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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, ...).

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Security in shared hosting vs VPS 'virtual appliances'

I have to change my hosting provider. Right now I have a shared hosting account but I'm considering trying the LAMP stack appliance from turnkeylinux.org. I'm very comfortable with using linux, I've been using it for a long time. I have no problem…
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Enabling phar on Dreamhost shared hosting?

So, i'm trying to use Silex on my dreamhost account and I'm getting an error Fatal error: Class 'Phar' not found in blah blah blah... when I try to include the Silex.phar file. When I look at phpinfo(), there isn't a section for Phar, even though…
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Multiple domain SSL certs

We have a product (hosted PHP app) which we will be providing SSL certs to for people along with some hosting. We are in full control of the hosting environment setting up the users vhost config, document root etc etc. We are looking at multidomain…
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PHP parse error appearing on shared hosting environments

Has anyone else seen this crop up a lot recently? I've had several sites go down with this error. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/public_html/index.PHP on line 39 It's caused by a worm / injection attack which dumps the…
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How can I override global PHP.INI settings on shared hosting?

I have sharring hosting account on Linux Apache PHP with JustHost. In my account exists a global php.ini that only admin of hosting company can access. My problem is that when I run php script the warnings + errors printed on webpage. So I create…
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When do I need more than shared hosting?

What are the guidelines? While the answer could be "when your webpage or queries return slowly -- that answer doesn't quite work for me. What are your reasonable expectations for shared hosting? How do you measure? Pageviews? Visitors? Queries? I'm…
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Installing CNProg on shared hosting (1and1)?

I have shared hosting on 1and1. I have shell access but don't have root access. Is it possible. To install CNProg, (Which is a SO Clone in Python) on that kind of hosting? If not, can I use Ubuntu with LAMP and Python? I have tried, but am at a loss…
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Is there any "best practice" for a shared servers?

I'm currently in charge of 2 really big servers (128GB Ram & 32 8-code Xeon CPU each) at my university running Ubuntu 12.04. Students are suppose to use them for big data analysis. We want every user to be able to use all resources, however, things…
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How to disallow use of disable_functions in?

I'm obviously not the first one to have this problem, but I cannot not find an answer to this situation. I want to lock down PHP a bit, more specifically the use of disable_functions. The environment is CentOS 6.2/PHP 5.3.3 fcgid/Apache…
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What does apc.mmap_file_mask really do?

I want to use APC in a shared environment, but the main problem is of course, opcode sharing. To overcome this, I've thought about using different apc.mmap_file_mask for each user (they're chrooted through php-fpm), so the "file" created by APC…
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Shared webhost IP blacklisted and is stopping my legitimate emails sending

I am a customer with a webhost and my account is on a shared server. The problem is, it looks like one of the other customers on the same server has gone and got the shared IP blacklisted as spam/virus. I can see the IP listed. Because of this, my…
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How does IP blacklisting work on virtualized/shared hosting?

I have read that many blocks of IP addresses associated with Amazon EC2 have been blacklisted by various ISPs. Therefore, even if you never sent spam yourself, emails you send from an Amazon instance will be flagged as spam because you are sharing…
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Once mail hosting through Gmail is setup, is it easy to change web hosts?

I have a personal domain name, pointing to a simple cPanel-type shared hosting account. About six months ago, I decided that I wanted to use Google Gmail for hosting my domain name's email. In my shared hosting account, I added MX records…
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Moving from shared cpanel hosting to non cpanel VPS - What should I know?

I'm currently looking into migrating a few sites from my shared cpanel hosting to a VPS. Got to the point where I want to do more and have been learning about some system admin stuff through my placement/work. Firstly, what are the essential things…
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PostgreSQL or MySQL for shared hosting

I want to offer SQL shared hosting for customers. Ideally I'd like: access isolation (one user shouldn't see information about other user's databases) SQL disk space quota per SQL user ability to limit or deprioritize CPU usage of intensive queries…
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