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A website is a set of related web pages containing content (media).

A website is a set of related web pages containing content (media), including text, video, music, audio, images, etc. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a Uniform Resource Locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

  • Static websites are primarily coded in HTML.
  • Dynamic websites can be coded using a wide range of web programming languages like JSP, PHP, Perl, Python, and others...

Source: Wikipedia.

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What is the best Time-Of-Day to run the maintenance of an international (English) website?

If you want to have a non-country-specific website in English, what is/are the best time-of-day to run the maintenance? You can also answer by specifying what is the worst time-of-day to run the maintenance, as everything else is then "better". My…
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Penetration Testing

We're deploying a new website, hosted ourselves. Short of getting in white hats how would you go about penetration testing from outside the network?
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What is the first thing you do if your website was hacked?

What would you do as first thing if your website was hacked? Taking the site from net? or rollback a backup? not realy or? Did you made any experiences in this way?
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Nagios Monitoring Text on a Website

I was wondering if I could get some help with monitoring text on a website. I.E. If I wanted to monitor google.com for the text "Privacy", I thought I would use the following command: check_http -H google.com -u http://www.google.com -s…
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What's the best way to create a static backup of a website?

I have an old Joomla! site that I would like to convert to a static set of html pages (since it's not being updated anymore and I don't want the overhead of having a MySQL db running for something that is never updated). Is there a command-line tool…
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How to get nginx to redirect from www to non-www domain?

Let's say I want to redirect from www.example.com to example.com and I want to do this using nginx. I looked around and did not see any good documentation on this so I figured I would ask and answer my own question.
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What is the difference between a cache, a primed cache and an empty cache?

Can someone explain the following concepts to me as the relate to measuring the data transfer of data from my web site. Whats the difference between a cache, a primed cache and an empty cache? Can you give a a definition for each?
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Why is the "www." sometimes necessary?

Possible Duplicate: www.example.com vs example.com Is there any particular reason that "www." is required for some websites? It seems to me that all this does is cause inconvenience (at best) and confusion. For example, http://math.cmu.edu gives…
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How long does it take for DNS to update new records? Strange DNS behaviour!

I had my personal site at freehostia and now i have shifted to some other server. It has been close to a week, and ofcourse as the NameServers changed for the new host, i made the required changes with domain-register-company, for my domain. Now…
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How should I check a site for dead links?

How should I check my website for dead links? I've used some web based utilities that were okay, e.g.: http://dead-links.com http://validator.w3.org/checklink I've used some freeware apps in the past, like Xenu. I'd really like something that…
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24TB RAID 6 configuration

I am in charge of a new website in a niche industry that stores lots of data (10+ TB per client, growing to 2 or 3 clients soon). We are considering ordering about $5000 worth of 3TB drives (10 in a RAID 6 configuration and 10 for backup), which…
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Recommendation: Company website forced to https?

My company wants their "informational" website to be rewritten from HTTP to HTTPS. Technically this is not a big deal for me. But i have doubts if this is state-of-the-art since the only reason they want this, is to encrypt contact and sign up…
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Syncing multiple wordpress web servers in a farm

My company will shortly be setting up a blog, and I'm planning on setting up two web servers to host the wordpress website for redundancy. Normally when we do releases to a site in a farm we push to one side, test and then release to the other…
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IIS 7.5 Redirect / URL Rewrite to mobile version of website

I'm looking for an IIS solution (not programming) to redirect a website to a mobile version of the website. It looks like it might be possible, but not sure, with IIS Redirect or using IIS URL Rewrite 2.0. If this is the case how would one go about…
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How can I tell how often Google crawls my site?

I've started a relatively new website, and I submitted it to google and everything. I use google's webmaster tools as well. I'm wondering how to figure out the frequency of google's spider accessing my website. I always hear people talking in forums…
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