Questions tagged [linode]
Linode is a virtual server hosting business that specializes in Linux boxes.
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Scaling AngularJS + NodeJS app on Linode
I have developed an application using AngularJS + NodeJS (together with MariaDB, Redis and Socket.io for realtime notifications) and I have deployed it on a single Linode node. Now I would like to ...
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Extra certs issue with Nginx SSL config
It seems that I've set up my SSL wrong. SSL labs gives me the following:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=pitot.io&hideResults=on
The issue in question is "extra certs". This doesn'...
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SSL Issue Only For Some Clients (Linode Server)
Leadup:
Set up a wordpress linode.
Imported a wordpress site.
Everything worked.
Added an ssl certificate from godaddy. It looks like the SSL certificate is installed correctly: https://www....
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Can't boot after intrerrupting do-release-upgrade (Mount failed for selinuxfs on /sys/fs/selinux)
From a ssh session I ran:
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
sudo do-release-upgrade
I went to read something else and when I returned to my ssh session, it wasn't responsive. I'm presuming my ...
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Use VPS provider's kernel or maintain my own?
I've got a Debian Wheezy VM on Linode and they run it with their own kernel.
As a reputable company, I'm sure they're quick to apply security patches, and all I need to do is reboot to get the new ...
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Routing between two servers via a virtual interface
I have two servers, each running an openvpn service, the first one (uno) has the vpn range 10.170.0.0/16 tied to UDP 1194, and the second one (dos) has 10.180.0.0/16 tied to TCP 443. I would like to ...
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Apache virtual host set up not working for a single website
I have a Linode VPS hosting several websites. Using Linode guides, I created folders to place files and created an apache .conf file holding the virtual host configuration for each website.
This ...
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IO Rate is exceedingly incrementing
I have read through Is a 'high' IO rate healthy?, and was at ease when I read someone say that even 50,000 / hr wasn't an issue.... or not unhealthy, to answer their question; so I increased ...
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having trouble setting up NFS server on centos 6.5
Setup:
Provider: Linode
nfs server: a linode with centos 6.5
nfs client: a linode with centos 6.5
When I tried mounting
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting x.x.x.x:/shared
This is ...
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MX record set up using Zoho mail and Linode DNS manager
I've decided to try Zoho's email service given that it's free up to 10 users. I'm having difficulty getting my mx records to jibe correctly with Zoho. Unfortunately Zoho's documentation is over ...
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Any objective VPS performance tools available?
Because:
there are so many variables when it comes to VPS hosting (noisy neighbors, SSD/HD, host server specs, number of VPSes on host, etc...)
VPS hosts like to use fluffy specs (vCPU) to sell ...
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Is backing up to Dropbox ideal? [closed]
I am currently setting on a new CentOS server on one of my Linodes, and are debating with myself on how to back up the data.
The server is running DirectAdmin, which will compress all data (e-mail, ...
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Using CloudFlare as the only load balancer
Say I have 3 VPS nodes with Linode to serve traffic on a single website. Linode themselves provide a node balancing solution.
But I use CloudFlare and was wondering after I read their blog article on ...
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How can I achieve OpenVPN client routing without NAT on Linode
I've set up an OpenVPN network, and it is working properly in the sense that I can access the inner/LAN machines from the remote client. However, my problem is that all traffic from the remote ...
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Linode Kernel Headers
I am trying to install the Idera (R1soft) linux agent on a Linode running Ubuntu 12.04LTS. The agent requires a driver which in turn requires the kernel headers. Linode uses custom kernels though so ...
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Nginx drops connections
I'm having a setup where I use the linode nodebalancer (loadbalancer) for my nginx/php5-fpm servers. This balancer passive checks. These passive checks, check the status code of requests. If there are ...
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Configure Citadel to be Used For sending email using smtp
Sorry for this foolish question, but I have less knowldge about servers. So bear with me!
I have configured Citadel as directed in linode documentation and can
login using the front-end for accessing ...
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Having difficulty connecting to port
I'm giving Linode a try, and I just launched my first instance running CentOS. I've been unable to connect to a port on the box even if I completely drop the firewall. (My script does successfully ...
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Can't deploy Ruby 2, Rails 4 app to Linode
I have a Rails 4 app and I want to deploy it to my Linode and I'm struggling a lot to get this working. I followed all the basic instructions from the Linode guides, also, installed all the ...
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iptables port forwarding (prerouting port 80) and firewall not working together
I have read many articles and answers on this topic and I have been in discussion with Linode support, but no one seems to be able to answer my exact problem.
Seems easy - I'd like to use a iptables ...
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How to find out whether Linode NodeBalancer takes nodes out of rotation
Sometimes my NodeBalancer takes a node out of rotation and I would like to find out about it so I can reboot it. How do I do this?
This is the background:
I have two websites of the same type, which ...
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webserver on linode and database on digital ocean
Currently hosting drupal websites on linode using apache + php5 fpm+ fastcgi.
Among websites one is drupal commerce(max_execution_time,memory_limit are taken care) and all others are low hitting ...
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remote connection to mysql failing
Whenever I try to connect to my mysql database remotely I am receiving
Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111
as a response,
Currently my ...
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Migrate to AWS from Linode
Migration to another server is not easy when we have a large database. We want to move our database in Linode to amazon RDS database, i tried to pg_dump and pg_restore and it succeeds but it consume a ...
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Nginx 1.4 on Debian 7 via apt-get
I cannot for the life of my figure out how to install nginx 1.4 via apt-get on a Debian 7 linode.
I added the following to /etc/apt/source.list:
deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ squeeze nginx
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Using ZFS or XFS on a Xen guest running Linux
Background:
I'm investigating the viability of using a filesystem other than ext3/4, with the ability to run snapshots for backup and rollback purposes. The servers under consideration are mailbox ...
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What are some techniques companies like Linode use to prevent spamming from their VPS's?
I apologize if this seems open ended.
I'm currently investigating Linode, and this item is one of the things I was asked to look into. I suspect this may look like I'm a spammer myself, but that's ...
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How to restore Linode to Vagrant VM?
I'm trying to set up a Linux development environment so I can safely make changes to my website without breaking the live site.
Linode hosts my live site. A simple solution would be to host my ...
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Linode Munin Nodes
I have 3 servers in Linode. All of them are configured with private lan network. All 3 are able to ping each other. I have install a Munin master server in one of them and Munin node to all of them.
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Redirection of subdomain working, but server not found error : Linode [duplicate]
Here is my virtual host :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName policy.domain.com
ServerAlias www.policy.domain.com
DocumentRoot /policy
ErrorLog /...
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Cent OS 6 clock 3 minutes 35 seconds in the future
I run Cent os 6 64 bit on linode.
server (incorrect):
date
Thu Aug 29 11:41:00 BST 2013
client (correct):
date
Thu Aug 29 11:37:25 BST 2013
As you can see the server clock is in ...
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Recover deleted file from linode VPS server with Ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
I have accidentally deleted files from my VPS server bought from Linode. It uses Ubuntu 12.04. How can I recover the files. I hadn't enabled backup for it.
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Apache Django OOM on server with 4GB RAM
I'm running a production Django site on Ubuntu Linode w/ 4GB RAM. Major processes are Apache2, MongoDB, Memcache, PostgreSQL, Tomcat6 and Redis. Apache OOMs about 10 times a day. I've tweaked values ...
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How to establish firewall rules that accepting 11211 port in intranet for memcached ( Fedora)?
I am new for fedora and backend. And i have a job recently, to build a game server via linode. The current setup is 2 linode + 1 nodebalancer, I have a memcached server on each linode and I have setup ...
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deploying meteor on my own domain (ubuntu)
I want to deploy my meteor app on my Ubuntu server,
I used meteor.sh and everything went successfully, But i simply can't launch my app from the browser
I'm putting my ip address and getting a 404
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Multiple segmentation faults on Linux host
I have an old Slackware 9.0 mail server on a VM at Linode.com. It has around 130GB of mail hosted on it, in Maildir format on partitioned, separate Ext3 filesystems (largest one is 92GB). I'm in the ...
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ubuntu linode server 404 error with django mod_wsgi [closed]
I have configured a linode server with apache2 and mod_wsgi..
the server is running
wsgi is running
postgre is running and syncdb was successful
what I am having trouble finishing is actually ...
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Virtualhost one https site, the rest http
I have a linode server with Apache2 running a handful of sites with virtualhosting.
All sites work fine on port 80, but one site has a ssl certificate and also runs okay.
My problem is as follows:
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Installing virtualbox on linode
I've followed the VirtualBox installation guide found here and have switched my Linode kernel to use 2.6.32-47-generic-pae using this guide, but I still keep getting the following error when I run ...
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Recurring server outages CentOS on Linode
I am currently managing some servers for a client running close to 40 websites, nearly half of which are WordPress websites. We are currently using 4 VPS from Linode with the sites distributed across ...
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Simple upstart script for nodejs + forever on Ubuntu
I'm using Ubuntu Sever 12.04. I have a nodejs application which I want to run like so:
NODE_ENV=production PORT=3001 APP_PATH=/var/www/myapp forever -a -l /var/www/myapp/forever.log -o /var/www/myapp/...
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Is there any reason to use fail2ban with SSH password logins disabled?
I am setting up an Ubuntu server hosted by Linode.
I am stepping through their security guide and they recommend installing fail2ban after disabling password based SSH logins.
I don't see the point ...
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postfix error unused parameter
I need some help with the configuration of postfix. Doing it first time.
I'm following this how-to and configured each step carefully.
Can anyone help me with this error pls?
Service postfix ...
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Attempting to allow SFTP connection to a preconfigured Linode
I'm attempting to allow an SFTP connection to a preconfigured Linode. It's running Ubuntu 12.04. I was entirely Linux green until six weeks ago, but I've been learning as I go.
I left the station the ...
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Ubuntu server hanging and can't find cause
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 512mb VPS server running on Linode. I have it setup to serve about 6 Wordpress powered websites.
For a few weeks now it has crashed daily, 2-3 times. Linode automatically ...
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Added line to bashrc, now bash is not responding
I added the following line to the end of my ~/.bashrc (This is on a Linode box) and logged out of my ssh session.
source ~/.profile
Now when I log in, the shell is unresponsive. I never get to the ...
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How to automatically forward mail with Postfix/Dovecot?
I set up Postfix/Dovecot with MySQL on a Linode instance from this tutorial, and I am now trying to forward all email that comes to [email protected] to [email protected] ...
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IP spoofing attack errors after setting up a nodebalancer on Linode.com
I recently set up a NodeBalancer in front of a Rails 3.2.12 app.
The app is served by nginx and Unicorn.
All seems to work fine, but I get a lot of errors such as these that I didn't get when I only ...
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Connection refused when running rhodecode through nginx
Instead of seeing the rhodecode page when visiting repo.xxx.com I get a 502 (Bad Gateway).
Here is the nginx error.log entry.
2013/03/14 21:48:33 [error] 11207#0: *3 connect() failed (111: ...
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Company server setup - security and ssh
I currently manage a server at RackSpace for my company, and am planing on switching to Linode in the next month or so, for a better server and to save some money.
In the process of switching, I am ...
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