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I have tried many hosting services and they all have the downtime problem. Now, i am well aware that downtime is inevitable and will happend eventually, but i have been wandering if a website can be hosted in multiple hostings to solve this problem. For example, i have my website in one hosting company and if for any reason my site goes down in that site, my domain name can redirect to the alternative hosting company.
Is that posible? and if so, how can it be done?
I will greatly apreciate any help.
It's difficult to have 100% uptime guaranteed, but having multiple servers spread across multiple providers can get you close.
The trick is letting your DNS know which IP to serve your site from. My DNS provider has a failover system that monitors my sites; if it detects any downtime, it automatically serves up a secondary IP address for requests to my domain.
Of course, this requires having an infrastructure in place to ensure the content is synced across multiple servers but if you're in the game for a failover system like this I'm guessing you've already got something like that in place.
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I always host wordpress with Godaddy and bluehost but now my client asked if it will be possible to host it in Google cloud platform if it is better.
My question are:
1- What are the benefit I will get comparing to other hosting?
2- what is the annual price? I checked it in Google but it is not clearly mentioned. It only says you pay based on usage.
https://cloud.google.com/php/tutorials/wordpress-app-engine-flexible
3- Does they provide an easy access to cpanel ( file manager – database and phpmyadmin).
4- Do I need to have developer skills to use it? Or they will provide 24 hours support?
Thanks in advance
That's totally different. Google cloud platform using Cloud server and it can't compare with traditional shared hosting and of course the fee will be more expensive.
Yes, you can check directly via that link. I never use Google, but I use Azure. My experience Azure is very costly, but the deployment is very easy. The cost that I need to pay at that time is 6 times higher than my shared hosting. So, I moved back to shared hosting again.
You can login directly to the server
You need to know about managing server
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I would like to publish my asp.net core to my own domain that is hosted on a shared hosting.
However, after publishing I would like to spend a few hours live testing it (yeah, I have yet to learn auto testing using selenium).
While doing so, I want to prevent visitors from knowing that the site is published so that they won't use it; some strangers know that I will be publishing some time soon and they may have set up auto monitoring.
How can that be achieved?
Best recommendation would be to use a different subdomain if your applications isn't affected by the domain it is accessed on, this will allow the older version to still be used by others. But if you don't mind if others are completely unable to access the system while you are testing, just whitelist only your IP on the domain.
You can setup a gateway for you website.
You can set IP whitelist in the server hosting provider, or you can use a reverse proxy like Nginx to set IP whitelist or HTTP auth before the requests arrive your website.
If the domain doesn't matters, you can use subdomain as Jacob suggests
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At the end of each month my company sends out web statistics to show who was accessing our website, where they were from, their IP addresses, etc. Our site is very specific to my region of the United States, yet a lot of our traffic comes from Ukraine, France, Russia, and other countries that shouldn't really interested in our site. The web developers here say they are just "bots" looking for sites to hack.
What are these bots? And what are they really looking for? If they found out they could hack our site, what would that mean?
They look for known vulnerabilities, e.g. by attempting to fetch the admin pages for a popular blog package which is known to be vulnerable in some old versions. When they find a vulnerable site, they have a script (which typically they don't even understand; hence, "script kiddies") which exploits the vulnerability and gives them a root shell. From there on, anything is possible, but again, typically, spam, malware, leveraging your network for anonymization and bandwith e.g. for further attacks.
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For a networking class, I want to do a presentation and project on DDoS attacks. I have been researching them for a while and am interested in conducting a small scale attack against a victim server with no security (I'll most likely set this up using nginx or apache) running on a Raspberry Pi. I want to run a demo of this happening in class - first with no security, and then a few other times - each time adding another layer of security.
Does anyone have an idea how much traffic I would need in order to take this down? Also what would be the best way to generate this traffic? I'm not sure if this part is even possible as I don't have access to a lot of computers...I do have a mac pro with 24GB of ram so I have been considering running several virtual boxes with that.
Thanks for the help!
I was able to get it working locally using nginx on the Pi and LOIC.
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I have a requirement of streaming millions of videos on demand. I read that CDN are the best option for that. But i recently came to know about IIS Smooth Streaming. Can anybody tell me, will IIS Smooth Streaming perform same as a CDN in streaming millions of files or does it has its own limitations (and is not a good option).
Thanks in advance.
IIS smooth streaming cannot ever come close to CDN. A CDN is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the world, and the CDN takes the responsibility of sending the users the the nearest physical server when a request comes.
To stream millikns of videos on demand, CDN is your only hope !