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WARNING: At least one of your NS name does not seem a valid host name
So here is the issue I am having. When I run a DNS check on my TLD I am getting conflicting results. The domain name is newage.design and my NameServers are NS1.newage.design, NS2.newage.design, and NS3.newage.design
When I run the DNS check I get…

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what are my options for hosting a WCF service
My company is building a system that will need to use user authentication and web services (WCF or ASMX whichever works, the differences are all confined to a tiny slice of code anyway) and our current hosting provider is somewhat "flaky". They are…

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Which Linux Flavor should I use for web hosting?
Love the site! I am getting ready to CoLo Dual Processor 3.0 Xeon server and was wondering what the best flavor of Linux is to install. If someone could point me in the right direction this would be great.
Randy Gonzalez
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Data center vs Data warehouse
I've heard both of these terms used frequently. What is the difference between a Data center vs. a Data warehouse? Are these terms interchangeable?

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Multi-site hosting security - ensure no scripts can run as Apache user, but only as each website's user
In setting up a hosting environment with multiple sites that should be isolated from each other, I did the obvious step of having PHP be configured so it runs as the user that's associated with each website rather than as the Apache user, but is…

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What is INODE usage and can I reduce it?
My webserver keeps giving me the error backup failed due to high INODE usage...
What is this and how can I prevent it?

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How to set up a global CustomLog on Apache2 for every virtualhost
Actually I got some issue with file descriptors on Debian Wheezy with 3.2.13 kernel and Apache/2.2.16.
I would like to reduce this limit, actually each virtualhost got a CustomLog and an ErrorLog, I want to set up only one CustomLog and one ErrorLog…

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Is it really necessary to setup a Hardware Firewall on a windows 2008 Web Server
What is the worst that could happen if I don't setup a hardware firewall? I am planning to just install a software firewall. I am planning to deploy a medium traffic web site and the information on the database will be important. But, I can protect…

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Domain keeps going back and forth between old and new hosting service
I moved my domain yesterday from Heroku to DigitalOcean. The process went fine and the website seemed to be working fine on DigitalOcean. Today morning I noticed this error when I tried to access my website
Heroku | No such app
There is no app…

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Should we have one pool for many websites in Apache+PHP-FPM?
If there are many small websites (about 300) running in light web traffic, should they all use the same pool, or would it be better to have a separate pool for each of them?
Let us assume the websites are trusted and the benefits of having a…

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Hostname issue on server
Email from WHM/CPANEL
Your hostname (HOSTIT) could not be resolved to an IP address.
This means that /etc/hosts is not set up correctly, and/or there is
no dns entry for HOSTIT. Please be sure that the contents of
/etc/hosts are configured…
user192680
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Java hosting (jetty preferred)
I currently use PairOne/OddHost for hosting, does anyone recommend anyone else for good, cheap, reliable hosting? I would like to keep it below $100/year.
Walter
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How to point a windows web server subdir to a Centos server subdir permanently?
Here's the scenario.
We have a Windows 2003 Web Server (oursite.com) that serves our site (I know, sorry.) I use a Centos server to serve a lot of content into that main site (oursitelabs.com).
The oursite.com DNS is managed by Network Solutions…
zachware
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Easy way to deploy static pages with Google Apps authentication
I'm looking for an easy way to host my small company's internal docs. We already use Google Apps for much of our IT, so it would be low-maintenance if we could authenticate users to visit these docs by their accounts in our domain. The docs are…

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Is it possible to transfer files from one web server to another without downloading and uploading?
I want to move my files form one web server to another, but I think its a double task to download them and again upload to another one. I was looking for any PHP script or something. Any method that doesn't involve this double traffic process.

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