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Paul Wellner Bou posted the thread Has anyone here actually restored a full server from their backups? in VPS Hosting.Backups get discussed a lot, restores almost never. I have nightly snapshots going off box and I check the job exits clean, but until... -
Mujkanovic posted the thread Moving a batch of cPanel accounts to DirectAdmin, what actually broke for you? in Hosting Software and Control Panels.I have around forty sites sitting on cPanel and I am planning the move to DirectAdmin on a fresh Ubuntu box. The transfer tool handles... -
Paul Wellner Bou replied to the thread Will AI Assistants and Robotics Change How Businesses Use Cloud Technology?.Standard already, but not in the shape the announcements suggest. What stuck for us is narrow and boring: drafting, summarising tickets...
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Steve32 replied to the thread Some recommendation to choose reseller hosting providers?.Inodes and entry processes are the two that bite first, and neither shows on the plan page. A few hundred WordPress installs with... -
Maxoq replied to the thread What kind of application should I install on my VPS?.One order detail that catches people: if there is any chance you will want cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin, install it first on a clean OS... -
Paul Wellner Bou replied to the thread What Defines Good Web Design in 2025?.This is real, but I have had better luck putting numbers in the handover document than arguing about taste. Agree a page weight and a...
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Chris Worner replied to the thread How Can I Reduce My WordPress Site’s Server Response Time (TTFB)?.query_cache_size does nothing on MySQL 8, the query cache was removed there, and on MariaDB it is off by default and usually stays off... -
Chris Worner replied to the thread What kind of application should I install on my VPS?.One thing missing from most of these lists is mail. Running your own Postfix or Exim on a fresh VPS is technically easy and...
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TheCompWiz replied to the thread AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon: Which CPU Would You Choose for a New Dedicated Server Today?.EPYC for anything where you are packing VMs or containers, purely because of memory channels and PCIe lanes per socket. When I sized a... -
Steve32 replied to the thread which Hosting Type is the best for beginners?.Agree with the learning part, but the first question I would put to a beginner is who cleans up when the site gets defaced at 2am. On...
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Maxoq replied to the thread How Can I Reduce My WordPress Site’s Server Response Time (TTFB)?.Careful with that one now. The query cache is gone entirely in MySQL 8.0 and was already deprecated in 5.7, so on anything modern that...
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TheCompWiz replied to the thread AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon: Which CPU Would You Choose for a New Dedicated Server Today?.For boxes that mostly serve PHP sites, I stopped looking at core count first and started looking at per-core clock. WordPress and custom...
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SenseiSteve posted the thread AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon: Which CPU Would You Choose for a New Dedicated Server Today? in Dedicated Server.If you were deploying a new dedicated server today, would you choose AMD EPYC or Intel Xeon, and why? Beyond benchmark numbers, I'm... -
Maxoq replied to the thread What You Need to Know About Crypto Transaction Security.Most of the thread is about protecting your own wallet, which is a different problem from taking crypto on a site you run. There the...
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Steve32 replied to the thread How to earn money from webhosting.The size of any single payment matters far less than how long it sticks. A $75 month is only good news if the same client is still there...