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Rufo posted:http://www.namecheap.com Also coupon code ELEPHANTS for 88 cents off http://www.retailmenot.com/view/namecheap.com
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More of a DNS question, but... Let's say you have a bunch of websites, all on one server: site1.com site2.com site3.com .. .. And they all have NS records pointing to the same IP address, such as 11.22.33.44 For making it easier to move them around in the future, could you point them all to the same CNAME, like web.myserver.com? Then when I move to a different host I can just change the A record for web.myserver.com instead of 50 or 100 individual records? Pros/cons?
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Apr 12, 2011 16:52
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Bob Morales posted:More of a DNS question, but... Another way would be to make each zone use the same zonefile code:code:
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Apr 12, 2011 17:30
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Looking for a recommendation for a good domain registrar who can handle asian domains specifically .jp, .co.kr, .tw, .com.tw. I've used both Asia Registry and 101domains for this in the past and have bad experiences. I just want to transfer some domains and then not be hassled with fictitious renewal notifications or have to babysit the registrar through the process. So far I'm thinking about trying marcaria, any thoughts?
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Apr 12, 2011 19:21
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Bob Morales posted:More of a DNS question, but... isn't CNAMEing site.com against some form of RFC and would break mail handling and other inane things? www is fine, apparently
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Apr 12, 2011 19:24
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Biowarfare posted:isn't CNAMEing site.com against some form of RFC and would break mail handling and other inane things? This is something that he'd have to watch out for, yes MX and NS records cannot point to a CNAME
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Apr 12, 2011 19:29
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Rufo posted:This is something that he'd have to watch out for, yes Correct, I should have said dev.site1.com staging.site1.com dev.site2.com staging.site2.com etc since site1.com is actually pointing to whatever the actual website is at the co-lo
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Apr 12, 2011 19:31
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What's the hands down cheapest domain registrar?
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Apr 14, 2011 10:25
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hatersg2haet posted:What's the hands down cheapest domain registrar? Not sure there really is a 'cheapest' (at least one that's reputable). Alot of it depends on which TLD you want. You can get .info's for like 2-3 bucks a year from most of the well known registrars. If you want some sleezy .cm site that'll run you closer to $100/yr etc. Namecheap is worth looking out, ~10/yr for a .com. If you can get a coupon that's probably your cheapest bet. I'd steer well clear of Godaddy they're definietly not the cheapest and fairly terrible.
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Apr 14, 2011 19:50
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I'm having a weird DNS related problem. My domain is registered with GoDaddy and my hosting is done by SoftLayer. The problem is that occasionally my domain name will not resolve unless it has "www" in front of it, even though I have an A record pointing "mydomain.com" to the correct IP address. What's weird is this will resolve itself in 10-15 minutes and "mydomain.com" will begin resolving correctly, instead of to a parked GoDaddy page. The intermittence of the problem makes me think it is related to the TTL of one of my records. I've confirmed the issue on multiple computers/routers when it starts happening. It still resolves properly with "www.mydomain.com" but not "mydomain.com" Here is my zone record: code:
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Apr 14, 2011 20:09
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Why don't you make www a CNAME for mydomain.com and not set it up so it has its own A record? Edit: Hell of those should be CNAMEs if the IP is the same as @'s.
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Apr 14, 2011 20:21
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I'm not sure why they were all made A records by default. That is the default record SoftLayer makes when you add your domain to their name server; I'll try changing them to CNAMEs.
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Apr 14, 2011 20:42
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I've got four unused PositiveSSL certificates that I got free when I registered some domain names, but I have to use them by the end of May or they will disappear. I don't need SSL on my sites, should I let them expire or is there anything else I can do with them?
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Apr 15, 2011 23:55
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ferretsrule posted:I've got four unused PositiveSSL certificates that I got free when I registered some domain names, but I have to use them by the end of May or they will disappear. Chain them together and make one super SSL cert.
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Apr 16, 2011 05:14
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ferretsrule posted:I don't need SSL on my sites, should I let them expire or is there anything else I can do with them?
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Apr 16, 2011 05:27
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Man I hear you I have tons of the stupid things. I really hate them too. They're chained certs so I have to add in the drat ca-bundle to everything with ssl, not a big deal just annoying. Plus Commodo likes to get its root authority cracked (wow). I pretty much use them only because namecheap gives them out like candy and its more of an aesthetic thing so I don't have Firefox yelling at me for a self-signed cert. Maybe I should just drop the  on a RapidSSL or something.
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Apr 16, 2011 06:53
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Fun fact: the Namecheap SSL certs don't renew each other!
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Apr 16, 2011 10:33
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I "run" a small phpbb3 board for my gaming buddies with about 50 members. Every time somebody new signs up they need to be approved by an admin. This means the board uses the mass email option to mail the same 5-6 people that somebody needs to be approved, and this only happens maybe a couple times a month, if that. I'm currently on free hosting, which is slow, and has also automatically shut down my site twice because they don't like the whole mass mail thing. I've disabled new registrations until I can get it sorted out, but I'm generally unhappy with them and am looking to move. I'd like something cheap that allows mass email. I was looking at lithium hosting, but they haven't responded to my pre-sales question detailing this exact question. Can anyone recommend a cheap host that would allow me to use mass email?
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drcru posted:Fun fact: the Namecheap SSL certs don't renew each other!
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MonkeyFit posted:I "run" a small phpbb3 board for my gaming buddies with about 50 members. Every time somebody new signs up they need to be approved by an admin. This means the board uses the mass email option to mail the same 5-6 people that somebody needs to be approved, and this only happens maybe a couple times a month, if that. I'm currently on free hosting, which is slow, and has also automatically shut down my site twice because they don't like the whole mass mail thing. I've disabled new registrations until I can get it sorted out, but I'm generally unhappy with them and am looking to move. Mass mailing is allowed and you'd be fine with the $1.00 / month plan. I never received an email from you, feel free to post in the SA-Mart thread if you have questions.
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Apr 16, 2011 22:19
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Does anyone here have experience getting their Thunderbird email working with Namecheap.com's webmail? I can't get it to work! Their Live Support reps haven't been able to figure out what needs to be done, and the online resources are outdated since they're based on older versions of Thunderbird.
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Apr 25, 2011 00:35
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melon cat posted:namecheap webmail I don't have any useful information about your question, but I do have a suggestion: google apps.
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Apr 25, 2011 01:16
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Comatoast posted:google apps A thousand times this
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Apr 25, 2011 01:20
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Comatoast posted:I don't have any useful information about your question, but I do have a suggestion: google apps. Agreed. It's free too, can't go wrong! http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new
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Apr 25, 2011 01:31
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And google apps only takes a few minutes to setup if you know what you're doing.
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Apr 25, 2011 02:27
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Are there any freeware programs for Windows that can monitor a website or URL and send an email if the URL fails to load? The best I've seen is a program that will ping a host and email if it's down, but I need something that will actually check the HTTP status codes in case the host is up but the web server crashes or something.
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Apr 25, 2011 15:28
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Pingdom has a one-website free plan that can text you/email/twitter you if your host goes down. It can check status codes, and check if certain text exists on the page.
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I was looking for something similar to this silence detector but for monitoring a website instead of audio, and I think I found it: http://www.integrio.net/server-monitoring/uptime-scout.html Ticks all the boxes for what I need. But thanks for the suggestions, I might use one of the free online monitors just to have an off-site monitor for redundancy.
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Megiddo posted:I was looking for something similar to this silence detector but for monitoring a website instead of audio, and I think I found it: I never though about looking for an app like this but will definately use this now! Thanks. What script do you use?
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thegasman2000 posted:I never though about looking for an app like this but will definately use this now! Thanks. What script do you use?
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Megiddo posted:Script? Like a batch script to run if the site's down? yeah I installed the app and when you add a server to monitor you get an "execute on server fail"
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angryhampster posted:I do appreciate the follow-up you've offered in the last 24 hours. However, when my initial request went unanswered for two whole days and there is no viable contact information publicly listed on the website, do you think my frustrations weren't warranted? So apparently my troubles with Nixihost are not over with. This morning I was charged for another year of hosting with them AFTER I'd requested them to close my account. They responded yesterday with 'we can keep you on board for only six bucks, wanna stay?' Of course I responded no, please cancel the account. Filing a dispute via paypal right now. The reason I'm posting publicly is because it seems to be the most effective way of getting through to anyone at Nixi. If anyone on here expects good customer service, reliability, and speedy ticket responses, steer clear of nixihost. e: They also charged me $10 more than my invoice stated. What a crock of poo poo. angryhampster fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Apr 26, 2011 |
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angryhampster posted:So apparently my troubles with Nixihost are not over with. This morning I was charged for another year of hosting with them AFTER I'd requested them to close my account. They responded yesterday with 'we can keep you on board for only six bucks, wanna stay?' Of course I responded no, please cancel the account. I'm on my mobile so I can't take care of your ticket right this second but I want to clear some things up. 1. We've had major downtime one time in the last year when we actually had to move severs to a better datacenter. Before that we had never had site wide downtime. 2. We didn't charge you anything, making impossible for us to overcharge you. When you signed up for an account with us you setup a PayPal subscription which will automatically send us money every year. What happened was you didn't cancel the PayPal subscription and sent us money anyway. This was explained clearly in the signup process and you can manage your PayPal subscription directly through your PayPal account. Your subscription can be canceled at literally any time without any interaction with us. 3. You reversed the PayPal subscription without letting us refund it to you, dragging out the process and locking up the payment you sent to us. If you go cancel the reversal I'll be happy to give you a full refund. 4. The last time I replied to your tickets I told you specifically to reply back to me so I could take care of your account closure. Instead you sent in a general support ticket which get routed to the next free person in queue. Despite this your tickets have been answered within a reasonable time frame every time you have contacted us. It's completely unnecessary to come on here and slander our business because you feel you have been wronged. I've tried multiple times to work with you directly but I feel you would rather complain and be upset and make things up on here than take any help from me.
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Seven Round Things posted:Is there a good free host? You get what you pay for. What do you need? Befriend a goon or someone on IRC and maybe they'll give you a shell or some web space or if you suck a great cock, a small VPS.
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Is there really any worry on running WordPress and Joomla! on our production servers, full of our production apps and data (no credit card numbers or things like that, but nonetheless it's data)? We're re-doing our site as a Joomla! site, and instead of throwing it on a VPS or something they want to throw it on the 'main server'. I suggested we put it on it's own server, the rest of the team came back with "It's already running Wordpress and Interspire, what's the difference?" Am I coming across as a paranoid freak or am I the only person with half a brain? I know Joomla and WP aren't rinky-dink CMSes but it's still not bright to stick it on a server that runs your core business production apps, right?
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Apr 26, 2011 21:17
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Seven Round Things posted:Is there a good free host? What do you need it for, and what service can you provide in exchange? 
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Apr 26, 2011 21:18
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Bob Morales posted:
I don't know about Joomla but I know there are massive gaping security holes on Wordpress when installed through Fantastico... Or manually if you don't set it up right... For my own piece of mind I would go your route. Who rear end is it on the line?
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Bob Morales posted:Is there really any worry on running WordPress and Joomla! on our production servers, full of our production apps and data (no credit card numbers or things like that, but nonetheless it's data)? Jail them somehow, don't run as same permissions or anything if you really have to. Considering both applications' track records, I wouldn't run them on the same.
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orphean posted:Why don't you make www a CNAME for mydomain.com and not set it up so it has its own A record? CNAMES are not a convenience feature to avoid typing in IPs.
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