Questions tagged [linode]
Linode is a virtual server hosting business that specializes in Linux boxes.
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Reverse DNS from Linode when domain is registered elsewhere?
I currently have a domain, call it example.com, hosted on Dreamhost, and also a Linode VPS. The Linode lives in a subdomain of the Dreamhost domain, foo.example.com. What I want is to configure ...
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Server specs recommendations
I currently have a Linode 512 VPS with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (32bit).
I recently opened my website which attracts a lot of users from social networks and I've been hitting some CPU limits lately.
I'm ...
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exim4 nonstandard ports
Asked this on StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1655281/exim4-nonstandard-ports) but someone pointed out it belongs here.
I am trying to use exim4 on debian to relay mail, nothing ...
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Migrating domain from AWS Route S3 to Linode
I want to migrate 1 domain from AWS Route S3 to Linode; I've changed the NS recods to point to
ns1.linode.com
ns2.linode.com
ns3.linode.com
ns4.linode.com
ns5.linode.com
but on the DNS checket it ...
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Is it possible to setup DNS point to 2 servers, one in Digitalocean another is in Linode?
Is it possible to setup DNS point to 2 servers, one in Digitalocean another is in Linode?
I hope the two servers compose a cluster.
Your comment welcome
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How can I add rule to iptables on ubuntu to enable redis on local ip but not external
I've followed the various scripts to set up 2 linode machines.
Both have an external and local Ip.
On one I have installed redis, and I want to connect to this machine via the local ip.
Which rules ...
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Are many IP addresses on a single interface a bad thing?
Linode offers nice big /116 (4096) IPv6 address blocks for no additional cost, in addition to the included single IPv4 and IPv6 address per VPS.
Normally, with a run-of-the-mill website not needing ...
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How does one test the SSL cert on a specific server while testing through a load balancer?
I use Linode's NodeBalancer and would like to make sure each of the servers are terminating the SSL correctly.
Right now I'm waiting on DNS propagation to test placing an A record of the format of ...
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Linode seems to require reboot before RoR code changes are displayed
I've inherited a project from a developer who I can no longer contact. It's a Ruby on Rails project hosted on Linode with SVN as the vcs.
I can SFTP into the server and change files but the ...
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centos server shared files
I am wanting to implement a multi-server specialised hosting environment.
I currently have a cloud solution comprising of 3 centos boxes (2 lamp web servers, 1 mysql).
What I am wanting to do is, ...
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Rsync 32bit Ubuntu to 64bit instance
I am running Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) 32bit VPS on Linode. I want to use RackSpace for "functional" backups, but they only offer 64bit on their CloudServers.
Ideally I would like to be able to RSync /,...
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How to manage multiple environments for an app on Ubuntu with Apache server?
I have a PHP app and I would like to host staging, demo, and production servers from one instance on Linode. The challenge I am running into is loading different environment variables for each server.
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Apache config for frontend https + Backend http
I have a server running on Linode that has 3 subdomains.
Every subdomain is a diferent Angular 8 Application and have it´s own backend.
xyz.example.com
xyz.example.com:8080
abc.example.com
abc....
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Connect local subnet bidirectionally to a VPS server using plain OpenVPN
Let's say we have a local subnet 192.168.1.0/24 that needs to be connected bidirectionnaly to a machine on any VPS (Amazon EC2, Linode, Vultr, etc...) through the 10.8.0.0/24 subnet created using ...
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gzip softlocks every midnight during nginx log rotation, causes kernel panic
Some of our servers run on Ubuntu 18.10. They host a few Node.JS services receiving TCP connections as upstream from nginx, as well as a websocket implementation in Dotnet Core. It's a fairly simple ...
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Apple devices not connecting to sites on my server
I run a Linode with about 30 Wordpress sites. Over the past several weeks I have seen several emails from Apple users who have not been able to connect with sites on my server and I need to get this ...
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Debian 7, ICMPv6: RA: ndisc_router_discovery failed to add default route
I'm running Debian 7 and trying to configure static IPv6 addresses…
I'm getting this error message in /var/log/kern.log every few seconds.
Apr 27 09:25:30 orion kernel: ICMPv6: RA: ...
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Locked out of ssh after ufw enabled
I've enabled both SSH and HTTP in ufw. Using Linode VPS with Ubuntu 16.04.
After doing sudo ufw enable, I'm effectively locked out except for the virtual console which I can access via web browser.
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Laravel 5.1 deployement Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages
When I am trying to deploy my laravel project and do a php composer.phar install I get this annoying error. I pulled in my project via git with a git clone. And when I surf to my domainname I would ...
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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 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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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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Connection refused for a few hours
I use a Linode server, and have had about a half-dozen domains running on it for the past couple years without issue. It's running Ubuntu 10.04 and Apache.
Today, for about 3 hours, all http requests ...
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MySQL Extremely High Disk Activity (Read Operations)
I have 1GB Linode VPS with a standard LAMP stack. Apache is tuned fine but for some reason MySQL's disk usage is high. This is causing really slow site load times. RAM and CPU usage are fine.
Can ...
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Server not available after abandoned upgrade
I am running a headless install of Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS on a PVS. I was carrying out an OS upgrade earlier on today. I SSH'd into the sever and typed the following commands:
sudo aptitude update
sudo ...
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"Cannot allocate memory" error for psycopg2 and libgcrypt.so on Debian 6, 64bit
I am having a weird production specific error related to Python psycopg2 postgresql driver and libgcrypt module.
I was running Debian 6, 32bit to host my application with uWSGI and Nginx. I decided ...
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Cassandra on Linode: Dark magic isn't working
Yes, I realize I'm crossing the streams by running Cassandra on Linode. Yes, I know it would be better to run it on Rackspace or Amazon, but that's immaterial right now.
Basically, I've got a Private ...
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Website and email hosting on different servers
I have a client site currently on a Hostgator reseller account but I'd like to move the website hosting over to my Linode. The email accounts however should stay with Hostgator. DNS is also managed ...
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Where can I set additional conf files for NetworkManager
I am using Linode and every single time I boot my server, Linode (cloud provider) ovewrites the file below:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
This is well documented and expected in order to ...
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Mysql server won't start after changing bind-address
I have two dropplets at digitalocean, one is for http server and another is for database.
In mysql config /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf I have set bind-address to digitalocean private ip and ...
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Subdomain, PTR and MX Record Confusion
I am lost in DNS and rDNS (PTR) record setting for the following scenario:
I have my main website example.com running in Digital Ocean at IP 192.0.2.4
In Digital Ocean control panel I have the ...
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Keepalived configuration for a budget cluster of 2 web server nodes on Linode
I am on a low budget - so I am running just 2 identical Linodes (Ubuntu 18.x). I don't plan to use Nodebalancer, since I need only one server to be up at a time.
I have been able to successfully ...
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Linode : Installing a working Jetty 9.x on DSL (Damn Small Linux)
I am exploring an option to deploy a java application with jetty on Linode.
While my endeavor to create a production grade system with the minimum resource utilization (so that scarce resources could ...
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Multiple sub domains are pointing to the same directory as the main domain
I have a domain hosted at Godaddy adn hosting at Linode. I added attached screen shot is my DNS settings. Blue highlighted area is where I put my hosting server's IP
Now I have 3 sites to be accessed ...
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Why is Apache refusing to show new pages for one directory? This is as spooky as I've seen from Apache in a while [duplicate]
I tried to take a step back in https://serverfault.com/questions/763747/why-is-apache-not-showing-a-new-page , from an original question that was loosely as follows:
A client has a website and makes ...
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Getting "ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer" when trying to SSH a remote Ubuntu server
I am very new to server managing. I have a Ubuntu 14.04 server set on Linode, according to the documentation, I can use ssh [email protected] to connect to the server. But when I do this in Terminal,...
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Squid Proxy timing out on Public Interface - Packets getting lost on port 3128
Partial Solution
Turns out that traffic on port 3128 was getting lost on the way to my VPS. I am not sure if this is Linode blocking this port, or if it is something in the between. (I have used this ...
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Postgres and Media Linode servers regularly need restarting
I have a site running on several Linode virtual machines, including separate VMs running:
Django (and apache)
Django (for running memory-intensive scripts)
Postgres
Media server, with a private ...
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Internal Server Error with Nginx and uWSGI
I'm trying to host an app using Nginx on Linode.com but I'm stuck early on uWSGI config.
I've used "Getting Started" guide and "WSGI using uWSGI and nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)" guide ...
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Create and synchronize development, staging and production servers?
I'm building a PHP application, and I'm running all the development environment (Netbeans IDE, Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL) inside the same virtual machine.
I would like to prepare three diferents ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Test server clone -Linode/CentOS/Aegir
One of the cool things about the Linode VPS is being able to clone the entire server and move a copy of it to a new Linode server. That way you can have a test server that mirrors your production with ...
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Website latency and bad tcp packets
I have multiple websites hosted on a Linode VPS and I'm having an issue with one of them: every page that I try to load has about 10 seconds latency.
Apache logs are clean and the other websites on ...
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apache2 server running ruby on rails application has go daddy cert that works in chrome/firefox and ie 9 but not ie 8
I have a rails application up on a linode ubuntu 11 server, running apache2. I have a cert purchased from godaddy, (where we also bought our domain) and the cert is installed on my server.
Part of my ...
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apt-get sub-process returned an error code (1)
I recently removed apache2 from my linode ubuntu server with:
apt-get --purge remove apache2
Then tried to install it again (apt-get install apache2). But since then, I can't use apt-get anymore, I ...