[1] December 6th 2023 What brand of server do you prefer to work with? Gather together a group of WHT's dedicated server and colocation providers, give them a list of popular server manufacturers (HP, Dell, Supermicro, Lenovo, Cisco, IBM, Fujitsu and white label/unbranded) and ask them a simple question: "What brand of server do you prefer to work with?". In the space of 2 days since this thread was created it's had 17 replies (at the time of writing this) and around 1000 reads, ...Continue Reading

[1] November 29th 2023 Live Chat With AI Chat Bot? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around since at least the 1950s, but in recent months it has leapt to the forefront of many technical and scientific developments and debates. Love it or hate it, it's here to stay. Many argue that if left unchecked the advancement of AI will put us in danger of it taking control, whilst others are understandably excited about what you can do, or do quicker, using AI. Hence this thread on WHT discuss ...Continue Reading

[1] We would like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends! November 22nd 2023 Getting domain registrant details ev0ok lives in India and claims that a person has committed a fraud by registering a domain with a UK based registrar, creating an identical domain name (presumably with a different extension), and then misrepresenting themselves to be a company who ev0ok was doing work with, and misled folks multiple times. He'd like to know of it's possible to discover the details of ...Continue Reading

[1] November 15th 2023 Data center temperature rise iRexta is facing what he describes as "a big crisis" at the colocation facilities they use in a data center in India. They've been with them for over a year to be able to service their Asian customers, and have three full racks adjacent to each other. For about two weeks now the temperature near the server racks has increased abnormally to 29-30 degrees Celsius. The technical department of the data center was informed about th ...Continue Reading

[1] November 8th 2023 Reseller account with white label dedicated IP? GatorDoc realizes that it's common practice for web hosts to offer a dedicated IP that reveals the main web host as the owner? He was with a host ages ago who sanitized their IP whois and server domains with a generic business and domain name (white-label). He'd like to know if this still happens. Back in the day reseller plans often came with a dedicated IP address, often needed back then for SSL certificates, and the ...Continue Reading

[1] November 1st 2023 PDU/ATS questions and answers Jsavor is researching colocation providers in North America, and is figuring out how to configure his initial setup. He's thinking to start off with 20A/120V power and later upgrade to some other circuit options. He's also trying to figure out how to handle a single power source and wonders if an ATS system is of benefit so that he could get two PDUs. He would also like to know if many people use a UPS in their systems? He suspects that ...Continue Reading

[1] October 25th 2023 Taking a small hosting business to the next level Chilli has been hosting websites for the past 20 years or so and has 70 clients, most of whom have been with him since the beginning. He always trys to provide a good solid service, no dramas, daily offsite backups, including files, databases and email. Essentially everything is as rock solid as it he can achieve. In the past he'd have been content to carry on in the same way but now needs to increase income and is l ...Continue Reading

[1] October 18th 2023 How to reduce initial server response time Jim has been running a WP blog website for few a years and notices that the site's pagespeed is slowing down. He feels thate the main issue is "Reduce initial server response time". He's using a dedicated server with a fairly elderly Xeon E3-1230v3 CPU, 16Gb RAM and a couple of Samsung 850 EVO SSDs in RAID1. It's also worth noting that his operating system is CentOS 7, so he'll need to do something about that befo ...Continue Reading

[1] October 11th 2023 Where to host your WHMCS? James is wondering where people host their WHMCS installs. Is a shared hosting account sufficient, or would cloud be more reliable? If you're just starting out, the temptation might be to host your WHMCS on the same server (or reseller account) as your customers, but how practical and secure is that, and at what point should you be considering moving your billing system onto its own environment? If you were to isolate your install on a VPS ...Continue Reading

[1] October 4th 2023 WebPros announce cPanel and WHMCS price increases We've almost come to expect the annual price increase notifications from WebPros, announcing an increase in licence fees for cPanel and WHMCS so, when both announcments were made at the end of September for the increases coming at the start of 2024, it was of little suprise to many. Of course 2 busy threads soon emerged here on WHT, with the usual discussions about alternative options, who will be passing on the costs ...Continue Reading