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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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Unused domain name getting routed to double click

I have an unused domain name which is registered by Network Solutions and which I thought was turned off. However, entering the domain in a browser results in getting redirected to a double click generic advertising site. The name resolves to the ip…
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Forward http traffic to another ip address with iptables

We want to forward all http traffic to another IP address on an Amazon EC2 stock Linux machine (CentOS based). I know how to do this with proxy rules and apache, but I was assuming iptables would be a much faster solution (perhaps…
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nginx can't bind to port 80..Nothing running on port 80

I'm trying to setup nginx on Ubuntu 11.04. I have followed the roughly the directions found here: http://library.linode.com/frameworks/sinatra/debian-6-squeeze . I know it is for Debian, but I basically took those steps and then googled "How to do x…
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How to show a maintenance page for website when our network is down

We host our ASP.NET web sites internally (within our DMZ). When we are doing network maintenance, etc we would like to have our sites display a maintenance page, but our network is down so our hosting servers are off. We don't host our DNS entries…
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Giving SSH access to a user, and security issues

Okay, so I have a VPS and I made an account for a friend so he can host his own domains (using the reseller features in DirectAdmin). He's asking for SSH access, and I know that this is probably a bad idea. Does he have access to my whole server,…
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How would I go about setting up NodeJS on my Bluehost hosting account?

I like using NodeJS and I've gotten OK at it. Currently I'm paying Heroku to host my NodeJS apps, but I've also have a nice hosting account on Bluehost for a while. However, Bluehost by default, doesn't run my NodeJS apps. They simply don't offer…
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Best way to redirect pages on an apache/centos web server

I have a centos 6.5 web server running 2 websites off 1 ip address by using virtual hosts. domain1.com and domain2.com - both hosted on the same web server above. I need to redirect about 40 pages from domain1 to domain2, "for…
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How to setup multiple VPS or virtual machines on a VPS hosting account?

Let's say you have a Linux VPS hosting account and you wanted to add several VPS's inside that VPS or virtual machines, how can you do this? A scenario could be that I wanted to install an IIS server or I wanted to have several Linux virtual…
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Prevent outgoing spam

What are some ways to prevent spam from leaving your servers should a hosting account get compromised? Have a bunch of clients on a server with cpanel but wondering if there was a way to just prevent a chance if an account was compromised. When I…
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Is it normal for inbound traffic to far exceed outbound traffic?

I have a web server on a coloc host. All 'planned' activity is over HTTP. (There's no FTP server, no bittorrent client, no IRC bots, etc.) My inbound traffic is consistently 5-10 times higher than my outbound traffic. (For example, over the past 24…
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Proxy HTTP requests to servers on different ports, using subdomain

Say I have a minimalist Python web server running with several instances, each with different ports specified as command line arguments. I'd like requests to my server to be redirected like this, using the Host header: name1.mydomain.com ->…
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Should I host my entire web application using https?

Actually my only requirement for using SSL encryption is that when a user logs in, the password is transferred encrypted. However after reading a bit about protocol switching, that an HTTPS session can't be taken over as an HTTP session etc. I've…
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Become own domain registrar

I posted this on stack overflow and it was suggested that thsi should be posted here: I am moving my domain away from a very poor host and wondered if I can do away with a host/registrar altogether. I am quite comfortable hosting my domain myself on…
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Does Cloud Computing COST a premium? (or is it competitive with shared/managed/co-location)

Since cloud solutions (Google AppEngine, Amazon, etc.) do more for you, at the end of the day do they cost significantly more than doing it "yourself" with co-location hosting, etc. Not just starting out, but when the website is mature and getting…
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Recommendations for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V VPS Host?

I'm looking for a well-respected, high-performing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V VPS host. For my linux hosting, I use a shared WebFaction account, so I'm spoiled by their incredible service and support. RackSpaceCloud also sounds really good,…
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