Welcome to the Star Dot Hosting wiki

At Star Dot Hosting, we feel that wiki knowledge bases are the best way to compile, distribute and communicate information.

• External Monitoring Services
• Download Speed test
• Using Star Dot Hosting Nameservers for DNS lookups
• Setting up different Linux Distro's

Note: There is an abundance of documentation and technical how-to's throughout this wiki on many different linux / unix related topics.

* Pre-Sales Questions

* Billing Questions

* Domain Name Questions

* Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Questions

* FTP Questions

* Mail Account Questions

* Direct Admin Usage Questions

* Utilize our control panel API

Jump to:

• Debian
• Redhat/Centos
• FreeBSD
• OpenSuse
• Gentoo

* Setup DAG repository

* How to change the timezone

* Creating a JAIL in FreeBSD

* Set up FLASH with Firefox in FreeBSD

* Mount an ISO to CDROM

* Display the Default Gateway

* Hardware Troubleshooting

* Install From Source

* Check and Repair Tables

* List Processes and Statuses

* Test and Pull Data from a Table

* Show Database Connections

* Add a user manually

* MySQL dump specific databases

* MySQL replication

* Export the database schema ONLY

* Reset the mysql root password

* Update a table with different data in a specific record

* MySQL Query Log

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* How to setup Apache mod-rewrite rules

* How to properly rotate Apache logs

* Basic Mail Troubleshooting

* Bulk Mail Tips

* BIND Zone example

* BIND Slave / Secondary DNS server HowTo

* Setup a Nagios MySQL Backend

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FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org

Open Solaris : http://www.opensolaris.org

Debian : http://www.debian.org

Centos : http://www.centos.org

Gentoo : http://www.gentoo.org

OpenSUSE : http://www.opensuse.org

VMWare : http://www.vmware.org

XEN : http://www.xen.org