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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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Jungledisk for backing up my Wiki and Drupal sites?

Hi would you guys suggest that I ask my webhost to install Jungledisk so that my backups would be stored to Amazon S3 as well? Do you guys know a better solution? Thanks in advace!
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Running Multiple Publicly Accessible Web Servers on a Single IP Address

I have three separate web servers with three different internal IP addresses on a network with only one public IP address. Each web server has security restrictions such that I cannot just run all of my websites on a single web server. All are…
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What is meant by root in regards to website hosting?

I have been asked to make some simple modification to a web page for a client. They already have a website from a previous web designer and want to give the website to me as he has quit. The old web designer asked me for my 'root.' What does he…
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How do I locate a hosting provider that meets my criteria?

I am frequently called upon to recommend a hosting provider. Company A needs SAS certification, company B needs Tomcat, company C can work with shared hosting, company D needs a dedicated server, etc. I don't know how to even start the search…
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Asp.net 3.5, IIS7 and SQL Server 2008 Hosting recommendations

I am looking for some suggestions for asp.net hosting on IIS7 with sql server 2008. I am assuming within this price range for windows shared hosting will be the go although vps would be great. We are looking to spend $20 - $40 dollars a month with…
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How can I make a sub-domain point to a dynamic IP and the rest of the domain as it is hosted on a server with static IP?

Basically, I have a domain mydomain.com hosted by a certain hosting company on its servers. I have access to the cpanel and can make changes a s per required. However, I want to host a dvr remote interface on one of its pages. The DVR is in my…
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Tracing out going attacks

I have noticed ALOT of the following: Firewall: *TCP_OUT Blocked* IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=ME DST=OUT LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=44395 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=55901 DPT=10080 WINDOW=14600 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 How can I figure out which website is sending…
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Where I can find ModSecurity Rules for Specific Applications

Where I can find ModSecurity Rules for Specific Applications specially joomla, wordpress, mambo ?
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IP address of spiders and “official” web bots

Is there an official API to iplists.com from where I can get the list of spiders? My intention is to whitelist these IPs for site scraping.
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How to reset connection pool in Azure (Error: max pool size was reached)?

I am getting the below error in my Azure website and am scrambling to fix it: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool…
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Set up server far away from target audience?

I live in Canada, and I want to move out of online web hosting and host stuff on my own server. The problem is, my website caters to a huge amount of US traffic, about 90 percent of traffic is US. Are there huge disadvantages of having my server in…
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How do 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps or 10Gbps network ports affect Website/server performance?

(Sorry if this question looks silly.) I see that many popular hosting companies still offer (primarily) a 100mbps network switch - Hostgator and Rackspace are good examples. While very few exist that offer a gigabit uplink connection - mediatemple…
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Should I host my Data on the same box that I serve my web pages?

I was listening to Hanselminutes one day and this question came up. Under what circumstances should one separate data from code? For example in one of the systems that I've working on the DB is on the same box that servers web content. In another…
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Easy way to deploy PHP sites from git

I'm looking for recommendations on how to automate / simplify deployment from a git repository (github) to a hosting service. The hosting service supports FTP (yuck) / SSH / SFTP access. Any good tools out there to give push-button deployment of…
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Limit cron usage

I have a hosting on hostgator and I just found out that they don't allow * * * * * cron jobs. If I have one that runs less than every 15 minutes, they change it to */17 or something like that. I searched but I can't find a way to do this on my own…
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