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Well that's still like $20 per year? It's not really an absolute basic necessity since I'd wager like 98% of people who use shared hosting won't even know what it is.
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rawrr posted:Well that's still like $20 per year? One dollar a month equates to $12 per year  eightysixed fucked around with this message at 13:37 on May 18, 2012 |
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May 17, 2012 23:20
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eightysixed posted:One dollar a month equates to $12 per year SSH is $5/year, not $5/month
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fuf posted:I've been happily hosted with mediatemple for years but I want to start using django and they don't support it on their shared hosting. Get a VPS like Linode, and you can install whatever you want. Django is part of the reason why I went from MediaTemple to Linode. Once you go VPS and discover how flexible root access is, you'll never go back.
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Is there some sort of freelance sysadmin service? I'd like to host with linode, but can't be bothered with having to secure/harden it, and wouldn't know what to do if I get hacked/something goes wrong. I know I'd be more suited for a managed VPS, but aside from the initial setup, and the rare event of something going wrong, I don't really want to pay for service I don't use.
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Check out sites like Elance. There's a lot of really terrible companies (typically based out of India, Pakistan or Russia) that will promise the world for $5/hr and fail to deliver in the slightest, but there are also great people there if you're willing to pay the money. I've done work very similar to what you need there before. My philosophy was that I couldn't compete in volume or cost with those types of companies, so I made up for it with exceptional service (obviously backed up by nearly a decade of professional experience). To avoid a lot of the poo poo, search for people who have very good ratings (like, 100% 5 star) and offer work of a limited scope. Most of the people on there that offer everything you can imagine from graphic design to webapp development to custom kernel compilation operate with a team of subcontractors who may or may not (generally not) know what they're doing. Or, and this is probably the better option, solicit freelance workers on SA mart or something. Don't try to dick them around; you should be paying at a minimum $50/hr.
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How painful is a domain transfer? I have a registered domain that I just use for e-mail (well, I toy around with the other services that come by default, but it's just e-mail for the most part) and a couple years ago my current provider got rid of their cheap plan option and forced me to upgrade. I'm tired of overpaying for stuff I'm not using, but I've been sticking with them from internet horror stories of domain transfers which I'm not sure are just a minority speaking out or not.
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nessin posted:How painful is a domain transfer? I have a registered domain that I just use for e-mail (well, I toy around with the other services that come by default, but it's just e-mail for the most part) and a couple years ago my current provider got rid of their cheap plan option and forced me to upgrade. I'm tired of overpaying for stuff I'm not using, but I've been sticking with them from internet horror stories of domain transfers which I'm not sure are just a minority speaking out or not. It can be confusing and usually takes several days but the horror stories you've heard probably didn't come from straightforward transfers.
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May 18, 2012 01:42
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nessin posted:How painful is a domain transfer? I have a registered domain that I just use for e-mail (well, I toy around with the other services that come by default, but it's just e-mail for the most part) and a couple years ago my current provider got rid of their cheap plan option and forced me to upgrade. I'm tired of overpaying for stuff I'm not using, but I've been sticking with them from internet horror stories of domain transfers which I'm not sure are just a minority speaking out or not. I transferred all my domains from GoDaddy to NameCheap last year during Elephantgate and it was pretty easy. GoDaddy purposely makes it a little difficult (they take forever to send you the magic code you need to transfer your domain away from them) but they eventually did. It shouldn't affect the uptime of your website or anything.
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Didn't see any mention of them and don't know if anyone else uses/has ever used JaguarPC but I've had a VPS with them for a little over 2 1/2 years. I have the Linux VPS Pro package which is: 50GB space, 3000GB bandwidth, 1024MB RAM for $29. but I have an extra IP, cpanel/whm, fantastico, and an extra 1gb of RAM and pay $37 a month. Works pretty good for me, price seems to be pretty good compared to others with the features I get, never had any uptime problems and support tickets have always been fast.
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I'm using wtfdns.com and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or what. I've had a couple A records there for like a year that are fine. Mostly just some linux boxes I can never remember the IP addresses for, so like mars.bob.com jupiter.bob.com pluto.bob.com I first created ip.bob.com as a CNAME to jupiter.bob.com, since that's the server I have the page on. (I have two virtual hosts and files in /var/www/ip and /var/www/jupiter) After like 2 days (I figured it would have propogated by then) it still didn't work so I made an A record this time and set ip.bob.com to the same IP as jupiter.bob.com. Still doesn't resolve after a while. I put a little script up that just gives me the IP address on a web page. Then I made a virtual host and it serves it up fine if I put the IP address of jupiter.bob.com in my hosts file as ip.bob.com What the hell! This is using my ISP's DNS server (I figured they were being slow), Google (8.8.8.8) and then Level 3 or whatever at 4.2.2.4.  Are they just not pushing updates out? Usually when I do this at work on our domains they go through in an hour or so.
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May 18, 2012 23:23
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did you remember to update the serial (timestamp) in the zone file
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Also, when you create new DNS records, they (generally) aren't subject to propagation time. Propagation time refers to the amount of time it will take for DNS resolvers around the world to purge the old, cached DNS record and update based on your change. If it's a new record, it's unlikely that they have anything cached for that hostname. If there's nothing cached, then they will go through the whole root nameserver->authoritative nameserver process to pull the record. If someone makes a request for a hostname that isn't cached, and the resolver can't complete that process, it will return a host not found error and nothing will be cached, so new records should be available instantly. That said, I would verify against your ISP's DNS server by checking it directly. I like dig: # dig @ipaddress.of.isp.server https://www.whatever.com This bypasses all caching resolvers and queries the server you specify directly.
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dolicf posted:That said, I would verify against your ISP's DNS server by checking it directly. I like dig: I was using dig and nothing ever showed up. I asked about the propogation time because I have been playing with this the last few days and changing them around. quote:robert@dwarf:~$ ping ip.xxxxxx.net 
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May 19, 2012 00:55
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Do you have the trailing '.' on the one that doesn't work?
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IOwnCalculus posted:Do you have the trailing '.' on the one that doesn't work? Like ip. instead of ip, if I want the name to be ip.bob.com? None of them have trailing IP's. The others all work.
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Try this: # dig ns xxxxxxx.com +short You should get two nameservers outputted, something like ns1.wtfdns.com and ns2.wtfdns.com. Run dig directly against those nameservers: # dig @ns1.wtfdns.com ip.xxxxxxx.com # dig @ns2.wtfdns.com ip.xxxxxxx.com You *should* get a valid record, but if not, the output will show you the error code. Can you paste the output for those commands in (redacted domains/IPs is cool).
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Bob Morales posted:Like ip. instead of ip, if I want the name to be ip.bob.com? I think you have it correct. Assuming you're using BIND, your record should look like one of these: code:
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dolicf posted:Try this: I tried that earlier as well. Running it now shows: code: code:
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Is it bad that the SOA 'start of authority' lists NS1.WTFDNS.COM and that appears to be down?
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dolicf posted:Check out sites like Elance. There's a lot of really terrible companies (typically based out of India, Pakistan or Russia) that will promise the world for $5/hr and fail to deliver in the slightest, but there are also great people there if you're willing to pay the money. I was looking into elance and odesk, thanks. I guess I don't quite need a VPS, but I want something a step up from shared hosting. I just don't like the feeling of sharing with 7000 other accounts on the same server. A Small Orange offers a "business" plan with fewer accounts per server, but apparently that just means 3500 accounts instead of 7000.
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rawrr posted:I was looking into elance and odesk, thanks. That actually sounds exactly like you need/want a VPS. Linode has a lot of instructions in their library for sercuring your server that are really newbie friendly, plus there is the awesome IRC channel where you can get all sorts of help. The Linode 512 plan is $19.95/mo, so you could always get one for a month and play around and see how comfortable you feel with it all before deciding to move your site over. Worst case, you're out $19.95 and you got some Linux command line experience. And Linode is open about how many plans share a host: http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#how-many-linodes-share-a-host. Some general security tips:
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rawrr posted:I was looking into elance and odesk, thanks. Don't forget there's a theory that you can get better performance on a shared server. The idea being that the people who are on a VPS (and they pack them on there) are there because they can do anything they want, and there's disk contention issues. Are there any new benchmarks like this: http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison/
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Can anyone recommend me a cheap hosting that wouldnt mind me using it as a huge filedump to backup my files and so I can share them with others? (Non-copyrighted work). I know a lot of shared hosts have problems with people using their space like this. Like 200-500 GB of stuff.
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I went and signed up for FreeDNS but apparently they don't like the IP addresses of my VPS provider....any other suggestions for free DNS hosting?
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Bob Morales posted:I went and signed up for FreeDNS but apparently they don't like the IP addresses of my VPS provider....any other suggestions for free DNS hosting? do you mean freedns.afraid.org? if so try dns.he.net and vice versa
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Rufo posted:do you mean freedns.afraid.org? if so try dns.he.net he.net seems to work, thanks
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Bob Morales posted:I tried that earlier as well. Running it now shows: There seems to be a problem replicating right now, we're working to fix it right now.
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 If anyone uses WHMCS for their billing system, their main website was just compromised and a database dump containing client information may have gotten out.If you have sent WHMCS a password for your setup for troubleshooting/upgrade/etc purposes and have not changed it CHANGE IT NOW. Discussion: http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?t=47644 http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1156920
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Yeah, my heart sank when I saw: My day will immediately become the worst ever if their database was actually leaked.
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really whmcs, again? and this time to a hackforums minecraft ddos clan?  edit: also I am finding out about this via WHT first instead of WHMCS notifying when it happened, classy Impotence fucked around with this message at 20:37 on May 21, 2012 |
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NOTinuyasha posted:My day will immediately become the worst ever if their database was actually leaked. It's been leaked. Dump of /, mysql dbs, and cPanel edit: their own site apparently uses mysql_ functions, no parameterised queries, binding to be seen? edit2: holy poo poo it's literally a bunch of php scripts in various folders there isn't even a cms apart from wordpress Impotence fucked around with this message at 01:19 on May 22, 2012 |
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Haywood Japwnme posted:Did they really host their website on Hostgator?? Yeah, on the webhosting talk thread, some people defended using Hostgator since the server was actually owned by softlayer. Doesn't really matter since it was hostgator who got social engineered into resetting the cpanel password. Oh and they were pointing out that WHMCS makes 500k a month.
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Sperg Victorious posted:Yeah, on the webhosting talk thread, some people defended using Hostgator since the server was actually owned by softlayer. Doesn't really matter since it was hostgator who got social engineered into resetting the cpanel password. I wouldn't trust what they say, it's a huge disaster and they're probably looking to spread the blame around. Also they're now getting DoSSed now so there might be issues with licenses calling home. This all seems so cruel, what did WHMCS ever do wrong? I've only had positive experiences with them.
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Sperg Victorious posted:Yeah, on the webhosting talk thread, some people defended using Hostgator since the server was actually owned by softlayer. Doesn't really matter since it was hostgator who got social engineered into resetting the cpanel password. It sounded like the guy lost control of his email and that is how they got in, simply utilizing the standard password reset methods.
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Delta-Wye posted:It sounded like the guy lost control of his email and that is how they got in, simply utilizing the standard password reset methods. I'm surprised they weren't using two-tiered authentication for e-mail... Especially since that e-mail address was basically the key to running their business. At 500k/month, how could they not afford to colo with a datacentre directly? I guess it wouldn't have helped too much since they lost control of their e-mail, but it's still very surprising. I'm going to laugh if it's because Hostgator was giving them free hosting.
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NOTinuyasha posted:This all seems so cruel, what did WHMCS ever do wrong? I've only had positive experiences with them. They were told repeatedly to not leave everything open by multiple poeple on WHT years ago Their stuff was all on a dedicated server running cPanel with all ports open to the internet, and still are Why the hell are they using hostgator? As a side note: WHMCS caches licence key (its a hash really) for a week. If someone forces a licence check on your WHMCS install while the site is down, your install gets disabled Impotence fucked around with this message at 23:02 on May 22, 2012 |
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I'm looking for a moron-proof cms. My friend is volunteering for a marathon and wants to make a website to put the sponsors/info on. I'm looking for something that has a very easy editor. I thought about wordpress but its not really a blog format, it'll basically be a couple pages. Any ideas?
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pram posted:I'm looking for a moron-proof cms. My friend is volunteering for a marathon and wants to make a website to put the sponsors/info on. I'm looking for something that has a very easy editor. Wordpress, delete all posts and set your front page to a page.
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