Mod Layout Replacement
Jan 20, 2007I'm noticing that apache's mod layout is dead upstream and has been for a while. I'm looking for somthing to use to put ads and a legal disclaimer on free hosted blogs (lifetype).
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Mod Layout
Jun 20, 2007Im using [url] for my free hosting site.
Im trying to add a crontab, once I enter it, such as:
/home/<username>/public_html/<install_dir>/cron/cronjob.php
--job=httpd_conf
What do I need to type in so its added?
im using Putty if that makes a difference.
Network Layout
Jan 23, 2007Was wondering if any software others use to get a layout of their network setup. Ex. get details on devices connected to the network, a network map and what not.
Not sure if this makes sense but let me know if clarifications are needed.
Partition Sizes Layout
Aug 10, 2007I have a dell 2950 server with raid 5 + a hotswap.
There are 4 73G 15K drives with TWO dual quad process.
4G mem
I was reading that the swap space s/b 2X the mem or 8Gigs.
The swap drive should be at the outer edge of the drive for speed.
Or drive C, but with these fast drives is it really going to matter
My layout idea so far is as follows
8 swap
20 OS and programs
20 SQL databases and websites
10 log files
10 downloads and upgrade files.
Url I See Doesn't Map To File Layout On Server.
Mar 15, 2009I've been asked to update a site whose web author is no longer available. I have the ftp details, but when I ftp in I can not see a structure that matches the URL I see when visiting the site through a browser.
A sample URL is http://www.****.org/~issw2004/issw_general/2006.php
But the file structure I see when I go into the server using ftp, has issw2004 way down the directory, with no ~ preceding it (what does the ~ mean?), and it is empty of files or children folders.
I've tried doing a global search of the site for both the file name, and some text that that file contains, but both return empty.
So, I'm stuck. I know little about URL rewriting, and apart from knowing that files can be hidden or paths rewritten, don't know where to start in 'finding' the file I need to change!
Chopperb Still Using A Altered Ripped Layout
Jul 3, 2008in reference to this thread that was only brought to my attention recently...
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and as it seems to be a few months old, more than enough time to get a new design, i will be reporting Megapowerhosting to their data center for ripping the Geek Rack design. now, i could care less what people think of Geek Rack at this point, but, I was the designer that Shequeita referred to in the thread, and stated that i never gave consent to use the layout. So, that is correct. it was ripped, and she owns the layout, as do I.
yes, geekrack is no longer, but, it doe NOT change the fact that the design was ripped. I tried to contact this Brian (chopperb) via his live support, but, he immediately closed the chat and signed off so that he would not have to talk to me. i did a whois and tried to call him, but, the contact number was disconnected.
so, here is my warning:
BRIAN, YOU HAVE TILL MONDAY, JULY 7, 208 TO REMOVE THE LAYOUT RIP, OR YOU WILL BE REPORTED TO YOUR DATA CENTER AND SHUT DOWN.
i never gave you permission to use my design, so, take it down immediately, or you can pay me for the layout. btw, not only did you steal my layout and design, you did a terrible job trying to make it look different. you just made it look like crap, but, you can tell that it is still the same layout, especially when i see you using the same price badges i specifically created for GR.
BigVPS Replacement
May 17, 2009We are looking to replace BigVPS after their BigScrewUp this week.
Does anyone have experience with WebProx? It seems they have what we need but we also need some references.
Putty Replacement
Oct 22, 2009what do you guys use for shell access?
It's been 2 years since last Putty release, so would like to dump it in favor of something else.
Win32 Clamav Replacement
Oct 27, 2009I normally use Win32 Clamav for scanning of viruses in servers but now it is no longer being maintained. Where can I find an equivalent? Or is there any step by step instructions on compiling it from source?
View 0 Replies View RelatedComparable Webstrike Replacement
Apr 2, 2009I was a reseller with WebstrikeSolutions for almost a decade and now, sadly, they are gone. Swallowed up by EasyCGI...don't know if they are any good or not but the few opinions I did manage to find haven't been very favorable at all. Plus, somewhere in the transition my credit card info got out into the world and the very next day after being billed by EasyCGI, fraudulant charges showed up on my credit card which I had to cancel! Not sure if it's a coincidence or not but the timing seems odd...so if you believe in signs, I'm thinking that that just might be one saying it's time to move on...
So, I am now looking for a replacement host. Unfortunately, trying to find out anything about the various companies by searching Google results in nothing more than a tangled mess of "review" sites that are nothing more than paid advertising for whichever hosts pays the most to be number one!
I am looking for a Windows host in the neighborhood of <$10 a month. I have been considering ReliableSite.net, m6.net, godaddy.com (except I use them to register my domain names so that might be a bad idea) and **************.com (why is a-c-cuwebhosting.com blocked out?). Any opinions about any of the above would be greatly appreciated. Of course, if anybody (other than a company owner or marketing guy/gal) has any experience with somebody else I would love to hear from you.
Now, as for requirements, my bandwidth needs are relatively low and storage doesn't need to be enormous but once my standard sites are up and running I would like the ability to offer customers individual website packages utilizing oscommerce (possibly) as their storefronts to allow them to sell their own products. Basically online stores that they don't have to code or setup themselves. That's the long term goal. Right now I just want to get my sites back online so that I can maintain and update them without incident.
Replacement For Easy CGI Web Hosting
Dec 9, 2008As many of you may have also experienced, Easy CGI went from being one of the best hosts (I had them for 7 years and they were great), to one of the worst. They migrated to new servers and literally destroyed our site, lost data, did a search and replace of our code (yes, this actually happened), and brought our sites down completely. After about 100 hours of on-line support, chat, phone calls, emails, etc. we have to move on.
The things that were great (prior to the debacle) about EasyCGI was the Windows hosting, fast performance (FTP access was great), and the controls that were available.
I'm finding it difficult to match what we used to have. I've tried GoDaddy's VPS packages and that was a complete bust due to FTP performance (would have literally taken us months to just upload our web site ... about 10 GB total).
I tried Network Solutions, but they are only Linux and although they told us they support ASP Upload, ASP Email, and a number of other controls, now tell us that those are not supported.
I've also tried APLUS.NET and 1AND1. Same peformance issues.
anyone have any recommendations for hosting that would meet these needs?
Windows (Virtual or Shared)
30 GB + disk space
Unlimited Email
Form Mailers (CDONTS or ASP Mail)
ASP / ASP.NET / AJAX
DSN with Microsoft Access databases
Ability to work with SQL Server (not MySQL) databases
ASP Upload (or similar) that can be coded in ASP to upload files
FAST PERFORMANCE
Unlimited FTP accounts (we create a folder and FTP account for each of our customers)
Unlimited (or very high) transfers monthly (~ 1000 GB/MO +)
.htaccess Missing Image Replacement
Dec 20, 2007I have been fiddling with an .htaccess file trying to get it to show a default "Image Not Available" image in place of a 404 error. I have found code in other forums that has worked for others, but does nothing for me:
Code:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_URI}!-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.*).(gif|jpg|jpeg|png)$
RewriteRule ^(.*) noimage.gif
and this one which several people said worked for them
Code:
RewriteCond %{ENV:ERROR404} .(jpg|gif|png)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ noimage.gif [L]
Anyone had experience with this? The webserver is Apache on CentOS 5.
100 Day Review Of LiteSpeed (Apache Drop-in Replacement)
Aug 14, 2007(This is the first review I've ever written for practically anything so please bear with me. I feel the need to share my experience to try to help others after all the great advice and info I've received around here.)
If you've done everything you think you can do to improve the responsiveness of your websites like add a mysql cache, PHP opcode cache and various other tweaks, I discovered there is still one more easy thing you can do for a big improvement: replace Apache with LiteSpeed. It's way too easy not to try it and you can leave Apache completely intact to go back to at a moment's notice if you so desire.
I call LiteSpeed a "drop-in" replacement because it uses all my httpd.conf and .htaccess settings without modification. This was critical for me as my sites have some very complex rewrite rules. Other solutions like LightHttpd require extensive work to make changes if you use fancy mod-rewrite rules. LiteSpeed does not need any fiddling. LiteSpeed just adds it's own clean little web interface so you can tweak if you want to, but I didn't really have to change anything. Last but not least, LiteSpeed gets along with Cpanel and DirectAdmin without any conflicts. LiteSpeed's so compatible I can literally do this on my server and the visitors don't even notice the difference (except speed of course!)
service httpd stop
service lsws start
(and visa versa)
I discovered LiteSpeed after reading that the main WordPress.com site had switched to it and had great success (they have a quarter million registered bloggers and of course many millions more daily readers).
The main reason I tried LiteSpeed is because it's roughly twice as efficient in memory use and performance than Apache 1.3 & 2. It runs PHP up to 50% faster than Apache and static files get served several times faster (faster than thttpd & lighthttpd). So this means you can either double the number of active connections you currently max out at now, or make a regular website respond nearly twice as fast, or under heavy loads still respond within a reasonable amount of time when Apache would be completely unresponsive.
The last situation was exactly what I was hoping for and LiteSpeed helped me keep my sanity on a bad VPS node.
Basically a couple months into owning my first VPS (after many years of shared-hosting experience) I started to realise many of the industry promises about VPS are an outright lie. You are far from isolated from your neighbours. Any disk load created by bad neighbours, mysql abuse or otherwise, will directly affect you and you are powerless to stop it. It's the most poorly regulated resource on any VPS node and it can be made worse by slack, ignorant or inexperienced hosts who do things like move accounts during busy periods onto and off a node at the root level which ties up the entire node for an hour or more. Under Apache, I was getting timeouts during peak visitor times and that was very upsetting.
On top of my VPS neighbour troubles, no matter how I fiddled with Apache's settings (with all the helpful guides around here) I could not make it comfortably fit within the guaranteed memory limit of my VPS with Cpanel, which I really wanted to keep as it's much easier for my end-users. Switching to LiteSpeed caused a radical drop in memory use. I've seen nearly 1000 people online within a one minute period on one of my sites and it still fit comfortably within my memory limits and stayed extremely responsive.
I've discovered another plus to LiteSpeed along the way that no-one else seems to mention. It's the only server software that "out of the box" seems to serve web compressed (gzipped) pages properly as chunked output. This means a visitor will start to see the page immediately as soon as the first part is sent vs. on Apache, mod_gzip actually de-chunks all the output, waits for it to finish, then compresses, then sends.
Mod_deflate on Apache 2.0 was supposed to fix this but it usually doesn't work properly and I've never gotten 2.0 to do compressed+chunked output on my sites without alot of fiddling and help from PHP. It also doesn't seem as smooth as LiteSpeed's output which gives you that "silky" watch-the-webpage render effect that's mentally rewarding to visitors.
On the downside, there is one reason you wouldn't use LiteSpeed - if you use highly customised Apache mods. LiteSpeed cannot support custom mod's and their directives. It does have a lot built in however that Apache does not, so you may way to examine if you can accomplish what you are trying to do another way.
I started with LiteSpeed 3.1 and when I found an incompatibility with an obscure Apache feature (ie. ErrorDocument's as plain text output: ErrorDocument 404 "Not Found" was not supported) they fixed it for me in a day or so after I reported it on their forum. The same for PHP support of "Apache_Response_Headers". Note I am not even a commercial customer! They are now up to 3.2 which has a few other fixes.
The free version of LiteSpeed has a limit of 150 simultaneous connections (plus the linux stack of 200 more which will backlog). I've never seen that limit hit. It's so intelligent about closing connections as needed that it's not an issue for me. Perhaps on a dedicated server with many virtual hosts this will be a problem. Up to version 3.1.1 that was the only limitation, however unfortunately in 3.2 they have decided to also limit virtual hosts to "5", so that's something else you'll have to consider if you want the free version, otherwise the commercial version has a free trial and money back guarantee.
Some people were upset with me that I wouldn't name my VPS host when I was constantly complaining of troubles but that's just my style when I have nothing nice to say still have to do business with them, so don't name names. But when I have something nice to say about a company, I like to speak up. So I heartily recommend LiteSpeed and hope other people give it a try - especially if you are on my VPS node ;-)