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If you order a new VPS for a live website do you always order it from a company with DDoS protection or do you only use those companies after you have been a victim of DDoS?

What database tools do everyone here use? phpMyAdmin sometimes does not work when I install it on a vps and I want to try something else to use that will let me import databases and modify them from a browser on a vps that has no control panel.

There are many different cloud companies and I am not sure which one is best or a correct cloud. Can someone tell me the main difference between these companies: digital ocean, amazon cloud, vultr, iwstack, rackspace, linode and others? I read that clouds are setup different and sometimes disk...

If you did not know how to code but wanted to start to learn this year what would be the best language to start learning and why? I want to make web apps and maybe one day get a job coding if I like it and can do it.

How long is to long to wait? Most respond fast (maybe 2 hours) and some are always slow (sometimes 24 or more hours). What is acceptable to you? Also if you know someone with fast support please let me know. This is for support not billing ticket.

Like with domain names your information is shown in the whois information but if you run a whois on the IP sometimes it shows the provider or something else entirely. How come this does not show your information when on a VPS?

Got this email today They changed my IP address last week and now are moving me out of the country to the USA. I dont use this vps very much but I dont want a USA vps (I already have one). :(

Wordpress is okay but I want to use something new. What is a good blogging system that is not wordpress but still has lots of features? I looked at ghost because lot of people say its good but it seems to basic. This will be for testing and not real use for now.

Sorry if this is a newb question but what is anycast? I saw a provider that has "anycast vps", does this mean that my visitor has my website loaded from the closest server to them?

I read that it is easy to enter vps without permission with openvz if you are the host. Is there anyway to stop this so they must ask first?

Hi I am wondering if a customer submits a ticket to you for sales and asks what the specs of the server is if you tell them or not. I asked one of my providers and was told they couldn't give me the exact specs and said only that they use genuine intel processors and use hardware raid10. I was...

Im looking for something I can use to host a small blog to post YouTube videos to. Wordpress is too big now and often a target of exploits, it has too many features for what I need. What is a good simple blog script that is in use today that is modern, fast and secure? Does not need to be fancy...

I know that people use the "dd command" to measure disk write speed but others say you should measure iops instead. What is the best way to test the disk speed for real world use of a database being read and written to?

I want to one day work for a web hosting company and maybe even one day open my own. Though I am not ready yet, I am curious if anyone has there cPanel certificate from the website https://university.cpanel.net/ . Would a L1 certification be good enough to get a entry level job with a web host...

Hi there, I want to measure my website load time speed for different areas of the world. I am still developing the site but before I launch I think this would be good information to have. Does a tool like this exist? Please share if you know.

Hi there, I want to make it so that if one of my VPSes goes offline from one provider that another VPS from a different provider will produce the data for my website. I know it is possible but unsure if I can set it up. What do I need?

There are a lot of providers here and on other forums, many use the same locations and even same data centres as others and sell the same services with the same software and setups. Is there any web hosts that are doing anything different? I'm happy with my VPS providers but they all use the...

Any tips on fail2ban? I just installed on a vps that I will use for a website soon and it is just the stock configuration now. Any advice on how to configure it would be great. Thanks.

root@srv:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.31474 s, 464 MB/s This is a ramnode ssd cached vps and it is the fastest I have for disks. What about you?

There is a lot of options and I dont know what I am doing. I have a website that gets about 5,000 visits a day and I have a cPanel VPS and I want to optimize its apache for best performance. I have plenty of free memory so I think I can use limits to make it use more ram but be faster? I like...