Renting a dedicated server, should I rent a physical firewall aswell?
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Ukuser32 asked: Is there anyway to pick a hosting provider and get all IP addresses which they have assigned to them? I’ve tried the RIPE database but a) it only
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Renting a dedicated server, should I rent a physical firewall aswell?
Mahn asked: I plan to rent a dedicated server to host a commercial application, which should house esentially everything necessary to run on a single machine (frontend, backend, databases, analytics,...
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IP address of spiders and “official” web bots
Quintin Par asked: Is there an official API to iplists.com from where I can get the list of spiders? My intention is to whitelist these IPs for site scraping. My answer: There’s no list of IP...
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Tracing out going attacks
Tiffany Walker asked: I have noticed ALOT of the following: Firewall: *TCP_OUT Blocked* IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=ME DST=OUT LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=44395 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=55901 DPT=10080...
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Prevent outgoing spam
Nikki Wilson asked: What are some ways to prevent spam from leaving your servers should a hosting account get compromised? Have a bunch of clients on a server with cpanel but wondering if there was a...
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How much downtime should I expect when changing hosts?
RandyM asked: I am changing hosting providers and have migrated my site to my new server space, both sites on either server are exact clones of each other. My registrar and hosting provider are...
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procedure to move subdomain to different server
Tom asked: I plan on having a subdomain, let’s call it foo.mysite.com, forwarding to my site www.mysite.com. This is just for testing purposes. Eventually I want to change my foo.mysite.com to point...
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Is there any reason not to switch to BlueHost for ecommerce site?
user3022759 asked: If I can manage my own company’s website, is there any reason why I shouldn’t move it from a local web-host/server to blue host? I’m currently hosted by a full-service web company,...
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Properly Configuring A-Records in Virtualmin for DNS
neanderslob asked: I’m trying to configure my own DNS with Virtualmin for a domain that I registered through GoDaddy. However, after following the instructions of GoDaddy’s support staff, I still...
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Hosting a /dev/random dependent service
Jack asked: I have developed a game that requires shuffled decks of cards to run. Since it uses /dev/random to generate shuffled decks, I was wondering what sort of concerns should I take into account...
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Find IP blocks for a hosting provider
Ukuser32 asked: Is there anyway to pick a hosting provider and get all IP addresses which they have assigned to them? I’ve tried the RIPE database but a) it only returns 250 results and b) it includes...
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