<![CDATA[AdminAddict - Domains, Hosting & Servers]]> http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/ Choosing a good host and domain is important. Domain appraisals, hosts, dedicated servers, etc. en Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:14:18 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/images/adminaddict/misc/rss.jpg <![CDATA[AdminAddict - Domains, Hosting & Servers]]> http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/ Backup software and services http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/backup-software-services-6729/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:57:36 GMT Has anyone tried backup software or online backup services? I am looking for one, because I am too lazy to do my backup manually. I often forget... Has anyone tried backup software or online backup services?

I am looking for one, because I am too lazy to do my backup manually. I often forget about it.

The backup software I found:

Site Vault, SmartBackup, Handy Backup

The online web backup service:

Novosoft Remote Backup

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I liked the Novosoft solution. They backup your website and keep all the files online. No need to download them to your computer. Prices are also affordable.

I think I will go with their trial version.

Any thoughts or advice about backup solutions? ]]> Ramya108 http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/backup-software-services-6729/ Domain Prices Going Up! http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/domain-prices-going-up-6525/ Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:45:52 GMT Just got an email from Name.com stating that domain prices are rising after July 1'st.


Quote:
As many of our customers are already aware, VeriSign®, the organization who manages the .COM and .NET registry, has announced a price increase for both of these extensions beginning on July 1, 2010

VeriSign Price Increase

The price for .COM registrations will increase by 7% and the new price for .NET registrations will go up by 10%.

The VeriSign price increase will apply to new registrations as well as renewals that occur on or after July 1st. As a result we will be forced to increase our prices for .COM and .NET registrations and renewals starting July 1st as well.

We strongly advise our customers to avoid these price increases on their existing domain names by renewing your domain names before June 30, which will add an additional year of registration to your domain at the currently lower prices.

Name.com realizes that this price increase will have a financial impact on our customers so we've taken two additional steps to help you save money before the VeriSign price increase goes into effect.
]]> Outdoor-Fishing http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/domain-prices-going-up-6525/ Backup and Restore http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/backup-restore-6468/ Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:16:55 GMT I'm not sure if this is in the right place, mods please move at your discretion.

I take regular database backups and download them to my hdd and also copy them to a removeable hdd for safety. All very commendable I hear you say, but here is my problem, I have not got the know how or ability to restore these backups should the need arise. How is it done? Do I need any specialized software? I tried to restore my main database to my test forum to make testing more realistic using several guides that I googled but I couldn't do it.

Any pointers? I 'd rather figure this out now than try to do it in a genuine recovery situation.


I'm running vB 3.8.4 PL2 ]]> Blubble http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/backup-restore-6468/ Good, Free host. http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/good-free-host-6441/ Fri, 28 May 2010 21:42:16 GMT Hey, currently for my web design site I use x10hosting. I hate it, I cannot use a TLD on it or anything. Does anyone know of any good free web... Hey, currently for my web design site I use x10hosting. I hate it, I cannot use a TLD on it or anything.

Does anyone know of any good free web hosting that allows for your own domains?


Thanks! ]]> hcted http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/good-free-host-6441/ VPS versus Shared / Reseller Hosting http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/vps-versus-shared-reseller-hosting-6420/ Sun, 23 May 2010 11:33:30 GMT Not Quite There: VPS versus Shared Hosting for Forums | Technical Commentaries... Not Quite There: VPS versus Shared Hosting for Forums | Technical Commentaries

So, little known fact: VPS prices are often in line with Reseller and semi-dedicated accounts on the same hosting provider.

VPSes come with a great deal of freedom - and their own share of headaches. If all you need is more of the same, look into your host's reseller/semidedicated/etc. options for getting a similar share of server resources, without the hassle : ) ]]> Vekseid http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/vps-versus-shared-reseller-hosting-6420/ High Performance Communities: Hardware http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/high-performance-communities-hardware-6387/ Fri, 14 May 2010 05:00:23 GMT High-Performance Communties: Hardware | Technical Commentaries

I'm writing a series of articles that will go over the hardware, software, and tuning required to support highly active communities. I'm not drawing on just my experience from Elliquiy and Blue Moon here - I've helped a number of people with vBulletin setups, as well as conspired a great deal with Mark and Ben about overall server optimization, who have completely alien usage patterns to my own.

The hardware article is probably of limited use to people using VPSes, since the primary limitation there is the VPS itself. It's more geared to people who are just breaking out of that rut and wondering where to expand, and to somewhat dampen the expectation that you need multiple servers right off (Elliquiy apparently outperforms clusters of twenty machines... gah.) ]]> Vekseid http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/high-performance-communities-hardware-6387/ Upgrade stages http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/upgrade-stages-6174/ Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:26:31 GMT At what stages in your forum's life or development did you need to upgrade your hardware and server setup (what were your forum's stats, active members per day, posts-per-day, etc.)? What did you upgrade from and what to? How many times have you had to change your hosting environment to suit your forum's growth? Lastly, what changes and expansions to you foresee in the future? ]]> Nick http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/upgrade-stages-6174/ High mysql load problems http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/high-mysql-load-problems-6074/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:52:19 GMT I'am having some problems with the new dedicated server. The MYSQL CPU load is running at about 50% - 55%, but memory usage is only about 3% - 4%. I'am wondering if I'am hitting a memory limit somewhere.

MYSQL is the only process running in the red, everything else is less then 10% cpu load.


Server specs:

CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9550 2.83GHz
Memory - 8 gigs
The main site is running vbulletin 3.8 and is getting around 4.7 million page views monthly.
Operating system - CentOS 5 - 64_bit
Control Panel - cPanel/WHM
Database size is about 1.3 gigs
The forum averages around 3,000 - 3,500 post daily
Average people online 400 - 600, sometimes as high as 800


my.cnf file:

Quote:
[mysqld]
#skip-name-resolve
safe-show-database
#old_passwords
back_log = 50
skip-innodb
max_connections = 500
key_buffer_size = 192M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M
join_buffer_size = 1M
read_buffer_size = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 2M
table_cache = 5000
thread_cache_size = 384
wait_timeout = 20
connect_timeout = 10
tmp_table_size = 64M
max_heap_table_size = 64M
max_allowed_packet = 64M
net_buffer_length = 16384
max_connect_errors = 100000
thread_concurrency = 4
concurrent_insert = 2
table_lock_wait_timeout = 30
read_rnd_buffer_size = 786432
bulk_insert_buffer_size = 8M
query_cache_limit = 3M
query_cache_size = 64M
query_cache_type = 1
query_prealloc_size = 262144
query_alloc_block_size = 65536
range_alloc_block_size = 4096
transaction_alloc_block_size = 8192
transaction_prealloc_size = 4096
default-storage-engine = MyISAM
max_write_lock_count = 8

[mysqld_safe]
nice = -5
open_files_limit = 8192

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 64M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer_size = 144M
sort_buffer_size = 16M
read_buffer_size = 16M
write_buffer_size = 16M
]]> kevin http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/high-mysql-load-problems-6074/ How would I redirect www to non www addresses? http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/how-would-i-redirect-www-non-www-addresses-6029/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:04:37 GMT I want to know what code I need to add this to my site's .htaccess file. Thanks. ]]> cheat-master30 http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/how-would-i-redirect-www-non-www-addresses-6029/ Is there a way to dectect an Anonymous Proxy? http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/there-way-dectect-anonymous-proxy-6005/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:10:00 GMT Geo Information IP Address Host Location A1 A1, Anonymous Proxy City -, - - Organization Road Development, LLC ISP NTT America AS Number... Geo Information
IP Address
Host
Location A1 A1, Anonymous Proxy
City -, - -
Organization Road Development, LLC
ISP NTT America
AS Number AS2914

Is there a way to detect and anonymous proxy on a forum?

Then disable certain features if it is anonymous?

Just a general idea would suffice. ]]> Abomination http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/there-way-dectect-anonymous-proxy-6005/ Anyone know about RAIDs? http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/anyone-know-about-raids-5960/ Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:48:14 GMT I've been watching a thread on Hostgators support forums, and to me, it makes absolutely no sense what so ever.

http://forums.hostgator.com/emergenc...on-t64092.html

They had a problem with the RAID and they 'rebuilt' the raid over the course of several days, they never say they replaced the RAID, although people are assuming that happened.

If they could read the information on the disk, then why didn't they copy the information onto another raid?

Why didn't they take the server offline to quickly fix the problem?

Why is that particular sever so busy? Why didn't they remove certain accounts from it and put them on another server?


Is what they did reasonable? Does it normally take 4-5 days to fix a problem like that?

:waiting: ]]> Abomination http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/anyone-know-about-raids-5960/ Moving Databases Without Root Access http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/moving-databases-without-root-access-5932/ Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:07:07 GMT Currently on I am a shared hosting plan and soon I will be moving to a VPS. I need to move my database, which I have never attempted before. I don't have root access on the shared plan. I was planning on calling my host and asking them too SSH my db and make it available for me to download. Not sure if that will fly or not. Is there any other work around to move databases? I read somewhere people were having good luck with mysqldumper. Any recommendations on the best way to move a database without root access? ]]> Trip http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/moving-databases-without-root-access-5932/ How to tell where the bottleneck is at? http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/how-tell-where-bottleneck-5902/ Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:44:24 GMT About 3 weeks ago my dedicated server was upgraded to a quad core Intel with 8 gigs of memory. On that server I'am running 3 vbulletin forum, and about 5 wordpress blogs.

Out of all of those sites, only one gets any real traffic.

As long as the main site has around 300- 500 people on it at a time, everything is fine. Once we get 600+, and especially 700 people on the site, it starts slowing down to 5+ second response times.

How do I go about trouble shooting where the bottle neck is at?

Here are some system stats:

Server Type: Linux
Web Server: Apache v2.0.63 (cgi)
PHP: 5.2.11
PHP Max Post Size: 16.00 MB
PHP Maximum Upload Size: 100.00 MB
PHP Memory Limit: 128.00 MB
MySQL Version: 5.0.89-community
MySQL Packet Size: 64.00 MB ]]> kevin http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/how-tell-where-bottleneck-5902/ How much could a domain be worth http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/how-much-could-domain-worth-5876/ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:19:12 GMT I was thinking, if I was lucky enough to have been able to snatch a domain such as iPadForum.com or iPadForums.com (or .net) before it was even... I was thinking, if I was lucky enough to have been able to snatch a domain such as iPadForum.com or iPadForums.com (or .net) before it was even announced (you know, back when it was only a rumor), how much do you think it would be worth now? In a few months? ]]> Nick http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/how-much-could-domain-worth-5876/ Above public directory with GoDaddy Hosting? http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/above-public-directory-godaddy-hosting-5871/ Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:37:11 GMT I'm working on a client's website, and I'm trying to have backups made and sent to a folder above the public directory.

Usually, the file structure is something like:
/root
..../backups
..../public_html
......../forum
......../blog
..../public_ftp

And I would just have backups sent to a folder in /root/backups, meaning they aren't accessible to the public.
But with this GoDaddy hosting account, when I log into FTP, it appears that I am taken directly to the public folder. I can't seem to find a way to get to the root, non-public level. I hate how GoDaddy makes everything so difficult.

So is this possible? If so, how?

Thanks! ]]> Nick http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/domains-hosting-servers/above-public-directory-godaddy-hosting-5871/