Date: 07/03/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: web, hosting, spam

i am looking for recommendations for email hosting.

my requirements are:
- must be allowed to host your own domain
- must have a web interface that is fast and not bloated
- must have at least 2 GB of IMAP storage space available
- must have custom spam filtering options available

preferable but not required:
- web locker space available

running my own email server is not an option at this point. I was previously using fastmail.fm, but lately their uptime has been terrible and i'm very annoyed with the downtime. suggestions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/944958.html

Date: 07/05/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, hosting

I prepared a list of questions to ask potential unmanaged dedicated web hosting providers for my sites. Note: I have collected some questions from the web (forgot the url) and added my own. Feel free to add more in comments. Also below are some tips to get better pricing. Can I remotely (cold) reboot my dedicated [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pre-sales-questions-for-choosing-dedicated-web-hosting-providers/

Date: 07/05/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, hosting, google

I have been looking for a unmanaged dedicated web hosting provider for the last 7 days or so. I performed sucks tests (search in Google for “xyz sucks”), went to web hosting forumsm asked questions to the provider, analyzed their plans with a fine tooth comb. Finally I have settled upon two alternatives, depending [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/unmanaged-dedicated-web-hosting-provider-my-choice/

Date: 07/07/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, hosting

Dreamhost, why suckst thou thusly? My configs error free, all see. My width of band a mere mirage. My use of space a laughing joke. Thy wages paid in full, in time, and yet Thy temper so villain, so foul. … - Symbiotix wrote a poem to express his bad experiences with dreamhost, a popular web hosting provider. I didn’t use them [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-ode-to-dreamhost-shared-web-hosting-provider/

Date: 07/13/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: hosting

We are working to provide a better mailing list for our blog readers who prefer to subscribe by email. The current provider bloglet.com is unreliable at times. Also it doesn’t allow us to customize the list. There are other options like Zakoda or Feedblitz, but I prefer hosting it. Also now mailing list subscriptions will [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/switching-mailing-list-for-blogs/

Date: 07/14/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: technology, web, hosting

Hi people,

General question here. Say, I am about to create a huge web application, with potentially many accounts, different ways to communicate for account owners, different ajax implementations, and moreover, lots of smart algorithms, which will operate on the back-end and do different magical crap. Think okCupid sort of thing, with better design. (No, I'm not making online dating, but okCupid is the closest I've seen).

five important thingies:
1) Expandability (different features/modules should be addable without much pain)
2) Complete control over design (no pre-made stuff unless absolutely customizable)
3) Clear separation between designer and programmer. (well, as much as it's possible)
4) Quick development/good community
5) Fast-working result

five unimportant thingies (really, I don't care about them):
1) the difficulty of deploying the product to hostings
2) high price of hosting to support the technologies
3) lack of hostings that support technology
4) learning curve
5) that's it

Seems like my lists lean towards Ruby on Rails, but I'm afraid about its customizability (the designes of sites I saw made on Ruby sorta sucked). Also, the okCupid is made on C++. When I found that out, I thought "whoa". Then I thought, maybe it's a good thing, when you have to program lots of algorithms. Some say that J2EE is good for these things. People also argue about OO vs. view-centric approach. Help with your ideas please.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/334983.html

Date: 07/18/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, database, asp, virus, web, hosting, google

H. D. Moore (hdm[at]metasploit.com) has devised a Ruby based search engine that finds malicious windows software (viruses, trojans etc.) using standard Google queries. The Malware search engine finds Web sites hosting malicious files after an user enters the name of a virus or Trojan horse. Currently the signature database is small but still contains dangerous viruses [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-malware-search-engine-and-how-it-works-impact/

Date: 07/24/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: blogging, software, web, hosting, spam

Many online blogging software and other products require some type of cron and / or asynchronous execution functionality. Spammers and web robots are an essential part of any website today. Most web hosting providers, especially on shared hosting, do not provide cron functionality. Let’s see how we can leverage spammers and web robots (like MSN [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-robots-spammers-to-run-your-cron-jobs/

Date: 07/26/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: hosting

I'm looking for a total hosting solution (domain, space, email addresses, etc) for a reasonable price.

I don't need anything too fancy, and I am on a budget. My needs are simple. I'm starting up a multimedia network of sites (so multiple domains) one of which will be very heavy on images, another will have a few small videos (under 5 minutes each), another will host digital albums of an artists music (about 30 mp3s as of right now), and the final part of this multimedia network will host 2-3 weekly podcasts.

I'm looking to put all of this on the same server space (shared is fine, I don't need dedicated as of now) and get multiple domains.

Any suggestions on reasonable server space and domain registration?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/337718.html

Date: 07/26/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, hosting

Recently, the small web host my company had been using for the past 3 years had a server crash and have never recovered (all my accounts are still down, 1 month later) and those files I was hosting are pretty much all lost with very little hope of ever getting them back, in addition to all the accounts we had setup for our clients.

Well here we are, a month later with all our client's files and ours over at Dreamhost. Which is a fantastic host.

However, we would like to find someone where we can get a reseller account through. We are mainly looking for the ability to set up quotas for bandwidth and space.
WIth our old host each client had cpanel access as well so they could do light admin work on their own accounts.

Anyone have any hosts that are like this?

For the record, we were with webspacedepot.net

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1143321.html

Date: 07/29/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, browser, web, hosting

Create a file in your htdocs directory (ask the location from your web hosting provider if you are not sure named test.php. Open the file in your favorite text editor and add the line: < ?php phpinfo() ?> After saving the file, open in your browser: http://[your host name]/test.php Note: Replace [your host name] with your actual host name. Now if [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-test-php-support-in-apache-http-server/

Date: 08/05/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: cms, php, mysql, database, sql, web, hosting, shopping

Sooo, I am 98% sure I'm taking on a client where I need to implement a CMS for him to make changes to the site if necessary. When I first wrote the quote a few months ago, I suggested Drupal as the CMS because it was free, looked rather customizable and somewhat easy to use. I have limited experience writing PHP and dealing with MySQL databases but understand the mechanics of it.

This particular client is offering subscriptions to a database of business industry contacts. There will be about 500 contacts on the pay list (including name, office, affiliation, etc) and he will add to the list about every three months or so. What he will change on a regular monthly basis will be the articles he writes. The subscription concept then requires a shopping cart/check out system as well as a password/username management system for each user.

Would Drupal be a good way to go for both my client and for me? Also, I'm switching web hosts and am considering becoming a reseller. Is there a web host that has it installed already? Door Host ( http://www.doorhost.net/ ) used to have it, but I don't think they do anymore. I'm considering going with Total Choice Hosting buying either their basic reseller plan or the regular Deluxe Plan.

Nonetheless, who has used this or other comparable CMSs and which do you prefer and why?

Drupal: http://www.drupal.org/

Sites built with Drupal:
http://www.terminus1525.ca
http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
http://www.theonion.com/
http://www.echoditto.com/

Oh, I just found this Drupal web hosting company called Site Ground that has all of the major CMSs installed already and gives you 24,000 MB of space. Anyone heard of them? I also found these guys: Canaca.com.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1146967.html

Date: 08/07/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: hosting, google

Google has teamed up with an anti-malware organisation, Stop Badware Coalition (StopBadware.org) to offer warnings when search results might otherwise lead surfers to sites hosting malicious code. Google is using data from the Stop Badware Coalition to display warnings about potentially harmful sites. Google hopes to provide users with a safer searching experience. StopBadware.org was launched in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-offers-malware-warnings-in-search-results/

Date: 08/11/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, database, sql, security, web, hosting

Sorry to be posting again with nothing to actually contribute, but I'm having a hacker issue with one of my websites. I'm not one to jump on sudden suspicions of hackers, and I don't victimize myself, but this is the second time someone's hacked my site.

After the first time, I was extremely cautious. I uploaded my site to a new server and made sure not to install any interactive PHP scripts. I did, however, continue to code my website in basic PHP, but nothing that required a connection with an SQL database or any sort of log in - just simple PHP pages with dynamic inclusion and switch functions.

[/END SOB STORY]

My friend's webhost (my friend was hosting me at the time) sent this as a response to my e-mail:

"Do NOT put any php pages back up on this site if you wish to host it with us and certainly not any phpbb boards which were most likely used in the attempt to hack our server."

include("language.php");

"; include("layout.php"); echo " "; include("nav.php"); echo " "; // --- DYNAMIC INCLUSION $page = basename($x); if(!$x) include("main.php"); else include("$x.php"); echo "

";
?>

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/481154.html

Date: 08/14/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, hosting

i am looking for relatively inexpensive hosting (less than or equal to $5 a month) for http://1919hemphill.org. right now we are using a free webhost that provides to us because we are a DIY music venue and a not for profit group. but they have been having a lot of problems lately and we need alternatives. i was wondering if anyone knew of anyone that gives discounts or something to stuff related to punk rock, and if not, just good reliable webhosts. right now we have 50mb of space and 500mb of bandwidth. not great but it's free. i've been looking around and i just don't know of reliability of stuff. there are a few that are definitely reliable but not within our price range.

anyway i know this question gets asked all the time. maybe we should put it on the memories or something.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1150011.html

Date: 08/16/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, hosting, apache

This is how I have my apache setup for virtual hosting on a win32 box.

d:/httpRoot/lc.clientSite.com/

with
d:/httpRoot/lc.clientSite.com/public_html/ being the actual http doc root.

is there a way I can tell dreamweaver my doc root is
d:/httpRoot/lc.clientSite.com/ while still being able to press F12 and get http://lc.clientSite.com/ instead of http://lc.clientSite.com/public_html/ which translates out to d:/httpRoot/lc.clientSite.com/public_html/public_html/ which is wrong.

The reason I want to see below the root is so I can stay in Dreamweaver and be able to edit the secureScripts dir and read my log entries.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/346156.html

Date: 08/16/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, software, web, hosting

I'm working on an open source project called Appleseed, which requires server-to-server communication.

I'm trying to decide whether I should roll my own classes using internal PHP functions like stream_context_create (), or if I should use the CURL library.

I've benchmarked them both, and the CURL library is really close to the raw functions as far as speed goes.

Does anybody have any recommendations? The only reason I'm hesitant about CURL is that I really want this software to be very easy to install, even on a typical $9 a month php hosting account.

Considering that, how widespread is CURL support amongst php webhosts?

Also, if anybody has rolled their own functions before, how difficult can it be? I'll mostly just be transferring data between servers, nothing too complicated. Maybe CURL is overkill for that?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/484379.html

Date: 08/25/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: hosting

Does anyone know of a good free hosting site (with ftp, no or limited banners, etc.)?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1157832.html

Date: 08/27/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, hosting

In two simple steps: 1. Login as root. You can also su from your non-root login. 2. Run: yum update openssh openssh-askpass openssh-clients openssh-server openssh-askpass-gnome BTW: Self-managed dedicated web hosting sucks unless you have a great sysadmin.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-update-openssh-on-redhat-fedora-core/

Date: 08/28/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web, hosting

Hey, I'd really like to make a website, but, I don't know the first thing about, well, anything.
Its pretty lame, I know, but, I'd really like some help.
Maybe free hosting/domain name?
(I'd do the whole, pay $3.99 a month thing, but, I don't know how to pay online, like I said, I'm really new to this.)
If you guys could teach me anything, give me tips, advice anything you can, I'd really love you for it.
Thanks.
Kristie.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1158368.html