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nescience posted:Any recommendations on a place to get cheap SSL certificates? Ones that won't make browsers go all apeshit saying it's not a valid certificate? (hence why I'm not using self-generated certs) SSL2Buy were reselling AlphaSSL wildcard certs for ~$50/yr with a 30% discount code. It's nice being able to use the same cert for home router & VPS.
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Cloud66 has a big hack/leak and is hosed right now: https://twitter.com/cloud66 quote:Today we had a major service incident on our site. As a result of this incident some of our customers lost their virtual servers.
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CloudFlare are going to roll out free SSL this summer (source) I'm slightly unsure how they are going to do this but it's very interesting
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| # ? May 10, 2013 18:35 |
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Anyone have any experience with Digital Ocean? The prices seem too good without some huge catch.
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| # ? May 10, 2013 20:58 |
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They had a $20 credit some while back that I jumped on. Price is reasonable and the setup is pretty simple. I like it though I've shut my VPS down. Going with a super cheap throw away VPS until I want something more serious.
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Jerry SanDisky posted:Anyone have any experience with Digital Ocean? The prices seem too good without some huge catch. I use it for screen/irssi (basically an IRC shell) and the connection is pretty stable, goes a couple weeks without disconnecting. I've had it for 4-5 months.
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Jerry SanDisky posted:Anyone have any experience with Digital Ocean? The prices seem too good without some huge catch. Reviews seem mixed, they have a lot of venture capital backing and you should be able to get some free credit to try it out, also you may have to contact support to get virtio enabled, for some reason
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| # ? May 10, 2013 22:41 |
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Looks like the LiteSpeed web server now has an open-source version called OpenLiteSpeed, if anyone is interested.
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So... trying to expand my horizons, and I'm playing around on a WinServer/IIS  . Anyone have a clue on how to import a SSL certificate? I installed my cert through the wizard, and added it to my Personal store, but I don't see it when I try to add it to a HTTPS binding.I'm using Windows Server 2012 w/ IIS 8
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| # ? May 11, 2013 05:37 |
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Jerry SanDisky posted:Anyone have any experience with Digital Ocean? The prices seem too good without some huge catch. The prices seems about normal, I've been seeing better deals for lower prices than DigitalOcean on LEB(granted the quality might not be the best), maybe all of this is due to AWS dropping their prices?
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text editor posted:Looks like the LiteSpeed web server now has an open-source version called OpenLiteSpeed, if anyone is interested. Interested until I read ".htaccess file compatibility, and page caching will remain commercial-only." It's such a chore to google the nginx equivalents of rewrite rules; probably my only complaint about nginx.
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| # ? May 11, 2013 07:03 |
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Nevermind I'm figuring out a different way to do this.
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nescience posted:So... trying to expand my horizons, and I'm playing around on a WinServer/IIS When you say you installed it through the wizard, are you talking about "Complete Certificate Request" in IIS Manager -> Server Certificates? (Or "Import...." if you're trying to import a pre-existing cert instead of a new one from a request created by that IIS install). If so, that always worked in previous versions, but I haven't played with IIS8 much.
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rawrr posted:Interested until I read ".htaccess file compatibility, and page caching will remain commercial-only." It's such a chore to google the nginx equivalents of rewrite rules; probably my only complaint about nginx. This means .htaccess file compatibility. As in, .htaccess files in folders in filesystem. You can still paste the contents of .htaccess into Litespeed's panel and it will parse the apache version just fine.
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rawrr posted:Interested until I read ".htaccess file compatibility, and page caching will remain commercial-only." It's such a chore to google the nginx equivalents of rewrite rules; probably my only complaint about nginx. Theres a couple places that help with converting to nginx format: http://www.anilcetin.com/ http://winginx.com/htaccess Those can sometimes generate inefficient results, though they work.
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Just saw this while browsing Google's Developer Blog and thought it sounded interesting: Speed up your sites with PageSpeed for Nginx Jeff Kaufman, Software Engineer posted:When we released mod_pagespeed in 2010, we gave webmasters a way to speed up their sites without needing to become web performance optimization experts. As an Apache module, however, it was unavailable to sites running Nginx, the popular high performing open source web server that powers many large web sites. Today that changes: we're releasing PageSpeed Beta for Nginx, aka ngx_pagespeed. http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co...espeed-for.html https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/ngx
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I assume having an SSL certificate is pretty important for my VPS. I have resold some hosting from it to my friends and they have asked why they were getting a browser message about my site not having a proper SSL certificate. If I was actually selling webhosting for real, it would be a big deal not having an actual certificate, right? edit: by SSL cert, i was thinking of doing the $1.99 positiveSSL cert here http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certif...-ssl-offer.aspx
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Stealthgerbil posted:I assume having an SSL certificate is pretty important for my VPS. I have resold some hosting from it to my friends and they have asked why they were getting a browser message about my site not having a proper SSL certificate. If I was actually selling webhosting for real, it would be a big deal not having an actual certificate, right? Are they entering any secure data into your non protected site? You shouldn't need a real cert if they're redirected to your merchant's cart which has real ssl to take their info securely. Considering how certs are cheap, if you have the dedicated ip to spare, won't hurt in getting one.
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Stealthgerbil posted:I assume having an SSL certificate is pretty important for my VPS. I have resold some hosting from it to my friends and they have asked why they were getting a browser message about my site not having a proper SSL certificate. If I was actually selling webhosting for real, it would be a big deal not having an actual certificate, right? How are you reselling your hosting to you friends? If you're doing stuff like stealthgerbil.com/friend1, you can get a basic cert If you have friend1.stealthgerbil.com would require a wildcard cert (which can be expensive) Or if they're pointing friend1.com to some virtual host setup on your VPS, they can buy a certificate their drat selves and just upload it to your server. But like 3spades says, do they need one? Are they running shopping carts or something that actually requires a secure connection?
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Well technically I run whcms to handle the billing and website creation but I don't have it actually do any billing or credit card stuff because it is for friends and plus gently caress dealing with credit cards or personal information. I told my friends or anyone signing up to use fake info if they are worried about it getting leaked even though I hash everything. If they were to do hosting through me they get their own subdomain. However no one should be running any storefronts or anything of that nature.
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if they need ssl they can buy their own damned hosting imo waste of your time and theirs
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| # ? May 13, 2013 18:28 |
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Yea fair enough. Really if they need ultra secure top of the line business class hosting they are better off getting real hosting from a company that would provide support and do stuff instead of piggybacking on my VPS. I may just get a cheap SSL cert for my own site just so I won't get warnings though.
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Those of you who run or work for a host, what do you do in this situation: Customer's hosting gets suspended for non-payment. A little while down the road they come to you wanting a backup of their site so they can switch hosts. Do you give them the backup free? Charge them for it? Make them pay for a months worth of hosting and then give it to them? Or do you just tell them to get lost? I've got a particular client that I'm almost positive will be asking for a backup of their site, but it's been suspended for nonpayment, and I wanted to be prepared and have a better idea what the industry standard was for it.
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| # ? May 16, 2013 13:36 |
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I'd ask for them to pay themselves current to the time you suspended their account and then provide the backup. Otherwise they can piss off, in my opinion.
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Maniaman posted:Those of you who run or work for a host, what do you do in this situation: You should not give it free, if they stopped paying you and the account was terminated due to non payment, you owe them nothing. Either charge them a recovery fee for the backup or make them pay their account current and restore the backup giving them the ability to generate or download a backup of their account. If it's cpanel, they can then have their new host do an account transfer.
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