Linux Dedicated Servers

In this lesson you will learn how to install Apache on your Dedicated Server.  If you don't yet have a Dedicated Server on site at your home office or facility, the best thing to do is to open an account at the Rackspace Cloud .  Provision a 256 MB Ubuntu cloud server.  This will run you about $10/month or a few cents per hour if you decide to unprovision the server after completing this lesson. Apache Web server Installation in Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux is a great platform to use for an Apache Web server Installation. From a simple machine you can serve web pages to an Intranet or the Internet using one of the most popular Web server configurations. LAMP Server For new installations of Ubuntu, the easiest method to get the Apache Web server is by selecting the “LAMP” option on Ubuntu’s software selection screen during installation. This process will get the standard Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP configuration setup on your server in one automated process. If you don’t wan...

This week, you may want to consider and review solutions that other companies are doing to help consolidate their dedicated servers with virtualization. On the storage side, SeverWatch is reporting that Virtualization Technologies for Storage Get Real : The technological issue of storage backup being a big problem once virtual machines are up and running. The most effective way to backup the virtual machines is do so in a way that doesn't involve the box itself being backed up. The easiest and most common way to handle this is to snapshot the virtual machine's image and backup. Here I agree that snapshots are the easiest way to backup your virtual machine.  But where do you store those images?  CommVault offers a $900/TB license which will enable you to backup your data to the cloud, but what about smaller solutions? Here you may want to consider CTERA, the "Coolest Cloud Storage Vendor" . CTERA offers a plug-in computer that connects to the internet that enables...

I run an article directory on a dedicated Linux server and provide full article RSS feeds for any query or tag. When spammers find the site, they usually pull the feeds and repost the articles on their Wordpress or Blogger blogs. Occasionaly, for whatever reason, they tend to download feeds like there is no tomorrow. I don't care about them accessing the feeds for whatever use -- as long as they publish the articles intact to preserve the content with links to the author's sites -- but I really when pissed off when they access the server thousands of times per hour. This can bring even the most powerful dedicated Linux Server to its knees. A simple trick to prevent them from accessing your site is to add in the .htaccess file order allow,deny deny from allow from all This returns a 403 (forbidden) error. If the script they're running to grap the content from your linux server errors out, then it will stop accessing your site. More often than not, the script...

Today's Microsoft and Red Hat mutual virtualization support agreement supports a trend that enforces the common belief that dedicated Linux servers are becoming a thing of the past.  Consider in InformationWeek that Microsoft, Red Hat Agree To Mutual Virtualization Support -- Windows Linux Virtualization As part of the agreements, Microsoft will run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 and 5.3 as a guest in Hyper-V environments, and will lend its hand to technical support and documentation. Red Hat will also run Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows 2000 Server SP4, and Windows Server 2008 as guests on Red Hat virtualization technologies, with similar tech support offered. Brian Stevens, Red Hat Vice President and CTO makes a valid point that the hardware is becoming so powerful that single applications and cannot taking full advantage of the dedicated server.  That is, the processor speed is not increasing anymore but more and more physical cores are being added. Unless the application is de...

Yes folks, there are things such as free hosting sites which use Linux dedicated servers to host thousands of shared hosted sites. But if you think that you can get a dedicated server for free you have been misled. The important thing is that you want to consider is why you hosted your site on a free or cheap server in the first place when you actually needed a more powerful solution. Many of my sites are hosted on less expensive solutions but these typically are not CPU and bandwidth intensive, thus, I can get away with it. But sometimes these sites expand beyond the limitations of a shared server and I get the dreaded email stating that I my hosting has been terminated due to hogging the CPU. So the important question is that you need to ask is "should I initially use a cheaper solution or go the direct route with dedicated?" We all have illusions of grandeur of having the next great blog or application, but in reality, these are quite rare and you can get away with a simp...

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