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Questions tagged [web-hosting]

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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Software for monitoring many sites

Possible Duplicate: What tool do you use to monitor your servers? Can anyone recommend a website monitoring service? My company builds and maintains sites for our clients. On any given date, we have 400-600 sites active. We build 5-10 per week…
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Is it possible to reverse proxy an image and not have it consume bandwidth on the proxy?

Say I have this URL to an image: www.domain.com/image.jpg And I want to have image.jpg actually be served from another server entirely (different machine and IP), at static.domain.com/image.jpg Is it possible to configure Apache in such a way that…
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Adding SSL certificate made it impossible to access all virtual hosts

I just added a self signed SSL certificate on one of my virtual hosts. I'm using Ubuntu Server and Webmin, if that helps. The site I added the certificate for works perfectly, but trying to access a different virtual server takes you to the default…
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Is there any way to point an A record of a web page to another website when that other website is on shared hosting?

I am creating a web application that at this point I am using shared hosting to host. Is there any way for me to give my users the option to point the a record of their domain to my website and I display a certain page when that website is…
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htacces & sub-directories

How could I give different access to sub-directories? The first problem is: I must let the programmers modify the htaccess files, but not the access control. I have access only to htaccess directives for once, not to the httpd.conf of Apache. And…
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Google Apps Sites

Is anybody using Sites available with Google Apps? I have a very small business and I just want to make a 3/4 pages website giving some information about who we are and what we do? I have purchased domain from GoDaddy and my email and other services…
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Shouldn't the domain registrar run the nameservers?

My website is hosted by HostGator, but the domain registration is with GoDaddy. My understanding is that the domain registrar - in this case GoDaddy - hosts a service that converts the domain names they administer into IP addresses, and that this is…
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Would NetBSD be a good choice for a web server?

I've the choice of crafting a NetBSD image for a Xen VPS host, and was just wanting to play around as I like BSD and wished to use it for my general web hosting. I will be hosting a low-mid traffic website and maybe a few other simple services. Do…
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iptables: block traffic by IP range for specific website

there is a web-hosting server with several sites on it. I need to block some subnets (IP ranges) for some website(s). Is it possible at all? I've tried something like this: iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 99 -d 123.123.0.0/13 -j REJECT but…
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Setting up a small webhosting service

I have in the past few months gotten acquainted with setting up a linux web server, making it secure & hosting multiple domains on it. What I am planning to do in the near future is setup a small hosting company that will host 4-5 clients to begin…
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Setting up and configuring a new VPS server

I am new to VPS servers. I have always used a shared hosting platform all my life. At the moment, we are working on a project at work thats is going to require more than just a shared hosting server, so we decided to setup a VPS account for the…
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file system rights in shared web hosting environment

how do you setup files and folders rights in a shared web hosting environment ? do you use apache + suexec ? how can you prevent members of group "www" to read files belonging to other users in the system ? (through ssh or php)
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How to host multiple websites on a single machine with multiple public IPs

I have a centOS machine with multiple public IPs. We are already running one web application. I now need to host one more web application on that machine by using one of the public IP addresses that is available for that machine. In clear words, the…
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Advice on UK Based Dedicated Server / VPS Hosting Companies Required - Price / Customer Service / Specs

I know this seems like a simple question, but I'm struggling to work out who is going to be a decent UK based web host for my next project. It's hard to know which "review" sites are not being paid, there is no consistency between them. I'm not…
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WEBrick-like php server?

I'm a Rails developer with some Drupal 6 experience. When I'm developing on Rails, I'm used to modifying my code and then relaunching: cd /my/project/path script/server This will launch an instance of WEBrick, and my site will be available at…
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