There is a new page on Rackspace's website where they are offering to match the price of any hosting company that sells the same package of specifications. It sounds like there will be no compromise on the standards of service included in the deal.
View 6 RepliesWe need a MANAGED dedicated server for a client we are developing a website for. They will do most of their sales online.
Here is what we have found: As far as a managed dedicated server, the BEST company we have found that offers 24/7/365 phone support and has their own in-house hardware tech staff is RackSpace.
However, RackSpace is a little pricey (starts at around $400/month).
Is there any other REPUTABLE company available that offers MANAGED DEDICATED SERVERS WITH 24/7/365 phone support and in-house hardware tech support at a better price? Everytime I call RackSpace, I get a human being on the phone...NEVER an answering machine.
We want to put our client's website in the best hands possible.
With that said, are their any suggestions at a better price that match the support of RackSpace?
Thank you VERY MUCH for your helpful insight. We need to launch the site in a couple of weeks.
I wonder any provider still offering Price Match policy?
I saw some before but not anymore.
I am moving one of my sites to a dedicated server and I need a good place to back up too.
I don't need much space a GB would be more then enough as what I'm backing up is only about 250mb currently.
Does anyone know of a good company that offers FTP backup space for a real low price.
I have a dedicated server at rackspace.com for over a year now, and my contract with them has expired.
I'm wondering if I am paying too much, so I was hoping others who have a dedicated server at rackspace could say how much they are paying.
I have a dedicated server, intel xeon, 4 gb of ram, and 2,000MB bandwidth and pay $1,400 per month. I feel that is over-priced, how much are you paying?
mod_security: Access denied with code 406. Pattern match "<[[pace:]]*(script|about|applet|activex|chrome)*>.*(script|about|applet|activex|chrome)[[pace:]]*>" at POST_PAYLOAD [hostname "domain.us"] [uri "/_vti_bin/_vti_aut/author.exe"]
This is my mod security rules.conf file
Code:
#Enforce proper HTTP requests
SecFilterSelective SERVER_PROTOCOL "!^HTTP/(0.9|1.0|1.1)$" "id:340000,rev:1,severity:1,msg:'Bad HTTP Protocol'"
# Only accept request encodings we know how to handle
# we exclude GET requests from this because some (automated)
# clients supply "text/html" as Content-Type
SecFilterSelective REQUEST_METHOD "!^(GET|HEAD|POST|PUT|PROPFIND|OPTIONS)$" "chain,id:340001,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Restricted HTTP function'"
SecFilterSelective HTTP_Content-Type "!(^$|^application/x-www-form-urlencoded$|^multipart/form-data)"
#Generic rule for allowed characters, very broken at the moment, dont use it unless you can fix it
#Then post your fix eh!
#SecFilterSelective REQUEST_URI "!^[-a-zA-z0-9.+_/-?=]+$" "chain,id:340002,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Restricted HTTP character set'"
# Require Content-Length to be provided with
# every POST request
SecFilterSelective REQUEST_METHOD "^POST$" "chain,id:340003,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Content Length not provided with POST'"
SecFilterSelective HTTP_Content-Length "^$"
# Don't accept transfer encodings we know we don't handle
# (and you don't need it anyway)
SecFilterSelective HTTP_Transfer-Encoding "!^$" "id:340004,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Dis-allowed Transfer Encoding'"
#HTTP response spilting generic sigs
SecFilter "Content-Length:.*Content-Type:.*Content-Type:" "id:340005,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'HTTP response splitting'"
#HTTP response spilting generic sigs
SecFilter "Content-Length:" "chain,id:340006,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'HTTP response splitting'"
SecFilter "Content-Type:" chain
SecFilter "Content-Type:"
#deny TRACE method
SecFilterSelective REQUEST_METHOD "TRACE" "id:340007,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'TRACE method denied'"
#XSS insertion into Content-Type
SecFilterSelective THE_REQUEST "Content-Type:.*(<[[:space:]]*(script|about|applet|activex|chrome)*>.*(script|about|applet|activex|chrome)[[:space:]]*>|onmouseover=|javascript:)" "id:300002,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'XSS attack in Content-type header'"
#Don't accept chunked encodings
#modsecurity can not look at these, so this is a hole
#that can bypass your rules, the rule before this one
#should cover this, but hey paranoia is cheap
SecFilterSelective HTTP_Transfer-Encoding "chunked" "id:300003,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Chunked Transfer Encoding denied'"
#Code injection via content length
SecFilterSelective HTTP_Content-Length ";(system|passthru|exec)(" "id:330003,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Code Injection in Content-Length header'"
#broad cross site scripting rule
#False alarms are a problem with this, use with caution
#SecFilterSelective THE_REQUEST "<(.|
)+>"
#generic recursion signatures
SecFilterSelective REQUEST_URI "!(alt_mod_frameset.php)" "chain,id:300004,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Generic Path Recursion denied'"
SecFilterSelective THE_REQUEST "../../"
#generic path recurision sig
#generic recursion signatures
SecFilterSelective THE_REQUEST ".|./.|./.|" "id:300005,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Generic Path Recursion denied'"
#generic bogus path sigs
SecFilterSelective THE_REQUEST ".../" "id:300006,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Bogus Path denied'"
SecFilterSelective POST_PAYLOAD "[[:space:]]+...+;" "id:300007,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Bogus Path denied'"
#Generic PHP exploit signatures
SecFilterSelective THE_REQUEST "(chr|fwrite|fopen|system|e?chr|passthru|popen|proc_open|shell_exec|exec|proc_nice|proc_terminate|proc_get_status|proc_close|pfsockopen|leak|apache_child_terminate|posix_kill|posix_mkfifo|posix_setpgid|posix_setsid|posix_setuid|phpinfo)(.*);" "id:330001,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Generic PHP exploit pattern denied'"
#Generic PHP exploit signatures
SecFilterSelective POST_PAYLOAD|REQUEST_URI "<?php (chr|fwrite|fopen|system|echr|passthru|popen|proc_open|shell_exec|exec|proc_nice|proc_terminate|proc_get_status|proc_close|pfsockopen|leak|apache_child_terminate|posix_kill|posix_mkfifo|posix_setpgid|posix_setsid|posix_setuid|phpinfo)(.*);" "id:330002,rev:1,severity:2,msg:'Generic PHP exploit pattern denied'"
I use Virtuozzo with layeredtech, and since I'm on the move anyway, thought I'd like to try out some different Virtualization products before the migration.
Allot of these products like bare-metal installs though... which is why I'm particularly looking for "virtual media" on the KVM.
If i had a server i would much pefer that the center had a forum
community and live support to help when and if you're unsure.
I guess that would be an extra managed service with most providers
I couldn't handle if i had a prob and i had to wait on forum replys
A good deal on a dedicated while good support is allways available.
Someone that offers unmetered monthly bandwidth packages.
I have been looking at the offers in the Web Hosting Talk->Advertising Forums->Web Hosting Offers->Dedicated Hosting Offers forum and I cannot find any explanation for the transfer value.
When an advertiser says 10Tb Transfer (ignore case, as I've seen an advert where it is 10TB in the subject and 10Tb in the body)
Anyway, my question, is the 10Tb in bits or bytes (cannot determine from the case, already established inconsistencies here)
Also, over what period of time is the 10T bits/bytes, E.G. is is that amount of data per day, week, month, year etc.
What company you recommend for Server Administrations (Linux and Windows).
View 10 Replies View RelatedAre there any colo companies that offer either the purchase or license rental of cPanel/WHM? I'd like to find a colo that is in the St. Louis, Chicago or Atlanta area if possible.
View 9 Replies View Relatedthe original domain registrar itself finally joins the VPS fray. Just saw this on their website:
[url]
After roughly a year or so (I think) of offering the hosting we all know, looks like they've finally decided it's time to take the next step.
(to think I'll be moving my domain name away from them next month...)
I want to match a query string with modrewrite , the problem is that my query_string has a url as value:
%{QUERY_STRING} next=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?pepe=1
and it doesn't work for me.
input='next=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?pepe=1'
patttern='next=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?pepe=1' => not-matched
but if I had to match only the uri , it works , the problem is when I try to add parameters to the query_string url:
http://someurl.com?next=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?pepe=1
Is there any way to match that kind of query_string?
Has anyone noticed how there is more and more hosts which offers 10tb bandwith on dedicated server lines?Looks like soon that will become standard on all hosting datacenters.
View 14 Replies View Relatedknow a hosting company with a plan or an option to have access to unlimited IP address?
Or at least near it, like new 20 IP's/month would be ok i think
No matter if its shared hosting, vps or dedicated, if you know a company that offers it,
why so few shared hosting companies enable a php op-caching system on their system (xcache, apc, eaccelerator).
Is there some specific technical reason in place?
Usually I run my own servers, but it happens from time to time that you need a quality shared hosting in order to reccomend it to a friend, for a personal blog, a small website, maybe your own personal blog that you're not keen to host on your dedicated servers already used for big projects ...
Now, as everyone using php applications knows, software like xcache or eaccelerator gives a nice speed bost to page generation. I run xcache on all my servers and vps (mainly running vbullettin and wordpress) and never encountered any issue.
Installing one of those (eg. xcache) is a 5minutes procedure, and even for kiddie-hosting companies that won't know how to build php, the ability to compile eaccelerator is in the cpanel easy php build software, so you don't even need to know how to rebuild php to enable eaccelerator in cpanel.
Despite all these facts is quite impossible to find a decent webhoster with xcache or apc/eacc enabled ...
The only one claiming to have eaccelerator is medialayer : "# Zend Optimizer, IonCube, and eAccelerator" this is a quote from their website.
How come nobody else undertakes this step?
What I have been noticing is most premium shared-hosting provider I encountered run their server with a lot of free memory .. so why not impress the customer with blazing fast page generation times (wordpress footer displaying "page generated in 0.071 seconds" impresses also the non-technical savy customers) enabling such a simple feature ?
There should be something I am missing, for sure.
I'm an existing customer of Hosting Company X and notice that they have recently launched an offer that is a higher config than what I have right now, at the same price.
When asked about it, I was refused the higher config citing that new offers are not applicable for existing customers. I've been with them for over a year and have been experiencing very good support from them, but this one issue baffles me.
Why are existing customers less important?
Hello,
I have two similar VPS plans with identical software setups.
I installed APF Firewall on VPS A, modified the conf.apf file to
change the interfaces to venet0 and set monokern to 1 and
then opened all the ingress ports required. Started the firewall
with 'service apf start' and everything went fine, and everything
is working fine with no errors.
I did the same on VPS B but when I start apf I get the following
error that reoccurs during the startup sequence:
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
While the firewall does seem to be running (by checking iptables -L)
I am unable to download files on the VPS, via wget or yum ...
After downloading httpd-2.2.29-win32.zip and generating SHA1 and SHA256 checksums from the file, they do not match the checksums posted on the download page.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI know Hostgator has a special SEO hosting package that includes seperate ip's and such but I had a bad experience with them a couple of years back.
Can anyone that hosts multiple sites on multiple ip's (different class 'c') tell me about their hosting packages (prices, bandwidth, supports, downtime, etc...)
I'm having a bit of a problem with my SSL certificate and can't seem to work out how to get around it.
Trying to install a RapidSSL certificate to one of my websites but for some reason when i enter the certificate into cPanel it says:
modulus mismatch, key file does not match certificate. Please use the correct key file ..
Taken from apache error logs, are these below legit or false alarms per se? This same customer is having issues with php sendmail (server uses php 5 w/ phpsuexec enabled)
[Thu Feb 21 17:02:02 2008] [error] [client 216.9.250.112] mod_security: Access denied with code 406. Pattern match "!^[0-9a-z]*$" at COOKIE("PHPSESSID") [hostname "www.clientdomain.com"] [uri "/%23URL.ImagURL%23"]
[Fri Feb 22 10:13:18 2008] [error] [client 189.24.155.203] mod_security: Access denied with code 406. Pattern match "',''));" at POST_PAYLOAD [hostname "clientdomain.com"] [uri "/xmlrpc.php"] ....
which webhosts offers "real" unlimited shared or dedicated hosting? alot of companies say unlimited but in their terms it says they'll suspend your account if you exceed reasonable use and they don't tell you what this is.
View 7 Replies View RelatedOS = CentOS 6.5 (Final)
Plesk version = 12.0.18 Update #7, last updated at July 11, 2014 12:46 PM
I have been trying to make my sites better suited to anti spam measures. The only warning I have left to work out is:
Warning - Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner
In the Plesk settings i do have the outgoing mail setting set to Send from domain IP addresses and use domain names in SMTP greeting - still I get the warning.
I am using Post fix. This is a 1and1 dedicated server and I am using custom name servers for this domain. I believe the smtp banner is matching the main ip and not the domain.
I am using the following mod_rewrite rule for shortened SEO friendly links: RewriteRule ^blog/([^/]*).html$ /blog/blog.php?pid=$1 [R=301,L]
For Google SEO reasons, will the shortened rewritten link created from above be the permanent link, from the R=301? Even though the longer link is still functional? Or, do I need to create a rewrite match 301 rule to push the long URL to the shortened URL permanently?
Rackspace provides great uptime, however their ticket service is terrible. It takes them 3-4 hours to respond to normal tickets and 1-2 hours to respond to emergency tickets. If it's a real emergency they ask you to call them but when you call them the person never finishes what they are suppose to do. The person starts and then goes to dinner or their shift ends and nothing gets done.
Well I learned my lesson before and decided to call them instead of submitting a ticket. So I called them tonight at 6PM to tell them my website was hacked. The guy on the phone said it looked like it was a mysql injection. He said would remove some things and ask for a restore and I said okay fine and hung up. An hour passed and didn't receive an update via phone call or ticket. Where did this guy go? Well his shift probably ended. No sense in calling again since it won't leave a trail...
So I submit an emergency ticket on 2008-05-18 19:24:39
No response until 22:05:07 they apologized for the extreme delay and said restore was starting.
Here it is 23:03:25 and my website still isn't restored.
This has happened to me 3 times already and it takes rackspace around 5-6 hours to do a simple restore (I have the support tickets to prove it).
I would understand if it was a crappy hosting company..but I am paying close to $500 a month for a server and expect better service. Does this happen to anyone else or am I an exception to the rule.
It's been 4 hr 22 min since I first submitted a ticket and around 5.5 hours since I first called them and my website still isn't restored properly...
I bought a server with RackSpace, for the network, support, quality, and other reasons.
Anyways I am starting up a new VPS division, and thought why settle for the rest when you can have the best. Because there is all of these "budget providers" out there that use cogent, and dual or quad core servers.
So I thought that if I bought the best server I could, with the option to keep upgrading (off peak hours of course). With premium bandwidth, and still be competitive why not?
The server that I bought through RackSpace is below.
Dell PowerEdge 2950 III
Dual Processor, Quad Core Intel Xeon L5335
8 GB Memory (Fully Buffered)
4 x 146 GB (10k RPM) 2.5" SAS Drive(s), Raid 5
Unlimited Data Backup
100 Mbit Dedicated Port
80 IPs
Like I said I will upgrade that server when it gets time, because it could still use some tweaks. Also after this, me and RackSpace where talking about a cluster, but I don't know how that will work out, I think that it would be nice if it didn't pose any problems. And also load balancing.
But anyways I have not received the server as of yet, and I was wondering if anyone could give me your opinions. As this is my first time, and want to make sure that i am going about everything correctly.
I also have hired 3 admins, just for this venture, that have alot of knowledge with VPS nodes.
Also we where wanting to use virtuozzo , but they don't sell it. Would you recommend VMWare, or HyperVM?
I need to obtain a qutoa for a hosting from 3 hosting company (this is a project for a state goverment so you guys know the drill). I am contacting Rack space, who else on that level I should contact.
View 14 Replies View RelatedAbout a month ago I switched from Virtual Private Hosting on ************ to dedicated hosting on RackSpace. It was definitely an improvement, but I'm still dissatisfied.
Here are painful parts of my experience with RackSpace:
1) RackSpace wanted me to sign paper contract (************ didn't require that). That paperwork took almost a day (several hours of my efforts + some wait time). Sales guy couldn't open several versions of "Microsoft Office Image Writer" that I emailed to him, so I had to resend the document in different format.
2) It is a little unpleasant to deal with RackSpace sales guys. They forget (or "forget") to answer some of my questions; use some slightly unpleasant pushy sales techniques. Is it typical for any sales reps, not only RackSpace's sales?
3) After the contract was signed, it took RackSpace almost 4 days to install the server. I signed the contract Wednesday July 3rd 2008 and was hoping that on Saturday-Sunday night I'll be able to move my web site (postjobfree.com) to RackSpace. But RackSpace set up my server only on Monday - not convenient time for me and my users to do the move.
4) RackSpace promised me that they would help with the migration. They gave some tips, but not all of them were good. For example, they suggested me to shut down my web site for few hours while I will copy my database. Not a good approach for 24/7 service. So, basically I was mostly left on my own with the migration.
Fortunately, I used advise of Omar Al Zabir about smooth web hosting migration: http ://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/archive/2006/08/27/110061.aspx
Ironically - it was Omar's recommendation to use RackSpace for web hosting that made me pick them.
5) Average response to my ticket requests is about few hours (2-3 may be?). Sometimes ticket response time is shorter; sometimes it's longer (up to a day or even more in some cases). It's an improvement in comparison with ************, but is that really the best in hosting industry?
6) Most of the time responses are good, ...............