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Can't establish connection between my VPS and itself

I have a VPS with two IP addresses: 74.117.158.92 and 74.117.159.204. If you ping them, you'll find they are both responding. I can also ping google.com etc. from either of them. But I cannot ping ...
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Moving from Xen based VPS to Hyper-V based [closed]

I'm trying to decide whether I should move my VPS from a Xen based solution to a Hyper-V based one. The Hyper-V solution offered a better price. My site is built with WordPress and a couple of plugin ...
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VPS multiple IP's

I have added 2 more IPs and PHP is not working on those domains. Looks bizarre. I must've done something wrong but cannot figure out what. IPs: 111.111.111.111, 222.222.222.222 and 333.333.333.333 ...
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Best Practices for securing a Ubuntu VPS and it services [duplicate]

I recently acquired a VPS which i want to use a web hosting server using NGINX and PHP-FPM, and as XMPP server via ejaberd. I have SSH acces to the VPS, Naturraly want to have FTP to i can upload my ...
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infrastructure for search engine app [duplicate]

We have a search engine app with ruby on rails + mongodb and users perform many searches constantly. Our search engine is elasticsearch. Our application is translated into 32 languages ​​and have ...
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Make PHP use more RAM than CPU on my server [closed]

By running TOP command on Ubuntu, i always see that PHP5 is using between 60% and 80% of the CPU but it stay low on Memory. i got 1.5GB of RAM on my VPS and i know i'm not using more than the half. ...
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How to get server (VPS) memory usage history? [duplicate]

I am using a 512MB Ubuntu 12 VPS. I'd like to get a daily (maximum) memory consumption log, as a reference to add more memory or not. Is there a tool for this?
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MUSH Server not responding on port 4201 - IPTables at fault?

I'm using a Ubuntu VPS with Fasthosts in the UK. I have a Drupal site on the box and just installed the PennMUSH server. If I telnet to localhost (port 4201) from the box itself, PennMUSH responds. ...
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Displaying foreign characters in Ubuntu server

I have a VPS running Ubuntu 12.04 that I am connecting to with SSH. Typing foreign characters such as ś makes it display as a dot or a question mark. I've tried doing things such as changing the ...
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GRUB can't configure on upgraded Ubuntu OpenVZ VPS

I upgraded an OpenVZ VPS from an older Ubuntu release to 12.04LTS using the do-release-upgrade command. Ever since, all of my apt-get runs look something like this: $ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading ...
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Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 12.04 server does not run on browser

I am new to linux. I have set up my VPS with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bit. I have successfully installed Tomcat and successfully started it with /usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.34/bin/catalina.sh run. But ...
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Postgresql init.d script not working

I installed Postgresql 8.4 on my VPS with Ubuntu 10.04. Default setup, nothing unusual. After the installation the dbserver is automatically started and is running great. The installer also sets a ...
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VPS stops responding every now and again

I have a Linode vps that I use to host some of my websites on. It's Ubuntu based and it's up to date in terms of all packages. I don't have any cron jobs scheduled or any automatic processes. I ...
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Routing different domains on a VPS

We just went from shared hosting to a VPS server. We have several domain names that we have pointing to our dns, but they all point to the root of the server. What I would like now is a setup where ...
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Change default root user with a new one on Ubuntu Server

I have a VPS, until now I used the default root user for SSH access and everything. For security reasons I'd like to use a different user for root, terminal access and sudo operations. So I created ...
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Nginx doesn't start

I try to start my Nginx and I get the below error after the below command: sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start Starting nginx: start-stop-daemon: unable to start /usr/local/nginx (Permission denied) My ...
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Flushing iptables broke my pipe, how can I save my instance?

I was setting up my iptables when I performed a iptables -F and my ssh pipe broke. This is the last output of my session: root@alfapaints:~# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt ...
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apt-get not found on my VPS?

Today, I bought a Ubuntu 12.04 VPS from http://www.frontrangehosting.com, but when I access it via SSH, I can't use apt-get. [root@vps /]# apt-get install python-software-properties -bash: apt-get: ...
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Randomly crashing Ubuntu 10.04 on multiple Xen VPS host instances

So we have Ubuntu 10.04 running - all 64 bit. Kernel 2.6.36 and 2.6.38-15 are having the same issues. Problem is random VPS servers are hanging. We have about 30 instances with this particular ...
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Bridged OpenVPN: Are these iface settings safe on a dynamic DHCP?

I'm following this guide in order to set up OpenVPN. The tutorial looks fine, but I got a bit sceptical when it told me to change my network interface settings. More precisely it tells me to switch ...
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How can I stop runaway disk usage on my Ubuntu 32 bit Precise Linode VPS?

I have a VPS running 32 bit Ubuntu (Precise Penguin) on a Linode VPS, and something is making runaway disk usage. I've received multiple I/O warnings from Linode (not 'warning' in the sense of "Stop ...
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perl setting locale failing

Is there any way of fixing once and for all the problem mentioned here: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Perl_warning_Setting_locale_failed_unter_Debian I keep fixing it by doing export ...
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How to remotely install SSH on Linux?

It seems that my VPS doesn't have SSH installed(I'm not sure yet), because I get no response from the server, and I cant ping it. So I think this is weird, because I cant control my VPS by anyway. ...
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What webserver to use for a hentai website? Nginx or Apache? [closed]

I got a Linode VPS with 768MB. On another server (Speedysparrow), also with 768MB, i have Nginx running and it's awesome, as you can see here: http://www.ubuntubrsc.com/. This website, with the setup ...
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tomcat wont start on ubuntu server

Original post Updated on 31/05/2012 I have a VPS and running a Tomcat server over a year without a problem. However, Tomcat just shutdowns right after VPS maintain and can not start again a week ...
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new IP for ubuntu VPS can't ping outside the box / ssh hangs

my VPS provider just changed my VPS' IP, everything is working (like the webserver) but I have two problems when I login via SSH after I type the user the console hangs for about 10 seconds before ...
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Linux server's disk full

I use WinSCP to upload my website's pages to a remote Ubuntu Linux server (VPS xen hosting). When I copy a file, it is written in the server with size=0. When I checked the free disk space: df -h I ...
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How to use the 2nd default IP address on Burst.net VPS?

I just bought a VPS from Burstnet. The VPS comes with two static IPs but I dont know how to use the second IP. When I check the IP address, it always shows the first IP. How can I let it show the ...
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Munin graphs picking different data from munin-nodes

I am using Munin graphs with multiple VPSes at the moment and most of them are running Ubuntu version 10.04 LTS or greater. The issue is, im installing munin-node from the the default repo BUT some ...
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Upgrade from PHP 5.3.2 to PHP 5.3.10?

I have a VPS account from Linode. I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with 'LAMP Stack' (StackScript). How to upgrade the latest version of PHP version 5.3.10 from PHP 5.3.2? I have even tried apt-get ...
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NFS4 client within OpenVZ container running Ubuntu 11.10?

I have an Ubuntu 11.10 VPS running inside OPenVZ with a hosting company. I'm trying to get it to mount a remote NFS server using NFS4, but can only get it working using version 3. I've been Googling ...
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Is it possible to install GUI on Ubuntu VPS then do remote desktop from Windows?

I am using Windows 7 and going to purchase a VPS with Ubuntu OS. I used to use VPS with Windows 2008 Enterprise OS and used windows remote desktop to remote the VPS. Now if I switch to Ubuntu VPS can ...
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IPSec VPN access to VPS

I would like to be able to be able to tunnel a local IP address (i.e 192.168.1.211) through my router that supports IPSec to a remote VPS (i.e. 106.187.34.207). Network map is here: ...
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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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Opening port 5432 on ubuntu

I am trying to open port 5432 on ubuntu using ufw using sudo ufw allow 5432/tcp I then use nmap to see if port 5432 was opened and i get this: root@domain:~# sudo nmap -sS -O 127.0.0.1 Starting ...
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Security issues of Running command with PHP script

I want to run a command line program with PHP script. What are the security issues of doing this on VPS? I've heard a lot that this is not secure. But want to know how exactly? Also, what will be the ...
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ISPConfig is sending HTTP requests sent to it's IP address to it's only configured site - WHY?

I have ISPConfig set up at a VPS at IP address 1.2.3.4. On that ISPConfig installation I have configures one site called example.no. Now when I visit example.no in the browser, it's correctly ...
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Copying a server to a local VirtualBox

I have customers with VPSs in various hosting companies, using the following OSes, Ubuntu, CentOs, Debian, and Suse I'd like to create VirtualBox images locally for testing purposes. What is the ...
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How to set up Name Servers on my VPS?

I am a complete newbie to server administration and I bought myself a cheap unmanaged VPS to learn to do something on my own and not be so tied to other people. So far things have been going on ...
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Break-in attempts on Ubuntu VPS box [duplicate]

Possible Duplicates: Is it normal to get hundreds of break-in attempts per day? What should I do if I find someone is brute forcing my server password? I have an Ubuntu 10.04 VPS box. ...
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Is there any way to automatically prevent running out of memory?

I am often running out of memory on my VPS ubuntu server. I wish there was a way to simply restart apache2 when it starts running out of memory, as that seems to solve the problem. Or am I just too ...
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How can I re-install live production server with minimal downtime?

I need to reinstall Ubuntu Server running on VMWare VPS. The simplest way would certainly be to make a fresh install from mini ISO. But it's a production server and I can't afford an hour or more of ...
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status: Unknown job: smbd

I'm trying to set up a new VPS (Ubuntu 10.10 x64) and I'm wondering if this is going to be a problem: $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart * Reconfiguring network interfaces... ...
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Performance Problems Started - How to Debug (Ubuntu + Django/Python)

I have a VPS running Ubuntu 10.10, with a Django application running on top of it (MySQL database, Redis datastore, apache + mod_wsgi in daemon mode). Over the last few days, we've been experiencing ...
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Accessing X with xauth and ssh -X to my VPS?

I have an application I wish to run on my VPS (a web browser actually, iceweasle or similar) and do not really want to install a full blown X server on there for practical reasons. I have read I only ...
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Long running PHP script gets terminated

I have a lot of scripts running cron scheduled on VPS running Ubuntu 10.04. Every once in a while when server load gets heavy (I run munin as monitoring tool), I notice from my logs that many of ...
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Cannot access javascript folder

I signed up and setup a small ubuntu VPS slice during the week and everything is going great so far, except one small problem. I have two virtual hosts setup but cannot access the javascript folder ...
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VPS OS, Ubuntu or CentOS?

My VPS provider serves Ubuntu 10.04 or CentOS 5.5. What are the major pros and cons for a VPS newbie?
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Near real-time replication of Wordpress blogs

I have a wordpress blog that is currently residing on a server (VPS) in UK and I would like to set up an identical server (same specs, same OS - Ubuntu) for some sort of redundancy as well as ...
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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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