My company is going to launch four online retail site and in need for a dedicated server service provider that can provide us with room to grow from minimal traffic to possibly 2-5k traffic an hour.
View 14 RepliesI was wondering what kind of web hosting I need to have to build an online shopping cart site? Does a shared hosting package work? The site will need to process credit card transactions so it needs to be secured. I'd appreciate some recommendations.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI run a large adult vBulletin community with 70,000 members, 1/2 million posts, 186,000 attachments (a lot video), and closing in on 100 million downloads since our start some odd years ago. I've been battling keeping the site up for quite some time, and I am starting to wonder whether we shot too low on the server setup. I figure I would ask the pros here at WHT for some advice.
This is our current setup:
Site server:
Quote:
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
4 Gig ram
250 Gig sata harddrive
Unix FreeBSD 6.2
Apache
MySQL server:
Quote:
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (2666.62-MHz 686-class CPU)
Cores per package: 4
4 Gig ram
750 Gig SATA harddrive
Unix FreeBSD 6.4
Apache
Do you think the site would perform better under one server and maybe a more powerful processor? What should I be looking at exactly as far as hardware goes for this type of site. I should note we push about 2.5TB of bandwidth monthly.
I know ESXi free can't be used in a hosting environment but what about the smb edition?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have plans of introducing a website so that I can start my online business. The site will be dealing in computer accessories and all the hardware stuff that is related to the computer field with an online purchase facility. But, before that I would like to know the pre-requisites that are needed to run a website of your own that has an online payment option, as I was informed about the SSL certificate issues by my developer and would like to know more on this from you people.
View 4 Replies View RelatedNow that I have learnt what I guess is enough to build a web site (including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Photoshop), I need to know what are the steps to put a web site online. I need to know everything:
1- Purchasing a domain and what are the different possibilities.
2- All about Web Servers (Buying - Renting - different operating systems and platforms)
3- Mail Servers and other services.
4- Security issues that I need to worry about.
5- Any other things I need to consider.
Can anybody recommend any online website building script for a web host to use for his customers. I have tried sitestudio but found it impossible to install amd its java based so takes up alot of resources.
View 7 Replies View RelatedAnybody are using VMware server (free product) for hosting in production environment?
I would like to use it for virtualize a medium web/email/dns hosting.
Is vmware server suitable for medium production environment?
Someone can tell us some successful history with vmware server?
Is more stable than Xen/OpenVPS ? I know than is not faster but is more stable?
to move a site to another server at another datacentre that have approx 100 GB of media files.
Typically for small sites i am able to use server to server ftp to move files.
However, when moving large site like this, ftp might be disconnected and lost track of which files are not transferred.
How can i transfer/move the files (server to server) and resume if disconnected?
I'm currently building a large guitar lesson website that will launch around the end of the year or so. Basically there will be multiple instructors on the site who submit video files from 10mb to 20mb in size each. There will eventually be a couple thousand videos on the site, so around 30gb of disk space right there give or take. So I need plenty of disk space.
I'm on a shared hosting account right now with iPowerweb, and that of course won't do me much good once the site's up and running. Plus they have a 12mb upload limit, but the instructors need to upload videos larger than that. And I'm aware that with a VPS I'd be able to set my own upload file size limit.
Anyway, this server stuff gives me a headache and I feel totally clueless. I've always loved the basic shared account because I don't have to do anything to keep the server in tact. But from what I've read, a VPS or dedicated server would take a lot of work on my part. So for that reason, I'm guessing I would need a managed VPS or managed dedicated server. I don't totally know what "managed" means, but hopefully to where I wouldn't have to do any upkeep. I need to focus my time on a bazillion other things besides the server, so it'd be nice to find a plan where I wouldn't have to worry about server security updates, software updates, and any other server maintenance etc.
I need tons of bandwidth. It's going to be a membership site with hundreds and eventually thousands of members who all watch the lesson videos. So that's a ton of bandwidth. I'll be the only one on my server though, I'm not going to also host clients or anything.
I'll of course need super reliability. With eventually having thousands of members, my site needs to be totally professional with near flawless uptime.
So I'm thinking I'd want to start off with AT LEAST 40gb of disk space, but 60gb might be better. At least 1000gb transfer, but again, maybe more? And I guess a lot of ram, although I admit I hardly know what ram is haha, does that have to do with the speed of the site? And what's burstable ram? But yes, I'd need to have a server that can handle all the many files and users, with great uptime and great speed.
Budget-wise, I'd like to keep it under $70 or $80 a month if possible. If absolutely necessary, maybe a little more.
Anyway, if you guys were in my shoes, what would you do. Assuming you're clueless about VPS, and have the needs mentioned above. Any host recommendations or advice?
Price-wise and size-wise, Start Logic looks pretty good, but I think their VPSs are all unmanaged. Ive looked at a lot of other companies, but it's hard to find the right plan.
I want to host my online store. Please tell me best web host. I am thinking of godaddy or 1and1. How are they both? Is there any better web host? I am looking for shared hosting in starting with good features like SSL too.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI tried signing up for a few of those online image hosts. I would upload a few images, carefully read their instructions, and code my page to go get the pictures to show up on my webpages. I tried about four different ones. No matter what I did, following their instructions, looking in different browsers, checking file names etc, I always had trouble finding my pictures. Not just trouble--my images just never show up when I put them in these free online file places. Usually I am pretty sharp about stuff like this but now I have to wonder: What is going on with that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe have a few users that use SSL email and we decided to purchase a cheap single-root SSL cert over at namecheap for the host name so that it would end the "self-signed cert" whining.
We got the cert installed and it works great for WHM/cPanel and also works for SSL over IMAP and POP3, but the very first email anyone sends (SMTP) per day gives this warning (Outlook Express):
The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that could not be verified.
A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider.
It seems obvious that the cert used by the SMTP system is not the new one we installed.
We used WHM's SSL/TLS -> Change Server Certificates link to install the cert.
We then made sure that:
/usr/share/ssl/certs/host.domain.com.crt
/usr/share/ssl/private/host.domain.com.key
/etc/exim.crt
/etc/exim.key
...all contained the current cert or key as appropriate.
Just for grins, we even made sure:
/usr/local/cpanel/etc/cpanel.pem
...had the correct pair.
We restarted all the mail services and even restarted the whole server. (I know...Windows reaction...bad tech.)
Does anyone know of a stealth location where the SSL cert for SMTP should be updated?
WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R139
CentOS 3.8 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0
I'm starting a streetwear clothing company and am about to get a website done to display my catalogue - it will have medium amounts of flash and will be like most other e-commerce clothing stores
However, I won't be needing a full e-commerce site as I do not intend to sell through my website - if needed, all I hope to have on it is a link for payments to be made via paypal
What I will need is a host that is reliable and doesn't bug out as soon as traffic to my site increases - I have no idea as to the amount of traffic i will be receiving when things are just starting out but I'd like to at least be prepared for high traffic - I was stupid enough to believe in all the overselling from big hosting companies until I did more reading - now I know their limits are just for show and I want to avoid getting shut down or whatever for putting a load on their resources
My hope is that some of you learned ones can advise me on the direction i should be heading Though I have no idea exactly what VPS and dedicated servers are, I assume these are more suitable for my needs? Are big hosting companies more reliable when it comes to their package plans for VPS or dedicated servers?
Wich is the most adequate hosting plan to install a Magento E-Commerce Online Store with:
Number of products: 100 to 300
Number os Visitor / Moth: 10.000 to 80.000
I will need a Shared Accout, VPS, or Dedicated Server?
I am currently working on a File hosting site like sendspace, megaupload (Not that big, only a small site for college students use it). I am wondering which hosting company out there take high disk space and unlimited brandwidth.
View 14 Replies View Relatedi want to start a file hosting site like megaupload etc. So need a good bandwitch and storage for beggining and if it grows up then upgrade.
Would you recommend buying Dual Core Cpu?Or Pentium 4 for beggining?
I'm planning to upgrade my servers to a more "enterprise-class" installation and would like to hear your advice for good managed hosting providers for this.
Currently I use RackSpace which are great but pricey (leased servers); in the past we had a colocation with another provider: it was good cost-wise and generally proffesional but alas the provider's infrastructure was not sufficiently resilient to natural disasters and unlikely but occurring infrastructure accidents.
My feeling is to stay with a more managed service rather than try to colocate again: we need someone making sure the hardware stays around 24/7 and makes sure to have the appropriate spare parts and expertise in the hardware they sell us. We can handle the software parts.
I'll probably stay with RackSpace because they can and have already built stuff like the below. But maybe there's another provider out there which fullfills similar needs for customers.
My needs are:
1.5 TB of shared storage (i.e. SAN or NAS; must be reasonably fast (maybe 10MB/s sustained) and 99.99% up); add .5TB per year
4 application servers in various configuration (8-16G of RAM, quad or dual-quad Xeons)
2 database servers (With fast drives in RAID-10 but not much disk; most of our data is not in an SQL server)
Some appropriate load balancing appliance (with at least 99.99% reliability)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Redundancy to a point (i.e. redundant mechnical parts, hot-swap drives)
Usual stuff: managed backup, private network, hardware monitoring with fast hardware exchange
No Linux system administration beyond a sane installation needed
99.99% uptime on the network and infrastructure (i.e. if an UPS blows up or a router goes down this should not affect me; redundant connections to multiple network providers etc. etc). RackSpace has a 100% network uptime guarantee and in the many years we've been with them in one form of another I haven't been disappointed in their competency on that front.
This would be in some US datacenter. Does someone have experience with such a scale installations with other providers (or RackSpace too) ?
(I wrote "SAN or NAS" because I'm not really yet sure if some NFS server or maybe shared storage via SAN and something like RedHat's GFS will be best for my needs; it would be nice if the provider was capable of advicing on things like that).
can you recommend dedicated server hosting outside USA for adult sites?
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs it going to help as far as server performance
if I run my forum website(MySQL) on dedicated server
and load member photos from cheap shared hosting?
Example:
[url]
<img src=[url]
Does anyone know any shared hosting or semi-private VPS hosting for a site with large MS SQL2005 DB? Our DB is currently 1GB already but could get up to 5-10GB when all is said and done. The site is a B2B networking platform with many users, company profiles, products, etc.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a customer who wants to sell access to videos of conferences he runs.
Each flv vid is approx 1 - 1 1/2 hors long approx 380MB each and there will be about 12 videos per conference.
approx 4 - 8 conferences per year.
My customer suggests 10 - 20 people will buy access to watch each video.
Access to watch the videos will be through a password protected webpage.
issue - the current site hosting company only allow uploads up to 150MB per file.
Can I host the flash videos elsewhere and deliver them through the password protected web page without anyone else being able to see them via server they are hosted on?
This would also reduce the bandwidth going through his current site server.
I would like to have around 100 Gb with room to expand if possible.
This will be hosting for a radio station, archival material.
I am unsure of where to look, the sites I have seen are pretty small in scale as far as capacity.
Further, I would also like to be able to re-sell this, instead of just setting up a straight account.
Further if at all possible I would like to bundled with some other small hosting packages (wordpress sites) on a reselling basis.
is there anyone knows for a good hosting located in uk,which is allowed : adult site and casino betting online site ?
im looking for vps and dedicated server.
please help me i really need as soon as possible.thx
I need a medium of some kind to store my backup drive images of a windows 2003 standard x64 server. I will be taking DriveImage XML images every Sunday. The medium must have a minimum capacity of 250gb.
I am wondering what is the best/most cost efficient option? My budet is around $500.
I have heard tape and usb external drives.
Can you provide specific models, costs, pros/cons of each technology and product?
if anyone had any recommendations for what kind of specs I would need for my website which currently recieves approx 150,000 u/v a day. I don't use any databases and all files are basically simple html files. I use approximately 15,000 GB a month (it is a flash games website).
I currently use GoDaddy's dedicated server but I fear it may not be enough; here are my current specs:
Operating System: Red Hat Fedora Core 8
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad - 2.83 GHz
RAM: 4 GB
RAID: None
Bandwidth: 15000 GB
What type of servers would you recommend us to use and what software also should we use.
Am not sure about the software part.
I have a bare CentOS 4.4 server.
I will be only using the server to host movies.
I created a user and uploaded files via FTP. Now I just want the files visible online.
What do I need to do? Do I need to just upload and untar apache and it will work? Is it complicated? I heard lighttpd might be better than apache if I use the server to just serve movies, is that correct?
I would like to find a host with good quality & uptime that has large disk capacity for hosting IMAP email, about 10 to 20 gigs in size per domain.
I know of places like Bluehost and powweb but I'm not crazy about the 'overselling' issues related to them....
Any Ideas?
any free tools or affordable tool online to check if a server is secure enough?
View 5 Replies View Relatedi own a dedicated server with centos and cpanel. i am afraid that one day if server crashes and my cpanel backup files would be gone.
I just want to store cpanel backup files safely somewhere online. how to do it?