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CelestialScribe posted:I'm totally lost - set up a Lithium Hosting account for my blog, and it tells me that WordPress is installed already, but I don't have idea how to access a login page or the WordPress software itself. You could poke around in the file manager and try to find where it's installed http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
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DarkLotus posted:Put these type of posts in the Lithium Hosting Thread, or submit a ticket. My apologies.
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I'm completely new to this. My background is IT. I have an idea for a web app that could potentially have thousands of people at a time using it. I know a programmer who can probably do it. I know she uses Ruby on Rails a lot and MYSQL. For this kind of venture, what kind of hosting am I looking for? How do I figure out bandwidth needs? I think she can probably help with this, but I'd like to do some independent research as well. edit: by web app, I'm thinking of, at least on the surface, something that just looks HTML based. No Flash or anything like that.
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Dec 6, 2010 03:49
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Mithra6 posted:I'm completely new to this. My background is IT. I have an idea for a web app that could potentially have thousands of people at a time using it. I know a programmer who can probably do it. I know she uses Ruby on Rails a lot and MYSQL. For this kind of venture, what kind of hosting am I looking for? How do I figure out bandwidth needs? I think she can probably help with this, but I'd like to do some independent research as well. There's 2 ways this is going to go in the thread. People will tell you to just tell us your idea so that we can more properly answer your question. You'll probably not want to. We'll tell you that ideas are a dime a dozen, and it's the execution that matters, so no one is going to steal your idea as it's probably not new anyway. And then you'll decide to tell us so you can get a better answer, or say you can't share your super secret idea and not get a good answer. That's usually how it goes. There's unfortunately no way anyone can try to properly answer you with the information you've given. All you've said is it could be made with Ruby on Rails and MySQL, and no Flash. If we knew what this was going to be it would help find out if this will be database heavy, file transfer heavy, back end processing heavy, etc... I'm not trying to be difficult, just trying to show that a good answer will really need more information. If you're really adamant about not giving out information though, then the best you can do is look for a VPS provider that you can easily upgrade with. Start small and scale up as you see it is needed. Upgrading VPS packages is usually quick and painless. If you do actually have thousands of people using your site at a given time, you're probably looking at dedicated hardware requirements which gets a lot more expensive and tricky to upgrade. So look for a VPS provider that also does dedicated servers. I recommend WiredTree since they have awesome support and good prices. Check the Web Hosting Talk forums for coupons.
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Dec 6, 2010 15:01
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Thanks. I'm not trying to be mysterious, I wasn't sure exactly what to say here. It's basically a cloud-based customer and property management database with some heavy duty history searches, reporting, blah blah blah. I'm most worried about processing and stability.
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Dec 6, 2010 16:13
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Mithra6 posted:Thanks. I'm not trying to be mysterious, I wasn't sure exactly what to say here. It's basically a cloud-based customer and property management database with some heavy duty history searches, reporting, blah blah blah. I'm most worried about processing and stability. You'll have to write it and find out. One programmer might be able to make it so it can handle 100 users at a time, but a bag programmer might make it only handle 5.
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Mithra6 posted:Thanks. I'm not trying to be mysterious, I wasn't sure exactly what to say here. It's basically a cloud-based customer and property management database with some heavy duty history searches, reporting, blah blah blah. I'm most worried about processing and stability. less than three fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Dec 7, 2010 |
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Dec 6, 2010 21:34
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less than three posted:I'd suggest looking into MediaTemple's Grid service as an entry point. I'd actually recommend not. If you poke around webhostingtalk (the forum for hosting industry professionals) you'll find lots of complaints about MT's grid, and even the MT rep admits the system isn't quite there yet.
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Dec 6, 2010 22:20
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lagomorph posted:I'd actually recommend not. I used it for a while and found it to be okay. \/  \/ Guess not though.
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I do indeed remember when MT had a sterling reputation and a big following with the creative set. Seems that lately the shine's worn off a bit  On WHT, people complained that the grid service was hit or miss, having trouble with both random (and extended) downtime and scaling. For the former, MT said they were "working out the kinks". For the latter, they recommended add-on services like a database grid, which got expensive awful fast. I personally have no experience with them, so you've got me on that; I'm just recounting what I read on WHT.
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Dec 7, 2010 05:25
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Anyone know any free but throttled .NET cloud hosting providers? I want to run a proxy for my Steam API-based Windows app. If not cloud based, are there any good free .NET hosting sites which allow proxying?
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Anybody know where to find lists of/info on VPS hosts with servers in Russia? Or other east-Europe countries. I've found Heihachi (reseller of 2x4 reseller of wahome) but I'd rather not go with them since they are A) slightly sketchy, and B) openly involved in cybercrime. (If you Google their address, the second result is their site. The first result is them admitting they allow botnets, and being accused of hosting child porn) Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Dec 10, 2010 |
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Dec 10, 2010 13:29
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I'm in the market for a cheap US server to do supplemental file hosting for a site I run. Minimum specs would be:
What should I expect to pay, and anyone have host recommendations? Can I get this for close to $50? The slightly longer story is that my site currently runs across a few Linode VMs and uses S3 for storage. I'm happy with them, but my bandwidth costs keep going up and I'd like to pay less than $.10-$.15 / GB. I salivate at the bandwidth rates that 100tb.com offers, but $200/mo for 100TB is way overkill.
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Dec 11, 2010 03:45
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take boat posted:I'm in the market for a cheap US server to do supplemental file hosting for a site I run. Minimum specs would be: I use a VPS from Nocster. Extra bandwidth is $0.05/gb.
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Dec 11, 2010 05:56
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take boat posted:I'm in the market for a cheap US server to do supplemental file hosting for a site I run. Minimum specs would be: I'm on one of their OpenVZ plans: http://quickweb.co.nz/vps-linux-plans (VZ1, got it at an absurd discount of something like $65/year) Paid monthly, for $15 you get 20GB of space and 2TB of bandwidth on a 1gbps port. Discounts for paying in advance. They're generally high rated and very popular at LowEndBox. (I can't decide if that's a back-handed compliment or not.) I'm only using mine for very minor file hosting (<150GB/mo), though, so do research. Alternatively, just read WebHostingTalk.
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Dec 11, 2010 06:56
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Anyone have services with SimpleCDN? Seems UK2 Group/Softlayer terminated all of their servers. http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1005111 https://admin.simplecdn.com/main http://twitter.com/#!/SimpleCDN
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Dec 12, 2010 10:04
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Gelob posted:Anyone have services with SimpleCDN? Seems UK2 Group/Softlayer terminated all of their servers. Yikes. This is my nightmare.
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:http://www.quickweb.co.nz/ has good VPSes.
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Gelob posted:Anyone have services with SimpleCDN? Seems UK2 Group/Softlayer terminated all of their servers. Wow, what dicks.
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Dec 12, 2010 23:21
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Gelob posted:Anyone have services with SimpleCDN? Seems UK2 Group/Softlayer terminated all of their servers. That sucks, I was looking into ordering from them (100tb) tomorrow too. Any similar hosts that don't suck? Need a dual i7 CPU, 12+ GB RAM, dual HDDs, 6+ TB bandwidth and ideally some kind of backup solution and an SSD, hosted in US (East coast preferred).
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Dec 13, 2010 05:33
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R1CH posted:That sucks, I was looking into ordering from them (100tb) tomorrow too. Any similar hosts that don't suck? Need a dual i7 CPU, 12+ GB RAM, dual HDDs, 6+ TB bandwidth and ideally some kind of backup solution and an SSD, hosted in US (East coast preferred). I've used Burst.net for dedicated servers and VPS, they're priced alright and I've never had any problems with them. http://www.burst.net/servers.shtml The servers there don't really fit what you need hardware wise (they don't have dual i7 in the cart) but their bandwidth pricing is nice. If you contact their sales department, they should be able to give you a custom quote. less than three fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Dec 13, 2010 |
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Dec 13, 2010 08:29
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R1CH posted:That sucks, I was looking into ordering from them (100tb) tomorrow too. Any similar hosts that don't suck? Need a dual i7 CPU, 12+ GB RAM, dual HDDs, 6+ TB bandwidth and ideally some kind of backup solution and an SSD, hosted in US (East coast preferred). Are you ruling out SoftLayer because of what they did to SimpleCDN? I actually have a couple of servers matching your specs but I bought them from The Planet before the acquisition. DarkLotus fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Dec 13, 2010 |
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R1CH posted:That sucks, I was looking into ordering from them (100tb) tomorrow too. Any similar hosts that don't suck? Need a dual i7 CPU, 12+ GB RAM, dual HDDs, 6+ TB bandwidth and ideally some kind of backup solution and an SSD, hosted in US (East coast preferred). I've been using Ubiquty for almost a year for a couple of my colocated servers (Los Angeles and Chicago), but they also do dedicated server sales and have something close to what you're looking for. The only issue I've had with them is occasional network connectivity issues caused by another client on the same switch getting DDoS'd. They typically take care of this within 30 minutes, and it is pretty rare. Other than that, they've been great.
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Dec 13, 2010 17:21
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R1CH posted:That sucks, I was looking into ordering from them (100tb) tomorrow too. Any similar hosts that don't suck? Need a dual i7 CPU, 12+ GB RAM, dual HDDs, 6+ TB bandwidth and ideally some kind of backup solution and an SSD, hosted in US (East coast preferred). To shill for my company, HostDime can do a custom setup such as that no problem. Just open up an account with us and submit a ticket asking for a quote for that server and we'd be glad to help out.
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DarkLotus posted:Are you ruling out SoftLayer because of what they did to SimpleCDN? I actually have a couple of servers matching your specs but I bought them from The Planet before the acquisition. We've had a pretty good quote from Voxel that we're going to go with since I feel much more comfortable with it hosted at a reputable provider. Hello to the mystery goon who called to verify our account .
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R1CH posted:We've had a pretty good quote from Voxel that we're going to go with since I feel much more comfortable with it hosted at a reputable provider. Hello to the mystery goon who called to verify our account Welcome to Voxel
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Dec 14, 2010 02:58
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R1CH posted:We're already with SoftLayer and have outgrown their current offerings. Their higher end systems (Dual CPU, ++RAM) get very expensive very quickly. It seems we're in this weird position where the most common dedicated offerings are no longer powerful enough and the more powerful options are outside of our budget. I know exactly what you mean...
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So for a mostly-personal project I've gotten a domain from Namecheap, and basic hosting from Lithium, and ... I have no idea how to properly connect the two. It is just using the "transfer DNS" function in Namecheap's domain page to point at the Lithium nameservers and then waiting for it to propagate, or am I missing something?
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anagramarye posted:So for a mostly-personal project I've gotten a domain from Namecheap, and basic hosting from Lithium, and ... I have no idea how to properly connect the two. It is just using the "transfer DNS" function in Namecheap's domain page to point at the Lithium nameservers and then waiting for it to propagate, or am I missing something? If you just registered your domain, you can't transfer it yet. You have to wait 45-60 days before you can transfer a domain away. You should be able to update your name servers at NameCheap and have your site work. Check your email for your welcome email and use the name servers from the email. There are Flash Tutorials here: https://www.lithiumhosting.com/tutorials.html This one will help you accomplish your task: https://www.lithiumhosting.com/tutorials/dns/dns_namecheap.html
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DarkLotus posted:If you just registered your domain, you can't transfer it yet. You have to wait 45-60 days before you can transfer a domain away. You should be able to update your name servers at NameCheap and have your site work. Check your email for your welcome email and use the name servers from the email. Sorry, I was looking at the wrong page for what I was referring to.  (I think I got confused by the way one of the links in their page changes to "Transfer DNS Back to Us" after setting name servers...) I've got the custom DNS servers set to the nameservers from the email (as per that second link) so now I'm just waiting for it to propagate, right?
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anagramarye posted:Sorry, I was looking at the wrong page for what I was referring to. That is correct. If you are a big impatient gorilla, you can try Google DNS, It's free and much better than your ISP's DNS. http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
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I'm more of a moderate-sized confused wildebeest, so I'm willing to wait.
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Apache 1.x What hosts still use it? I know GoDaddy and 1&1 do, but do who else?
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DarkLotus posted:That is correct. If you are a big impatient gorilla, you can try Google DNS, It's free and much better than your ISP's DNS. Um, you'd use those for your end connection, not to handle your DNS records.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Um, you'd use those for your end connection, not to handle your DNS records. Yeah, that's what I was suggesting. If he didn't want to wait for his crappy ISP's DNS servers to refresh, he could use Google DNS which proves to be much faster with Propagation. Since he already stated he made the Name Server change at NameCheap.
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Bob Morales posted:Apache 1.x Do you require it? Most stuff will work with Apache 2, the main thing I ran into migrating customers over is the format if their rewrites in .htaccess. Once it was reformatted for Apache 2.0 everything performs a lot better than the older version.
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So I'm looking for a decent, cheap, privacy respecting webhost that will also provide POP3/IMAP hosting... I had looked at Nearly Free Speech but they only offered email forwarding... I'm trying to move away from storing all my email with companies like Google so it's a bit of a dealbreaker. I just want to host a small personal site, my email, and a blog on a subdomain. Any suggestions?
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GregNorc posted:So I'm looking for a decent, cheap, privacy respecting webhost that will also provide POP3/IMAP hosting... I had looked at Nearly Free Speech but they only offered email forwarding... I'm trying to move away from storing all my email with companies like Google so it's a bit of a dealbreaker. What do you mean when you say "privacy respecting"? What type of privacy are you talking about and how is it not being respected with your current host? I'd like to think most hosts won't release client information without your consent or a court order.
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DarkLotus posted:What do you mean when you say "privacy respecting"? What type of privacy are you talking about and how is it not being respected with your current host? I'd like to think most hosts won't release client information without your consent or a court order. No one I've looked at except for Nearly Free Speech actually states that, and if they don't state it in the TOS then theoretically if the government asks for the data, they are within their rights to turn it over. So I'm looking for places that explicitly state they do not turn over material without a warrant.
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I am searching for a windows VPS. Nothing too big -- just hosting for a few personal sites/apps. Anyone in particular stand out?
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