Trying to setup a simple email sign up

What’s the best way to do that?

I basically setup a website on bluehost. Now I need to store some data but can’t seem to find a guide for how to do it.

I don’t understand why it’s so hard to find good instructions. Can’t someone point me in the right direction?

All I need is for people to enter an email into an input box and I just need to store that data so I can have a nice email list for myself.

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 04:36PM by FutureChild07 https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/50k8jb/trying_to_setup_a_simple_email_sign_up/?utm_source=ifttt

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Trying to setup a simple email sign up

What's the best way to do that?

I basically setup a website on bluehost. Now I need to store some data but can't seem to find a guide for how to do it.

I don't understand why it's so hard to find good instructions. Can't someone point me in the right direction?

All I need is for people to enter an email into an input box and I just need to store that data so I can have a nice email list for myself.

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 04:36PM by FutureChild07
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Hosts file change not taking effect… pounding head against wall

This is a WP site that I’ve moved to a new domain. I have changed the IP in the hosts file so as to configure the site before DNS change occurs. It is having no effect. I’m pinging the new domain in Terminal and it’s showing the correct IP, so I know that the hosts file is set up properly. But when I visit the domain, it takes me to the old IP. I also contacted the server owner and had him try to edit HIS hosts file, and he ran into the same problem. So, obviously it’s something to do with the site. I did not build this site–I inherited it from another designer who was not quite right. Since then it’s been Frankensteined by the site owners.

This is a WordPress site. I’ve disabled all plugins through SFTP (renamed the whole directory) and changed the theme and stylesheet to default in the database just in case. I also renamed the cache file and a couple of caching-related php files.

I’ve flushed my DNS, I’ve cleared my browser cache, I’ve tried it on my Ubuntu machine.

I am pounding my head against the wall. Any ideas?

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 03:56PM by MBWD https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/50k25d/hosts_file_change_not_taking_effect_pounding_head/?utm_source=ifttt

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Best way to 301 when changing domains and DNS?

Probably a noob question, but I haven’t actually done this before. I’ve only 301d individual pages. I’m moving a site from olddomain.com to newdomain.com. I’ve been reading up on how to properly 301 a whole domain, but everything I’ve seen indicates that I need to make the changes to the .htaccess file on olddomain.com, not newdomain.com, which confused me at first. So the examples I’ve seen are like this:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301,NC] 

1. Does this mean the old site has to stay up indefinitely?

2. Will any and all URLs like olddomain.com/article then go to newdomain.com/article with just this addition to .htaccess? I don’t have to set up 301s for individual pages?

3. If the DNS for olddomain.com becomes inactive at some point, what will happen to SEO for the old site? How long should olddomain.com stay registered to prevent issues with people finding the new site?

Thanks–

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 01:12PM by MBWD https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/50j8rd/best_way_to_301_when_changing_domains_and_dns/?utm_source=ifttt

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Cloud hosting estimate for NodeJS & MongoDB app

I’m trying to come up with the estimated cost to host a desktop/mobile app with around 10,000 registered users. The app itself is not cpu intensive as it will mainly be used to serve media files like video and audio. There will be a fairly large amount of media content though say close to 1tb. Users will have a bit of data associated with them that will be used for analytics and reports by other users.

Based on absolutely nothing I estimate between 5-25% of users will be active at any time making maybe 5-10 requests per hour. My plan was to use Heroku with MongoLab as a provider.

I’m really just looking to come up with a ballpark monthly figure. Any help would be awesome 🙂

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 01:22PM by Deftwun https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/50jals/cloud_hosting_estimate_for_nodejs_mongodb_app/?utm_source=ifttt

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Hosts file change not taking effect… pounding head against wall

This is a WP site that I've moved to a new domain. I have changed the IP in the hosts file so as to configure the site before DNS change occurs. It is having no effect. I'm pinging the new domain in Terminal and it's showing the correct IP, so I know that the hosts file is set up properly. But when I visit the domain, it takes me to the old IP. I also contacted the server owner and had him try to edit HIS hosts file, and he ran into the same problem. So, obviously it's something to do with the site. I did not build this site–I inherited it from another designer who was not quite right. Since then it's been Frankensteined by the site owners.

This is a WordPress site. I've disabled all plugins through SFTP (renamed the whole directory) and changed the theme and stylesheet to default in the database just in case. I also renamed the cache file and a couple of caching-related php files.

I've flushed my DNS, I've cleared my browser cache, I've tried it on my Ubuntu machine.

I am pounding my head against the wall. Any ideas?

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 03:56PM by MBWD
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PM871a SSD’s Online.net

Grettings. I’m renting out a server over at Online.net, I totally get that their servers are budget grade. My question is… That I’ve recently discovered they use Samsung PM871a SSD’s for their SSD servers or at least their low end servers. I have a server with two of these PM871a SSD’s in RAID 1. Apparently PM871a are consumer grade SSD’s, I run a semi-important website on this server and I’m becoming paranoid about disc failure. Should these SSD’s be used in a server environment where they are running 24/7? There’s two in RAID 1 so it’s unlikely they’ll both die at the same time, how long do you think these will last?

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 11:39AM by applemangogrape https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/50irfx/pm871a_ssds_onlinenet/?utm_source=ifttt

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Best way to 301 when changing domains and DNS?

Probably a noob question, but I haven't actually done this before. I've only 301d individual pages. I'm moving a site from olddomain.com to newdomain.com. I've been reading up on how to properly 301 a whole domain, but everything I've seen indicates that I need to make the changes to the .htaccess file on olddomain.com, not newdomain.com, which confused me at first. So the examples I've seen are like this:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301,NC] 

1. Does this mean the old site has to stay up indefinitely?

2. Will any and all URLs like olddomain.com/article then go to newdomain.com/article with just this addition to .htaccess? I don't have to set up 301s for individual pages?

3. If the DNS for olddomain.com becomes inactive at some point, what will happen to SEO for the old site? How long should olddomain.com stay registered to prevent issues with people finding the new site?

Thanks–

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 01:12PM by MBWD
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Cloud hosting estimate for NodeJS & MongoDB app

I'm trying to come up with the estimated cost to host a desktop/mobile app with around 10,000 registered users. The app itself is not cpu intensive as it will mainly be used to serve media files like video and audio. Users will have a bit of data associated with them that will be used for analytics and reports by other users.

Based on absolutely nothing I estimate between 5-25% of users will be active at any time making maybe 5-10 requests per hour. My plan was to use Heroku with MongoLab as a provider.

I'm really just looking to come up with a ballpark monthly figure. Any help would be awesome 🙂

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 01:22PM by Deftwun
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Legal question – As a reseller, am I responsible for my client’s content?

I have a client who sells a product that lives in a grey area in most of the US, and is outright illegal in some states. The DEA is making a move to attempt to classify the product as a Schedule I drug.

If this happens and they continue to sell the product, am I liable in anyway as the reseller?

Submitted August 31, 2016 at 10:44AM by Jesse_no_i https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/50ih05/legal_question_as_a_reseller_am_i_responsible_for/?utm_source=ifttt

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