Category: Products

The Products category provides relevant information about multiple offerings in our catalog of devices and services. This includes informative knowledge base articles and tutorials associated specifically with our unique brand platforms.

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Sharing is Caring — Introducing the $100 Refer-a-Friend Program for Website Hosting!

Our goal is to encourage our customers to spread the word about how much they love Liquid Web as their website hosting provider of choice. And we mean business with real "incentive" dollars involved. Read on for more details.

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Let's take a deep dive to better understand the technical differences involved with virtualization vs. containerization — when it comes to your future web hosting architecture stack for Serverless Computing. Selecting the most optimal Cloud Computing hosting product from Liquid Web will depend on this knowledge.

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What is a LAMP Stack?

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A LAMP stack is an open-source stack that combines four services that the developers use to create powerful websites and applications. The base layer is the operating system called Linux, the layer for the web server is Apache, the database layer uses MySQL, and PHP is used as the programming language. When used properly, these four layers enable hosting, creating, and maintaining websites and web applications.

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Small and enterprise companies with any amount of time in the digital world know firsthand the importance of having a reliable and secure online presence. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) lean on virtual private servers (VPS), so much so that the VPS Hosting market projects to reach a multimillion-dollar valuation with Liquid Web leading the charge. With that in mind, Liquid Web reimagined its VPS platform for the future and beyond. Introducing Liquid Web’s Next-Gen VPS.

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Discourse is open source software for community discussion. An example would be if you wanted to add a place for community discussion for a company. Many well-known companies use Discourse for their community, such as Atlassian, Figma, Asana, New Relic, and Cloudflare.

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How to Install VMware ESXi and Configure — ESXi 5.x or 6.x (a network of servers showcases how installing VMware ESXi creates virtual data centers)

What is ESXi vSphere?

VMware vSphere is a virtualization platform that creates aggregated computing infrastructures consisting of networking resources, CPU, and storage out of data centers. The main elements of vSphere are vCenter Server and ESXi, formerly VMware vSphere Hypervisor. It is a bare-metal hypervisor installable directly on your server or Workstation.

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What Is A Private VPS Parent?

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A Private VPS Parent is a host or parent server on which a user creates virtual private server (VPS) instances for personal or reselling purposes. While a virtualized environment such as our Managed Private Cloud gives you significant control and flexibility, Liquid Web’s Private VPS Parent allows you to create individual child server instances for different use cases.

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If you’re in business in the modern world, you’re on the web – it doesn’t matter who you are. From hobbyists to artists, to schools, soccer clubs, and large corporations with hundreds or thousands of employees, these groups use websites to distribute their thoughts, ideas, and products.

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You need to move your data over to enjoy the benefits of an externally hosted VMware virtual cloud server at Liquid Web. This step-by-step guide helps you prepare to move your data to a virtual machine (VM) hosted with Liquid Web. It provides an overview of the process, so you know what to expect. Our technicians are available every step to help.

Before you start, it is best to have a migration strategy session between Liquid Web and your team to ensure the most effective migration for you. It helps to review the amount of data you need to move, the nature of the data, its current role, age, and cleanliness. By doing this at the start, you can determine the ideal method of moving your data along with any migration tools you might need to make the process as painless and efficient as possible.

The migration strategy session establishes a team comprised of representatives from your organization and Liquid Web. At least one person from your organization must have administrator credentials for your server.

While this article focuses on moving data across the internet, it is possible to move data via other methods. For example, for some of our clients, it is easier and faster to transfer their data to a mobile storage device such as a thumb drive or portable hard drive and ship the storage device to us to upload.

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Choosing the right hosting environment is essential in positioning a business for successful growth. Companies operate differently based on clientele, the need to process information/orders, and how quickly market adaptation changes are needed. The common thread is the necessity of being digital to survive in today’s economy. Eventually, you’ll reach the crossroad of comparing a cloud server to a physical server to determine your best hosting environment.

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