I have an Azure virtual machine running IIS. The DNS goes through Cloudflare and I have turned SSL on there. However, when I visit https://www.reainvite.com.au I get "This site can’t be reachedwww.reainvite.com.au took too long to respond."
Below is a video covering all my setup
Can anyone let me know what to do?
I have a website with multiple bindings eg
http://www.mysite.com
http://mysite.com
http://www.mysitenow.com
Using IIS, can I force requests to the second two domains to redirect to http://www.mysite.com
I have a website where users upload files through a CMS.
eg http://www.mysite.com/uploadedfiles/file1.txt
I want to stop users on the internet being able to enter this URL into a browser and access these files directly. How can I do this?
I still need to allow IIS to read, modify and delete these files through the CMS though.
I have a classic ASP website that is crashing in IIS7. It is crashing because IIS doesn't allow file uploads greater than a certain size. I know this because files below about 200k work fine. I removed the Status Code 500 error in IIS but I still don't get a file name and the line where my code failed as I do when running locally.
Instead I get:
"The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred. If you are the system administrator please click here to find out more about this error."
See http://adcore-com-au.si-sv3956.com/admin/edit_options.asp for an example.
See http://www.yart.com.au/admin/edit_options.asp for what it should look like.
How do I get a file name and the line where my code failed?
Here are my IIS settings:
(source: yart.com.au)
We manage about 30 websites that use shared ASP.NET SQL Server web hosting. These are typical small/medium business websites and they perform fine in this environment. They average around 1Gb outbound a month.
Recently I was looking at VPS hosting in this thread How do you host multiple public facing websites on a VPS?
After contacting a provider in one of the replies I was told that VPS hosting is not recommended for 30 sites, even if they are small. The resource requirements might be too great even for VPS. So I should turn to dedicated hosting.
The lowest cost dedicated hosting is $219 per month (see http://www.serverintellect.com/dedicated/pentiumdservers.aspx). But this is only for a single processor which seems too light for a machine running both IIS and SQL.
In our office all the developers work on quad cores so I assume I’d really need the Quad Processor. However, this starts at $599 monthly.
Now, I won’t be able to transfer all of our 30 sites to this machine. I’d only be able to transfer say 5 or 6. However, moving forward, I’d be able to host all future sites on this machine. This amounts to 4-5 per year.
Let’s look at the economics. Shared hosting costs are typically $16.95 monthly (see http://www.crystaltech.com/dotnet.aspx). So here’s the dilemma
First months costs: $599
First month revenue: 6x$16.95 = $101.7
Loss in first month: $497.3
First year costs: $599x12=$7188
First month revenue: 6x$16.95x12 + 5x$16.95x6(averaged) = $1728.9
Loss in first year: $5459.1
Clearly it is going to take years for this server to pay for itself. It just doesn’t seem economical!
Am I missing something here, or is dedicated not the way to go with the amount of sites we build?
We host about 30 websites using typical shared hosting plans using ASP.NET and SQL 2000/2005/2008. I am now wondering about hosting all of these websites using our own virtual private server.
This is clearly cheaper but comes with a lot of questions I need answers to:
Is the risk of having to keep this VPS server up and running worth it? Until now, the host provider has managed the server and we have not had to worry about crashes, downtime, software patches etc. We are not server administrators, we are programmers, so this is not really our expertise. On the other hand, it may not be hard to learn.
When we make a website live, we log in to a domain management control panel and change the primary and secondary name servers to point to our shared web host:
Eg ns1.sharedwebhost.com and ns2.sharedwebhost.com
These name servers are going to have to change when we have a VPS. I don’t understand anything about how to set this up. Is there some useful info anyone could direct me to? Or is there software we need to install to make the primary and secondary name servers work on our VPS?
The control panel we have for shared hosting comes with DNS management like this:
(source: yart.com.au)
What software would I need to install to create this for each site we host at a VPS?
(source: yart.com.au)
Is this something that can be easily set up at a VPS so clients can manage their own email addresses?
Is there software we need to install to make this work?
