Recommend Me Some Options For Webhosting For Game Website
Jul 8, 2008
I know this question has been asked millions of time on this forum, but my situation is somewhat unique. I need some options to where I can host my website at. Here are the requirements:
-10gb to 20gb of space
-Anywhere from 500gb to 700gb of bandwidth with path to upgrade to more if necessary
-LINUX OS
-PHP5/MySQL5 with cpanel(I'm more accustomed with cpanel)
-No preference to it being dedicated, VPS, colocated, etc. but must have options do upgrade later if necessary
-less than $500 per month(is this possible ?)
This will eventually be a gaming website, but the games will be downloaded and run on the clients' machine. There will be a lot of database interactions, so please take that into consideration if necessary. Rackspace was mentioned to me, and seem to come with great reviews on this forum. However, I need more options.
I was wondering if anyone could please recommend a good VPS for a flash games website I run. I am currently with Godaddy VPS, but have had too many problems so I am going to cancel my account (once I have found a new host)
What I would like:
Control Panel: Either CPanel or Plesk (not fussy) Good support - I am relatively new to the VPS world. RAM: 256 MB (with option to be upgraded if needed) Bandwidth: 2TB (with option to be upgraded if needed) Diskspace: 5GB +
I'm not ready to fully purchase webhosting at the moment. But, I want to be able to upload all my website scripting and information to a test website for free. All the information will be uploaded via Dreamweaver CS3, so I need a website that will allow me to sign up for free webhosting where I can test out my website.
"Lunarpages Web Hosting is scheduled to undergo maintenance this Saturday, January 17, 2009, at our San Diego location in order to upgrade our internal systems to be more energy efficient in our power usage, a major step in our initiative to Go Green in 2009. Unfortunately, this means that some of our servers will be unavailable for a short time while we upgrade these systems. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Below, you will find information on how to track the progress of our upgrades and the scheduled times that our servers will be undergoing these improvements.
The following times are our three scheduled maintenance windows for this upgrade. Please note that the information is in Pacific Standard Time (PST): * Saturday, January 17, 7am-10am * Saturday, January 17, 10am-1pm * Saturday, January 17, 6pm-9pm " will this maintenance affect the rank of my website in google and other search engine?
I've got a dedicated with Centos 4.x, WHM / Cpanel. I have problem when create new account, this is error:
Setting up Mail & Local Domains...localdomains...valiases ...vdomainaliases...vfilters......Done
Configuring DNS...Bind reconfiguring on server using rndc Error reconfiguring bind on server: rndc: error: /etc/rndc.key:7: 'options' redefined near 'options' rndc: could not load rndc configuration
This is more aimed at providers but do you allow partial upgrades on RAM/Disk/Bandwidth?
I'm asking as we have one brand which is fully automated which I refuse to do partial upgrades on as its done as a budget and if a user needs more they need to upgrade to the next package but it is budget.
On our more expensive brands we do allow partial upgrades
I backup my accounts via cpanel backup. I run incremental and mount to a NAS. I have about 2GB in database and 3GB in files (500,000+ PNGs). Backup is hard on the server and it takes 17 hours to complete according to my logs.
I host several web clients that were recently impacted by the crap at ThePlanet. As I think about how to be more redundant (and repetitive) I'm not sure of my options.
What's the best practice to ensure that if you have a server at a data center that goes out, that you can (somewhat) easily switch over to a different server? I suppose one solution is to have 2 servers at 2 physical locations, and then you could just change the DNS record in the event of failure, but is there another solution I'm not aware of? Is there a good resource I can goto to read up on this info?
Still considering co-location and have been for many months! One thing I'm now thinking of is firewalls. What firewalls are available to me, what functionality do they have? What kind of additional protection can they give against DDoS attacks?
I really have no idea where to go with hardware firewalls. The bandwidth going through the firewall on average would be no more than 10mbit/s. Perhaps 20 with growth!
how you went about setting up your colo space with firewall protection
I'm reseller vps, and now i decided to run own node, and sell vps, i choosed VDSMANAGER control panel, because virtuzzo is expensive.
Please help me to choose best options to run best and quality node,
VDSManager or VEportal ? (good optios&security&support&...)
XEN or OPENVZ ? (uutil now OPENVZ best for run static and dynamic site, but on xen can be run vpn & shoutcast & windows & linux & ...) RAM GB ? CPU ? Hard ?
can i use load balancing for vps node ? how many vps can be run on this node ?
I am selling custom software and web-design solutions. After my "unforgetable" experience with PayPal and 2CO i have found URL - they are new on the market and this is why they are more responsive than PayPal, whose priority is quantity, not quality. Most probably there are other option as well - simply this one is the most acceptable for me as it does not require complicated registration process/documents. I don't know how to get a normal merchant account if you live where I live.(I am from Ukraine). Please advice me some merchant accounts with their full discription.
Currently I cache php to html in a folder, and any time I upload index.php the whole site recaches. It also is set to a specific time such as 1 day, and the specific page will recache on someone hitting a page in 1 day from last cache.
The problem is when there are thousands of people on, and the index.php is uploaded the site crashes due to connections to the database, and possibly writing to the folder as well.
What is the best way to cache these files to html, and not have it crash every time I try to update things on the site. Also it needs to be something somewhat simple.
My host has told me that my forum is coming under a DDOS attack. Once was on Friday March 20th and again today (monday march 23). Before those two, there are attacks almost every week, sometimes twice a week.
The host installed DoS-Deflate. It started blocking legitimate traffic and had to be removed.
The operating system is Linux CentOS, the forum software is VBulletin. The server is a VPS with 1 gig of memory.
Besides DoS-Deflate, what other options are out there?
Just curious if any of you know of good ways to handle the bandwidth costs associated with hosting high traffic video sites.
For a future project I plan a dedicated server, but was hoping there might be a cheap way to avoid bandwidth costs - such as Amazon S3 (however from my calculations this is an expensive option).
I'm currently working for a company who are looking to migrate there current business system and also create an e-commerce website.
The company (Company A) who were doing the migration were also going to originally take care of the e-commerce side of things aswell, but after looking at the website solution they have now decided to give it to another company (Company B) to deal with. But seem to be sticking with the original company to do the business system migration.
Now this has created a bit of a problem with regards to the hosting side of things (amongst other things ). Originally this was all going to be hosted by Company A. This would keep it all nicely integrated. But now Company B are doing the e-commerce side of things it needs to somehow integrate with the business database.
And now for the question (about time i hear you ask ). Can you give me the pros and cons of the following scenarios:
Scenario A: We host both business system (database) and webservers onsite.
Scenario B: Company A hosts business (database) solution. We host webserver.
Scenario C: Company A hosts business (database) system. Company B hosts webserver.
I've recently taken out a new server and the management company I use have indicated that the HDD may be failing.
My server memory usage has been pretty much frozen at 85%+ since it went live, and there is only one live site on the server thats not at all active.
Because of this memory issue the management company discovered the HDD issue whilst probing around.
I contacted the server provider and they have said because its a single unit system that the only option they have is for me to have a new HDD and a simple OS reload.
This poses a problem for me because I've paid my management company to harden and configure the server for me - If my server provider reloads, I'll lose all the work I've paid for.
I find it a little unfair that this has happened with a new (maybe reconditioned server) and that I'm stuck in such a situation, but as is life..
I'm just wondering if anyone could suggest what I might be able to do about this. Is there anyway I could perhaps take a full backup of the entire server and reload it from a seperate server? Is there a service avaliable that offers this sort of thing? I can't get physical access to the server so there is no way of me going there and backing it up myself.
My old/original server that I moved from is still active. I think the current server has like 5-10Gb used so far.
So far I really haven't found any free hosting options that I would personally use for any of my websites. Are there any "full-featured" free hosting options that a lot of people don't know about?
Have been snooping on these forums for a while and doing my research but now I need some advice. Hope you can help...
I currently have a dedicated server with 1&1 hosted in Germany and running 15-20 small company/friend websites. Whilst I have been reasonably happy with 1&1 (mainly down to their dashboard and reboot/restore/serial console functionality and prices), it's time for an upgrade. I am also looking to move back to the UK in order to get a UK based IP and slightly reduced latency, I understand I will have to pay a little more for the luxury!
I'm looking at a dedicated server with the following specs:
- Single Dual/Quad Core Processor - Min 2GB RAM - Min 2 x 160GB HDD + Hardware RAID 1 - 2TB data/month should be OK - CentOS 5 (other *nix?) - Plesk (cPanel?) - 10GB NAS Backup - Remote Reboot Port
Budget is around £100/month. At the moment it's between UK2, WebFusion, UK Servers, Poundhost, RapidSwitch and 34sp. I need to get quotes from DediPower, UK Fast & UK Dedicated...
The other main option is to buy a reasonably-specced Dell PowerEdge R200 (or equivalent?) and colo it. A machine with Quad Core Intel Xeon X3320, 2.5GHz, 2x3MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, 2GB RAM, 2 x 250GB HDD, RAID 1 would cost about £700. Add colo from RapidSwitch and a Plesk license and the total is around the same as the best dedi offer.
Would welcome your thoughts on the benefits and pit-falls of renting vs. buying and recommendations for each based on my preferences. At the moment I'm swaying towards the buy and colo option as costs in year two will me much lower and I can resell/upgrade the hardware, but perhaps I'm missing something...
The great team over at Pair has treated our website (www.Team-BHP.com) exceedingly well. In fact, I'd also posted a review of my experience way back in 2005 (Linky). I'm a pretty demanding customer, yet have no complaints with Pair through this long association. Says a lot, wot?
However, I see Team-BHP outgrowing Pair in the near future. Our traffic increases by atleast 25 - 30% each quarter, and we are currently hosting on the QS5 server level. The server does choke occasionally during peak hours, hence an upgrade is inevitable sooner rather than later. The next (and final) level of upgrade from Pair is the QS6.....which is pretty expensive @ $1,500 bucks a month! I've seen other hosts offering the same kind of juice for half the money, yet never moved away from Pair simply because of their solid service + uptime. However, now that we are growing (and are poised for a more fruitful future ), what are some viable options I can look at?
Our requirement is QUALITY : Outstanding levels of service, uptime, reliability & security are imperative.
1. Any other reputable hosts that you may recommend? Our requirement would be standard fare for a medium size website (dual xeon, 8gb ram, 3 or 4 15K SAS raid 10 hard disks, backup, 100Mbs public + 1000Mbs private port and about 3000 GB of bandwith a month)?
2. Is co-location a good idea, considering that our core team really isn't all that tech-friendly?
As I understand it, PGP Desktop is not compatible with server os's. Also, TrueCrypt and BestCrypt containers have i/o overhead. What else is left? Environment is 2008 Server with high i/o throughput requirements..
We are in need of some space in the Switch and Data facility located at 60 Hudson, NYC. This is not negotiable, it absolutely has to be at 60 Hudson in Switch and Data.
We don't need a full cabinet, a 1/4 cab would suffice (or even really 2U - 4U).
Can anyone recommend a company that has space in that facility that is willing to sell this small of an amount?
