In the web hosting industry, a dedicated server refers to a server which is leased in its entirety to a single customer, usually an individual or small business.
-5
votes
0answers
21 views
How to point a Domain to a CentOS Server [closed]
I want to point my domain name to the newly bought server, i dont have any software installed in it so how can i do this, I cant get the domain registrars name servers, so please if you can provide a ...
0
votes
2answers
38 views
Permanent site-to-datacentre VPN for a hosted Windows Server
I’m looking to setup a permanent VPN connection from our office to a Windows Server provided by 1and1.
We’re looking to get SQL log shipping setup between the hosted 1and1 server and our office. I’m ...
-5
votes
0answers
21 views
Setting up a server at home vs. renting a dedicated server [closed]
Which one is more profitable. Buying a server and hosting a website at home or renting a dedicated server from a hosting company ? I have fairly large number of users that are growing. I currently use ...
0
votes
0answers
28 views
DNS setup for OVH / kimsufi dedicated server
I just bought a Kimsufi mKS 2G dedicated server from OVH (france)
it is my first dedicated server and i need help to setup my domain pirate-punk.com
Server is ks3272412.kimsufi.com (5.39.84.200)
I ...
0
votes
3answers
45 views
Spam Issue - Dedicated Server
I am in-charge of a dedicated server with Plesk Control Panel installed on a Windows Server 2008 Web Edition.
The issue that I am having is related with the emails setup on the same server using ...
2
votes
1answer
59 views
VPS vs Dedicated server, security- and performance-wise
I've been search the web for information and advice on the whole "VPS vs Dedicated"-question.
All I can find on the subject is based on economy and a bit performance.
So here goes: What are the pros ...
0
votes
0answers
31 views
Dedicated server vs VPS: advice on scaling site
We could use advice on a scaling/ops issue.
We have a simple mobile app that runs on Rails 3.2.12 and uses MongoMapper instead of ActiveRecord. There is one database call that sporadically performs ...
0
votes
1answer
40 views
Is there a chance to block images spiders / bots on dedicated servers without using robots.txt or .htaccess?
We know that we can block certain spiders from crawling websites pages using robots.txt or .htaccess or maybe via the Apache configuration File httpd.conf.
But that requires to edit may be a large ...
-1
votes
2answers
80 views
Correctly configure nameservers with cPanel
I just bought a VPS with cPanel/WHM. My hosting provider gave me 3 dedicated IP addresses with my plan. I read on the internet that I should use 2 IPs for my nameservers and the other one as the main ...
0
votes
0answers
28 views
dedicated server with parallel computing [closed]
Anyone knows a company that offers remote Opencl or parallel computing dedicated server?
Like a dedicated server with some parallel tech, GPGPU or similar.
-4
votes
2answers
57 views
What to upgrade, RAM over capacity [duplicate]
I'm currently running a series of sites on a single VPS. My RAM usage has been continually going over capacity and, even after upgrading, I seem to be using all of my allotted RAM and burstable RAM...
...
0
votes
1answer
68 views
In DNS check, what “different subnets” and “number of MX records” warnings mean?
In DNS check tools like intodns and dnsstuff, what are the following warnings means and how to avoid:
Different subnets : WARNING: Not all of your nameservers are in different subnets.
Number of MX ...
-1
votes
1answer
291 views
Do I need to have multiple MX records that point to different IPs that are in different subnets even if I only have one dedicated server?
I own and operate a single dedicated server that offers shared web hosting space to my clients including email services. Is it possible to have multiple MX records for each client domain, and have ...
0
votes
1answer
68 views
NGINX config help, Multiple Servers
I am having an issue with NGINX , this could quite possibly be an easy fix then again could not be I just don't know that much about NGINX.
I have my NGINX config below which works great. But I have ...
0
votes
3answers
151 views
POP / IMAP server under attack : what risks and how to secure?
Since yesterday (7am), our POP server is under a dictionnary attack : this is what I found in /var/log/mail.log :
Mar 26 10:31:36 serv pop3d: LOGIN FAILED, user=monday, ip=[::ffff:91.121.**.***]
Mar ...
0
votes
1answer
123 views
WHM, default Exim config - sent mail not being delivered to Microsoft Exchange
I'm having a huge headache with email over the past week and i'm ready to take a lump hammer to the server!
We have a dedicated server with WHM installed and currently using the default exim ...
-1
votes
1answer
39 views
How to virtualization on dedicated server with apache? [closed]
I have yet to get a straight answer from anyone, technical support from everyhost declines to tell me exactly how it works, and everyone else just says to just "make an apache virtual server" without ...
-4
votes
1answer
31 views
how to connect my server to internet [closed]
We have a project which very resource consuming in databse part and we found that database hosting which is satisfied our needs is lot money consuming.
We want to built own server and connect our ...
0
votes
2answers
102 views
There is another site pointing to my site without my permission [duplicate]
I have a site 'aaa.com' for instance on a dedicated server. And there is another site 'bbb.com' which became able to display all my site content. It was able to get all the traffic that is coming from ...
-2
votes
4answers
194 views
cannot use any yum command: no space left on device
if i use any yum command, i get
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
...
-1
votes
1answer
43 views
dedicated server + dns + webserver [closed]
I have a programming background so i don't know much about servers. I got an dedicated server and a domain registered on another company. On the domain's company i created an entry type (A) and ...
0
votes
1answer
90 views
Plesk open_basedir restriction in effect - restart server issue
Hello Everybody,
I got Plesk on a dedicated server. I had open_basedir restriction in effect error in my php application, so i have edited the php.ini files on server core and created one within ...
0
votes
1answer
36 views
Need to know how to route non 80 port to a sub domain
I have my domain hosted in my own server. There are two applications running on my server that are accessible via example.com (IIS on port 80) and example.com:8080 (Tomcat on port 8080).
Now I would ...
0
votes
0answers
12 views
Purchasing new dedicated servers questions to ask [duplicate]
I have a meeting scheduled tomorrow with a few different server hosting companies. We are looking to purchase more dedicated servers for scalability reasons. What are some questions I could ask, ...
4
votes
2answers
184 views
How can I handle big traffic spikes on my dedicated server?
I have an E-Commerce site, which gains a sudden peak of very high traffic when I turn on different ads campaigns.
From this moment on, my current dedicated server (Hostgator, 4GB Memoray, 100mbps ...
-5
votes
1answer
123 views
Protect dedicated server with cloudflare [closed]
I have an Ubuntu 10.04 based dedicated server with LAMP installed. I host several websites, but for now all websites are on same IP, configured using Apache Virtual Hosts.
Everyone can attack my ...
0
votes
0answers
33 views
Setup simple email forwarding and smtp server for app
I've moved one of my web sites over to a dedicated server. I'd like to move all my other sites over as I can pretty much do everything I need to do, except setup an email server. This is usually a ...
0
votes
1answer
36 views
Remote Installation on Dedicated Server
I have a question in my mind. I am reselling dedicated server from OVH and Server4you. I have notice that they have remote installtion feature. Only we need to select which os we want to install and ...
1
vote
1answer
75 views
Locked myself out of root access
I'm very new to owning a dedicated server. I'm learning and was configuring one I bought with OVH. I was configuring what I thought was other SHH users.
It was a sshd_config. I appended this to the ...
0
votes
2answers
69 views
Fast format option for HDs recommended in dedicated servers?
I'm learning about dedicated servers and have a very simple question.
In windows server 2008, is it a good practice to fast format your HDs for the first time? Or should i perform a slow one?
Which ...
-2
votes
1answer
522 views
How does one set a dedicated IP address to a minecraft server on Windows Server 2008 R2? [closed]
So I bought a dedicated server from staminus.net just for running a Minecraft server. On Minecraft, the default port is 25565. I am wondering how one makes it so that there is no port on the IP ...
1
vote
1answer
127 views
adjusting php fpm configuration
Lately my server (i7-2600 @ 4x3.4ghz, 8GB Ram) is getting really high load averages. Ive cached the most popular pages and tried to remove them aswell to test if they are the fault, but it gives no ...
0
votes
2answers
85 views
Get dedicated server for the websites and keep shared hosting for the database, good idea? [closed]
We're thinking about moving from a shared hosting to a dedicated server (a managed one, we don't want to manage/maintain it for now). I keep reading that it's best to have a server for the websites ...
0
votes
1answer
50 views
Right dedicated server specifications for my usage? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites
We are going to move from our current shared hosting to probably a (managed) dedicated server, and I've ...
-1
votes
2answers
62 views
What server specs would be needed to handle an ASP.NET website with the following usage? [closed]
I'm currently re-developing an ASP.NET website for a client and they want to upgrade their server hardware, but they're not sure to what.
The current server specs are: AMD Athlon 3200+ with 2GB RAM, ...
6
votes
1answer
170 views
Someone parked a domain on my server/IP - should I worry? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there anything I can do about someone who has pointed their domain at my ip?
I'm running a dedicated server with own static IP for a while now. Some weeks ago I ...
0
votes
0answers
209 views
Dedicated server for gamehosting (Minecraft) with OVH [closed]
I want to rent more powerful dedicated server for sake of Minecraft hosting.
Currently I own Sandy Bridge i3 2130 2-Core 4-Threads 3.4+ GHz 64bits 8GB RAM (KS R-8G from Kimsufi).
It’s performance ...
-1
votes
1answer
54 views
Linux system configuration for private hosting server [closed]
I got a small own linux server in datacenter, I use primarilly for self-hosting tiny websites, DNS and so on. Since sometimes there is a need to host some stuff of my friends, and I'm searching for a ...
1
vote
0answers
76 views
IP address times out [closed]
I'm running a dedicated server with a couple of game servers running on 4 different IP addresses. The most network-heavy server times out a few times during peak hours and all other communication ...
0
votes
1answer
132 views
Netscan detected from host [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
My server’s been hacked EMERGENCY
Portscan attacks from somewhere
I am using Hetzner's dedicated servers. Today I have got a message:
We have received information ...
0
votes
3answers
69 views
How to check the number of requests being served by server
Can any one help with the command to check the number of requests being served by apache web server.
I know some commands to test the load of server, like top command to check the load on server and ...
0
votes
0answers
18 views
how to choose a dedicated or virtual server [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my capacity planning?
Lately, my shared hosting at 1&1 got suspended because of 'too many resources used', I was as told on a shared hosting and ...
0
votes
1answer
103 views
Performance issues with new dedicated server [closed]
I have just subscribed to a new dedicated server and am getting worst than expected PHP execution performance. Execution times are twice as high as on my old mutualized server! I'm definitely not an ...
2
votes
2answers
155 views
Is a vlan for one server unnecessary?
DETAILS
I've been researching web hosting solutions in Japan. Based on this question one of the services available seems to be a VLAN. I've read about the advantages of such a system for a large ...
0
votes
2answers
67 views
What is this service called in English?
DETAILS
I'm not familiar with server administration and am trying to find the name of a particular service offered by a Japanese website provider. The service is for a dedicated server. I have ...
-2
votes
1answer
45 views
connecting to my dedicated server on the internet [closed]
I have a dedicated server with a public. I was having issues getting webdav working so I thought I would try to net use the drive and see if that worked.
It did work and I have a mapped drive to my ...
0
votes
2answers
48 views
Trying to understand correct operating levels of my server
I'm trying to establish what thresholds my dedicated server should be operating in.
The server is an Intel(R) Xeon(R)CPU L5420 @ 2.50GHz with 16GB RAM running RedHat with Apache 2 and MySQL. It has ...
0
votes
0answers
47 views
mysqltuner tells me there are 11.000 tables on my dedicated server?
I'm running a dedicated server with MySQL, I moved a site from shared hosting to the server recently. The site has a database with around 50-60 tables which weigh a total of about 12MB. None of the ...
1
vote
3answers
799 views
RAID10 without write-back cache = horrible write performance?
I have just provisioned a dedicated server on singlehop.
I'm running it through some tests to know what to expect performance-wise. On the I/O side (with 4 1TB disks in RAID 10) I get:
write-cache ...
1
vote
2answers
117 views
routing eth0:1 directly to kvm VM
Ive got a Dedicated Server with 2 Public IP Adresses and would like to route all eth0:1 traffic to a KVM Guest via iproute2 or even iptables. Outgoing Traffic should also be routed to eth0:1 - eth0 ...
