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Can email spoofing be prevented?

My wife's email account was hacked and the attacker got her address book. I don't know if the attack was on her local email client (Thunderbird running on Windows 7) or on the server (hosted at GoDaddy). Either way, the contact list data is out…
Joshua Frank
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How can a computer with dynamic IP work as a webserver?

How can a computer with dynamic IP work as a WebServer?
Nuasy
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How to go to a website on a shared server by its ip address?

I have a few questions, please help: Fist, I can access Google search just by typing http://74.125.224.211, because this is the IP address returned by nslookup. However, I could not do so with the IP addresses returned from www.yahoo.com. How do I…
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how to open fiddler saz files on mac or online?

a friend sent me a fiddler record for me to watch. I have mac and the file he has sent is X.saz I could install fiddler on mac. How can i open these files to watch? online opening is good as well
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Is it possible to host plain HTML files in Google Apps?

I'd like to upload a handful of HTML files that I want to replace an existing Google Site. I know I can edit the HTML for each page in Google Sites, but I can't just upload my HTML files or even copy-paste them. I have CSS files and JS files as…
Nikki Erwin Ramirez
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What actually is Amazon EC2's 'pay per hour' for on demand instances?

I'm thinking to host my ROR website on Amazon EC2. I wont be needing a S3 as of now. But when I check the their pricing it's like Micro - $0.020 per Hour I don't get this per hour billing.My site will be live for 24x7. So it will be live for…
mrudult
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Hosting online with xampp?

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, because from what I've read, this should all be working. What I've done: Forwarded ports 80, 8080, and 443. Changed the ServerName localhost:80 line in \apache\conf\httpd.conf to ServerName…
Andrew
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Find out who is hosting a website given an ip address

Say I have an URL or an IP for a website. Is there a way to tell who is hosting that site? Rackspace, Azure, Amazon etc?
lox
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Moving a file into a directory with over 7000 files

I'm on a GoDaddy shared hosting Linux server ("unlimited" hosting). I have a folder with product images for an e-commerce store that contains over 7000 images. GoDaddy told me I'm not allowed to have over 1024 files in a single directory and that I…
David Murdoch
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Custom domain for Node.js hosted website on private network

I gave myself a learning assignment - create a nice website to be hosted from a Node.js server accessible to my home network. My base system is running Windows 7 and I want to give this website a custom domain, so that accessing it from other…
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How to use Cloudflare for a subdomain (of a domain I own)? Website hosted on Namecheap shared servers

I have a website on a Namecheap shared hosting server and I’d like to use Cloudflare (free tier) for it. The main content of the website is on a subdomain. Root domain has just a dummy landing page. I noticed that when I try to add the website /…
Dean Panayotov
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Hosting a web site at home: ISP Blocking port 80?

I presume this is a better place to put this rather than server fault. I'm interested in setting up a small site to host at home as a "proof of concept" exercise, i.e. to prove that I know how to do it. I've got a (virtual) server 2003 machine with…
tombull89
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Installing Wordpress in Apache

So, I've installed Wordpress in Apache and have it working, i.e. I can browse to it on my hosting server via localhost and it displays my blog, all good and well. But when (anyone) browses to it from outside my network, i.e. via my WAN IP (nat'ed to…
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Server to Server transfer

I am currently trying to migrate my website from one host to a newer one. What FTP client allows direct server to server transfer without me physically downloading the files to my computer. Any other means of doing the same without the use of an FTP…
rzlines
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Recommendations for hosting large videos

I recently created and put a 45-minute, 300 MB video file on my website and told a mailing list about it. Checking my site stats, I see that I've used 20% of my "unlimited" bandwidth for the month. As I want to be able to have several videos like…
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