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In the web hosting industry, a dedicated server refers to a server which is leased in its entirety to a single customer, usually an individual or small business.

In the web hosting industry, a dedicated server refers to a server which is leased in its entirety to a single customer, usually an individual or small business.

Contrast with a which is a virtualized server. In this arrangement is used to share the resources of a single physical server among several customers.

Web hosting providers offer these services to customers who require specialized services not available in typical environments.

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Securing a freshly installed LAMP + Virtualmin server

I just installed LAMP and Virtualmin on my Amazon EC2 instance. My domain name is mapped to the external IP and now everything is working well. But I feel like it is not very secure. When I visit my external IP, it just shows the same page as my…
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What is the best way to back up dedicated web server? (Amanda versus Rsync)

I am trying to establish valid back ups for my web server. It is a linux box on CentOS. I have asked around and "rsync" was suggested by some of the server fault community. However, my coworker at work says that this is really only moving over the…
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Cost effective way to host site / VPS / yourself?

i am paying about 55 USD for a VPS every month that makes it about 660 USD a year. For the current traffic, it's good enought but, my question is, wouldn't i be better off, if i would buy for example, a server and plug it to the ISP myself? For…
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How do I allow local network access to a second dedicated webserver line?

In my office we have two separate internet lines. One is for the general office internet, and the other is a dedicated line for the webserver. I've tried to connect the dedicated into our switch using a vlan so that I can access the webserver…
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Server co-location in Hong Kong

We are building a website that need to be dedicatedly hosted at some point. We are physically located in Australia, but the colocation/dedicated hosting is ridiculously expensive in Australia, especially the throughput (20GB can be $100/month). We…
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Will having 3 servers + load balancer help in my situation?

I want to upgrade my server because of the high mysql loads causing slowness + whenever there were backup processes running on the DB, the DB would be inaccessible, so wanted some solution. My current server is an Opteron 2212 with 8GB RAM. My web…
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Is using cPanel a risk from the security point-of-view?

A hosting provider is giving us the option of setting up cPanel on our dedicated server. Although I definitely find it useful and convenient to use, is there a security risk in using it?
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Best server for me? Nginx/Apache/LightHttpd

I need to setup my new dedicated server (Intel Atom E220 1.6 Ghz ONE CORE, 2 GB RAM) And my website is not a usual one. It has many concurrent processes(php) that's because some php request take over 1 second. The script is optimised, but it does…
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Linux: setting up an elite/high-anonimity Web proxy on a dedicated server

I'm renting a dedicated server which I'd like to use to "surf the Web": basically I want to always surf the Web from the same static IP (the one of my dedicated server). I can do it by running Xvnc/FreeNX on the dedicated server, but this is kinda…
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Server crashed - corporate web application is down - considering moving to an online host - any suggestions?

I'm in a mess here. For a couple of years we've been running our own custom made application on a local server in our office. The servers had its well bad days and good days now and then - however the server literally died a couple of days ago -…
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Dedicated server question, whats the easiest, quickest, most secure but painless setup

I am thinking to get a dedicated/virtual server, but have some questions before I take the plunge (bit mixed up with which bits to do myself or which bits to hire). I am running, centos, php, mysql, postgresql, tomcat, (mail server - dont really…
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How to login to my server's control panel

i got a dedicated server in a hosting company and after they setup it, they sent to me like this configuration : Main IP: xxx.xx.xx.xx Access data: Login: root Password: XXXXXXXXXX MySQL Login: root MySQL Password: XXXXXXXXXXX i try to access…
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MediaTemple tcpsndbuf QoS Alerts

I'm hosting with MediaTemple on a (dv) Dedicated-Virtual 3.5 server. My site consists of a Wordpress blog, some custom PHP pages (nothing too intense), and I server 500-700 unique visitors per day. Despite my pretty modest numbers, I suffer from…
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Why open files limits set correctly on dedicated server but not on KVM machines?

I have set open files for all users on a dedicated server A in /etc/security/limits.conf like below: * hard nofile 1048576 * soft nofile 983040 And in /etc/pam.d/common-session I have loaded limits module like below: session …
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How to get secondary nameserver

i was wondering how i can get a secondary nameserver with a different ip. I have a dedicated server, with already 2 IP adresses, but they are still on the same server. I need to have a IP adress on a diferent sever. Do i need to rent another…
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