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Namecheap for the domain and Lithium Hosting for the website would be my suggestion. I'm using both right now and am happy. Keep your domain and host separate. This makes it very easy to switch hosts if they suddenly go to poo poo or whatever - just make sure to keep backups of your website for that reason and many others. Lithium hosting is cheap (but good) so it's a good way to get started. They also have 11-12 different forums software packages that can be installed with a few clicks (including fluxxbb & mybb).
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Interesting. I just picked MyBB because a lot of people seem to be switching to it over phpBB, but I'll check FluxBB out, thanks. And I've been looking at Lithium with Namecheap funnily enough, seeming like my most likely option. Cheers.
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tomm posted:Interesting. I just picked MyBB because a lot of people seem to be switching to it over phpBB, but I'll check FluxBB out, thanks. The MyBB community in general is pretty lovely, and most addons "released for free" add three lines of links to your footer and are questionable and I've seen some that use base64_decode(gzinflate( type bullshit to add spam to the bottom of each post.
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Oct 27, 2011 04:17
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:
What provider is that from? what do you get, 1TB of traffic a month or less like 800GB?
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eightysixed posted:Seedbox? Bob Morales posted:What provider is that from? what do you get, 1TB of traffic a month or less like 800GB? Went through something like 940GB in a bit more than a day.
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:posted a 10MB gif on reddit Their 512MB/25GB/500GB plan for $9.95 doesn't look bad, especially if you can sustain 20mb/sec on it. How is the disk/cpu performance? http://www.quickweb.co.nz/supa-vps-plans.html
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Bob Morales posted:Their 512MB/25GB/500GB plan for $9.95 doesn't look bad, especially if you can sustain 20mb/sec on it. How is the disk/cpu performance? Not sure about the disk/cpu other than that and can't test until I can figure out where the new recovery console is since SSH no longer starts on boot 
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Any suggestions on a low-end VPS for a site pulling in 30~80gb of web page traffic a month? I'd prefer something that is stable, but not all together overly pricey. Edit: Researching into it, I have a huge headache from the sheer number of options, which wouldn't normally be the case but I need something that won't disappear tomorrow vs. the cheapest thing out there for some crazy game server. Yuriki fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Nov 7, 2011 |
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linode no other choice
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Biowarfare posted:linode no other choice Thanks, seems to be the general consensuses, getting me one here soon.
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I'm with Lithium hosting and very pleased. I'm just wondering how it is that HostGator's hatchling plan is still around 5x ($10 vs. $53.40 WITH discount applied) the annual cost of the Lithium Hosting simple plan. Is it just the "unlimited" storage and bandwidth HostGator offers?
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I have a a growing website (b2b) that's based on a rather complex platform. It needs MSSQL, ASP, as well as PHP/MySQL. It's a worpdress content site with a set of reports powered by MSSQL and ASP with Report Control. We also handle authentication via ASP (custom wordpress plugin) so everything needs to talk. Does anybody know of a good managed host that can offer a dedicated box for MSSQL, and a managed vps for wordpress? The major issue I'm running into is most dedicated boxes only offer SATA, which won't be fast enough for MSSQL. I'm hoping to find a windows provider that will offer SSD's, but not much luck. Has anybody heard of a company that does this type of blended hosting?
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EoRaptor posted:I have a a growing website (b2b) that's based on a rather complex platform. It needs MSSQL, ASP, as well as PHP/MySQL. It's a worpdress content site with a set of reports powered by MSSQL and ASP with Report Control. We also handle authentication via ASP (custom wordpress plugin) so everything needs to talk. How big is your DB? We run ours on SATA drives, RAID 5 of 4 disks for the DB and mirror of 2 disks for the web apps (stupid but I didn't set it up). Rackspace gives us a dual-quad Xeon with VMware on it so we can add or remove VM's as we need them (Private Cloud) You can always add enough RAM to fit your DB in memory.
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Is there a windows VPS provider with quality similar to Linode?
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Bodhi Tea posted:Is there a windows VPS provider with quality similar to Linode? Totally whoring out my company: http://www.hostdime.com/web-hosting/vps/windows/ If interested, PM me and I can toss you a coup for some discount of sorts
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I bought a 512MB Linux VPS from https://www.tailoredvps.com and it's been great so far. It was a little under $7/month
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I have a small website run on shared hosting, hosted by a US company. If SOPA becomes law in the US, how important would it be (if at all) to obtain new hosting outside the US? (The site is not focused on copyright-infringing activity, but users can post messages, which could infringe copyright and hence risk getting the site shut down.)
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Hammerite posted:I have a small website run on shared hosting, hosted by a US company. If SOPA becomes law in the US, how important would it be (if at all) to obtain new hosting outside the US? (The site is not focused on copyright-infringing activity, but users can post messages, which could infringe copyright and hence risk getting the site shut down.) What would these messages contain that would put you at risk of getting shut down under SOPA? If you aren't running a piracy site, or a fake Wellsfargo.com site, you aren't likely going to have issues. But even with the DMCA, if someone just claims to own the copyright to an image you have on your site, it can get you shut down instantly because as a web host, its easier to say "tough poo poo" and remove the content than it is to fight a DMCA request / order. At least with SOPA, it generally requires a court order before any action is taken. If it's people talking via online chat or message board, I would think Freedom of Speech should play a role in that, although I can't say for certain. How would SOPA work? It allows the U.S. attorney general to seek a court order against the targeted offshore Web site that would, in turn, be served on Internet providers in an effort to make the target virtually disappear. It's kind of an Internet death penalty. More specifically, section 102 of SOPA says that, after being served with a removal order: quote:A service provider shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent access by its subscribers located within the United States to the foreign infringing site (or portion thereof) that is subject to the order...Such actions shall be taken as expeditiously as possible, but in any case within five days after being served with a copy of the order, or within such time as the court may order.  SOPA - Not as scary as it sounds! DarkLotus fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Dec 6, 2011 |
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There is speculation in some quarters that rights-holders might take a scattershot approach to demanding sites be taken down. Whether they are likely to do that more with their new powers than they have under the DMCA is not something I can judge. As for what people might post, how do I know! I'm sure if they posted, say, song lyrics or something, that might qualify.
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Hammerite posted:There is speculation in some quarters that rights-holders might take a scattershot approach to demanding sites be taken down. Whether they are likely to do that more with their new powers than they have under the DMCA is not something I can judge.
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Quick question, does anyone here have any experience integrating google apps with an existing webhost and domain? I'm not talking about transferring a website or domain to google, I just want the mail hosted on google and the website on the current host. Is this even possible? I'm not well versed when it comes to webhosts and emails and all that jazz.
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Isn't SOPA largely about targeting overseas hosting? I think it won't really matter if you switch to non-US hosting or not.
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organburner posted:Quick question, does anyone here have any experience integrating google apps with an existing webhost and domain? If you mean having something like this:
The basic part, setting up your domain so mail goes through Google Apps, requires changing or adding MX records. Google has pretty good documentation for this and even has a list of popular DNS providers and how to set up mail delivery with them.
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zachol posted:Isn't SOPA largely about targeting overseas hosting? I think it won't really matter if you switch to non-US hosting or not. It's basically a mandatory "great firewall of US" with very harsh penalties for anyone that assists in circumvention. It doesn't actually result in an offshore host losing data on the server/affecting the offshore host. Unless all of your users are out/in of the US. Impotence fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Dec 7, 2011 |
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I registered a domain name last night (through Go Daddy which apparently wasn't the best idea) and I need somewhere to host it. I'm looking at basic hosting with Lithium as the price looks so reasonable - I don't want to spend much yet as I don't know what the hell I'm doing!  I'm looking at Joomla to build it as it's supposed to be quite simple and I'm quite confused. I wish I hadn't agreed to do this, everyone thinks because I did a couple of terms of CS at uni I can obviously build great websites!  It seems silly to keep turning people down so I'm jumping in and giving it a go. Anyway, because of the nature of the intended site I anticipate a fair bit of traffic, at least at first, so will this set up be ok to start with? Any advice, help or hand-holding would be much appreciated!
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Anaxite posted:If you mean having something like this: Thanks, this is very helpful!
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zachol posted:Isn't SOPA largely about targeting overseas hosting? I think it won't really matter if you switch to non-US hosting or not. I was under the impression that US-based websites could be taken down in their entirety while sites hosted outside the US could become inaccessible through DNS, which isn't the same thing as being taken down.
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pants cat posted:I registered a domain name last night (through Go Daddy which apparently wasn't the best idea) and I need somewhere to host it. I'm looking at basic hosting with Lithium as the price looks so reasonable - I don't want to spend much yet as I don't know what the hell I'm doing! Lithium Hosting's cheapest package is $10 for the whole year. Even if they turn out to be awful (they aren't, I'm using them now and am happy) you're not out much. Unless you're going to be hosting videos or something I doubt the traffic will be an issue.
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Thanks Galler, good to know Lithium is decent. There will be quite a few audio files and some videos, but I guess I can use youtube for that instead of hosting them. I THINK there'll be a fair bit of traffic - some family do a rock show on local community radio but have discovered it can open all sorts of doors, and with sheer brass balls they've managed to score face to face interviews with some seriously MASSIVE recording artists, but who knows? Anyway I think I'm derailing the thread with this, sorry guys!
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Someone made the joke that 'Made2Own' was an appropriate name for their lovely service. The name of the company that bought them out? 'Brutal Networks.'
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"The dangers of shared hosting" Not sure if these issues have been cleared up or not, but it goes to show what kind of hazards you can run into with a shared host. 
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Regarding TLDs, what do you guys recommend for personal sites/blogs? I was reading about the .name TLD and think that may be the way to go, but I'm not sure if .com is better (I guess for SEO purposes).
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Does anyone use GoDaddy/Dreamhost/Hostgator for a small company of like 25 people? They claim unlimited email boxes etc but I was just wondering if they were horribly unreliable or slow or what. I've set up 3-4 person companies with them before but they're not huge email users, basically personal accounts.
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Bob Morales posted:Does anyone use GoDaddy/Dreamhost/Hostgator for a small company of like 25 people? They claim unlimited email boxes etc but I was just wondering if they were horribly unreliable or slow or what. Never use web hosts for email. Just get hosted exchange or something at a reputable place like rackspace or Microsoft Saving you some headaches
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Fangs404 posted:Regarding TLDs, what do you guys recommend for personal sites/blogs? I was reading about the .name TLD and think that may be the way to go, but I'm not sure if .com is better (I guess for SEO purposes). Always get the .com out of preference imho. It's annoying to have to settle for some poo poo TLD because the .com is taken; I don't know why you'd subject yourself to this voluntarily. (Doesn't make a diff to SEO though)
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