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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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importing domain from AWS Route S3 to Linode

I want to import a domain registered in AWS: in the Guides: https://www.linode.com/docs/products/networking/dns-manager/guides/incoming-dns-zone-transfers/ Within your external name server, allow ...
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Linux server ssh connection wont authenticate my account using ssh key gen and prompts me for password

I am facing an issue in Ubuntu 22.04.2. where I am unable to SSH into a remote server using a copied public key. I have generated an SSH key pair on my local machine using a bash terminal, and I have ...
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nmap shows 8080/tcp open http-proxy on centos 7 VPS but lsof shows nothing for that port

Im running a Centos 7 VPS server for the past several years. Originally when I set it up I didnt install any firewall (iptables specifically) because I was under the impression the host (linode) ...
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Cloudflare instead of nodebalancer in linode kubernetes cluster

there is a similar question regarding cloudflare as a load balancer for the VPS. But in my case I'm looking for using cloudflare as a nodebalancer replacement for the linode kubernetes cluster. Is ...
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How much effort is it to self-manage servers? PCI / SOC2 compliance?

TL;DR: How much effort is required to self-manage a low-traffic SaaS app? Is PCI / SOC2 compliance too much of a hassle? Currently we are using GCP. Our infrastructure is straightforward: A load-...
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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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Unsure on how to fix PTR [closed]

I am trying to setup a custom email for a company website. The only issue is that when sending an email to a gmail account, I get the following back: The mail system : host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com ...
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: High CPU Usage By adr_character Command

My linode server is running on UBUNTU 20.4 + nginx. Recently my cpu usage increased up to 100%. At first I thought PM2 caused the problem. Uninstall PM2 but the problem still exists. Even rebooting ...
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My website hosted on Linode via Serverpilot is down after performing a reboot

I shutdown and powered on my linode server that I setup via Serverpilot because it was going online and offline. However, since the reboot I am unable to access my website. I can access files via FTP ...
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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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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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A TLS fatal alert has been received with exim4 in debian 9

I am trying to configure my server to send mail and I receive an "TLS fatal alert" error every time I try to send mail. I have followed the steps indicated in this post related to my problem ...
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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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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 database often stops and won't restart

Server: Linode Dedicated 4G Ubuntu 18.04, Webmin + Virtualmin Every now and then, mysql server stops and fails on restarting. Here is the logs I was able to find: Apr 11 20:54:57 bamboo kernel: [ 2082....
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Enabling IPv6 for docker breaks hosts IPv6 connectivity resulting in neither having IPv6 connection

Preface: I am newbie in both Docker and networking stuff, especially, IPv6. Am a software developer, not system/network administrator. I am running Arch on Linode and am looking to set up Docker with ...
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skip openssh-server configuration on apt-get upgrade

When I'm trying to upgrade Ubuntu 20.10 on Linode, it stucks on one configuration prompt. How can I skip it? Using -qy didn't help, as shown below. The code: set DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get ...
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Can't Track Down What's Causing Server To Go Out of Memory

For a few months now I've been experiencing random crashes on my 2GB RAM VPS Linode server. Someone convinced me to switch to self-managed hosting and I for some reason thought I could handle it ...
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MySQL CPU usage difference between my local server and Linode server

I have 2 similar servers, one on my local computer, the other on Linode. OS is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on both. When I import a large database into MySQL, my local computer uses less than 10% of CPU while ...
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Remote port forward works on TCP/1194 but not on TCP/443 even though port 443 on the server is not being used

I am having a weird issue. I brought up a new Linode to act as a tunnelling endpoint. I was able to successfully remote forward port 1194 so now connections to linode-server@1194 successfully to my ...
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Rescue Tip: Wrong library file installation damaged Ubuntu 18.04 after upgrade

There was an old Ubuntu 14.04 linode.com instance which I attempted to upgrade to 18.04. Some Dependencies where somehow not upgraded anyway. So I attempted to install corresponding deb file from ...
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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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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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My app became unreachable after some time

I have an Vue.js app running on Linode at strks.rs using Nginx I am running it with nginx and I can not find any erros, nginx synatax is ok server is running and i tried flushing DNS and restarting ...
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nginx: how to serve multiple site on same domain name without virtual hosting?

I'm new of nginx. I read some documentation to install it and configure it with drupal 8. I have my server installed on linode. i access through ip address, not virtual host. My drupal is located in ...
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Reverse DNS from a cloned linode

I have cloned a linode1 that is linked to mydomain.com and the reverse DNS is li19034-215.members.linode.com; the reverse DNS of the cloned linode is also li19034-215.members.linode.com; I wouls like ...
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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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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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Ngnix Closes The Connection Doesn't Return 301

struggling to get my hosts to work on port 80/HTTP and redirect to HTTPS. Discovered this when I gave out a URL and they said it didn't work but noticed a direct link to the site did work. I've done ...
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PHP mail() not working with Postfix on ubuntu 16.04

OK, I realize this question has been asked, but the issues relating to my specific issues weren't brought up. Basically, I barely know what I'm doing in the server, but I need to configure it to send ...
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nginx connection refused remotely but localhost connects

I have a strange problem with my Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS Brief Background: I installed nginx and have been having alot of trouble with setting up letsencrypt. Attempting this with a statically served ...
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postqueue: fatal: Cannot flush mail queue - mail system is down

Setting up a server, and I am having the damnest time getting postfix to send out an email! I have several emails in the queue, but when I force them I get this: postqueue: warning: unable to look ...
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How to backup Linode configuration

I have setup LEMP on Ubuntu 18.04 Linode. I have configured all my required settings for my laravel app. Can someone advise how to backup these settings so that I can use the same settings for ...
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How can I completely delete the contents of my old VPS?

Ubuntu 9.10 | VPS I'm getting ready to stop using my old VPS host (linode) and am a little concerned about my old data remaining on the VPS. Is there a command I can run from the command-line that ...
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cURL download always stalls but works on second attempt

Once a week, I download a file from the US FCC. I have a bash script with the following. curl http://wireless.fcc.gov/uls/data/complete/l_amat.zip --remote-name Every week, the first attempt to run ...
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How can I avoid gmail/att receipt issues for a client who sends over Cox Business Internet?

My client uses Cox Business Internet as their ISP, and is very tied in to using Outlook to access their email. Their webserver and email server are currently hosted on Linode. These may be on the same ...
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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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Linode / Nanode - Out of memory, when running yum update

I rented a nanode from linode which is the smallest model. I tried to install powershell core which caused some issues. Now I got the memory allocation error: [codingsafari@centosbox ~]$ sudo yum ...
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DNS is to slow, slow respond between server to Instagram API

I have app who is based on Instagram API, problem is because connection between my server and Instagram API is slow, e.g. OVH = 300ms - 400ms Linode = 400ms - 500ms Hetzner = 500ms - 600ms I try ...
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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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Cant Login using SSH or Filezilla FTP

I had been using linode successfully for the last 3 months. The server OS is a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. From a few hours, I am not able to login through SSH via putty. After I enter the username and ...
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SFTP Connection Failing To Linode's Ubuntu Server

I installed vsftpd on our Ubuntu machine on (Linode VPS) and followed the steps from this documentation. http://www.noob2geek.com/linux/setup-vsftpd-debian-ubuntu/ So, everything works correcly if I ...
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Can't set up Subdomain in Linode

I have bought a server from linode.com and set it up with my purchased domain from namecheap. Setting up the DNS worked as expected and I followed the official documentation from linode. But ...
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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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How to catch emails on subdomains

I'm making a website which uses the subdomain as part of its name, e.g. really.cool.example (not the actual site, obviously) and have [email protected] as the support/contact email address. The ...
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How to back up a running Linode server?

We want to take a backup of everything on our Debian server, which is running remotely on the other side of the world (hosted by Linode), without shutting it down. This system is running shell, email,...
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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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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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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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