This is probably one of the scariest scenarios that any website owner can face. You open your browser to your website URL and you get ‘Page Not Found’. Your heart starts pounding and you hit the ‘refresh’ button a few times but there’s no change. It’s right about then that you start to feel ill [...]

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Whilst the focus at Dedicated Server Doc is mainly about the technical and admin side of operating a server. as a sysadmin you need to be an accomplished web master as well. Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting about some of the most common problems that webmasters face and how to avoid [...]

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Over time some of us tend to get a collection of scripts on our servers that we don’t use. It may be a script that you were testing, something you wanted to check out but didn’t use or an old script that was replaced with something else.
I had two incidents this week that related to [...]

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I had a situation recently where a hard drive filled up because of the daily/weekly/monthly backup. It was a 1 Terabyte drive in a server that was used for hosting so it was a bit unusual, given that there were only 30 or 40 hosting accounts on there. It turns out that there were soem [...]

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I’m in the process of writing a Google Knol about dedicated servers. Over time it will become a guide for people who are getting started with their first dedicated server. I’ll be adding some of the tips and information from here as well as some additional information about choosing hosts, server specifications etc. The knol [...]

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