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A type of service that allows a website to be made accessible via the internet. Web hosting can consist of storage space plus access to a website running a variety of technologies all the way up to fully dedicated servers provided by a third party.

Web hosting is a type of service that allows a website to be made accessible via the internet. Web hosting can consist of storage space plus access to a website running a variety of technologies all the way up to fully dedicated servers provided by a third party.

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How can bulletproof hosting be feasible?

Bulletproof Hosting Providers (BPHS) allow servers containing illegal porn, malware, organized (cyber)crime, major spam and all this on the WWW? If Spamhaus can block the entire subnet of such a BPHS why can't the government? i.e. How can a BPHS…
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Does compromise of one cPanel / WHM account on a server mean the other accounts are at risk?

I have created multiple cpanel accounts using my server WHM panel. As of now each domain has separate cpanel in my server. If one of my cpanel (domain) hacked, does that mean other cpanel are hacked too?
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Assuming malicious admin, what threats does a dedicated server mitigate vs VPS?

We host several dedicated servers and VPS instances containing sensitive data with 3rd party hosting providers. We understand we have to trust the providers as they have full control of the hardware, root on the VPS hosts and IPMI access to the…
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What are the biggest security risks/considerations for hosting your own private website?

I have a small personal website hosted through go-daddy. I also have an old machine sitting in my garage collecting dust. I know enough to make my old dumpy machine a Linux server for my tiny website and save a few bucks on hosting. But what are the…
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What are these long www bitnik URL?

Noticed it here https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/446263047812702208 wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org Is this some security feature?
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How to find out where a website is hosted?

I would like to find out where a website is hosted, in other words where the server/datacentre is located and the name of the company that provides the hosting. I have used the various websites that come up on google but they keep telling me that…
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Security concerns on hosting server

Few years back I hosted my website on godaddy but I was not that tech savy so they (customer care people) assisted me on hosting the website on their shared hosting server. Since then I am on a constant endeavor to educate myself in tech area and…
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