The information provided to you by your shared hosting provider was indeed accurate. SSL based traffic has to be bound to a single IP address so that the initial SSL handshake and encrypted connection can be established. This is all done before the web server is even presented with the requested URI. Because of this … Read more
As others said your Firewall needs to be configured to accept incoming calls on TCP Port 80. in win 7+ (easy wizardry way) go to windows firewall with advance security Inbound Rules -> Action -> New Rule select Predefined radio button and then select the last item – World Wide Web Services(HTTP) click next and … Read more
You can try querying the ripe database http://www.db.ripe.net/whois
I just got done moving our public facing servers to Rackspace Cloud Servers. About a year ago I did what you’re thinking about doing because I wanted complete control over my servers, and am a little bit sour on leasing cheap servers (the typical $100 / month “server” that’s just a PC). I finally gave … Read more
If your PC and your coworkers PCs belong to the same LAN, this is pretty easy to achieve. Just run your app through: runApp(host = “0.0.0.0”, port = 5050) The value set through the host argument says to accept any connection (not just from localhost). The port argument can assume any value that you want … Read more
You can run node.js server on a typical shared hosting with Linux, Apache and PHP (LAMP). I have successfully installed it, even with NPM, Express and Grunt working fine. Follow the steps: 1) Create a new PHP file on the server with the following code and run it: <?php //Download and extract the latest node … Read more
The recent openssh version deprecated DSA keys by default. You should suggest to your GIT provider to add some reasonable host key. Relying only on DSA is not a good idea. As a workaround, you need to tell your ssh client that you want to accept DSA host keys, as described in the official documentation … Read more
Yes you can. It is called round-robin DNS, and the browser just chooses one of them randomly. It is a well used method of getting cheap load balancing, but if one host goes down, users will still try to access it.
At what point is it worth adding a CDN (content delivery network) to your website? When one of the following occurs: You’re reaching a large, international audience. Careful analysis of your audience shows that many of them are 100 – 300ms Round Trip Time (RTT) away. You do the math, and discover that a large … Read more
Historically, your first statement is accurate. Now, there are multiple options: A wildcard certificate if subdomains within the same domain. A SAN/UCC cert to specify alternative names for the certificate, thus being able to serve multiple certificates. SNI was introduced to establish the SSL connection after the Host header. This has limited support, however, as … Read more