I'm considering moving a number of small client sites to an unmanaged VPS hosting provider. I haven't decided which one yet, but my understanding is that they'll give me a base OS install (I'd prefer Debian or Ubuntu), an IP address, a root account, SSH, and that's about it. Ideally, I would like to create a complete VM image of my conf...
I am looking to have 4 Virtual servers(various linux flavors) running on a Windows server 2003 R2 64 bit edition server located at a datacenter. I can also purchase a 2008 server or 32 bit 2k3 if needed. They would each have their own ip address for networking so that they could be publicly accessed. I do not know much about VPS softw...
For a while, I thought I'd host stuff at home because I can do whatever I want. However, hurricane Ike knocked out my power for a week, and I've finally realized this situation won't work. I have extremely low traffice websites (20 visitors/day), so I don't need tons of CPU or bandwidth. What cheap options are there for VPS hosting th...
On my VPS server (Fedora 9), mingetty keeps respawning itself because of a "permission denied" error on tty[1-6], even though: root# ls -la /dev/tty1 crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 Sep 19 14:22 /dev/tty1 Even weirder, this doesn't work: root# cat </dev/tty1 bash: /dev/tty1: Permission denied I am guessing this has something to do wi...
The market is flooded with VPS (virtual private server) hosting options. It seems everyone and their mother has a overloaded server in his/her closet. Enterprise options always seem priced insanely high, which make the ones that are cheap and claim enterprise level seem shaky. What do you look for in a quality VPS provider (language s...
Whilst similar questions exist, I couldn't find any which quite match my request. I'm looking for hosting for some personal .NET projects which for various reasons I do not want to host on our servers at work. I need to be able to host multiple sites and for that reason I'm thinking of a VPS with RDP access for the time being - don't fa...
I have a buddy that's the IT guy for his company. He recently asked me about moving some of the applications they have to some managed server somewhere. I recommended Rackspace, but now I'm wondering what other quality options are out there. He needs to host Quickbooks for the accounting department, a couple of low traffic websites, and...
Can someone explain this in a practical way? Sample represents usage for one, low-traffic Rails site using Nginx and 3 Mongrel clusters. I ask because I am aiming to learn about page caching, wondering if these figures have significant meaning to that process. Thank you. Great site! me@vps:~$ free -m total u...
From the system requirements for Windows Server 2008 (on wikipedia.org): Minimum: 512 MB RAM (may limit performance and some features) Recommended: 2 GB RAM or higher I'm going to have my website hosted on a Windows 2008 VPS and I was initially planning to use a hosting plan that gives 512 MB RAM (to save some money), but now I'm wor...
I'm working on a web-application and need to figure out the best way to host it. I'm looking to minimize "Total Cost of Ownership," but it's more important to keep hosting costs low than labor costs in my case. Potentially, some day, it will grow quite large (in terms of user-base) with heavy traffic but, of course, it will start out pr...
I have seen this question pop-up on stackoverflow a few times but haven't found a good solution yet. I am looking for recommendations on Virtual Private Server Hosting featuring Windows Server 2008 plus MS SQL database capabilities. I have seen people suggest webhost4life.com, hostmysite.com and others but they do not offer windows ser...
I've set up an ASP.NET 2.0 web app in VS 2008 (it's 2.0 as it contains some legacy code) and I'm now trying to deploy it to my new VPS. I've created the domain in Plesk and set up the FTP account. I can FTP the server using the command line and all works well, however, if I try to use the "copy website" option in VS 2008 I get "The ~/ d...
Say a client is happy with the work you've done creating a script to accomplish a task that gathers some information and outputs a hefty database file. Then, they're interested in having the task run periodically (approximately monthly) without human intervention. The client is not interested in running the task locally, so you're forced...
What are the major gotchas and tricks when running Rails on a small slice (256MB)? What is the best server setup for cramped quarters? Passenger, Nginx, Mongrel? What is the best background task processor in this kind of environment? What do you need to watch out for? I'd love to hear the stories of people who have done this and bump...
We are designing asp.net web application in wcsf. Web application will be deployed to Windows Server 2003 shared VDS hosting. Web site will be used for b2b, monthly service fee and credit card transactions used in web application so it must be secure site. I want to consider what must be done before deployment and i need an answer to a f...
I am looking for recommendations for a VPS or dedicated server hoster in the UK. It's to host a Java/Tomcat web app, MySQL backend, on Linux, pref Redhat. Do not need tremendously high spec, but am concerned with uptime, response times to enquiries and bandwidth - not the cap but actual throughput. Thanks for the suggestions, Richard....
What are the disadvantages (if any) of using a virtual private server instead of a dedicated server to host my web application? I launching my first web application in a couple of months and I'm trying to wonder what's the best way to host it at an affordable price. It's built in ASP.Net and uses SQL Server Express. My point is, since...
Hi, I am based in the UK and have two webservers, one German based (1&1) and the other is UK based (Easyspace). I recently signed up to the UK easyspace server because it was about the same price I paid for my 1&1 server but also I wanted to see if my sites hosted on a UK server gave better results in terms of UK based traffic. Its se...
I've got rather poor knowledge of *nix virtualization capabilities and trying to clarify one thing. If one has root on host machine, does it always mean that he has root on all VMs of that host? If yes, then could there be a bogus setup where this is not true? I'm asking cause I heard two different answers to that question from two diff...
I am looking for an affordable and reliable VPS solution serving Windows Server 2008. Use case is to run a Continuous Integration build Server for an asp.net mvc site project. Any suggestions? ...