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Forward typo emails

If you just want to know what it's called, so that you can search for providers which offer it, the usual term I've seen is a "catch all" e-mail account. Actually, the relationship between e-mail ...
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What are the protocol options for read-write connection to a server?

SFTP is far better for these reasons: it's not plaintext like FTP the webhosting company is probably on a Linux or Unix platform and SFTP works well with this operating system and user accounts on it. ...
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How can I find the web host company for a web domain?

To answer your specific whois question: You can go to a site like lookup.icann.org and enter the name of the website. For example if you enter poleguy.com in the search, you'll see the nameservers are ...
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How to integrate cURL on my public_html?

Is it possible to integrate cURL to my website There are two possible ways of "integrating" it: Running the same curl shell command from PHP, through popen() or system() or exec(). This ...
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Do I need to purchase a Positive SSL while buying a domain?

No. Domains are completely independent from TLS certificates; Namecheap is just trying to upsell. (There is no such term as "a positive ssl" in general – that's just a product marketing name used by ...
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Is editing “hosts” file in Windows necessary to host Apache Virtual Hosts?

If you have an external DNS service (like GoDaddy) configured to point to your local IP for the specific domain name you want to use, you do not need the hosts file. You only need the local hosts ...
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How to use Cloudflare for a subdomain (of a domain I own)? Website hosted on Namecheap shared servers

As far as I understand it, CloudFlare offers two services, DNS hosting and web proxying. Using CloudFlare as the domain's DNS nameserver is a prerequisite for the web-proxy service, but it does not ...
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What is actually happening on uploading the files from FileZilla ? Are we hosting it ? , if yes how it is actually linked with web hosting provider?

FileZilla is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program used to connect to and transfer files to and from an FTP server. FileZilla itself does not host any websites. However, many servers running apache ...
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how to slow down sftp on Linux

I am not sure about sftp but you can use scp with specific command line parameter: -l limit Limits the used bandwidth, specified in Kbit/s. So you command will be: scp -l 5000 myname@mysite:...
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How to make Nginx server available on public IP

From what I know, this should be really simple, all you would need to do is to open port 93 from your ubuntu machine in your router to be accessible for http or https traffic from the outside and you ...
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Does shared web hosting host each website on a separate server or on separate virtual machines?

Shared hosting typically — and historically — happens on a single machine with Apache name-based virtual hosts and per-user web directories enabled. In 2020 “it depends” might be a valid answer, but ...
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How can I find the web host company for a web domain?

Unfortunately, if you are not the owner of the site - as in paying for it - there is nothing you can accomplish. Domain registrars and web hosting companies are not going to hand over personal ...
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Apache2 "Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server"

Most likely either Apache or another webserver (e.g. nginx) is already running. To check for that, grep the process list for apache, httpd and nginx or use netstat -anp | grep ':80\s' to find out. ...
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How do I deploy asp.net MVC web project in local network on Windows 10 computer?

I used "publish to folder" option and then manually copied files. That solved question for me
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Access my locally hosted website from another computer outside my network without a domain name

Yes, hosting a website with just an IP address is entirely possible. However, you cannot use name-based virtual hosting with this. As such, you must not add a host name in the IIS Bindings dialog. You ...
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Access my locally hosted website from another computer outside my network without a domain name

There are a few services that allow you to tunnel a localhost port out ot the internet. ngrok (https://ngrok.com/) or Cloudflare Tunnels (https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/...
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Does shared web hosting host each website on a separate server or on separate virtual machines?

There is no single answer. It can be either or both. It depends entirely on how the host implements their infrastructure and what options and features are offered or the customer requires.
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What are the risks of hosting my own website with WAMP?

Most of the guides out there just state that opening port 80 is very risky. What are those risks, in practice? The essential "risk" is that your computer is accepting arbitrary incoming requests from ...
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why domains like mail.google.com or music.youtube.com not work wit www

Why would they? www is nothing special. It is just one string (name, label) among any other combination, for computers it makes no difference. And not all hostnames have to start with this prefix. ...
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Whitelist IP addresses for access to AWS S3 static web hosting

You need to add /32 to your IP address if you are allowing a host (like this 73.63.x.y/32) or the corresponding netmask for a block of IPs. Tge answers to your questions: The permission (effect) is ...
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My website is hacked, if i bring it offline on my local xampp server, will the malware spread on to my computer?

It sounds like you don't have the knowledge to fully ensure the site won't infect your computer (although its ability to do so is limited, especially if you don't allow external access.) IF your ...
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Correct way of specifying similar locations for nginx

Should I even change that? If it is working correctly, I would say no. Is this even remotely correct? Options other than proxy_pass are not technically required to proxy basic requests. However, if ...
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SSL | Error WARNING: cannot verify certificate

If you have been already using Certbot with this domain until now, then no. The bad certificate is not the main problem – it's an indicator of another problem. Notice that the current ...
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hosting providers assigning both public and private IP to the server

Does a hosting provider(like aws, digital ocean) assign seperate public IP to each server its customers purchase, like I have got one? Yes, that's common – although it depends on hosting provider. ...
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wordpress website hacked; undesirable links and content added but admin panel looks fine

It may also be that your relative spread the virus to you through your communications with them? I would contact your host provider and request that they run a full virus / malware scan on your ...
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Nginx "Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server."

There was just 2 sites that uses same ports, I just deleted one of them
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SSH2 in Bitvise terminates unexpectedly

I faced the same issue with Bitvise, and it started to work when I chose Elevation: Yes, in the Authentication-section of the Login-tab. With PuTTY I kept getting fatal errors. After trying the ...
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SSH2 in Bitvise terminates unexpectedly

I had the same problem for weeks, but the following solved it for me: I finally re-uploaded as recommended in: https://www.bitvise.com/ssh-client-download and the same message displayed: The SSH ...

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