Questions tagged [vps]
VPS is the acronym for `Virtual Private Server`. Hosting companies provide customers the ability to rent computing resources, which are used to create and run virtual machines that are controlled by the customer, but run on the hosting company's hardware. Such a VM is known as a VPS.
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Rails 4 Unicorn+Nginx on Ubuntu 13.04 VPS keeps crashing
I bought a years subscription at bluevm.com (found some coupon code, it was only about $15 for a whole year) to launch my first Rails Production server. I'm running Nginx with Unicorn and MySQL on ...
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Effective way to detect NAT network inside of Linux
In Ubuntu I need to detect if the Network ip address is a NAT system, (not need STUN )
I thought check the ip class range type like this: Check if IP address is in private network space
But I saw ...
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Should I move Node.js to a separate server, or host it together with LNMP?
I wanted to add some features to my site which would require using Node.js over websockets. So my options are:
Install Node on a separate VPS;
Install Node on the same server where my websites are.
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Remote Desktop black screen
Today, when I went to remote to my VPS (with Windows 2012 r2), remote desktop shows me black screen and closed after some seconds. I've tested remote from other client (with different OS) but again ...
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secure connections between vps servers
I have four VPS servers. Two of them are replicated glusterfs server and the other two are glusterfs clients.
What I want to do is to encrypt all communications between glusterfs servers and between ...
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Clustering on cloud/VPS providers
I'm wondering if anyone can give some clustering recommendations to me. I'm currently on Linode, which I'm impressed and happy with, but they (along with just about every other VPS provider I know of) ...
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Does our VPS have its kmemsize limit set too low?
Short Version:
Are there any official guidelines on what the kmemsize
barrier and limit should be set to for a container in
Virtuozzo/OpenVZ intended to be used as a Web server? We've found
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is it possible to get a bad IP address when setting up a new VPS?
I'm looking to run a mail server and will be setting up a new VPS for it. One of the recommendations for ensuring the deliverability of mail sent from this server is running on a "good" IP. ...
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Squid and OpenVPN slow on OpenVZ?
I have two vps, one on OVH with KVM, the second on another hosting with OpenVZ. On OVH the speed is ok with squid and openvpn, i reach 100mbit (max speed of my connection), but i have a problem with ...
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How to enable swap in OpenVZ container?
The problem
Recently I decided to rent a $1.00/month VPS. I knew there was going to be a catch for the price and the specs and I think I've found it... I cannot create swap files as they VPS provider ...
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How to NAT ports on VPS connected to distant network through OpenVPN
Could you please tell me what IPTABLES rules i should write to my VPS (running Debian 8) to do NAT on port 8082?
I need port 8082 to be addressed a local device on my LAN (192.168.0.100)
User should ...
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DNS leaks on a vpn server
I have set up an openvpn server on a vps, everything is running as it should.
I have not configured any DNS settings.
My question is. If i do an extended leak test at dnsleaktest.com, i can indeed ...
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Very High CPU load Low to Medium RAM usage on VPS (mysql over 100% CPU)
I'm on a VPS Virtuozzo server with:
8GB RAM
6 CPU
SSD Hard Drive
Debian 8.8
PHP 5.6.30
MySQL 5.5.55
There only one website that is served.
Its a wordpress with SSL enabled website with around 22000 ...
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How can I configure a Django website to work with Apache 2.4 VirtualHosts?
I recently started developing Django websites and I want to deploy them on a CentOS VPS with mod_wsgi and Apache.
I followed this guide and it works perfectly, but I would like to have more than one ...
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No buffer space available : how to track
when I receive a lot of traffic on my vps, I receive the error that there is no buffer space available. I would like to track if there is a leak, for example non-cached api requests, or to see from ...
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Why WHM, New Relic and SSH memory usage statistics different?
I have a Cent OS 6.4 Apache Nginx VPS. I have WHM cpanel. How do I check past 24 hours or 48 hours this server RAM usage?
I use new relic server monitor web application. It reported that, this VPS ...
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High load average, low CPU and IO (Centos 5.7)
A Drupal 7 site with CiviCRM, after running smoothly for a year on a 1&1 VPS suddenly became unresponsive. Now pages eventually load, but can take more than a minute.
Looking at resource use in ...
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VPS hitting tcpsndbuf often
On my VPS running I'm recently hitting soft and hardlimits of tcpsndbuf very often, causing the server to become nearly unreachable as load goes up to 45 and higer. I have already tried limiting the ...
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VPS hosting with IP failover across datacenters
Is there any VPS hosting that would allow IP failover (or remapping) across different datacenters ? The only one I aware of is EC2 with their Elastic IP.
What I'm trying to achieve is to have servers ...
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Strange CPU usage on Windows Server 2003 vs. CentOS5.4
I have two Virtual PCs running Windows Server 2003 and CentOS 5.4 on a host machine. I use a java server on both of them. I copied the java server's files from the host machine on to both of the ...
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Weird backlinks from host name instead of FQDN
Writing here with the hope anyone can help or has similar issue.
I recently moved my website to a new VPS. After week or two I started receiving backlinks from my host name, which is counted in google ...
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how to setup pimcore on vps server via docker compose yml
I am really exhausted to get pimcore running on my vps server.
I tried several OS like Unbuntu 18 / 20 or CentOS 7. I tried to install pimcore via composer. But there I always get some errors, when I ...
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Wireguard connectivity between handshakes
I've been having this really weird issue. I'm running WG on a VPS and on my macbook.
I run WG on the linuxserver container on a debian host.
The connection is great, the speed is good, everything ...
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Hosting resource intensive PHP cron jobs
My website is currently running on a VPS. To make the site work, I have a number of resource intensive cron jobs - and when they are running, my site stop responding/becomes incredible slow.
I'm ...
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Setup L2TP Ubuntu Server without IPSec (yes I know thats very odd)
Im trying to tunnell my traffic from a bunch of low end mikrotik routers through a L2PT tunnel, and these routers are not powerful enough to run encryption. I have Ubuntu 20.04 VPS, and have ...
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PHP upgrade 7.2 to 8 is not recognized by Wordpress
I have a VPS with LAMP stack and I tried to upgrade to PHP 8. When I run php -v the version is 8.1, but WordPress tells me it is 7.2.
So I created a php file
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
which tells me ...
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How to setup a VPN server as the only way to access Docker containers on a Linux VPS?
I'm running a container with docker-compose on a Linux VPS (Ubuntu 20.04). I want the container to be accessible only via a VPN (ie: the container ports are not exposed on the host to the Internet and ...
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VPS performance apparently low - how can I verify?
I apologize wholeheartedly but this is probably as unspecified as it can get as for a question.
I run a linux VPS and...I think it has an important performance problem, but I can't pin point what it ...
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Why doesn't throughput improve from adding additional web servers?
I have a load balancer with a dedicated cpu that distributes traffic to two linodes with shared cpus. I'm testing a template website with 9 lazy loaded images, no database queries, that's been ...
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Unable to deploy simple flask app on ubuntu vps
I am trying to deploy a simple flask app on an VPS running Ubuntu 20 and LAMP
The app runs fine when I execute it with flask run from inside the app folder
However the server log has errors:
[Sun Oct ...
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Issues with subdomain setup on Apache and Ubuntu
I am struggling to get staging.callkneehill.ca setup and working correctly on my droplet server at Digital Ocean.
The root domain callkneehill.ca works correctly.
The staging hostname has been added ...
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Why does running a containerized app with AWS Lightsail cost twice as much as using a virtual server?
As per https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ , running a lightsail VPS with 512 MB Memory, 1 Core Processor costs $3.50 a month.
However, in that same link it shows that the lowest cost of ...
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Kubernetes Storage for multinode on VPS
I have a Kubernetes setup ( Did from some tutorials) basic setup on 4 VPS servers 1 Master node and 3 worker nodes. But now I have read up on Persistence volume and I don't know from where to start.
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Server randomly freezes with no apparent reason
My server randomly freezes with no apparent reason. Because of that I decided to reinstall the system completely. Additionally, I installed apache2, PhpMyAdmin, PHP, symfony, composer, certbot. It ...
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dovecot: can't open pid file
im new here :) after 2 days of googling and trying whatever i could I can't get rid of this:
systemd[1]: Can't open PID file /var/run/dovecot/master.pid (yet?) no such file or directory
i found info ...
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Sever User Capacity for 3 hours
The non-profit I work for is planning to host an online virtual tel-a-thon later this month.
At MAX, we plan to have 1200 people access our landing page at the same time to watch the livestream event.
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UFW firewall rules for transmission-daemon on ubuntu 20.XX
I have got transmission running on ubuntu 20.XX VPS and i can log into the web interface with MYIP:9091/ to manage the files.
I am using ufw firewall. I have added these rules to allow the following ...
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HIDS: Need a trip wire for a honeypot, best approach?
We run a small VPS hosting company, each vps is based on a fixed 18.04 template.
We run a honeypot, a fallow server, to verify the template continues to be secure. We look at it probably once a month ...
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How to change Public Address of VPS with another IP Address
For a project, I need to make HTTP requests to an external service from a IP address geo-located on "NATION_2".
Having an available VPS located in NATION_1, I proceeded to purchase a public IP ...
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Unable to connect to remote server
I tried to connect to my VPS on Google's VPS service, which is Windows 2008 service pack 1 based, and found this error: ''Because of a protocol error, this session will be disconnected. Please try ...
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OVH VPS - firewalld not working in Centos 7
I installed a new server on OVH with CentOS 7:
yum install firewalld
then enabled and rebooted
systemctl enable firewalld
reboot
I am now be able to login using ssh but firewalld does not ...
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Quick Way to Evaluate Linux Server Load To Determine if Upgrade is Needed?
I've got mission critical apps running on my VDS. We're not experiencing any visible lag issues from the user perspective. However I want to be cognizant about when it's time to upgrade. The network ...
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Tpmfs /run 100% used
I have a VPS with Nginx for a wordpress blog and I have a problem I don't know for what reason.
Whenever tmpfs 99M 20M 79M 21% / run gets 100% of used my database drops and I need to reboot the ...
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How Would You Install LVM CentOS 7 In A Contabo VPS Environment?
I currently use a Contabo M SSD VPS and I am looking to get CentOS 7 installed with LVM for the system partition. However, there is not a direct route to do this since Contabo's OS images are all non-...
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Very long TTFB and high CPU on VPS after Hypervisor Migration
I manage a VPS for my company with a small e-commerce website and a few low-usage Wordpress blogs and the like.
My Service Provider migrated me to a different Hypervisor last Thursday, and since then ...
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How to setup subdomain DNS in Windows Server 2016
I have purchased a Windows VPS from godaddy with Self Managed option. I want to use it for website hosting purpose. I thought it would be easier to setup the IIS and DNS etc, but now its looking tough ...
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MT4 on my VPS won't send emails until I manually connect the RDP
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I have a set up of my Azure Windows 2012 VPS with a static IP address to maintain the same RDP connection. This works perfectly, however, I'm running an application (MetaTrader 4) that is ...
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Sending DKIM-signed emails from specific IP with sendmail
I have a VPS with sendmail installed and configured. I'm hosting several domains on that VPS and recently added a dedicated IP address for one of them.
I created a separate sendmail config file for ...
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Is it possible to password protect apache directory with Google 2 Factor Authentication
I know how to password protect apache directories with htaccess .
Is it possible to authenticate protected directory with Google 2 Factor ?
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how to redirect child domains to specific localhost ports in windows server 2008 VPS?
I have a VPS which is running Windows server 2008 datacenter with one Static IP address.
I can access from Internet to my web services by specific port e.g mydomain.com:3000/api and mydomain.com:4000/...
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