A virtual private server is where a single physical host server is partitioned off to create many virtual servers. Each of these can run its own full-fledged operating system and can be independently rebooted. In the world of commercial web hosting, VPS exists between shared and dedicated hosting. ...
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Set up subdomains on a VPS [closed]
I recently took ownership of a VPS.
I am wanting to make up subdomains for it (i.e pizza.example.com, points to example.com/pizza)
How would I go about doing this?
I am using point to manage my ...
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openvpn: distribute other ip
i have openvpn installed on my vps
now what i an trying to do is to let the client have their own ip
as of now when a client connect to my vpn(2.2.2.2 example ip)
-they will get the same ip as my ...
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can't access plesk panel of our VPS server with correct username & password using Google Chrome
We are using a VPS Cloud Server for our company. but when we try to login plesk panel with Google Chrome, if the username and password are correct nothing happens, it just returns to login page with ...
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kloxo has not loaded after restarting server
I have install Kloxo on my CentOs VPS as master.
I set DNS Template and restart server,but Kloxo doesn't load.
server : 130.185.72.154:7778
where is the problem?
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Which Windows Server version should I use on a 512MB VPS?
I have signed up for a VPS with these specifications:
Intel Core i7 (64-bit)
512 MB RAM
80 GB HDD
I need to run Windows Server, but I'm wondering which version should I use. Windows Server 2003 ...
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poll: best VPS with only necessary features of high/unlimited bandwidth and fast speed? [closed]
Trying to set up nodes for cjdns (https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns), and would love input. Alternatives include TonidoPlug or PogoPlug, but they require some setup and a fast home internet ...
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PHP script runs in a shared server, but it doesn't in a VPS
I have a pretty simple php script that executes a select query on a MySQL db.
When I test it on a shared server it works fine, it takes about 2-3 seconds to be executed and I get my results on the ...
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How to transition from VPS to dedicated servers with minimal downtime?
i am about to start an online service and am expecting good traffic, hence i am thinking of starting off with VPS servers. However, my question is when the traffic of the site increases to such an ...
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Setting up a dedicated mysql server
I got a dedicated VPS and installed mysql on it(I am new at this).
Now from my web server(on a different server), when I make queries it takes 10x longer than it used to take to make the queries when ...
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How many 512mb VPSs per physical server [closed]
I am curious to know what kind of setup services like Rackspace cloud, Slicehost, etc are running. If anyone is familiar with these types of offerings and has any insights please share.
Looking here, ...
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Average number of VPS's per machine [closed]
Can anyone share their experiences on how many VPS's they like to run per physical machine? Eg in in a standard/mid-range VPS hosting offering. Also typical spec of the machines etc. Thanks!
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Deciding between shared or cloud or VPS or dedicated hosting for a Wordpress + Moodle powered web application [closed]
I have to host a web application which is powered by a wordpress + moodle LMS + custom php application, expected traffic around 1000 clicks per day, traffic will scale slowly.. which hosting is best ...
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auto add ip to containers using openvz commandline
looking to script some container creation.
Is there a way to use the PBAS auto add ip function at the node's command line? Something like this.
vzctl set CTID --ipadd AUTO_IP_ADDY --save
I could ...
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Memory not being freed on VPS
I had a VPS with DirectAdmin running on CentOS 5.7 with 512 MB RAM with Apache and MySQL. The problem I was having with it was that it was using around 115 MB RAM upon boot and this was rising to 200 ...
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Can we call a VM as a 'dedicated' server?
I've noticed our 'dedicated' web server is running on an MS VM. I don't like it, cause we can't tell if another VM is running on the same machine or not, other than taking the word of the provider.
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Software to be installed on the unmanaged Windows VPS [closed]
I purchased a new unmanaged Windows-based VPS (which comes only with Windows Server 2008 R2) from Nqhost.com and needed to set it up and migrate my website (.NET Framework 4.0) there from the old ...
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How to set my CentOS domain name? [closed]
I just bought a VPS and installed CentOS on it. Now I have a domain and I want it to point to my CentOS IP. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Best way to secure a Windows VPS
I plan to run a web server on a Windows VPS. I want to secure the machine with a firewall, and I thought to open only ports 80 and 3389 (to connect with RDP). Is this a good choice? And what do you ...
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random high cpu load on linux box
It was all working fine couple of days ago (never jumped above 3.0). But now, the load average for 1 minute jumps well above 10, may hit 20, and then goes back to 5-6, maybe 3.
The htop shows me ...
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suPHP setup on mediatemple dv 4.0 server - 500 Internal Server Error
I'm new to the sysadmin arena.
I have been following this guide.
Everything seems to go fine up until step 7 and 8, which enable suphp for existing domains. After this point, all the domains give a ...
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How to correctly set up DNS with custom name servers and IIS for multiple domains
I just obtained a Windows Server 2008 VPS. Rightly or wrongly I followed instructions from the host to set up custom name servers. So now I have ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com. The are both ...
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Excessive resource usage Process time on /usr/bin/php
I have just moved my site over to VPS hosting. I am using WHM and Cpanel to manage my site.
Since the transfer I have been receiving many, many emails stating that the processing time for PHP has ...
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VPS security best practice [migrated]
I've just signed up for a linux VPS to host a website I've been creating and I need some advice on the best approach to secure it.
I've previously been hosting it off a VM in the house, but I want to ...
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How to reduce the memory usage of mediawiki?
I have a VPS running apache that keeps running out of memory at Dreamhost. Dreamhost says that the problem is the wordpress configuration, but I think that's their stock answer. I've looked and the ...
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1answer
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CPU spec for VPS hosting
I'm looking at various VPS hosting providers, and I notice that while many of them will give you the spec of the VPS in terms of how much RAM, hard disk space and bandwidth you will be provided, very ...
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How much memory is required for base lamp setup?
I am planning on renting a VPS.
How much memory is required for a base setup of Debian, Apache, Mysql, PHP?
By base, I mean not considering traffic (which will be below 1k hits a day). No ...
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Memcache warnings
I have installed memcache on a Dreamhost VPS (Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.9 (lenny) / memcached 1.4.10 ) for a Drupal site .
If for some reason the server needs rebooting, memcache is not restarted and ...
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How do I troubleshoot network issues with my VPS? [migrated]
Problem: I occasionally have network issues with my Ubuntu VPS. I cannot SSH to the box, I cannot ping the box by IP address. I can access the box via host Serial terminal. When I access the box via ...
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How to access to VPS without SSH
The provider de-activate and re-activate my VPS account. Now everything seems to be OK on control panel (SolusVM), but my IP is not responding, and I cannot access to my server via SSH. He says this ...
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Reverse DNS and mail delivery (550 4.4.7)
I'm trying to fix a problem with mailing in a VPS.
This VPS has only one public IP address and 5 domains hosted. The DNS (Bind) have the 5 different zones configured, every zone has an mx entry to ...
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Website has become slower on a VPS, was much fast on a shared host. What's wrong?
My shared host suspended my website stating system overload, so I moved my website to a VPS which has 4GB RAM. But for some reason the website has become very slow.
This is the vmstat output -
procs ...
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Packages are installed on server but not displaying in phpinfo()
I have installed imagemagick and ffmpeg on my CentOs 5.5 Godaddy VPS.
I have added extension in php.ini also.
I can able to see the installed packages in /usr/local/bin.
But when I print phpinfo(), ...
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Why are some users still using the old DNS records?
I moved from my reseller hosting to a VPS about a month ago now. I transferred a bunch of client accounts and changed the nameservers on their domain names to match the new server. All of the accounts ...
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How do I overwrite rather than modify a virtualhost on WHM/Cpanel?
I'm trying to completely replace the current virtual host autogenerated in httpd.conf with the following (its for a ruby app). I put this in extra.conf at the location that httpd.conf specifies for ...
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How to fix RVM exhausting Virtual Memory on VPS?
I'm trying to install ruby via RVM on an Ubuntu VPS with only 512 MB memory.
When running rvm install 1.9.3 I get the error:
ERROR: Error running 'make ', please read ...
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Cannot SSH after resetting firewall on VPS
I'm having trouble trying to SSH to my Debian 5 VPS with blacknight.
It was working fine until I did the following:
Logged into 'Parallels Infrastructure Manager' -> Container -> Firewall -> Set to ...
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DNS setup for a domain and its subdomain to point to different hosts
So here's what I have configured - I have a shared hosting account at dreamhost, and I've also just set up a VPS at intoVPS. The shared account is intended for mostly static sites and I'll be using ...
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MDaemon Emails - spam issue [closed]
last days i installed MDAEMON 10 in windows server 2008-r2.(in my VPS -> have remote access)
it seems every thing was ok, but at the begining of sending emails i had Delivery Email Error
for solving ...
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VPS hosting for a user-generated content site like fmylife.com?
I'm in the process of creating my very first website and I wanted to make a clone of fmylife.com and bought a script called fmyscript for that purpose.
The requirements to run fmyscript are as ...
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Does it make sense to pay for backup for my VPS?
I am hosting my sites on site5.com.
And while their shared hosting is offering a backup by the company, their VPS hosting (the one I am paying over $100/month for) doesn't come with a backup plan. ...
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php-cgi got SIGKILL on burst.net VPS?
I got an VPS at burst.net, very cheap one, but this doesn't matter.
The strange behavior of it is, the php-cgi process, which started using lighthttpd's spawn-cgi, dies every a few minutes. however, ...
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How to find out my SMTP? [closed]
I'm trying to configure my email accounts on outlook and can't find out what is my SMTP port. I'm using centos vps hosting. How should I find out what is my smtp?
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How to prevent bombardment of hack attempts on VPS
Ever since I bought a VPS, I have been receiving emails like those shown below since day one, every single day. I was wondering if is this really normal? Is there anyway I can prevent it, or is ...
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My server Admin wants me to set public write permissions on a directory
I'm relatively new to web development, so please be patient.
I'm primarily an iPhone developer, but have recently done a site for someone else using shared hosting. I could write to files in PHP on ...
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2answers
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Plesk is down but the site works fine
I have a very strange problem on my vps hosting. For some reasons the I can no longer access the plesk control panel. When I open the address in my browser I get the default error message that the ...
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Allow apache user to edit files
On my VPS, at the moment, I'm hosting multiple websites on different virtual hosts using apache2.
The creation process of each new website is as following:
adduser websitename
su websitename
mkdir ...
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Web server keeps going down, how can I find out whats causing it?
I am pretty new to running a VPS. I am using http://www.pingdom.com/ to monitor my server and notify me when its down.
What is the process I should go through to determine why is causing the server ...
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Wordpress Install@VPS :: Folder permissions, FTP & Openpanel
I use openpanel with my vps and i am currently working on a plain wordpress install. When i create a new vhost the permissions of the folder are set to the owner 1001(root) thus i cannot really make ...
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Why can't I see the detail of “Service usage” of VPS prgmr
I've got a prgmr account, but all I see from the backend for upload and download flow is 0. How can I get the number?
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Advantages and disadvantages to using a VPS (or any remote server) to host a VOIP/PBX system
My company currently runs a Trixbox Pro server locally. We're getting sick of the licensing fees and terrible community support and are considering migrating to something like FreePBX. I see that ...
