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Oh My Science posted:If you don't mind me asking, how do you manage client sites? Do you use Cpanel (or something like it)? Or is there something better I should look into if I go with Linode? To be honest I was already leaning towards them, but have little experience setting up my own hosting environment. I use DirectAdmin mainly, I've had a lifetime license for a couple of years now so I just install it when I'm on a new VPS. You'll still need to know your way around Linux though. There are other control panels available as well but if you want to try doing it yourself, Linode's IRC channel is great. They also have a good wiki and knowledgebase here: http://www.linode.com/community/. edit: You might want to read up on Webmin/Virtualmin, it seems like a nice free way to manage your client sites. Acer Pilot fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Sep 27, 2011 |
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Oh My Science posted:If you don't mind me asking, how do you manage client sites? Do you use Cpanel (or something like it)? Or is there something better I should look into if I go with Linode? To be honest I was already leaning towards them, but have little experience setting up my own hosting environment. I have a Linode that I run CPanel on. I only have it because the people I host are used to it. Otherwise I probably wouldn't use a panel. But, if you're used to it then it's $15/m for a CPanel VPS license, that is optimized to use ~100mb of RAM. It's really easy to set up a Linode with CPanel, you basically just deploy the initial OS install and then run the CPanel script and it does the rest for you. Linode also has a great IRC channel, and a good Wiki for help. So while you're expected to manage your Linode yourself, there are resources if you need a little help and are willing to try to fix it yourself.
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less than three posted:They also have gigabit and unmetered data options: http://nocster.com/servers-la.shtml I'm trying to upgrade from a linode 1536 vps. I was looking at Steadfast for the new dedicated server. Particularly this package for $99: https://secure.steadfast.net/services/order/dedicated.php?managed=basic&server=atom-d525&step=3 But looking at your link, I can get the Core2Quad Q8200 QUAD CORE 2.33GHZ. It looks like the steadfast pack but with most attributes doubled and for the same price. Is there any reason I shouldn't go for this? And if so, is it worth paying $20 extra to get the i5? I'm not too knowledgeable on hardware, so Help Me Decide!
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barbarianbob posted:I'm trying to upgrade from a linode 1536 vps. I was looking at Steadfast for the new dedicated server. Particularly this package for $99: https://secure.steadfast.net/services/order/dedicated.php?managed=basic&server=atom-d525&step=3 steadfast has an awesome network and whatnot, I've seen 2min response times (or less) on support tickets when I admin'd a box for someone nocster/burst is what you would call "ultra budget servers"
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:Anybody have a recommendation for free DNS? I'm using WTFdns but just noticed that one of their two nameservers doesn't resolve, so I'd prefer to switch to something before the other one decides to die too. We did a deal where we exchanged servers with another host and for some reason (still don't know why) our server went down and they weren't being responsive about getting it back online. I held out for a month but it doesn't look like it was ever going to be put back online, luckily it was a cheapo Atom that we swapped. I went ahead and set up a VM with prgmr as our secondary DNS. Also just to note, our primary DNS server is a redundant pair. Plus we keep an off site database replication in case we have catastrophic failure and we do daily backups of the database, again off site. Biowarfare posted:steadfast has an awesome network and whatnot, I've seen 2min response times (or less) on support tickets when I admin'd a box for someone Steadfast is great, I used to have some gear with them and they're super responsive and the network is great. Burst is terrible and I'd never suggest them to anyone. ElCondemn fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Oct 1, 2011 |
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So I just signed up for dreamhost but the wording is a little confusing. Am I going to get charged $9.95 a month or a bulk charge of $119.40?
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Monster w21 Faces posted:So I just signed up for dreamhost but the wording is a little confusing. Am I going to get charged $9.95 a month or a bulk charge of $119.40? While dh is acceptable, as a general rule if you see unlimited, run.
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Biowarfare posted:While dh is acceptable, as a general rule if you see unlimited, run. Why is this?
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Oct 2, 2011 17:55
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cos they're massively oversold and cannot provide unlimited anything
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I'm not really looking to live in the cloud just yet, all I'm really after is a reliable service to host a specialist interest website and a forum.
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Monster w21 Faces posted:I'm not really looking to live in the cloud just yet, all I'm really after is a reliable service to host a specialist interest website and a forum. No one's talking about the cloud. Bluehost, iPower, Fatcow and the other terrible poo poo unlimited hosts take like.. minutes to make a single page. I've seen 6 minutes to load a single empty phpBB forum freshly installed. Use https://www.medialayer.com or https://www.mddhosting.com if you want to keep your sanity.
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I've already signed up for dreamhost though. :/ Am I boned?
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Monster w21 Faces posted:I've already signed up for dreamhost though. :/
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Monster w21 Faces posted:But isn't the domain name tied up with dreamhost now? Rufo posted:*puts eggs marked "domains" and "hosting" in a single, precariously balanced basket* Biowarfare posted:Getting domains and hosting at the same place is the worst possible idea on earth
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Aggh poops. Oh well live and learn.
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Came in here thinking that I should find a nice Goon owned host. Turns out I've been with a Goon host for the past 2-3 months. Lithium Hosting rocks!  k\o\w posted:I went with Lithium Hosting for this reason because I love how easy fantastico is. After getting really lovely support from them with way too much attitude and neckbeard stroking, I switched to https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ Not trying to start an argument about who is better or anything. But personally, I am very happy with Lithium Hosting. They helped me move my domain and answer my questions. (Which I have plenty of.) Boar It fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Oct 2, 2011 |
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Biowarfare posted:Use https://www.medialayer.com [...] if you want to keep your sanity.  How America sees the world.jpg
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:Domain stuff I guess it depends on the host. Where I work we don't care about your domains like... at all. If you want to cancel your hosting, we make you pay what you would have had to pay normally for the domain (if it was free with your hosting) and that's it. After that it's yours, go nuts.
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Comradephate posted:Where I work we don't care about your domains like... at all. On topic, does it matter which of Google's MX records I use? Support says: code:code:e: ask a question, fix it myself a minute later. I hate when this happens Malloc Voidstar fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Oct 3, 2011 |
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Yes they're equiv, the numbers are just relative priorities
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:These are equivalent, right? Email to one of my domains has yet to work so I'm doublechecking my poo poo. gotta give it propagation time (right?  )
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:Sounds like a great place to put some domains! Just to clarify/I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not: I mean that we don't care in the sense that we aren't interested in holding your domains hostage. We care that they are active/renewed/working. >_>
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Anyone have a recommendation for a VPS/cheap dedicated server located in Texas? I run game and voice servers for my friends and I, and I'd like to get as low of a ping as possible.
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Linode has a location in Texas. I might be switching their soon myself since Linode's Fremont DC is down again. HE sure loves to get DOS'd/have power failures.
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Well, over the last 4 days or so I've had a perfectly good working relationship with VPSLand go completely down the toilet over what I thought would be a trivial request. I've rented an instance from them since January of this year, and they've been pretty good at addressing all the little issues that I've asked them about, like opening ports in their firewall in a couple of hours, and generally being good with support. The initial instance that they created for me was a Windows Server 2008 install, running on a Virtuozzo platform. It came with MS SQL 2005, and everything else I was able to install myself. I really wasn't concerned with performance outside of bandwidth considerations, and everything seemed to work fine. I basically had a few PHP/MySQL sites, and a few IIS/SQL Server 2005 sites, and an instance of VisualSVN, that were just to provide working versions of my various code sample projects, so basically only a handful of people were visiting and everything was working great. So flash forward to last Friday when I asked if it would be possible to get an upgrade to SQL Server 2008, so that I could incorporate the Geography datatype into my samples. They said they could do it, no problem. Before starting down my own little bitchfest, let me preface this by saying that I would have just installed MS SQL Server 2008 myself, but the Express Version (and I'm sure full version) installer craps out under the Virtuozzo system. This would have saved me so much annoyance that it's stupid at this point. The first time, I log back into my server to see that all instances of SQL Server are gone, and the system doesn't come back online after I restart it for the first time. Then I get assigned to a new IP address, and log into see a broken SQL Server Management Studio.exe on the desktop and a ton of spyware installed throughout the system, with all kinds of weather related junk installed. After this, they reassigned me back to my original IP address and did wipe/reinstall thing again, and again there were no instances of SQL Server installed. Que to my final install, which gloriously does have a correct instance installed. I begin loading my projects back online and everything seems good, and I can finally start having my website back again. So I wake up today and my system is down again, and has been for the whole day. I'm pretty much ready to drop these guys and find another company, I'm thinking MyHost, but I just want this to start working on go back to how it was for the first 9 months. This whole ordeal has had me taken aback, because it's been a complete 180 degree turn from how they had been about everything in the past.
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Hello, I am super new to the land of "havin' a website"! So here is my deal, hoping you guys could help me. I'm looking to make a portfolio website. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible and I don't plan on using up a lot of space at all. I'm trying to find a host and a place for a domain name, but I guess (given this latest page here) that I shouldn't do that with the same service. I was planning on doing just that with pacifichost but now I don't know. Is there a better option than GoDaddy for domains? And also is pacifichost any good for hosting or would I be better off with say, one of the goon-run sites (Lithium in particular looks pretty nice). kidcoelacanth fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Oct 4, 2011 |
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kidcoelacanth posted:Is there a better option than GoDaddy for domains? Pretty much anyone is better than GoDaddy at anything.
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Bob Morales posted:Pretty much anyone is better than GoDaddy at anything. I was hoping so.
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I'll suggest NameCheap. I'll advise against registering your domain through your hosting provider.
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Bob Morales posted:Pretty much anyone is better than GoDaddy at anything. Godaddy does beat vacuum cleaners in something though.
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eightysixed posted:I'll suggest NameCheap. Seconding namecheap.
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Bob Morales posted:Pretty much anyone is better than GoDaddy at anything. I have heard this a ton, but what is the downfall of registering domains through them?
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Moey posted:I have heard this a ton, but what is the downfall of registering domains through them? Having to deal with them and their absolutely ridiculous website. If that's not enough of a downside for you then you probably only have 1 domain or something. Or really low standards.
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Moey posted:I have heard this a ton, but what is the downfall of registering domains through them? Loss of domains via arbitrary boredom, abuse reports are acted on with no verification Endless email spam Checkout involves 12 pages of upsells Control panel involves upsells on every menu item Selling of personal information for profit Even more spam Example: adding one DNS record involves clicking through would you like to buy premiumdns/email/hosting/business insurance/whois privacy/premium whois privacy with your ad in results
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Moey posted:I have heard this a ton, but what is the downfall of registering domains through them?  My wife's business' site is registered through Hytek. I know, I know - it seemed like a good idea at the time (three years ago). I'd like to move her away from it and to someone else. What scares me (terrifies me) is getting her emails moved at the same time. Thousands of emails, organized into dozens of folders. She uses her domain email, but she runs all of her mail 100% through Gmail. If you ever hear of a gruesome murder/suicide in Virginia, involving multiple chainsaws and defenestration, it's because I switched her site to a new host and lost all of her old emails. How do I do this? What steps do I take to change hosting while keeping the old emails? Is this a simple thing that I'm worrying too much over, or is it as big a pain as I'm imagining?
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jackpot posted:How do I do this? What steps do I take to change hosting while keeping the old emails? Is this a simple thing that I'm worrying too much over, or is it as big a pain as I'm imagining? Since HyTek uses cpanel, copy the /home/username/etc and /home/username/mail folders. Upload those to your new host and make sure the permissions are right and it will copy all old emails and email accounts / settings.
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Move her email onto google apps. Set it up to import (and delete) new email via pop3 from her old server. Then go onto her old email and mark all the messages as unread and wait for them to move (might take a while but works perfectly)
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jackpot posted:I'm seriously thinking of opening a business where all I do is offer to renew peoples' Godaddy (and Network Solutions) domains. People will laugh at me...until they try to do it on their own and find themselves at the checkout screen with a $700 bill and a domain that's registered for the next 100 years (private, of course!). I'll make a loving fortune. If both hosts are cpanel accounts you could make a backup file for the whole account and then restore it on the other end. Some hosts might help work with you do this. The complete backups include stuff like databases, so you don't have to set them back up on the other end. If it is just the mail, you can just copy the directory or import it to google mail like mentioned.
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DarkLotus posted:Since HyTek uses cpanel, copy the /home/username/etc and /home/username/mail folders. Upload those to your new host and make sure the permissions are right and it will copy all old emails and email accounts / settings. Rufo posted:Move her email onto google apps. Set it up to import (and delete) new email via pop3 from her old server. Then go onto her old email and mark all the messages as unread and wait for them to move (might take a while but works perfectly)
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