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Comparison of Shared Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servers, and Cloud Servers
When it comes to web hosting your choices are vast. This article is a Comparison of Shared Hosting, VPS, Dedicated Servers, and Cloud Servers. We will discuss the benefits and shortcomings of each technology. The choices can be rather daunting, and there are a lot of “buzz words” that get thrown around in this technology space.…
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Configure Apache Virtual Hosts on a VPS
One great benefit of VPS hosting is being able to easily host multiple websites off the same server. Owning a VPS offers much more than just web hosting but in this tutorial we will show you how to setup virtual hosts with Apache. Apache HTTP Server is probably one of the most influential pieces of…
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Securing SSH Using Key Based Authentication
Securing SSH Access to your VPS is imperative these days. Within minutes of your VPS being live on the internet, ‘bad actors’ will attempt to gain access. Having a good IPTables firewall in place is an important step, but you still need to secure the services you leave open through that firewall. In a previous…
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The Differences of Xen, KVM, OpenVZ. Which one is right for me?
If you are like many folks that have grown beyond thier normal shared hosting plan or are in need of a linux server with root access you are probably looking for a VPS. There are many VPS offerings in the market place today. So you may be wondering “what are the differences between OpenVZ, Xen and KVM“? There…
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How-to Secure your VPS using IPTables
In this how-to we will show you how to secure your VPS using IPTables. When you host a server on the internet, dedicated or a VPS, you need to constantly be aware of security. Blocking unwanted access to services is a good start and that is where IPTables comes in. IPTables is a host based…
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How-to: Install LAMP stack on your Linux VPS
In this guide we will teach you how to install LAMP stack on a base CentOS 6 Install. It is very easy to Install LAMP on CentOS. If you have linux running your already done the first step. If you are new to hosting you my have heard of something called the LAMP stack. LAMP…