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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 ...
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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 do 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 ...