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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Free Web Hosting like Geocities?
Since Geocities is closing down soon, I'm looking for a suitable replacement.
This is for personal use, so bandwidth and diskspace isn't important. That's why I've been using Geocities' meager 15 MB space for YEARS. :)
Any good…
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Segmenting a Virtual Machine from the LAN for hosting
Is there a way that I can segment my virtual machine from my LAN, yet still make it available to outside users? What I'm trying to achieve is a VPS type of thing, but I'm not sure how hosting companies do it.
Background: I'm currently trying to…
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How realistic/easy is it to host our own web servers?
It is increasingly looking like we will need to host our own servers, because we need modems physically attached to the server machines.
I (think) we will need a T1 line to our office for starters. Dont know what else is involved other than the…
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Will I need a dedicated static IP or a unique IP is enough to SSL enable my website?
This is the first time I am dealing with SSL and Dedicated Static IP /Unique IP. Now this webhost says that they will provide Unique IP (not shared with other customers) but do NOT guarantee that it will be static. Now I plan to make my website SSL…
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Configuring DNS and IIS for multiple domains on a single server
I might be over complicating this but...I am hosting several websites and dns for the domains on a single server:
domain1.net
domain1.com
domain2.net
I have three items which I'm trying to work out whether to achieve by DNS, by IIS…
RichardS
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Where is the best location to keep shared-developer website files in the linux hierarchy?
Serving html and php files
I just started hosting files for a website on my server, and I'm not sure where is an appropriate place to keep them to provide access for multiple users.
When I started hosting the site, I put the site files in:…
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Is there anything like Heroku for PHP and/or .NET?
In my area PHP is very widespread, so is .NET. Ruby not so much; most places have never heard of it. For some personal things I am "forced" to choose Rails because I want to take advantage of Heroku - the ability to deploy and scale on the cloud…
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A-2-Z web hosting on Amazon AWS
All,
I am studying web dvp, and one of my classes is project-based. We have to build a functional site that demonstrate our understanding of:
HTML,
CSS,
Javascript,
php,
MySQL,
And potentially Ajax or some other web component.
For the…
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How to become a successful Host reseller or is it possible?
As a webmaster, sometimes I want to do the host reseller job, but I am not sure if this is a good choice, is there anyone has done this? I am looking for some experience sharing. Thanks.
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Creating a development environment from a shared hosting production environment (LAMP)
The production server is shared, I don't have access to php.ini and httpd.conf and most PHP settings cannot be set or overrided using ini_set PHP function.
So I would like to create a local development environment having configurations as close as…
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Setting up Virtual Hosts with Apache on Windows 2008 server for multiple sites. Complicated setup, including subversion
I am setting up apache on my windows 2008 server at my home. It will serve 2 functions.
Subversion hosting to allow me and some others to manage company documents with version control
Local website hosting for web development. Will need to run…
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Changing hosting provider
I want to change my current hosting provider to a new hosting provider...I am bit worried if this will affect my google ranking and other things?
Could you please help find out if there is any issues with this? OR advise me how to do this safely.
babu
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I'm debating between shared host and VPS
I have been researching this stuff for so many days, and I can't make up my mind!
So the scenario is this site could grow extremely rapidly, so I would need something that scales very quickly. I would also need considerable amount of SQL Server…
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How do I selectively redirect my website?
I have a domain alias that i want to forward to a specific directory on my main site. How do I get it so that only people visiting the alias "fakesite.com" to be redirected to "mainsite.com/fake" instead of everyone redirected to that?
This is on…
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Server crashed - corporate web application is down - considering moving to an online host - any suggestions?
I'm in a mess here. For a couple of years we've been running our own custom made application on a local server in our office. The servers had its well bad days and good days now and then - however the server literally died a couple of days ago -…
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