Well haven't managed hosting on vps machines yes so I am wondering that how much this type of machine suit for running a hosting business ? Very honestly I think that people use vps for temporary bases and later they move to individual servers. I will appreciate your opinion.
I've got a dedicated server through Liquid Web. I can't say enough about how great the reliability and service has been since I switched over to them a number of months ago.
Nevertheless, with the advent of cloud hosting, I'm intrigued by the idea of paying for what I actually use on a server rather than having way more capacity than I need 90% of the day.
I've looked around here and there's a bit of talk about it but it doesn't seem like folks are scrambling into it and it also appears that the offereings are still relatively immature.
I really don't have the time to devote to tweaking, etc or figuring out something really complicated.
I'll stick to my dedicated server if it means tons of extra work or potential downtime or massive frustration but I wanted to get some feedback from the community about whether or not there are some stable cloud hosting options that are emerging that might be worth considering.
Windows 2003 IIS6 PHP 5.0.3 and PHP 5.2.1 running with the ISAPI dll MySQL 5.1.11
I kind of have 2 problems, the first being the one in the thread title and the second is while running any version of php my main site experiences slowdowns and hangs.
For some reason whenever I try to install a new version of PHP I have major problems. I have tried several times when new versions come out. I just recently tried the newest, 5.2.1, which I want to try and use, I think there are performance improvements for IIS and windows platform in the new 5.x versions?
Anyway I can install 5.2.1 and get it running, and my sites load, but soon after my main site starts to hang, stops loading or loads extremely slow. I can't figure it out. I even tried using the exact same PHP.ini settings from my old working php install.
So everytime I am forced to go back to the latest version that I know works with my server/sites, 5.0.3 [url]
If I restart IIS the pages start loading fast again right after, even recycling the worker process that the site uses usualy makes the pages load normal again.
I tried setting the worker process to recycle every 60min and to use 2 web gardens. These changes havn't really had any affect for better or worse.
Downgrading back to PHP 5.0.3 seems to run a bit more stable, but even with this version I get these slowdowns now. I have been running my site(s) on this server for 3 years now and most of the time they have ran stable.
I was sleeping this morning and recieved a text-message saying the site wasn't loading. So I wake up and the site indeed was pretty much not loading at all. I look at permon that I left running to see this: [url]
I give IIS a restart, which you can see above, then the levels go back to normal, here is a screen shot a couple minites later to what the "Current Connections" graph usualy looks like when the site loads fine. [url]
During this slowdown the CPU usage was not maxing out, was maybe averaging 60% and ram was 50%. I am getting a 2nd server soon to off-load the MySQL to it and have it dedicated for that. But i don't think that will help this current issue. Here is the system resources when the site is loading fine: [url]
I have around 40 or so other sites hosted on IIS and my main site "canadaka.net" which is purple on the top graph, is the only one that hangs or slowsdown. When this slowdown happens to this site, all the other sites on IIS, which are on a seperate worker process, continue to load fine.
I can't figure out why these slowdowns are happening.
I need a Windows VPS to run ASP.NET 2.0 applications because my current provider is having some issues that keep my VPS down. As i am new to Windows hosting so i need a managed plan.
Another thing is that it must be stable. I usually have VPSes with Knownhost and they are really stable ( just wish they offer windows vps ). I need something like them ( uptime > 99,99% ).
Have run through a bunch of threads on mod_proxy race conditions, possible causes, and potential solutions.
What is the status? Is there a fix for this, maybe in 2.4.7?
On 2.4.3 in production we literally have 10K errors in the past 2 months along the lines of:
Code : AH00898: Error reading from remote server returned by...
Application server (JVM webapp) issues no errors at the time of mod_proxy error occurring. It seems then that mod_proxy is sporadically broken, which is horrible for end users accessing an otherwise rock solid production application.
I use shared web hosting service to get my website online. I'm wondering how many people use dedicated servers or virtual private servers instead and pay from $20 to several hundreds of dollars? Will I face any big problem with shared web hosting package which makes me choose dedicated servers?
I would like to host 1 domain with 2 servers. How would i get both servers to have the same info on them. I have 2 servers and I only have the intended need to host 1 website. How would I do that?
How many people are on future hosting servers and can anyone comment on the performance Last time I had one my loads where very high, access to plesk and ssh was very slow They have a new offer on, 35% off double ram etc.. seems to good to be true
For a small business where there is no colocation facility within any reasonable distance, who needs to host an application on ~5-10 servers in total, would such businesses simply be out of luck - or could they self-host their servers?
What are the reasonable alternatives to colocation? Getting a colocation facility in a different city wouldn't be an option. Neither would going with dedicated/managed hosting (because the business has its own servers and the in-house resources to administer them).
What is the viability of creating your own mini "data center" - by this I don't mean anything like a real data center, but just someplace where you could host 5-10 servers?
Perhaps you could give some advice as to the kinds of things one would have to keep in mind before attempting such a thing. (e.g. physical security, bandwidth, power, etc). The reason I ask is because surely you couldn't just rent a little office space and set up the servers there, right? (Or could you...?)
Do you know anyone who has hosted their own servers, numbering around 10 of them? (How did it turn out?)
Sometimes you have a "shopping" experience which really sets itself apart from the rest... I think this is how "tips" were invented... anyways, I wanted to share my story because I am very pleased with this hosting company.
I am a web designer/developer/marketer. I have worked for big corporations who had in house hosting, to small start-ups using shared hosting. When I was looking for a VPS solution, I bumped into (online) Larry from XSI Hosting. I needed to finalize a host within 2 days to get a large client site live.
Larry spent over 2 hours answering my questions and giving me advice and recommendations. I had been to at least 30 other hosting companies who offer VPS and none of them were willing to spend the time to answer my questions accurately, honestly and correctly.
When I ran into a few "self inflicted" issue, the XSI support team is absolutely phenomenal. Not only have they been available 24/7 (believe me, I have contacted them many times at various times), they respond promptly, professionally, and work VERY quickly to resolve the issue. They even proactively monitor the account and resolve any concerns they have which may lead to an issue.
This is a VERY professional hosting company who provides quality service, quality support, and VERY competitive pricing.
I'm experiencing some issues that I thought were something normal, or something that you could expect when working like this, but I think that it is something that should NOT happen.
We own a dedicated server, where we host some sites we develop (around 80 right now). We usually host both email and web page in the same server, but recently we had two customers who wanted to host email in a different place. The first one has its own server with proxy, and the second one is waiting the previous company to change DNS values.
The problem shows when we try to send an email from ANY domain hosted in our server, to one of these domains. From Outlook, the error is something like "no such user found", but the REAL problem comes when a PHP script (usually a contact form) tries to send the email. This mails get simply lost, and the customer never receives them.
My question is: What do I configure, or how do I do so my webserver looks for the real DNS, instead of trying to send the mail directly to the local domain?
Sorry to be always posting these "Anyone use such and such on shared hosting servers?" But it's pretty much the best thing I can think of instead of experimenting and going through all problems myself first. I guess all of us likes to see someone else try something out first and give feedback on it before attempting to implement himself.
I want to try this GreenSql as a way to help prevent user's web apps from being hacked using sql injection. Ive tried suhosin sql protections in the past but they simply don't work, but there is no kind of docs or even simple explanation anywhere about it on hardened-php site so that's probably why.
If anyone here uses this, has used it and knows anything about using this on a shared server please share your experiences. I am going to implement it on a test server no matter what but would be nice to know that this isnt one of those things with insane default rulesets.
It looks real cool and I will be giving it a try myself probably tonight and tomorrow. If anyone is interested I will post my findings.
As the rest of you hosts know we cannot guarantee 100% security or any kind of hack proofness. But in my time I have found out taking some steps to help preventing weak and outdated php apps can help in preventing disgruntled wep-app-hacked clients from making a crusade on the web saying you servers are insecure, crappy and all that. Isn't a sure fire way but I think it helps.
some quality offshore dedicated server providers. I have heard of Leaseweb and Piradius. Leaseweb seemed not to be a good choice as if I recall properly I read that previous hosting clients were dissatisfied with the lack of support. Is this true - what do you Leaseweb clients have to say? I could not find the Piradius servers so I gave up looking for them. Does anyone know where I can find their "actual" website?
Also, it would be helpful if someone can tell me how to find out who hosts a website by checking some data. For example, here is a Piradius client. Piradius might be a datacenter for all I know, so how I do find out who the hosting company is?
Can anyone recommend shared hosting company where servers are located at Brazil ? If should be reliable, economical and Ii would be good if I can host multiple domains. Also if the hosting company has its site in English or their staff can communicate in English?
But the problem is users also access emails by www.domain.com/webmail.
Now the MX record is pointing to one sever as we want to gather all the emails at one point. So how do I get the users to go to one particular server for the email? I was thinking to alter the email url to something like
www.mail.domain.com/webmail which only goes to one server.
I am developing a website for a client, whose web host is BT Business Broadband. I had noticed that the FTP connection to their server was a but slow, and the http connection was not as fast as my reseller account here. I also noticed something else funny....
I have simple PHP script that greets users according to the time of day. It was saying Good Morning, when it is the afternoon. To test, I uploaded another script to output the current time of the server. It was 5 hours out!
I contacted BT to ask them why the time was wrong, and they said that it's because the server is not located in the UK, the company that manages the server is located in Canada!
Frankly I am dissapointed with BT and feel slightly ripped off on behalf of the client.
They pay them enough money to expect a fast service, and to have the server located in the same country, let alone the same continent! This also will affect their search engine results, as it is hosted on a foreign IP address.
I am about to create a domain for my shoutcast hosting service.
Now, I am getting a dedicated server just to host the shoutcasts accounts, and keep on using my actual web hosting company for the new domain website and email support.
Also I would like the shoutcast clients IP account to be:
server1.mydomain.com
So I need to create this subdomain in my shoutcast dedicated server?
And what Name Servers should I use for my domain?
I wonder, cos to be able to make the website and email I need to give the DNS of my web hosting company, but if I dont use the DNS of the Shoutcast Dedicated Server, would my clients be able to login to their account?
I require Windows 2003 web hosting on Canadian datacenter (Canadaian IP address) for some websites of one customer.
My exact requirement are
Windows 2003 server 2 domains to host Total 20 Mb disk web space 20 mb Mysql database space (2 x 10 MB) PHP, ASP (classic), ASP.net support 20 MB mail space (2 x 10 MB) (optional, can put the pricing in optional) 4 email address AWSTATS Control panel
Bandwidth requires will be less than 1 GB (total) per month.
We currently are not planning to use email feature, just will be hosting 10 to 15 pages on 2 websites. but do provide us the pricing for the same
Please give your best pricing for hosting on Canada Datacenter only.
A nehalem with 12 GBs of RAM. It would have 10 TBs of bandwidth. Just wondering how much stress does it use on the CPU/RAM? How many accounts should I put on it? Lets say each account is 1 GB of space and 10 GBs of bandwidth.