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How to compare page load speeds of two different web servers [closed]

I've recently set up a VPS with a view to transferring all of my current websites from my current shared hosting platform to this VPS. But I want to make sure that this VPS would be an improvement to ...
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Permissions on a typical shared Linux web host

I am trying to understand the file permissions on a typical shared Linux web hosting account. I know how to set rwx permissions for the OWNER GROUP and PUBLIC entities of a file or directory. What isn'...
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How does shared hosting work?

Ive always wonder how its possible to host many websites on one server. For example dreamhost can have 100+ pages hosted on one server, how is this abstracted? Does it have 1 ip for every webpage ...
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How can I find out my hosting server's outbound IP address?

I need to find out my web hosting server's IP address. Its on a shared hosting server and from experience, it's usually not the same as the incoming IP address that you would get by just pinging the ...
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Using Yum to install packages for my user only

I would like to be able to install packages by using a package manager (Yum is available on my server), but I don't have root access. I don't technically need root access, I just want the packages to ...
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Difference between hardware based virtualization and software based virtualization in VPS Hosting?

I want to know the difference between these two kinds of virtualization in VPS Hosting. Which one is used by hosting companies? And also tell which one is best? Commonly used software for software ...
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