The setting up and running of a server to serve web pages via the internet or LAN. Where you are not the administrator of the server the questions may be best asked on webmasters.stackexchange.com (for example if using shared hosting).
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How to set up multitenant Route53 subdomains with parent domain not on Route53?
My goal is to be able to add/drop subdomains for a multi-tenant app via Route53: tenant.example.com. Account provisioning should place the new tenant on a hosting node and then add the newly onboarded tenant subdomain to Route53. The parent DNS is…
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Linux single user logon for Website, SVN, Trac, and MediaWiki
I'm looking for a way to grant new (remote, public) users the possibility to sign up for a new account via a web form, which will grant access to a restricted area of our website, an SVN repository, a Trac system, and a MediaWiki (all hosted on a…
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Tons of spam on dreamhost mail user account
I use dreamhost for my webserver/ email host.
I have about 25 users on one domain. and 1 of these users is absolutely inundated with spam every day.
I have tried using dreamhosts poor blacklist feature, which was semi working (still letting a lot…
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Working with ASPX pages
If I connect via FTP and make edits to a .aspx file and upload it do I need to have the webhost do any type of complile or something?
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How do I run multiple MVC apps within a subdomain on IIS7?
Hello and thanks for looking.
Background
I am currently wrapping up a development contract and the client would like for me to push a build of the application to their IIS 7-based server in which they would like to run multiple MVC apps.
One of the…
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benchmarking a vps system
I've been having some performance problmes lately with my ecommerce package (ASP.net + SQL Server) running on Hyper-V based VPS so I am thinking about switching my VPS for a faster one.
To evaluate a VPS before migration I need a simple…
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Renting a dedicated server, should I rent a physical firewall aswell?
I plan to rent a dedicated server to host a commercial application, which should house esentially everything necessary to run on a single machine (frontend, backend, databases, analytics, backup systems, etc) for the time being. This is indeed a…
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As a small business, how can I host a static 500GB database in the most cost-effective way possible?
My company is building a database from a large publicly available data set. When we complete it, we will have something like 500GB of data, but the data will never grow beyond that. It takes advantage of Postgres's polygon manipulation features,…
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detecting an ip behind proxy
For testing purposes, I am using my machines ip provided by the isp as the address to connect to the server from my phone(my machine/pc is the server). Since ipaddresses are unique in the internet, I should be able to access it.
But what if my pc…
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Question about server usage, big community platform
Possible Duplicate:
How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites
I’m working on a community platform writen in PHP, MySQL.
I have some questions about the server usage maybe someone can help me out.
The community is based on…
Json
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Redirect away from www to non-www domain on nginx from behind HAproxy
I'm a bit confused. I have nginx running on a port other than 80.
# part of nginx.conf
server {
listen 7000;
include /etc/nginx/my_app.conf;
}
That's because my HAProxy is running on 80 on the same server.
# Approximate haproxy.cfg
listen foo…
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If a server doesn't have a .htaccess file, can adding a blank one cause problems?
The company I work for uses a number of hosting areas on different servers for different parts of our process. To begin with, we build things on our local machines and test them in localhost. Then, we push to a "QA" server where the site can be…
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In DNS settings, why do you specify both nameservers and A-records?
I just setup a site where my friend registered the domain name and I hosted it. I figured that all I needed to give him was the nameservers to use, however, even after entering them, the site still didn't resolve (even after 48 hours, so it wasn't…
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Primary domain controller for web hosting + SQL cluster
I was hoping to get some advice here on a web hosting query. We are building an eCommerce website that will basically reside on 2 x web servers (fronted by a load balancer) and interacting with a SQL2008 cluster.
In dealings with web hosting…
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Can we call a VM as a 'dedicated' server?
I've noticed our 'dedicated' web server is running on an MS VM. I don't like it, cause we can't tell if another VM is running on the same machine or not, other than taking the word of the provider.
But my question is; can it still be called a…
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