This is as interesting as it can get. Does DreamHost actually hire kids in the support team?
Seems to me a bunch of geeky kids started DreamHost back in the 90s. No wonder they are so neatly unique in the web hosting industry, what fascinates a child lasts a lifetime.
A quick tip on how to find out whether your server is running on 64 bit CPUs or 32 bit architecture.
Log in via SSH and simply type:
uname -a
And it would return something like this:
Linux example.com 2.6.17.8-node22 #2 SMI Tue Aug 11 19:14:36 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
If it’s i686, i586, etc., it’s 32 bit. If it’s x86_64, it’s 64 bit architecture.
Crucial Update: This code REF-YY as well as the $25 discount promotion will be ended by March 18th, 2010 by Rackspace Cloud. If you are still making up the mind to sign up with them, now is the time.
The cloud of Rackspace, the world leader in dedicated server hosting, Rackspace Cloud is running a promotional campaign at present to offer $25 discount on their premium cloud infrastructure, Cloud Sites to all new hosting clients. To enjoy this offer and get the referral discount, simply use their exclusive Cloud Sites promo code:
And enter the code in the Promo or Referral Code box to claim it when you are signing up with them. Here are some reviews of Rackspace Cloud to help you decide.
As I said at one of the forums, if you plan your website to be a hobbyist one or a spamming one, by all means, use any of the cheap shared hosting services out there. It’s unreliable and non-business-worthy but it’s cheap, and subsequently lots of crap sites are hosted there. It will gain you no SEO advantage from an IP point of view and your sites will be down multiple times a week.
If you value your time spent on developing and promoting your website, if you want your online business to grow in a good neighborhood recognizable by Google, if you hate overselling as I do, if you would love a honest undersold host and a clean dedicated server, you should come to Jointly Hosted, the non-profit host dream for friendly and ethical people who deserve a powerful, clean server to host their endeavors.
That’s right. I’m now exclusively releasing this particular dreamhost discount code for readers of Shanghai Web Hosting. You can get 5 extra domain registrations that are free for a LIFETIME. Plus the one that comes free by default, you can practically have 6 free top level domains on this hosting account for a life time.
Just find a text box called “Promo Code” when you are signing up at Dreamhost and enter in the box this discount code:
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That’s it. Finish the ordering process and you will have a shiny Dreamhost hosting account in no time!
For disclosure, I will get $5 reward from Dreamhost if you use this code to purchase their hosting services.
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If you are just like me who is disgusted of reading through large chunks of texts for the only particular thing that he’s interested, securing Linux can’t be any more straightforward with this exhaustive list written by Kurt Seifried. Specially made for Linux novices who are just starting to harden his servers against malicious attempts, it is a good read not only because it’s useful but also because it’s easy to follow and digest.
Here we go: http://seifried.org/security/os/linux/20020324-securing-linux-step-by-step.html
To check the version date of your OS (Linux distros):
uname -v
To find out the release:
uname -r
To display and show the complete kernel signature of your hosting server:
uname -a
Something like this will output similar information concerning your Linux kernel:
cat /proc/version
If you haven’t had the uname utility installed, you can get the kernel release version by:
cat /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease
You may also be interested in some other useful things to see within /proc.
How many user accounts are there on your hosting server? You can look up the number of server user accounts by the following command via SSH:
wc -l /etc/passwd
And it may output something like this:
76 /etc/passwd
Which means there are a total of 76 active users in the system. However, the actual number of human users of the server should be lower than the amount because there are system users created to carry out certain tasks.
Multiply the amount by 5 and you may get a rough number of websites hosted on your server.
wget command should be available in most hosting companies who offer SSH access to your hosting account. It is usually used to download stuff from the remote server, for example, to download something:
wget http://www.google.com/money.zip
However, there’s yet another hidden trick of wget that could enable you to make a mirror backup of any website – well, not actually any website but wget feels more comfortable with certain sites. WordPress blogs are perfect candidates for wget to mirror. Mirroring a WordPress blog can be done by a very simple switch of the wget command through SSH:
wget -mk http://www.example.com
All the documents relationships and HTML links will be taken care of so that local browsing of the mirrored copy will be completely no problem.
Mosso has been the pioneer of Cloud Hosting. One and a half year after the acquisition of Mosso by RackSpace, RackSpace has finally come out with its own branded cloud hosting based on what Mosso has achieved: RackSpace Cloud.
You can find a slightly more detailed report at here. Should you want to know more, here’s some Mosso and RackSpace cloud reviews and a cloud sites coupon code: REF-YY you can use to sign up with the cloud sites plan for $25 off.
The default php configuration comes with a hard cap of 2MB on the size of uploaded file determined by the php.ini directive upload_max_filesize in conjunction with post_max_size. The maximum uploading size of a file is the lower. Therefore, to increase the uploading cap and raise uploading limit, you will need to edit those 2 directives in php.ini.
The location of php.ini varies distribution by distribution, in this example, with Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, php.ini is located at /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, so
sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
Press / to find upload_max_filesize and change it to, say 8M:
upload_max_filesize = 8M
Press ESC, :, wq and Enter. Now the php.ini is saved with the new uploading file limit. Reload apache2 to read the new configurations:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Now you should be able to upload any file up to 8MB in size, in case you need larger uploading limit, in addition to change upload_max_filesize to, say, 16M, you must also edit post_max_size to more than or equaling to 16M because file uploads are processed through HTTP POST method.
In the web hosting industry, Linux is undoubtedly the No. 1 server OS that has been used and talked about. With so many differently branded distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, the basic part has always been the same – the file system, the open source packages, the commands, the shell programming and so forth. It’s a hard nut to crack, but with a few good guides and books, you will soon be on your way of becoming a professional server administration.
mod_rewrite is universally acknowledged as one of the best modules of Apache, simple yet powerful. It’s one of the top reasons why Apache is the best web server. These are some books found at Amazon on Apache mod_rewrite and how to use it in .htaccess directives.
Web hosting and similar IT infrastructure outsourcing can be intimidating to anyone not tech-savvy enough. These are some of the best readings recommended by book readers from Amazon concerning this technical issue and related decision making process. Some books teach you to use web hosting and some tell you how to run a web hosting business.
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Actually there are not too many books straightly dealing with the topic of website hosting, but a lot on its cousin areas such as Linux, Windows, Apache, PHP and MySQL.
