Questions tagged [web-hosting]
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How to Respond to Directive: "Move Our Entire Website to a CMS Service"
We have a large ASP.NET/C# e-commerce website (over 250k products) that's been around for over 15 years. We have lots of highly customized functionality, including a private subscription area, user-...
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How do websites/apps deal with so many people online at once? [closed]
I’ve been wondering about this for a little bit, but I couldn’t find much info on Google.
What do big websites like YouTube do to manage all the traffic they get without their website slowing down? ...
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Hosting a static website containing JavaScript/jQuery
I have customized a free downloaded web template as my simple, static website. It contains HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/jQuery.
I want to make it live, and am confused from where to host it. The hosting ...
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How to setup "multiple-website" website with domains?
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I run a two-sided platform with small businesses on one side, and users on another. As a part of our product I plan to introduce "websites" as part of the product.
Idea is: a local ...
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Why use IIS or apache tomcat instead of self-hosting?
I am a .NET developer. I see ASP.NET MVC framework now started providing a self-hosting feature. It makes a lot of sense (to me). A self-hosted application feels complete with no external dependency.
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Should you always program server side for a website?
I'm about to start creating a music project website for a friend. It should be pretty simple for now: no dynamic content (tour dates, etc.), and nothing more than a few embedded sample songs or ...
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Is there a limit to how often I should access a website programically to avoid DDOS? [closed]
I have my own website that displays some data I get from webscraping. I run the webscraping script on my website host server. I just realized that maybe I'm accessing other websites too quickly ...
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How do freelance web developers manage client hosting? [duplicate]
Looking for a side hobby/project of freelance web development as i am currently in university trying to make some extra cash.
So my question is:
When a client comes to me for a website should i set ...
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Are websites hosted in distant servers slower?
I live in Brazil and I'm planning on hosting my website in either DreamHost or Digital Ocean, which don't have any servers in my country. Will that affect the loading speed of my site?
Thanks!!!
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Converting from AppHarbor to Azure
I'm thinking of switching my cloud provider from AppHarbor to Azure. Main reason, I love the ability of being able to scale up the number of workers as traffic/cpu usage gets really high.
My question ...
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VPS vs Web Hosting: Which one is good for java web services [closed]
I have some questions about VPS and web hosting.
As far as I understand, VPS is a virtual machine on which we can do anything as we can do with our local machine. Install software, change settings ...
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Web hosting deciding to pay for hosting or host your own? [closed]
Is there a guide out there on how to choose when to pay for web hosting vs. hosting your own? Assuming that root access is a must I would like to compare things like cost, scalability and personal ...
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How to deploy a single website to multiple physical servers?
Edit: I asked this question 3 or 4 years ago when I was new to web-development, the question looks a bit stupid to me today. I wanted to create a server setup of my own without relying on other ...
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Is the .NET/Microsoft technology stack a financially viable option for a startup with limited finances?
I have an unpaid internship for a very new startup company with little tech experience that's trying to be a Groupon clone. They're currently using Wordpress and I've been trying to decide what web ...
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What exactly do I have to pay attention for when choosing Windows Hosting Provider?
This is my first time choosing a hosting company. It is for a web site made in asp.net mvc3.
So I was thinking choosing a provider would be easy since I found this page
http://www.microsoft.com/web/...
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