site where someone can fill in some information (name, URL, e-mail, etc.) and instantly have their own phpBB, IPB, or MyBB forum.
I could host it, but I don't understand how to make it so right when they click submit it creates them a forum. If someone could point me in the right direction or link me to a tutorial (which I doubt exists),
Is There Anyone Knows For A Good Hosting,which Is Allowed : Adult Site & Casino Site?
May 21, 2008is there anyone knows for a good hosting located in uk,which is allowed : adult site and casino betting online site ?
im looking for vps and dedicated server.
please help me i really need as soon as possible.thx
Using 2 Or More Servers For 1 Site
Oct 4, 2007I've just initiated myself to splitting the load between servers... in this case, one server delivers all the html/php/mysql/emails, another serves all the images... its an auction site so there are loads of images.
Just did some testing using Firebug, with 20 5-10kb thumbnails loaded from the image server, everything else from the original server... the results speak for themselves:
no browse cache:
current - 11.7 seconds
test - 5.6 seconds
refresh (checks modified date on some/all files I believe):
current - 8.6 seconds
test - 4.1 seconds
I'm not testing scientifically or anything but these times were fairly consistent over a few dozen trials. Obviously also there are other factors with network connections, server loads etc. From my primitive knowledge I figure that if you fork the requests down 2 or more paths, instead of just 1, then you are virtually doubling the amount of requests that are taking place, hence the page loads faster.
Is this consistent with what others have found? In this case I figure the images are the common denominator so having them on the 2nd server makes sense. I also understand that databases, emailing and other processes can be split onto a separate server...
On a final note, can I get a recommendation...
#server 1:
hosts html, css, javascript, PHP, MySQL databases, and sends emails... php 5 is required and security is very important
#server 2:
hosts images and will possibly stream videos... basically just a file system we can access from another site
What would be the advisable server specs and operating systems for each? They would not be under a heavy load for some time, but the idea is that they could be further expanded if necessary. I understand that lighthttpd is good for serving images?
and finally, I also require:
- a good host
- a backup solution
if anyone could recommend anything to me at this point that would be great!
P.S. don't worry, i'm not setting the servers up myself - but i'm kindof in the position where I have to make the decisions!
Off Topic:
woohoo! 1,000 posts!
How Do I Setup A Site On 2 Servers. 1 For Mysql 1 For Web
Jul 7, 2009How do I setup a site to use two servers? One as a mysql server and the other as a web server.
At the moment I have the site on one server. When I get the second server what steps do I need to take to make this possible?
How do I secure the mysql server to only allow the web server to connect to it?
Do I need a control panel (i.e. cPanel) software on the mysql server?
How To Split A Site Over Multiple Servers
Nov 10, 2008Would it be possible to split website components transparently across 2 servers and make it look like a single site? For example: run a forum on ServerA and a wiki on ServerB, but with the same base URL? Doing this will allow me to buy smaller servers instead of a single huge server.
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Hosting Review Site Or Top 3 Hosting Co. For Shared Hosting
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Is there a good WebHosting Review site, I could check out, or maybe someone could recommend their top three. I reading threw the forums here and I noticed there are not that many complaints with Hostgator. Again, I just want to see if there was anything out there better.
Load Balancing A Basic Site On Two Servers
Sep 30, 2007I would just like to no how you would load balance 2 sites. Would this be done via dns settings. EG
instead of seting the domain to something like
ns1.server1.com ns2.server1.com
would it be?
n1.server1.com ns2.server2.com
Www0 And Www1 How To Host A Site On Multiple Servers
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Oct 11, 2008We are developing a new web site that will be collecting private information (no credit cards - only names, phones, email addresses and potentialy addresses etc).
Our company will be based in the EU and the target audience will largely be located in the EU.
We were thinking of using some of the very respected US companies like theplanet or softlayer that have very good prices for a quality service instead of the more expensive and less flexible EU based solutions.
But I was wondering whether this would violate the EU privaxy regulations (not sure if softlayer or theplanet are part of the US Safe Harbor) or whether there would be a way to cover ourselves (e.g. special contractual binds with the provider (which i am hoping would be part of their standard SLA/T&C) or by mentioning in the Terms & conditions of our site that data will be stored in the US.
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Nov 18, 2008Here is what I am trying to do, to set up a WordPress powered site to be run across two servers for load balancing. The two servers are dedicated and I have the load balancing software installed and set up. I need to set up the site so that both of them are accessed, but to also have the same content. The main concern is for the same content.
WordPress uses a MySQL database to place all of the content there, so the main thing I would need is to set up the databases so they are synched on both servers, so that the same content is showing up on both of the servers, and so I don't have to manually upload data to the database every few hours, that would suck. I have already found a script to connect to a remote mysql server, it is called HyperDB, but I was wondering if there are any better ways.
Best Web Site Hosting For ASP.NET 2.0 & SQL
Dec 18, 2006As somebody who has bought the 'Build Your Own ASP.NET 2.0 Web Site Using C# & VB' by CRISTIAN DARIE and ZAK RUVALCABA, I wonder what Hosting deals are considered the best and most user friendly (robust and support).
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Hosting A DW Site
Oct 21, 2008i can host my web applications locally and my database connections are still intact but how can i host my web applications designed wit DW on a public server without the database connection being broken?
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