My greetings to Web Hosting Talk elders, I just move from a share hosting to a dedicated server with Godaddy, there support team have set up my new server and everything is running fine now.
But i want to cancel the maintainance contrat which is costing me more than the server itself, but keep the daily backups contrat.
Now my question is, as everything is running fine now, what do i need to know to maintain my server?
I've trawled the sitepoint forums but haven't found anything relating to this subject. I'm hoping someone out there has found themselves in a similar situation.
As a brief summary, I work as a full time web designer for a company but also run my own web design business in my spare time. Within the next year I plan to go freelance which will hopefully leave with some spare time to learn dynamic web design as well as offer clients domain registration and hosting services.
As a web designer, my knowledge of hosting is not that great, but I intend to learn. Currently, I work with a guy who sorts all this out for me. He has a shared server and pays a certain amount per month and charges me £XX a year per client to setup domains and hosting.
I was wondering how much technical skill I need to set this up myself. With so many hosting packages out there, it's hard to know where to start. Should I buy a dedicated server and host my clients at home or go with the safer option and pay monthly for shared hosting?
I've been using a shared account for many years and I want to move to a VPS. I am trying to decide between managed and unmanaged.
How much time and effort does it takes to set up, harden, and maintain a VPS?
I'd be running LAMP and email, mainly. I want to put time into developing my sites, not fretting about the server.
I guess I'd learn a lot by managing my own VPS, but what are the chances of getting hacked before I learn enough?
What is the difference between Dedicated Virtual vs Regular Dedicated Server?
Also what are the pros and cons of going with Virtual?
to move from shared windows hosting to Dedicated windows hosting. This will be our first dedicated server and experience with dealing it too.
Someone suggested me Rackspace. But they were charging premium rates 440 USD for entry level windows server.
I am currently using a shared hosting but due to increasing traffic and server load my existing host is not able to provide reliable services and I am planning to upgrade my hosting service.
While I was searching for Dedicated Servers, I learnt about Virtual Dedicated Servers but I am not very sure about their reliability? Are Virtual Dedicated Servers useful? My website current serves over 2500-3000 visitors a day resulting in 30,000 pageviews and I am expecting the traffic to grow by atleast 2 folds in the next few months as I start some PPC campaigns and Email Marketing for my website. Can a Virtual Dedicated Server cater such needs assuming my website to be more of less dynamic website written in php?
I have Plesk 11.5 (service provider mode) on a Windows 2008 server IIS7.Most of my sites are developed in .asp and therefore i use a custom 500-100.asp error page that check s the IP of the visitor then displays either a friendly error, or if its my IP a full error of what has happened (it also emails me the error). This allows me to debug pages easily whilst developing and to keep an eye on anyone trying SQL Injection hacks on my sites (as the error and email also have session variables and IP address).I dont have root access to the server as it is a Webfusion dedicated server.I have following the Plesk documentation -
1) Switch on custom errors for the subscription
2) Look in virtual directories and navigate to error documents
3) Find the error in question (500:100) and change it to point at either a file or URL
FILE - I had the data centre add in the 500-100.asp error page in to the virtual template so that my page is available in the list of virtual files - this didn't work but that maybe because its not a static page??
URL - when i add the path it says its incorrect, if i add a fully qualified address, it accepts it but it doesn't work.give me a specific example of the URL that can be entered relative to the root as the format in the documentation isn't accepted. The last step is to restart IIS which is also an issue as i cant seem to do this from the Plesk panel..It is as if it isn't catching the 500:100 error, and only catching the general 500 error??
What is the difference between a virtual private server and a dedicated server?
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My streamers will be using my server aswell, On weekends we will be running 3-4 streams at a time, weekdays 1-2 at a time.
Spreading all the streams out, at anyone time we will have 300 viewers.
I need to know your advice on this before i go spending money.
How do i convert my dedi into a flash media server, i need red5 or something, thats all i know so far. My streamers wil be streaming to server with FME, And i also want it coded so that my streams can only be embedded on my site.
Basically i dont have a clue where to start, how long would it take me to set up etc....
In addition, what kind of server do i need, windows / linux / traffic / burstable / standard etc..
I'm expected to have around 1000-1500 users at a time after my ad compaign for my site.
currently, my setup is as follows:
VPS in UK
guaranteed memory: 256 burstable : 512
disk: 20GB
traffic: 200GB per month
price : 15 dollars a month
I would like to upgrade to :
guaranteed memory: 1GB
which is better ? to go with VPS ? or dedicated server ? which provider do u recommend ? how much am I expected to pay for my required setup ? what about CPU ?
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I opened a ticket with them, it was open for about a month with no reply.
How can I tell if GRUB or LILO is on the server somewhere?
I'd like to know, how do you backup a cPanel dedicated server to a remote FTP server? WHM's backup only allows you to backup the client's accounts, but not the cPanel settings, or the stuff in /etc?
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It's already up and running with static IP address, however hosting offers a "Static IP Address", which doesn't really make sense, cause I already have one?
Other thing is domain name. Current domain name is registered with a different company and we don't really want to transfer it from that company. Can I get away with importing a domain name and changing MX records in the domain control panel?
Last thing is an email server. What do I need to set up an Email Server? I have a domain name with few POP3 email addresses. I thought about using hMail server for windows. What else do I need to do, pay for?
i want to know what is the difference between dedicated server and shared server. I was relaly confused in these services. Couls any one please let me know in detail about these servers?. I will be choosing one of these service.
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I have 2 IPs to spare, but I have no idea on how to do this.
Any help is much appreciated, or if you can guide me on where to get info on this.
i need this new reseller NOT to be identified with my own server (IPs)
I am new to VPS business and all, I would like to know how many VPS I can host in a single Dedicated Server ?
View 3 Replies View Relatedi'm looking for cheap dedicated server , do you know where is good provider?
and also ALLOW IRC.
I'm very-very looking for that kind of server.
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Processor AMDAthlon LE 1660
Hard disk 250 GB IDE
RAM 2 GB DDR 1/2
i need help on how to set it up when i get the server how ever when signing up for the server i get a list of these operating systems some whihc are for like virtualisaion
Hosting: Web / Emails / VPN / VoIP
Release 2, Release 1, Linux Plesk 9, Linux Plesk 8.4, Linux Plesk 8.0, cPanel, Extranet Group Work, Windows Plesk 8.1
Experts: raw distro
Debian 4.0 old-stable, Debian 5.0 Stable, Ubuntu Server 8.04, Ubuntu Server 8.10, Open Suse 11, Fedora 9, CentOS, Gentoo 2007, Gentoo 2008, Slackware 12.1, FreeBSD 6.2, FreeBSD 7.1, Windows 2003 Pro, Windows 2003 Basic
Virtualization
VMWare, Xen, Proxmox, Virtuozzo4
Remote desktop
Ubuntu Desktop 8.04
I have been given a fairly high spec dedicated server and I would like suggestions what I could do with it.
Briefly the spec is: Dual Opteron, Two 360GB HDD's, 4GB Ram, on Unmetered Bandwidth located in Germany.
I don't want to host anything like warez, torrent server or any web -hosting service. ( I already have a hosting server )
I got control of some colocation resource in Taipei, Hong Kong and several cities in China (Beijing, Shanghai and probably Guangzhou & Shenzhen), and is now considering starting a business by deploying blade servers into my racks with Internet bandwidth as well as private bandwidth interconnected between the above IDC.
My target will be corporation, web developer / SI who want their / their clients' web site or IP application online with target users in those regions.
I prefer to deploy VM or VPS instead of dedicated servers as space/electricity in China is very expensive and higher density should be the way to go.
So I'd like to know more what the difference is between VM and VPS in terms of customer perception and actual features.
In areas of VM and VPS, which vendor do you recommend and why?
I have one Dedicated server , with Centos 5 and Cpanel. I want with *a magic way* to have and some vps 4 -5 in the same server,
So my question is how i can install a vps in this server and also i am wondering if it any GNU vps software for my server also.
what is the difference between dedicated servers and VPS?
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I wondered if anyone else had experiance using these systems and/or this host also?
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Anyone has a suggestion of a company that has respectable response time with a data center located within NYC with fast setup time?
I've a server with galaxyvision. they boast a 24/7 support, live chat doesn't work and they don't even answer the phone. Server's been down for 2 hours.
I have one dedicated server and the company cant give me extra ips for use on the dedicated server.
Can i buy some ips from other company to use on my dedicated server? (as failover ip).
I'm going to get a dedicated server with option to install my own OS. Is it possible to use a simple XP Pro ? or I have to go with Server 2003 ? what is the difference ? I barely need 90% of the server 2003 features. The only thing that is required is the windows environment for my own software.
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so would i be better getting a vps or a dedicated server?
where can i get cheap and good servers:
im going to buy a Dedicated Server but i got some Q and i hope you guys can help me out here...
i was thinking about all this "Unlimited BW" i saw some site say they give you but i find it strange they will give somthing they pay for for free...so i think they will limite my Up/Down speed or somthing so ill back off it...
but now im thinking about a new company, "LeaseWeb"
alot of ppl told me that there very god and very fast...but there not cheap...so i wanted to know what you guys think on them ? is there anyone else that is good but cheaper ?