Flux Sites Hosting will NOT place ads on your site. That is one of the many advantages of having a paid host. We do have a default 404 page that can be replaced in a few seconds with your own. We recommend doing this to help maximize your traffic. A 404 page is what loads [...]
Archive for FAQ’s
Will my website work in China?
China has a sophisticated firewall. The government blocks many sites because of their variety of strict and varied laws. They can ban any IP at any time for any reason. If China blocks you, the only thing you can do is to move to a dedicated server and hope you don’t get blocked for you [...]
Why don't you allow overselling?
Almost all reseller’s offering overselling start out the same. Clients have great uptime, servers are fast etc. As more time goes by the server becomes more and more filled from resellers using what they purchased and downtime gradually gets worse. People who purchase reseller plans with overselling enabled are going to use all of their [...]
Where can I get help with Design and Coding Issues?
We do not offer a service like this at Flux Sites. Currently, we must refer you to our web design and development partners NS Digital – www.nsdigital.co.za
What version of PHP are you using?
We are running PHP 5 installed on all of our shared and reseller servers. Please read the related article for specific details.
What is Server Load?
Load expresses how many processes are waiting in the queue to access the computer processor. Of course, this is calculated for a certain period of time and of course, the smaller the number, the better. Why is my server load high? Shared servers: Likely another user is causing high loads. We will suspend that person [...]
What file system do you use on Linux?
Linux supports many different file systems, but common choices for the system disk include the ext* family. Our filesystem is ext3.
What control panel do you use and do you have a demo?
The control panel we use is called cPanel. If you have Reseller or Dedicated Hosting, we provide WHM (Web Host Manager) for managing multiple cPanels. Shared Web Hosting A demo of cPanel can be found here. Reseller and Dedicated Hosting A demo of cPanel can be found here. A demo of WHM can be found [...]
US Treasury Embargo Restrictions
As of December 28th, 2009 these are the countries that we can’t do business with due to embargo restrictions. Reference: http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/ Sudan http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/ascii/sudan.txt PENALTIES: Criminal fines for violating the Regulations range, upon conviction, up to $1,000,000; individuals may also face imprisonment of up to 20 years. In addition, civil penalties of up to $250,000 or [...]
Tomcat Java
Tomcat is currently supported on Linux and Windows dedicated servers only, as well as our VPS offerings. Our admins can install Tom Cat free of charge on Windows Dedicated, or Linux VPS/Dedicated that have cPanel. For Linux, it is installed as an addon in cPanel. For Windows, it is installed as an addon in Plesk. [...]