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What is a VPS – A Beginner’s Introduction

One of the things I get asked often is “what exactly is a VPS“? So I’ve decided to write this article to explain it as simple as possible. If you’ve ever created a website, you know that one of the first things you’ll need to get it online (besides a domain) is a hosting package. [...]

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What is a VPS – A Beginner’s Introduction

How To Ban An IP Address

Within a few days of starting this blog, I found the content being scrapped to another domain. The speed at which these sites are setup are astonishing. You can spend hours writing and posting articles and it’ll be ripped within minutes. There are a few options that you can take to minimize such thefts. Since this [...]

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How To Ban An IP Address

Setting Up Your Own Web Hosting Company

One of the great things about a VPS Server is the ability to setup your own hosting company. A VPS will allow you to host multiple sites which will generate residual revenue for you. Basically you buy a server, label it with your own brand and resell smaller ‘chunks’ of it. For example, a 30GB [...]

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Setting Up Your Own Web Hosting Company

Servint On The West Coast

Our favorite VPS host ServInt has just announced the availability of their awesome VPSes at their LA Data Center. From our initial tests it looks like another winner. Here’s some of the features at their new location: Closed, private data center facilities CCTV Surveillance and biometric access control Fault-tolerant power redundancy Powerful industrial class generators 24/7 monitoring Liebert temperature-controlled server environment N+1 [...]

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Servint On The West Coast

Migrating Email Accounts on FreeBSD

I’ve been busy the past few weeks consolidating servers. We have some really old servers from one of our VPS providers that really needed to be decommissioned. The problem with a project like this is that the older they are, the more stuff is built into it – crons, url rewrites, custom DNS, the list [...]

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Migrating Email Accounts on FreeBSD

Super Sweet Geek Hosting!

There’s something really sexy about a server company that’s run by geeks (not that others aren’t, but most make decisions based on business more than geek-sense). Along comes www.geekstorage.com, a hosting company with a difference. I really like their website setup, maybe because it appeals to the geek in me, but check this out: LiteSpeed web [...]

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Super Sweet Geek Hosting!

5 Linux VPS Performance Tips

This is a guest post by Christopher Pace As a freelance Linux consultant, many of my clients are often interested in making their VPS (Virtual Private Server) as responsive as possible. Since VPS servers by nature have somewhat limited system resources (often less than 1 GB of RAM), getting the best VPS performance can be a [...]

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5 Linux VPS Performance Tips

OpenVZ Explained

What is OpenVZ? OpenVZ is server virtualization software provided by SWSoft, Inc. licensed under the GPL version 2. OpenVZ is the software that every system administrator requires. It allows you to host multiple Virtual Environments (Aka VE) on a single server. The only limitations are RAM and CPU.

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OpenVZ Explained

No Joke Upgrade At ServInt

50% off your first month’s bill at ServInt! Use this code: SPRINGVPS at www.servint.com If you’re been following this blog, you’ll know I’m a huge fan of ServInt and with their latest announcement today, you’ll soon see why! Once again (on an auspicious date), they’ve announced another round of updates. For example, the Essential VPS has [...]

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No Joke Upgrade At ServInt

Tips For A Happy Hosting Experience

Smashing Magazine carries an interesting article called “9 Steps To A Happy Relationship With Your Hosting Provider“. Not quite related to VPS per se, but the principles hold – Don’t choose based on price alone, check their uptime, reputation, etc. Always take your time to choose a good host. Once you have a number of sites [...]

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Tips For A Happy Hosting Experience