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Welcome to the Hosting and Server Forum

Chris Maunder — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:16:00 GMT

At CodeProject we spend an awful lot of time playing with room heaters, or as others like to call them, "servers". Over the years we've seen it all, some of it smoking, most of it usually working just nicely until something happens.

What that something is can be hard to find so we've created a quiet place for those battle scarred and frustrated to get a little help.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Azure vs AWS

Edward Aymami — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:19:00 GMT

I am moving my application to the cloud, for my clients. There are only about 25 right now. Cost is a large consideration. Which one would you recommend. Also, what is all of this "pay as you go" stuff? Do they mean 24-7-365, or only the time the suer is logged in to the website?

UPgrade from WHS2011

Paxton Scott — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 05:24:00 GMT

Greetings!
I use WHS2011 to simply host Apache2 web server.
Works fine.
Wanting to move forward and tried Windows 10 but does not seem to work as well.
Thinking of moving to a newer Windows server.
What version should I consider. (minimum cost)
Ideas?
Have fun,
Paxton

Same-server file copies

TNCaver — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:44:00 GMT

The answer may be obvious, but I would appreciate confirmation of my understanding.

Scenario: in a Windows network, a very large number of files exist in a folder on Server A, but need to be moved to a different folder on the same Server A.

User B, which might be a human logged into Server B or an app running on Server B, cannot log into Server A via RDP, but can access its files from Server B.

If User B uses File Explorer or a command window to move those files or the C# app uses a File.Move, do those files first get copied across the network from Server A to a temporary folder on Server B and back again?

If the user has execute permissions on a folder on Server A and executes a batch/command file in that folder that moves those files, that would not involve actual file copying but changes in the NTFS file tables, right?

There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
- Thomas Sowell

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)

Windows Server 2022 vs 2019 vs 2016

Kiiza Trevour — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:19:00 GMT

My company has just bought a data server and would like to start offering cloud services. I have been tasked to make the best choice of what windows server to go with. Kindly advise on which server is appropriate between Windows Server 2022 vs 2019 vs 2016. Thank you

What is best way to get newyork vps?

hassan raza Jul2022 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:33:00 GMT

1. Cloud VPS
Cloud VPS is an online virtual private server provider. You can host your website on their servers and pay monthly for access to the service. Your web space is stored on their own data centers across the globe.
2. Dedicated Server

What is best way to get newyork vps?

Dedicated server is a physical computer that is dedicated to hosting websites. It comes with its own operating system and hardware. It's not shared with any other users.
3. Virtual Private Server (VPS)
Virtual Private Server is a type of cloud computing where you have root access to a server. You can install software applications and configure them however you want. Most companies offer unlimited bandwidth and disk space.
4. Shared Hosting
Shared hosting is when many people share a single server. Each user pays a certain amount each month and gets a specific amount of bandwidth and disk space. Bandwidth refers to how much data you can transfer per second. Disk Space refers to how much storage space you have.
5. Managed Hosting
Managed hosting is when someone else takes care of the maintenance of your server. You only need to worry about installing and configuring your software.
6. Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting is when you resell services to customers who use those services themselves. For example, if you sell web hosting services, then you would provide web hosting services to customers.
7. Colocation
Colocation is when your web server is physically located at a colo center. A colo center is where internet providers store their equipment.

IIS problem

Luis M. Rojas — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:32:00 GMT

We have an APP running in IIS.
When the process is using 500MB, the web site stopped and we have to reboot.
Any help?

Windows Server R2012 and R2019 - kill suspended processes on

Nuno Pereira 2021 — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:53:00 GMT

Hi everyone.
I have a windows server with suspended processes. However, even with administrator privileges, I can't kill them. Everybody knows some idea without restart the server?
I used command taskkill but it doesn't work.

How to get free "Active eCommerce Flutter App"

Shahin it — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 12:16:00 GMT

Please provide me instruction to get free source code

SMTP SERVER

Omo.T Starboy — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:23:00 GMT

How to send multiple message with SMTP

Estou com problema ao hospedar o meu website Joomla no inmotionhosting

Jeemy Ballin — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:33:00 GMT

Já exportei a pasta do meu website Joomla no gerenciador de arquivos no cpanel, mais sempre que tento acessar o website com o endereço na net. Vem sempre uma informação "Erro" não sei o porque.

am trying to add users to a database

Member 15064261 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:44:00 GMT

the below is the code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First PHP Website</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Registration Page</h2>
<a href="index.php">Click Here to go Back</a><br/><br/>

<form action="register.php" method="post">
Enter Username: <input type="text" name="username" required="required"/> <br/>
Enter Password: <input type="password" name="password" required="required"/><br/>
<input type="Submit" value="register"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

<?php
if($_SERVER["REQUEST METHOD"] == "POST"){ //line 19
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username']);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']);

echo "Username entered is: ". $username . "<br />";
echo "Password entered is: ". $password;
}
?>

however the error i get on a browser is as below.

Warning: Undefined array key "REQUEST METHOD" in C:\xampp\htdocs\MyFirstWebsite\register.php on line 19

Windows service not working

Member 14877862 — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 08:24:00 GMT

I have installed a service in one of my new test server which is used for download or upload files from ftp server by calling an exe file, which will internally call cuteftp tool. Here my issue is when I am starting the windows service it not working the service is not even connecting to ftp server, and the service is logged on with local adminid.

when I am opening the exe file manually by clicking "run as different" user with the local admin the service is working perfectly and the upload/download is happening.

Please advice if any configuration changes in windows level is required or not

Can't receive email from redirected domain name

pkfox — Sat, 16 May 2020 16:56:00 GMT

Hi all, I have a domain xxx.com supplied by ionos.co.uk which I've pointed to a Linode VM I rent from Linode.com , I have email accounts under this domain which can no longer receive email ( presumably because they are being sent to my ip address on Linode.com and not the mail server on ionos.co.uk ) what can I do to configure the domain ( either on ionos.co.uk or on the Linode.com server ) to be able receive email - I hope this makes sense I'm not that au fait with this sort of thing

"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Scheduled Tasks aren't working

KreativeKai — Tue, 05 May 2020 18:20:00 GMT

I have about 30 VB Apps that are humming along on a Windows 2008 server using scheduled tasks. They all do a variety of simple to complex tasks from pulling data and merging letters on a monthly basis, posting data on our website, converting data to crystal reports, etc.

It’s now past the time for us to get off of our Windows 2008 server so I’m taking the apps and converting them up from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2019. No real hurdles. Everything is converting fairly clean and running great.

Problems begin when I set the apps up on Windows Server 2019. We have a user that is used for processing tasks and has the appropriate rights on the server. If the tasks are setup to run overnight and I leave the server signed on, the tasks process fine. If I sign off of the server the tasks show that they ran and that they completed successfully, but never finish processing. The status shows they completed at the same time the schedule is triggered, and most of the tasks normally should run 15 minutes to an hour.

Nothing in the event log to say it failed, and I have a good bit of error code built into each program that would fire an error if one was triggered.

The task is setup to “Run whether user is logged on or not”, and also “Run with highest privileges”.

Did something change since 2008 regarding scheduled tasks that I should be aware of? Any suggestions / help with this is appreciated. I’ve Googled it, but haven’t had much luck.

Lost in the vast sea of .NET

Moving an ASP .NET application from development to a production intranet

Stephen Holdorf — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:38:00 GMT

I am pretty much strictly an application developer. I developed an application in my development environment and it needs now to go into an intranet production environment. I will provide the specific details below but my experience in the past has been create the deployment package and give it over to the network guys for them to deploy. Now, I find myself in a position where I have to do the actual production deployment. I have read many articles and watch several videos but really still don't have a good understanding of the actual steps in setting up the server, network components, and configuring the application and network to actually do the move of the application from my development network to the production intranet network. The server is a Windows 2012 r2 server. I will be deploying to the server's IIS. A URL for the application must end in a .mil extension which is the external intranet domain. Can anyone provide me with the basic list of steps in order to do the deployment?

I am not able to use IIS I am getting the error as below

simpledeveloper — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:43:00 GMT

I have two accounts at my work - network account and windows account, with network account I don't have admin privileges - but with Windows account I have admin privileges, I usually login using standard network account so that I can access everything that's available in our network but when I need to install something I am entering the Windows Admin account credentials and installing the software - now I have a question, when installing it gives me message its installed successfully and after restarting the machine when I try to open the IIS - it opens us wizard as iSCSI Initiator Properties Wizard, I don't know - what is Target is?, what should I enter in it, just no idea - just not able to understand - any help please, what's happening with my IIS? thanks a lot.

Direct deployment or making automatic deployment on Server using Git and TFSVC

simpledeveloper — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:16:00 GMT

Hi - we were using TFS for our application, but we were doing deployments manually by using xcopy process, literally, publishing the files onto a local machine - then copying and pasting onto the Servers WebApp folder, now we have moved all our code to Git and TFSVC, now I want to make our build process automatic, any help suggestions or help please, I am new in Source Control Management, any help would be appreciated even links, I am also researching and reading about it - thanks in advance.

Basically I am looking for a Continuous Integration solution for Windows, TFSVC and Git (Git is running on TFSVC Server) with these any free tools to implement Continuous Integration? Any help please?

Help me to understand "hosts" file and socket communication via bluetooth

Vaclav_ — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 18:54:00 GMT

I have read several tutorials how to manipulate (Linux) "hosts" file.

I need to "connect" Raspberry Pi to PC , using bluetooth.
I really do not care which is server or client end of the connection.

I like to test each piece of hardware by doing local loopback first.
I would like to run such local loopback on each end of the connection separately , using separate code application. I do have the basic - socket / bind / read / write working.

I understand that local "loopback" IP is in range 127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255.

1. Can I "bind" created socket to name "localhost" to run such local loopback - using 32 bit address?
2. How can I do same using 128 bit address, ip6 protocol ? AKA how to put ip6 "name" into my C++ code ? ::1 has "multiple" names
3. Is doing "remote loopback" feasible?
Ideally - instruct LOCAL hardware to connect via socket to REMOTE hardware running in "remote loopback"? Or in another words - is there REMOTE loopback IP ? Or do I have to have remote software to emulate such loopback?

4. The communication / socket from (local) RPi woudl "connect / bind " to which IP on remote (PC) hardware?
5. Similar - the communication / socket from (local) PC woudl bind to which IP on now remote - RPi hardware?

Item 5 and 6 would be in "simplex" communication - each one way only - at least for now.

I have not found a decent description of ip6 "names" .
For example -what does ip6-allnodes accomplish ?

Here is a copy of RPi hosts file

127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
ff02::2         ip6-allrouters

127.0.1.1       ARM
10.0.1.76       RPI

And here is hosts file on PC

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       z-desktop

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Minor comments / questions
The RPi has only ONE bluetooth hardware , but in hosts it has TWO IP addresses / names
The PC has THREE bluetooth hardware, but blutooth manager will identify only TWO.

Appreciate any constructive comments.