Hosting setup whereby a server is shared among many different customers. When compared to VPS or a dedicated server, this generally means that each customer has less resources available and more restrictions are in effect as to what a customer can do on the server (install software or not, ...).
Questions tagged [shared-hosting]
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Install ImageMagick on linux shared hosting
Is the installation of ImageMagick library possible for a non-root user in a shared hosting environment?
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How to stop my server from bruteforcing another
There are so many resources on how to stop bruteforce attacks on your server, but I can't find any good on bruteforce attacks FROM a shared hosting server.
I am getting a lot of reports from many different providers that my servers is attacking…
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Do PHP session files normally count towards disk usage on shared hosting?
Do PHP session files normally count towards disk usage on shared hosting?
The title is pretty much the question. The files are outside of my home directory, so I can't delete them. They include some deleted backups too. The paths to the files…
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Is it possible to have the root domain on one web hosting and a sub-domain on another?
I have a shared web-hosting with CompanyA and another shared hosting with CompanyB. I own one domain called example.com. I want to host example.com on CompanyA and sub.example.com on CompanyB. Is this possible? I am using cloudflare as my DNS.
If it…
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Configure NGINX Reverse Proxy in front of Apache Web Server (to enable websockets)
Upon recommendation of a member of the stackoverflow forum, I hereby ask the following question in this forum, where it apparently fits better (I'm new to this forum).
What exactly I want:
A specific page of my website should load its content…
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Do I have to worry about anything with regard to URL rewrite in a shared hosting?
I'm buiding an ASP.NET website using a rewrite module (UrlRewriting.net) and I plan to deploy it in a shared hosting environment (possibly DiscountAsp.net)
Do I have to worry about anything?
One thing that I'm concerned is about whether or not I can…
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What does Node.JS support on a hosting plan mean?
As I was browsing various hosting plans, I noticed that some offer Node.JS support.
If a host does not offer Node.JS; Can I log in, download, and install Node.JS support myself if the host supports SSH?
I am confused on what Node.JS support means in…
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How to backtrace slowness of a shared hosting web server
I have a shared hosting plan (godaddy), and time to time I suffer slowness problem. When this happens, I try to login to cpanel to double check if the problem is me or the server, and it also takes 1-2 minutes to enter cpanel.
As all customer…
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hosting - which folder/file can I delete without causing problems?
I have a hosting account in bluehost and I've deleted the default wordpress installation in publich_html, but in the parent directory there is some files that I don't know their source or what they are for.
my question is which folder/file can I…
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Nonexistent domain folder reappears with malware
If I'm sure the domain is not registered any more (since almost a year) I've deleted the FTP account to the folder of that "Addon Domain", deleted the folder, changed root cPanel's user password and assured the domain is not registered, but only…
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Will many downloads render my server unresponsive?
For example if I have a web server with 512 MB of RAM and my server is for downloads, will many downloads make my server unresponsive? By unresponsive I mean server error 508(Resource limits has reached).
Please help, I am going to choose best…
Stackexchange User
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Should images be stored on a subdomain or subdirectory?
I'm working on a sharing app where images get stored for 24 hours. Does it bring any advantages to store them on a subdomain http://imgs.example.com instead of a subdirectory http://www.example.com/imgs/?
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Using external SMTP server on a shared hosting
I have a shared hosting account which I use for my small business. Email from my domain always ends up undelivered or at recipients junk mail. Is there any external SMTP service that I could use which can guarantee that my mail is delivered…
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Shared hosting: Use own domain to send mail
My problem: I have a webhosting account on a shared server (cpanel) and am using it to send emails. When looking at the email's source in my mail client, I see that "received: from" shows the shared server's name (e.g. server55.verygoodserver.com)…
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Duplicate php files on cpanel shared hosting account?
2 php files with the same name in the same folder on my cpanel shared hosting account.
How is this possible?
What I remember is that when I uploaded a newer version of the file it did not ask me if I wanted to replace the older file... It just…
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