I didn't know ripping Wall-E would be so hard. http://bit.ly/18hgV 10 hrs ago
There has already been a long debate about hosting your own DNS servers and mail servers but I’ve found once again relying on Godaddy total DNS management and using GoDaddy e-mail forwarding has made my three migrations over the last year a breeze. So I suggest to everyone:
Suggestion One:
Don’t mix your host and your registrar. You might not see your domain again.
For anyone looking to create their own site I urge you, never register your domain with your host. There…
I was just contacted by someone with a compromised server and I’m noticing that a lot of hosting companies just plain suck. I’ve seen a lot of hosting control panels and I hate all of them (except MTs), if you’re running a VPS or dedicated and everything is managed and controlled through a complex account manager something is wrong. [Link] (0)
I’m going to hold off from posting a review of Media Temple’s (dv) (VPS) plan for another date, probably after I’m completely happy with the setup and I have some more experience with how they handle support and uptime.
So far the support has been outstanding. Currently I’m on the base dedicated virtual plan that (mt) offers but without Plesk. This was a major requirement for me in moving to (mt). Thanks to their awesome support they provisioned my system fairly…
I’m officially on mediatemple now and after getting my VPS or (dv) cleansed of plesk I noticed Yum was not installed. I’m planning on doing a full writeup after a few days but for now I’ll get this tutorial on how to install Yum on CentOS 4 out of the way.
First off you’ll need to install a key from the centos mirrors,
# rpm –import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-4
Next let’s start installing yum,
# rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libxml2-python is needed by yum-2.4.3-3.el4.centos.noarch
python-elementtree is…
The server migration went horrible and ok. The good: I was forced to migrate this morning because my current host all of a sudden dropped my memory or is having problems allocating memory to my VPS so all my sites were white screening. But since I was forced to move I didn’t have to worry about DBs being synced, the dumps and imports went well. And since I use GD for my nameserver it took 10 minutes to switch over…
Looking into another VPS hosting plan. My contract is almost up and I’m leaning on going back to (mt) more than anything. I do wish I had the money for a dedicated box that I could host somewhere, I think I might ask about leasing a rack at my work. Which will be very unlikely, I might have a better chance sneaking it in. [Link] (0)
After posting this on Twitter:
Whoever is recommending dotster for hosting and domains please stop. Sorry, but if you’re not ignorant you’re an idiot.
Jared asked, “What’s wrong with Dotster?”. LOL, I had forgotten he uses it.
I was requested to setup a client’s outlook to receive email from one of his many domains he purchased through Dotster today and I anticipated it to take a few minutes since he already had a server/hosted plan. Nope, it took forever and I found out a…
One of my tasks this week was to setup a web server for some sites currently hosted on the tragedy of the grid. I don’t want to talk about the (mt) grid since I’ve said so much about it before but to answer “why?” I’m still on the grid for production sites is, I’ve been too busy to migrate them and at one point I was going to put them on a spry VPS but my DB was too large for their…
I upgraded my server yesterday to the VPS300 plan at Spry. My old server was being hit pretty hard and wasn’t managing to serve the pages at a decent speed, actually if you made a visit in the last few days you would have thought the server was down. I was told with the upgrade my server would be placed on a different nod that has fewer servers so I should see a big performance boost. From what I can…
Dear Media Temple,
I thank you for your great service; so far. I’ve never had a host actually respond to my technical questions with a real reply. Great customer service seems to be something you are working hard on and it shows. Your requests/questions UI is great. Normally I would have to email support and wait a day for a reply to only have to email back because the response was lacking. And then I find that the next tech support…
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