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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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Ubuntu server version

does anyone know the "best" Ubuntu version to choose for a VPS host? i'm after stability and scalability. Slicehost offers Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty and Kramic. any ideas?
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Affordable combined Ruby/Rails/Redmine + Subversion hosting?

I am looking for a reliable hosting company I can entrust my code to in the form of a number of Subversion repositories, and a copy of the Redmine project management tool. I am looking for something I can pay up front for a year or two, and is not…
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Subdomains, folders, internationalization, and hosting solutions

I'm a web developer and I recently landed a gig to develop the US / international version of a site for a company that's big in Europe but hasn't done much expansion into the US yet. They've got an existing site at company.com, which should remain…
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Automatic website outage notice

There was a outage in July 2009 of Authorize.Net's websites because of a local fire. If you went to their website during that time there was a notice or redirection to view status updates on their Twitter account. That seemed like a good…
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Apache2 - Run Apache as the user's account

I just got my very own Linux (Debian Stable) server, and installed Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL. It's supposed to be used for hosting of my own and others websites. As it is now, Apache is running as its own user. That means that I need to "chown" all…
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Is hosting my websites and databases with different providers a bad idea?

I'm trying to find a home for three ASP.NET 3.5 websites using three respective SQL Server 2008 databases. I've found one possible solution where I host the websites on a "semi-dedicated" environment with one specific provider. The problem is, the…
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What is the correct way to move an rss feed? Is there a temporary workaround for google reader users?

I run a website that has published its RSS feed at a given location for years. However, I'm now forced to move the feed to another URL. Let's say the original URL was www.example.com/rss.xml and the new address is feeds.example.com/example. I see…
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How to be server admin noob and manage security on Linode/SliceHost/Webbynode?

I'm considering moving a Rails app from a shared hosting provider to a dedicated server or a service like Linode, SliceHost, Webbynode, etc. where, if I understand correctly, the security of the server is completely down to you. With shared hosting…
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How to transition from a local Django development server to a restricted public test server?

I am working on a website that should not be open for public viewing. I'm currently developing on my local computer using manage.py and runserver. However, I want to make the site publicly accessible to only a few certain people. These people are…
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Initializing windows server 2019 for hosting multiple website multiple domain names and single IP

I want to set up a virtual machine to host windows server 2019 to host multiple websites in IIS 10. Each website can be reached with a domain name for example: www.website1.com www.website2.com www.website3.com This server just has these…
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Deleting files on Filezilla very slow compared to hosting

I have noticed that when deleting a folder on Filezilla it can take a very long time if the folder has subfolders with many files, example I deleted a .git repository / folder and it took Filezilla 15 minutes. However, with a hosting account and…
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How to run each site under a different user?

Let's say I have a server and a bunch of developers working on different sites(php and django) and I don't want the different developers to access each other's sites. How should I go about implementing such a solution? (some pointers will do)
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Dedicated servers with DDOS protection

My client are a small business and they recently got flooded by DDOS attack. The website is a ecommerce app and the company sells audio equipment. Who would have thought? But turned out the competition did not like them... Anyways we were intially…
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Nginx dynamic module 'binary not compatible' even though I originally compiled without any configure arguments

So I'm trying to setup the dynamic module fancyindex on Nginx and have run into a problem I can't seem to get around. I downloaded my corresponding Nginx from their official downloads section, 1.12.2, then downloaded fancyindex from github, unpacked…
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sc-win32-status 995 and TCP RST on HTTP GET (IIS 8.5)

I'm running a custom PHP/HTML application on Windows Server 2012 R2, IIS 8.5 on my company local intranet (server and clients are at the same location, no VPN, or whatever, only a gateway between VLANs). This site/application can host different…
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