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Questions tagged [web-hosting]

The setting up and running of a server to serve web pages via the internet or LAN. Where you are not the administrator of the server the questions may be best asked on webmasters.stackexchange.com (for example if using shared hosting).

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Processor: more cores or higher clock for webhosting with MAMP?

I want to buy a Mac mini for webhosting with MAMP. I'll use Apache with PHP and MySQL. I have the choice between: 3.6GHz quad‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i3 and 3.0GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz) What is the…
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How do 100Mbps, 1Gbps, 2Gbps or 10Gbps network ports affect Website/server performance?

(Sorry if this question looks silly.) I see that many popular hosting companies still offer (primarily) a 100mbps network switch - Hostgator and Rackspace are good examples. While very few exist that offer a gigabit uplink connection - mediatemple…
user88753
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Ubuntu server version

does anyone know the "best" Ubuntu version to choose for a VPS host? i'm after stability and scalability. Slicehost offers Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty and Kramic. any ideas?
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How can I determine what hosting provider hosts a site?

Is there a service that will identify where a site is hosted (presumably by IP)?
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Question about server usage, big community platform

Possible Duplicate: How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites I’m working on a community platform writen in PHP, MySQL. I have some questions about the server usage maybe someone can help me out. The community is based on…
Json
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file system rights in shared web hosting environment

how do you setup files and folders rights in a shared web hosting environment ? do you use apache + suexec ? how can you prevent members of group "www" to read files belonging to other users in the system ? (through ssh or php)
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Is it technically possible to have ns records external to webhost for reduncy on shared hosting

The way I know commercial hosting on shared servers is like the following: 1)ns records with web host 2)I have to configure the domain with my registrar to have the ns records hosted by web host But how will it work if I wanted the ns…
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How do you find a good shared web-hosting company?

I'm not looking for people to tell me what the best web hosting companies are - I know that's verboten. But a lot of people need to choose one, and it's a real challenge. Many of the "review" sites are biased, many of the forum comments are…
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Free Web Hosting like Geocities?

Since Geocities is closing down soon, I'm looking for a suitable replacement. This is for personal use, so bandwidth and diskspace isn't important. That's why I've been using Geocities' meager 15 MB space for YEARS. :) Any good…
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I'm debating between shared host and VPS

I have been researching this stuff for so many days, and I can't make up my mind! So the scenario is this site could grow extremely rapidly, so I would need something that scales very quickly. I would also need considerable amount of SQL Server…
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Help Selecting The Best WebHost

Can anyone recommend a user-friendly (I'm new to website development) and inexpensive web host (my websites are simple and small, so no need for a beef-eating server) that will allow me write access to the file system from PHP? My current web host…
Joshua
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Web hosting for a client exposes his credit card details to me

I'm building a web app for a client and I'm looking to host with someone like Media Temple. I will manage the server and everything, but the client pays for the hosting with his credit card. The problem is he will have to enter his credit card…
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Which one is dedicated hosting?

A dedicated hosting is a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. From wikipedia link text My question can I place multiple website in a dedicated hosting Service? Then also it known as dedicated…
anishmarokey
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Is it possible to run a asp.net mvc(.net 3.5) website in 1and1 hosting machine?

I am using 1&1 MS Developer Package, it supports asp.net 2.0 only. Is it possible to run asp.net 3.5 web? If not is there any stable hosting company to recommend?
user16480
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Is there an algorithm to help figure out how many machines should host a website?

Something that might incorporate desired average response time and average request rate as a factor?
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