The setting up and running of a server to serve web pages via the internet or LAN. Technical questions about the server (if you have access to it) maybe best asked on serverfault.com. Read the answers to this question: ...
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Who would you recommend for a CMS and WHY [on hold]
We have a website powered by the DotNetNuke CMS. It does a pretty good job, but we're in the market for another solution. We're still determining what we need the CMS to do, but in the interim, I ...
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How to make DNS transparent and keep showing domain name instead of IP address? [on hold]
This is the first time I've configured the hosting myself and I ran into some problems.
I've registered the domain name on yourhosting.nl and configured the hosting with a LAMP stack on Ubuntu 14.04 ...
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How can I create a hits counter which effective on every file access? [on hold]
I'd like to create a counter which whenever users access any file onmy website, it adds one.
I am using online web hosts so I don't have access to server logs.
I think it is possible using htaccess.
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How can I back-up/transfer files from a Linux-based web host, preserving their naming structure & permissions? [closed]
I've faced a dilemma. I'm moving my web site's files from one web hosting company to another. I was first suggested to use a usual "Back-up and restore" solution off of most Control panels. ...
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Is there a way to get a custom domain name for free with google drive websites? [closed]
I there a way to get a custom domain like www.example.com for free for a google drive website? I know that gweb.io has a 2 month trial but is there another service that would be able to do it for an ...
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How do I find out where my server is?
I have this image hosted through Dropbox and it loads slowly. I need to determine if the location of the server is too far away from my main audience so I can determine if that is the cause of the ...
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Does using a CDN such as Amazon Cloudfront save hosting bandwidth?
I have a site hosted on a shared server with limited bandwidth. Does using a CDN like cloud front minimise bandwidth usage on my hosting server?
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I need to host large mp3 files & link them on website for download [closed]
I have a requirement where i need to lost large mp3 files on a web server. file size may vary from 1MB - 120MB (where most of the files are more than 20MB)
With large size in mind i cant host these ...
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loading old web pages and not the updated ones
I have updated my design and uploaded it to my server, but it's showing old content for sometime, new content for sometime. I randomly checked lots of computer, same problem is happening everywhere.
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How to understand scheme://host.domain:port/path/filename?
I'm learning HTML at www.w3schools.com/html/html_urlencode.asp and don't understand this sentence:
host - defines the domain host (default host for http is www)
Example
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Scaleable way to host PHP web service? [duplicate]
This is my first time working on a project like this, and i'm not sure where to turn next or how i should go about launching.
Currently the site consists of PHP and html files in a "/public_html" ...
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What records (DNS, Nameservers etc.) need to be used to map a Domain to a Hosting Server
I have a purchased domain that I am trying to create a site on. I have uploaded the files to the public_html folder of the hosting provider's server.
I am confused about what all records I need to ...
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How to get a free signed secure certificate? [closed]
My web hosting service only provide non-free signed secure certificate. Is there a way I can get a free one on Internet?
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How risky is putting sensitive files up on webroot?
I understand that having anything sensitive under webroot is not smart; someone may be able to access it via url. However, I do not have a choice with my web host (iPage) as they limit my server space ...
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The number of sites on a shared host
I have been looking at a number of shared hosting providers, and I used domaintools.com services to see how many other domains are hosted at a single IP address. I think Hostgator had a high number of ...
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How do I disable SSL on a GoDaddy hosted site?
I've got a GoDaddy hosted site which currently has a long expired SSL certificate on it. The site is a simple static site with no data. However, since it's an outward facing site it falls under ...
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Migrating a website to a new server and content management system but keeping domain: What will happen to our Google rank?
We are currently in the process of launching a new website in my non-profit organisation; our old web site that has been around since the end of the 90's will be replaced by a Squarespace site.
Now, ...
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Apache Redirect to another folder, both within and outside document root
I've recently set up a home web/media server and having a few difficulties with a few of the settings. It's working fine for serving webpages etc but I've now reorganised the structure of the main ...
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Domain, SSL Certificate and Webhost in from different providing companies
I am planning to migrate from godaddy to another webhosting company but not including my domain registrations. I have two domain names and I am planning to get one free domain name from the webhosting ...
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Getting spam from non-existent form?
A client was getting a lot of spam from a form on their site. I added Captcha and changed the form fields and form recipient email address, but the client is still receiving spam from the server, with ...
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Godaddy one page hosting
Disclaimer: not sure this is the right place for this kind of question, sorry in advance, just point me to the right place and I'll move it.
In godaddy when paying only for domain, without hosting, ...
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How to stop browser from rejecting my downloads?
I have a portfolio site where I am trying to host some of my work, so people can download my work. Some of these files include exe executables, and some are .jar executables, which are run through ...
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HostGator hosting account and DNS servers
I have a hosting package on HostGator on domain example.com
I also got a VPS server from Digital Ocean and have setup the DNS Details on the server there (A Record pointing on DO server IP with @ as ...
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How do I launch my website online? [closed]
I designed my website on Dreamweaver. Then I bought a domain name. What do I need to do now to launch my website online?
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My shared hosting account is sending spam emails
My webhost has deactivated my shared hosting account, since it was sending spam emails through my domain.
I have all unrouted mail such as mailto:[email protected] set to be forwarded to a specific ...
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Redundant Hosting and duplicate content's effect on SEO
My Company is currently in the early planning phases of a project where we are playing with the idea of hosting our web project on multiple continents. The idea is to push local users to the closest ...
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Hosting for image heavy wordpress website? [duplicate]
What type hosting should I choose for a image heavy wordpress website ? I have to host about 30000 images approx 1.5 mb each + the thumbnail that will be generated for each image i.e about 80-100 kb ...
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What can I do to take control of a domain from a client's previous developer?
A client of mine has a website that is incomplete. The last developers quit from this work, and they need get this work done.
The problem is that I can't get cPannel access, and the first developer ...
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How to change hosting?
I have a website, here both domain and hosting are presently on crazydomains.com.au
Now I want to change hosting to Godadday but domain control should remain unchanged. I already purchased hosting ...
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Hostinger host and tk domain optimal DNS configuration
I want to configure tk domain with hostinger. I don't want to use the redirect option, so I'm trying to set the tk dns. In the image below are shown the parameters of hostinger that I have put in dns ...
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Cookie security risk between primary domain and a CMS on a subdomain
Without making the question too general, I am looking to discover the specific risks associated with cookies between my primary domain hosting HTML content only, to a subdomain that is hosting ...
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Swapped 2 accounts domains on WHM, now both no longer work
I have 2 accounts with websites on my VPS - one had an old website, the other I was developing a new website on.
When I had finished the new website I simply went to 'Modify Accounts' and swapped the ...
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How to show client a domainless site without altering hosts file or using 'serverip/~accountname'?
We have updated VPSs and apparently the latest version of PHP(?) does not allow you to use the servers ip /~accountname as a way to view a site that does not yet have a domain name associated to it, ...
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Best Free Webhosting with MySQL & outside access? [duplicate]
I am looking for some free webhosting to test some programs on. Need the following:
Ability to point my DNS to it
PHP & MySQL
Allows outside connections (ie: I can access MySQL from my own ...
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Transferred hosting and website not online during transition for 2 weeks - will this affect search results? [duplicate]
If a website's hosting is being transferred and is not online in between for approx. 14 days - would this affect the organic search positions when it's finally transferred? When they've since ...
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website for software distribution: standard hosting or vps hosting? [duplicate]
I want to create a website on which users can download software, but each time one of the user downloads the software, I want it to be modified: compiled again with some new information, obfuscated, ...
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How to keep website(www) parked at GoDaddy but manage e-mails elsewhere? [duplicate]
I have a domain registered at GoDaddy and a dedicated server I want to use to manage e-mails.
If I want to keep www.mydomain.com loading from GoDaddy(at least for now) yet when e-mails are sent to ...
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URL Forward all links from domain without slugs
I have an old site which I no longer use so I decided to redirect the domain to an article from another domain. The old site does not have web hosting anymore which means I had to url forward through ...
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How do I update my DNS server so that it points to my new web server?
I am at a loss of what to do here. I bought a domain name some time ago, but just that. Tonight, I bought a subscription to DemonVPS to use as a web server.
Following their tutorial, I put the ...
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Using Cloudflare service on new hosting provider
I've changed my hosting provider today and bought a new host from another provider but i have this problem.
about my previous host:
my previous hosting was also the one that registered my domain. ...
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How bad of an idea is it to host unrelated sites on the same server? [closed]
I apologize in advance for the opinionated nature of this question, but I want to get some advice based on people's real world experience with this sort of thing.
By profession, I'm a software ...
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How can I add 'sub1.sub2.domain.com' to my GoDaddy hosting account?
I'm using GoDaddy's Ultimate hosting plan, and I'd like to know how to add sub.sub domain to it.
For example, I want to create a site as es.n.domain.com. However, GoDaddy tells me when I add the dot ...
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multiple shared hosting accounts hosting different subdomains of same addon domain?
I have two shared hosting accounts, each with limited storage space:
HostingAccountA with 'PrimaryDomainA', and HostingAccountB with 'PrimaryDomainB'.
A negligible amount of storage is being used ...
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What does I/O Limit mean in a hosting package?
I have a few questions about I/O limit in a hosting package. Lets say a hosting package offers 1MB I/O limit.
Does it mean that at any given time no more than 1MB data can be transferred from disk?
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What dedicated server is for $8 each month? [duplicate]
What dedicated server is for $8 or less each month and has at least 512MB ram?
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Site has propagated on all browsers except Chrome?
I've switched a sites nameservers to a new host with a new site. This has worked fine on FireFox and Safari but Chrome still shows the old site. Obviously I have cleared the cache but the problem ...
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Split domain name between two hosts (separate webmail and webhost) [duplicate]
I currently have my email and webserver hosted through Yahoo. I'm having way too much trouble trying to integrate my application with their lack of php/mysql support.
I'd like to use my domain name ...
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When changing hosting, how to see files served from the new server
domain example.com is running on a server A.
Then I changed host to the server B.
Now when I open URL example.com, I still see the files from host A.
But I want the files from host B.
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What steps do I take to transfer a WordPress site from one host to another?
I have a self-hosted WordPress site at a hosting provider but I need to move it to a new hosting company.
How do I transfer my WordPress installation from one host to the other, and then how do I ...
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Can I restart my WordPress site without using a different domain name?
I'm getting problems with crawling my site in Google Webmasters Tools. I'm seeing weird URLs that end with my domain, like:
/tag/sugar/www.k2ost.com
/tag/melody-day/www.k2ost.com
and also like ...
