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Looking for dedicated servers on the west coast of Canada (BC/AB)

Hi. Looking for a couple of large servers, Dual Xeon, 8TB SSD/NVMe disk, 128-256G of RAM for hosting on the west coast of Canada (AB/BC).

Any suggestions?

Thanks!!

Edit: There will be some virtual desktops, so latency is factor in user experience.

3 Comments
2024/11/10
19:23 UTC

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How does continued payment work when you transfer from one service to another?

For example you register a domain at godaddy, then transfer it to cloudflare and endure the wrath of the wait time and transfer costs, does the payment go to cloudflare for domain renewal or godaddy still? I imagine cloudflare, but does the price still be the same as what godaddy set initially, or does it change? Surprisingly this isn't a simple google search on my end.

4 Comments
2024/11/10
17:55 UTC

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Wix to wix domain transfer time?

I just created a new site on wix and want to use that one instead for a domain. I am new to this, and I am seeing that sometimes it takes up to 7 days? Is that only when you switch out of wix? I need this site up by Monday.

1 Comment
2024/11/10
15:56 UTC

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How Do I Choose the Best Web Hosting for My Business?

When it comes to choosing the best web hosting for a business, what factors should I consider? I'm looking at options that offer speed, reliability, and solid security, but I’m a bit overwhelmed by the different types like shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting. Also, how important are customer support and uptime guarantees? I’ve heard brands like Ultahost mentioned a lot—does anyone have experience with them? I’d love to know if they’re a reliable choice for small to medium-sized businesses. Any tips or recommendations on how to compare features or what’s worked best for you?

8 Comments
2024/11/10
12:34 UTC

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Need A Place to Host My Domain

As the title states. Was using wordpress but I couldn't afford their hosting plan anymore. I need some place that is free that will let me temporarily host my domain. I don't need anything fancy, just a simple landing page at least. But every place I check wants money. Squarespace is not free, github pages is not easy to use, and 000WebHost shut down, grapedrop doesn't let me use my SSL cert without money. Any ideas?

23 Comments
2024/11/10
05:20 UTC

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How to utilize similar domains

Initially I wanted to get "myname.com" but it was belong to somebody else. I bought "my-name.com" instead, and I built a website and business with this domain.

Later, I found out that "myname.com" became available and no one was trying to get it for years. Last month I finally purchased it. To be clear, these domains are under two different domain providers, and the website is hosted by another company.

Question 1: Obviously the easiest way is to redirect from the newly obtained domain "myname.com" to "my-name.com". But what is the downside with this approach?

Question 2: If I want to shift to "myname.com" to strengthen the brand, can I just make it point to the hosting server, and then set up redirect with the old domain? Will it mess up with my website?

6 Comments
2024/11/10
01:50 UTC

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Is it a big deal if I don't get the dedicated IP plan

I am looking to create a simple personal website with links to some of my posts on linkedin, maybe some articles, some photos, maybe upload a few vide interviews with guests on tech topics etc. but I do want to make sure it's always up or atleast the lack of a dedicated IP does not cause any issues in accessing the website. Is it worth getting dedicated IP for this or there is no need? My understanding is once I have dedicated IP I wont run into any DNS resolution errors which can cause my website to be inaccessible, If that's true how frequently does this happen? I am with inmotionhosting.

25 Comments
2024/11/09
23:53 UTC

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How BunnyCDN pricing works?

Assuming I want to use only the CDN, I have current site A, and I want that some of his files will be served from bunny, than I setup a name of A to bunny.

Then: A. What is the pricing? Is it simply the traffic price or there is additional storage price or other "fine printing" price I should be aware of? B. How long do a file saved cached on Bunny? C. Do bunny allow fine grain log collecting (like I want to get the list of fileName:MonthlyBwUsage)

2 Comments
2024/11/09
18:09 UTC

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Bluehost - what's stopping me from just FTP'ing the contents of my website and doing backups my self?

I just started working on a new website as a hobby (doing stuff in raw HTML/CSS/JS) and have hosting through Bluehost. I noticed they offer a backup service for X dollars per month. Because this is a hobby project and I want to minimize costs, is there anything stopping me from scheduling FTP downloads at a regularly scheduled interval using their SSH interface and doing backups myself?

Seems like a pretty easy workaround but not sure if doing that is against user policy or something.

10 Comments
2024/11/09
18:03 UTC

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Flywheel Demo Site Migrate

I built a wp site on flywheel demo. Is there a way to move the entire site including plugins that have been setup, themes, etc? Is there a plugin to do this easily?

8 Comments
2024/11/09
17:53 UTC

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Hosting provider for these requirements

Hello! I'm quite new to the world of web hosting and struggle to decide on a host for my use case.

I'm making a game that will be distributed through a custom launcher that downloads the game files via FTP from a server. Download size is a few GBs, traffic from all around the world but mainly US/Europe and most likely in bursts when a new version is released. Initial estimate is 1-5K users downloading per month. The server needs to be publicly accessible and also be able to run PHP through the URL, for example:http://website.com/file.php .

I don't need a visible website or anything, just a place to upload and download files. I also have a domain already that is linked to a Wix website, wondering if I need a new domain for the file server or if it's possible to reuse it? Budget is whatever is required for this to run reasonably well in terms of upload/download speed.

Thanks!

7 Comments
2024/11/09
13:58 UTC

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Host gator billing changed without notification?!

Hello there everyone.

Just a quick heads up.

I had the hatchling plan as shared web hosting, passed the 10gb storage and they automatically bumped me to pro in the category of wordpress hosting. Since I renewed monthly support chat said I wasn't notified of this...the ones who do it yearly were?

Anyone else have this happen to them? Is this even legal without letting me know? Cheers

15 Comments
2024/11/09
13:32 UTC

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Help Needed: Can't Verify Subdomain for Google Workspace on Shopify - MX Records Issue

Hey everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue and hoping someone here can help. Here’s my situation:

I have a domain registered through Shopify, and everything works fine with it, including GSuite (Google Workspace). No problems there—emails work great.

Now, I want to add a subdomain (mail.mydomain.com) for email marketing purposes. I've added this subdomain in Shopify, and it's successfully verified in Google Workspace (as shown here in the first screenshot).

However, when I try to "Activate Gmail" for this subdomain, Google asks me to add specific MX records for verification (screenshot 2). I followed those instructions precisely and added the MX records as shown, with the main one pointing to smtp.google.com.

Despite this, Google keeps telling me it cannot verify the subdomain, and I get the error seen in the third screenshot.

Here are the MX Records I’ve added (you can see them in the fourth screenshot):

NamePoints toPriority
@aspmx.l.google.com1
@alt1.aspmx.l.google.com5
@alt2.aspmx.l.google.com5
@alt3.aspmx.l.google.com10
@alt4.aspmx.l.google.com10
mail.mydomain.comsmtp.google.com1

Google keeps saying verification could not be completed, and I should ensure all fields are correct.

I don't believe I have to delete pre-existing MX records.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue with setting up Google Workspace for a subdomain through Shopify? Any advice would be super helpful, especially if there's something obvious I might be missing.

Thank you so much in advance!

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/iXqO1A9

6 Comments
2024/11/09
12:53 UTC

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Need help with redirect issue

Hi all,

I need some help with our website https://sueca13flores.com/.

I am getting the error that our site has redirected too many times.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/U2H2Sw4.jpeg

Could anyone help me understand what is causing the issue and how to fix it?

Thank you!

6 Comments
2024/11/09
08:35 UTC

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Migrating Main Site to External Subdomain Hosting

My company has an older site hosted through liquidweb and is managed through a company that I have to run all cpanel requests though and it's a nightmare.

We are developing an LMS that is being hosted on bluehost and that we had planned to establish as a subdomain with our main site.

We want to rehost the main site, but don't want to do that process while also trying to run the pilot programs for our LMS so my conundrum is whether or not is possibly/feasibly/reasonable to migrate the main site to our bluehost account and re-establish the LMS as a subdomain there.

Our webdev for the LMS is balking at the idea of migrating the main site after setting up the LMS as a subdomain, but says they don't deal with DNS/Hosting to explain the situation and concerns.

I've tried finding someone that resembles this situation online and have not be able to find anything remotely close, so any help or insight would be immensely useful/enlightening.

11 Comments
2024/11/08
17:35 UTC

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WPX deleted my website

My website was deleted and due to inactivity for 90 days, WPX deleted the backup. Is there any way I can obtain the files for the website?

WPX is stating that it is totally gone... :(

20 Comments
2024/11/08
01:58 UTC

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Reseller Hosting for Multiple Wordpress sites

I'm trying to avoid the shiny black Friday deals and looking for Direct Admin reseller hosting for multiple Wordpress sites. I want to do reseller to keep them siloed. (Open to other ideas if you have them.) I've seen lots of recommendations for NameCrane and HostBrr, both seem good. The sites are pretty low volume so not looking for anything like super-managed Wordpress options. Hosting sites will be for North America audiences.

I'm wondering if anyone has others I should be checking out or good things to say about these two?

Thank you for taking time to read my post.

13 Comments
2024/11/07
20:05 UTC

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Finding SSL provider for my domain?

I have MyDomain.com with smarterasp.net. I would like to add the https to all the pages within the domain.

smarterasp.net is offering me a Comodo SSL for $53/yr ($29 for SSL + $24 for static IP). Is this a decent deal?

I don't want to move any of my content from smarterasp.net. I simply want to add the SSL certificate to my domain.

20 Comments
2024/11/07
19:50 UTC

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Web hosting for high-traffic, high concurrent visitor complex news / streaming site with WooCommerce store

[The questionnaire is locked, so was unable to use]

We are currently with WP Engine and we've been mostly satisfied with them, but we've outgrown their shared plan and looking for a new home. Why? Our site it political in nature and given that Amazon has already shut down Parler 3 years ago for "tos violations", we aren't taking any chances.

Our site is a complex web application that I build on WordPress. Performant is crucial and the site is our livelihood, so its critical that we have maximum uptime

These are our requirements for web host:

  • Dedicated managed server
  • I (the sole web team) can modify site files, .htaccess, plugins, etc -- all WordPress root and config files
  • I can modify the database as well (currently on MySQL 8, but hear Maria is more performant?)
  • Cloud hosting acceptable, but not Amazon, Google, or Microsoft -- anything else is on the table

If it helps, here are some usage specs for our site:

  • Allotted billable visits / mo: 400K Average visits per day: 13K+ Peak Visits: 100K+
  • Allotted storage: 50 GB Average storage use: 12 GB Peak storage use: 15 GB
  • Allotted bandwidth: 550 GB Average bandwidth use: 30 GB Peak bandwidth use: 49 GB

Finally, I had considered DigitalOcean and Cl*udwayz based on past reviews, but it looks like they've both degraded since being bought out?

Looking for guidance -- I'm in rough seas here with tigers swimming all around me.

13 Comments
2024/11/07
18:48 UTC

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Isolating VPSs (VMs) using VLANs

I have multiple VPSs using dedicated public IPs from a single /24 network. I want to isolate the VMs into their own networks, while they only have their public IPs assigned to their network interfaces. Is this possible to do with a single bridge and unique VLANs on it for each VM? What I am concerned about is reusing the same public IP for the gateway of all VMs.

I am using Proxmox VE and trying to implement a routed setup where the node is the router for all VMs but VMs don't know about each other (as opposed to a bridge setup).

2 Comments
2024/11/07
18:18 UTC

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Best Adult site hosting providers

Hi everyone, what are the best hosting providers that allow a database(about 400 mb) and scripts for an adult site with affordable prices(<$10)?

Edit: To everyone who have shared info, I really appreciate it 🙏🏽 I'm now considering Contabo's VPS which has good specs at an affordable price(about $6) I've used AWS EC2's Ubuntu 20.04 image for testing. So far so good🙏🏽

But I'll do a research about Contabo a bit then I'll share more info about my experience

11 Comments
2024/11/07
10:12 UTC

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How would you go on about securing WooCommerce on a VPS with a panel?

Hello I am currently exploring how to host a WooCommerce site on your VPS since I need to rebuild the site I have right now (inherited and in a bad state, barely working)

Anyways the existing WP installation is on a managed hosting plan of IONOS and it is just too slow.

I have tried out running cyberpanel and cloudpanel.
I managed to get wordpress running on both of them (not a big achievement, was very easy). Its wordpress, so I can start working on it right away! But my next concern is security. What does a managed hosting provider do in addition to run wordpress? should I maybe go with another panel? What should I take into consideration?

Greetings

18 Comments
2024/11/07
09:39 UTC

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I'm starting a Hosting business.

I'm thinking of starting a website hosting business. I'm a website designer by trade. I host my clients sites now for free. So I think I'm going to purchase a resellers account and start charging new clients.

9 Comments
2024/11/06
04:39 UTC

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Fatcow webhosting contact

I tried to contact fatcow through chat online, they said they only help people with a blue host account. I tried again, they put me through to a contact form that froze multiple times.

Have spent hours now just trying to contact someone to change e-mailadres of the control panel and request authorization code for moving the domain. No contact possible and they just upped the prices with an unreasonable amount and want out, hosting is terrible.

Anyone have a contact email please?

3 Comments
2024/11/06
15:53 UTC

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Google Workspace and hosting site

Hello,

I bought a domain with google workspace, if you buy a domain from workspace they use squarespace. Id like to use a hosting site for wordpress with my domain, however you have to connect the Nameserver from the hosting site, there already Nameserver from google in my settings, if I paste the Nameservers from the hosting site it wont connect, if i only paste the Nameserver from the hosting site my gmail does not work, anyone has a solution?

5 Comments
2024/11/06
23:14 UTC

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HostGator WHM Firewall needs period restart to keep port open. Why?

We have opened a few ports via WHM HG Firewall Administration for our VPS. We use a non-standard port for SSH which has never been a problem. We recently had to open outbound port 587 to use a third party email service. We have found that this port periodically becomes blocked again (often enough for me to deploy a watchdog to alert us when it becomes blocked again). The HG Firewall Administration configuration is unchanged and all I have to do is restart the Firewall Service to open port the again. However, some outbound emails may bounce because the connection fails due to the port being closed again. Has anyone had a similar experience with some ports getting closed in spite of the configuration set via WHM and, if so, is there a workaround? (I've largely given up on HG support; it now requires excessive effort to get reliable answers to uncommon questions.)

11 Comments
2024/11/06
19:26 UTC

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Hosting provider not giving me the domain transfer code

Hi guys, first and foremost thanks for the help.

A while ago, i bought one of those offers from a hosting provider that gave me web hosting, a free domain and other things included, i don't know if i can disclose which is the hosting provider.

Basically, after the year had past, i didn't renew the web hosting, but renewed the domain name, since i intended to transfer it to another hosting provider.

The hosting provider, since i didn't pay the web hosting, suspended my account.

Now, when i login in the hosting provider everything is practically blocked minus the option to pay the amount that i owe.

Since i want to transfer the domain away i sent an email asking for the transfer code of the domain.

The response i had was that i had to pay a certain amount for my account being open before the suspension.

I have two questions.

Is is legal to block me from managing my domain because i didn't pay for the web hosting?

And can they just not send me the code to transfer the domain even tho i payed for the domain renewal?

Thanks for all the help!!

2 Comments
2024/11/05
17:21 UTC

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Want to keep domain but cancel servide & business plan with Hostgator?

I've seen this issue addressed on here before, but some of the circumstances were slightly different. I want to leave Hostgator but keep my domain name. HostGator's prices are too high and for things I don't need. As I was a newbie, I went with a discounted prince to start and now deeply regret it. Hostgator Customer Service said if I only pay for my domain name but not to renew my hosting plan, I will lose access to email and won't be able to edit my site.

Does anyone know any way around this or if I can still transfer my domain name to a different hosting service? I'm a writer with a professional blog. Thank you!

3 Comments
2024/11/05
23:21 UTC

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NameSilo rant ...

I've been pretty happy with namesilo for several years with a single domain there.

Now it's renewal time, and they cannot take my payment from a CC because there's a constant error code from Braintree. It's not a helpful error code. The card has funds, the card is valid, I go through the 2FA payment validation from the bank, then the braintree code comes up.

Their suggestion is "use paypal" which I stopped using years back. But I guess I'll have to revitalise my paypal account just so I can renew, so the domain is not within 15 days of renewal, so I can transfer it to Cloudflare ...

OK, rant over. Go about your business ...

UPDATE:

So Namesilo say it is a response from braintree that they cannot process the payment. This card is open for overseas and internet payments, and github, anthropic, kagi, digital ocean have all taken payments from it just fine in the last week or so.

Braintree are blaming my bank. I may check with them, but if it is a bank thing then it means they've basically blacklisted Braintree, which makes it all a bit useless for me ...

They kept suggesting PayPal. Interestingly, Paylap own braintree, so cynical me is thinking they are trying to force people to use Paypal. I didn't really want to do this, but in the end I did and it went through first time ...

So now I am thinking Braintree are just a bit dodgy and I want to avoid any company using them, so will probably swap.

On the NameSilo side, I found their support nothing other than extremely responsive and as helpful as they could be under the circumstances, which is that it was a 3rd party issue. I still think I'm going to move away from them though because Braintree ...

9 Comments
2024/11/06
10:23 UTC

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Need help in hosting sql dump and php website with 2 files

Hi everyone, hope you're doing good.

I've been trying to host my sql dump in AWS RDS but it seems too complicated to me. This project included the sql dump (326 mb), 2 php files( fetch_data.php which fetches data from the database and index.php that satisfy the front-end, where the data can be searched from the fetch_data.php).

How can I simply host and allow them to interact without having to use my local host? Please help

4 Comments
2024/11/05
19:55 UTC

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