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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short Apache outages (VPS, ModSecurity)
I have a problem with my site recently hosted at Liquidweb, none of their techs seems to be able to solve this issue even after days. Was hoping I could get some help here.
Occasionally, my site's ...
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OpenVPN server won't start (CentOS 5)
I am trying to setup a VPN server on 1&1 VPS.
I was able to install OpenVPN-AS more or less as instructed; separately, I have checked and cat /dev/net/tun/ yields
cat: /dev/net/tun: File ...
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Cross machine full backup solutions
I have a fully configured VPS where every service relevant to my customers and to me is provided in abstraction from the underlay hardware; that is: the softwares for webserver, PHP, forums, and every ...
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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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what is the default size of jvm heap when using maven to create jvm?
I am using the server started by the following command.
mvn jetty:run
i want to stop the server, but i failed to run mvn jetty:stop, even faild to run java -version, why?
[mirror@home wpse]$ mvn ...
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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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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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Heavy disk write on a Debian VPS gives “ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)”
I have a new Debian VPS that appears to fail almost every time I run a heavy disk write test on ext4 filesystem. The filesystem goes to read-only mode and "ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)" is ...
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(Fresh VPS) Apache Default page Accessible via Telnet but not through IP address via Browser
Fresh VPS. CentOS 5.5 + Apache + mysql. With root access.
I start httpd service. status running.
I type IP address from web browser. default page not being displayed.
My browser keeps showing ...
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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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DB encryption for Django web app without storing key on server
We are setting up a virtual private server (not hosted by us), on which we will be user testing our Django-based web application. The user-generated content produced in these tests will be very ...
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I can't access a web page from a VPS server
I need to access a web page through my VPS using Firefox, but Firefox says "Unable to connect". And the problem is that this web page is located on the same provider's servers as my VPS.
If I try to ...
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How to measure dcachesize usage (and reduce it)
I have a VPS running CentOS 5.7 (Final), 32-bit.
Right after boot, when I run # cat /proc/user_beancounters I see that my dcachesize usage is at about 4100000, while my VPS is set up with a limit of ...
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User Process Tracking, what is this? Numerous alerts with FastCGI
I have a CentOS VPS on Knownhost.com. I am using it to host one Wordpress site, that currently doesn't have any traffic (not launched yet). I was getting these process tracking emails (7 different ...
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Dedicated server vs VPS: advice on scaling site
We could use advice on a scaling/ops issue.
We have a simple mobile app that runs on Rails 3.2.12 and uses MongoMapper instead of ActiveRecord. There is one database call that sporadically performs ...
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How to setup DNS using zpanel
I am trying to use the DNS features of zpanel and the documentation seems sparse. I had some DNS entries setup on my VPS using WHM / cPanel before my server crashed and now I'm trying to move ...
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Sent messages copied to inbox too
I have a server with postfix, courier-imap and spamassassin installed.
All the messages are well received and sent.
But i have an issue about sent messages are copied to
"sent" folder and to ...
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Error in moodle “max_allowed_packet”
I am getting error
"Serious session error detected.
Please notify administrator, this problem is most probably caused by small value in max_allowed_packet MySQL setting. "
This error generally ...
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Courier-Imap on Apache CentOS VPS with Kloxo is not working
I am having a big problem with my email service... the courier-imap seems to be not working. Whenever i enable it via Kloxo panel .. it seems to stop itself.
I tried restart via SSH but no luck...
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BIND works with a domain name exception
I have finally migrated from Dnsmasq to Bind, but I have an uncommon problem. I have 3 domains working very good, but one is not working.
The only difference that I find is that the domain name ...
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Access Console Session on Windows 2008 R2 hosted as a VPS
I'm trying this on an Amazon Web Service EC2 instance but it's the same question I believe for any VPS hosted anywhere.
I run an application that stops working when I disconnect (or even minimize) ...
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VM install does not get IP address - virt-install on XEN
when I try to add a VM with virt-install(Centos as per the details in the guide here), when I try to enter network details dhcp or manually enter ip during installation of guest centos machine, I get ...
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How to connect to a strato server running a VPN via Hamachi
I am running a VPS and would like to install VPN software on it. When I run the VPN my remote desktop disconnects as of course the IP is changing.
I then installed Hamachi on the VPS and my desktop ...
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Why would sysbench return 0 ops/sec for a memory test?
I signed up for digitalocean and created an ubuntu instance, and like I do with all webhosting I try out, I ran a few sysbenches to get an idea of how powerful their machines are (which is a trick I ...
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VPS hosting websites - DNS wrong on certain devices
Sorry for the badly worked title but here is my problem.
I host about 10 websites on a VPS running Windows 2003/IIS 6.0.
I get a phone call from a client telling me there website isn't accessible ...
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Apache not responding on port80
I recently tried to upgrade to PHP5 on my live VPS using easy apache update in cpanel, that left a lot of broken references to PHP libraries and error messages on every site, so I reverted back to 5.3 ...
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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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“NS1” and “NS2” A records suddenly needed?
I have a VPS server that I host several sites on. One of the domain names I use for a site hosted on the VPS is registered through a different company, Host Gator. The site was working fine until this ...
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After getting disconnected RDP connection from server 2003 unable to connect again
Sometimes i get disconnected from my Windows Server 2003 VPS (mostly due to internet outages). When i try to log in after that i get the following error message:
This Computer can't connect to the ...
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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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Server not resolving external addresses OpenVZ VPS
We are having an issue when we run a creation script that we made for OpenVZ, this script used to work all fine however a few days ag we started having issues with it, this started when we deleted a ...
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Auto login user after disconnecting from VPS via RDP
I have a VPS running Windows Server 2008 R2 that I connect to through RDP from my Macbook. On this VPS, I am running WinAutomator - a program that automates tasks, can perform mouse clicks and press ...
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VRS server: How many work processes should I give nginx?
On a Dual Intel Xeon E5649 shared server with my VPS running nginx. On my own machine I give nginx the same number of worker_processes that I have cores. But there's no competing resources on my local ...
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Setting primary IP for VPS (out of 2 available)
I've got a little problem.
My VPS (Debian box) has 1 primary IP address, but now my hosting provider decided to assign me another one due to problems with first one.
Let's say new IP is 91.222.152.20 ...
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Gandi VPS for moving site from shared to dedicated hosting
I have a site with reasonably high traffic that I expect to increase over time which is currently on shared hosting.
My plan is to move the site (which runs on WordPress) to a Gandi VPS.
Can I ...
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where these proccesses came from?
I have a vps running my websites. I configured my websites to use fastcgi so in proccesses I see:
28696 mywebsite 20 0 152m 12m 6460 S 0 2.5 0:00.31 php5-cgi
this is normal. but I also ...
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send mail to google but hosting is on same vps
I've got the following situation, and it's driving me crazy:
One VPS, with domain1.com and domain2.com websites hosted.
For domain1.com I use the VPS mail functionality and for domain2.com I use ...
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nginx virtual host don't work on the network
so I've installed nginx under centos 6.3 on a server. It's correctly installed as I type the ip from the server and the default nginx page loads correctly. So I tried to add a subdomain but when I ...
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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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Proxmox for High Availability or reccomended alternatives?
Proxmox Version 2.1 includes among other features High Availability.
Has anyone tried it or recommend a better open-source alternative for running multiple VEs with failover/HA.
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Windows Plesk Outgoing Packets Blocked?
We have just finished our VPS System Setup, and everything works fantastic except that our WHMCS Panel cannot communicate with SolusVM. Our Web-Server for WHMCS is run on Server 2008 R2 and Plesk 10, ...
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OpenVZ/Centos Port FIltering (Host Node)
On my openvz host node, I have blocked port 25 using the following command ..
iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP -p tcp --destination-port 25
This is fine, but it blocks the port for all the containers.
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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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OpenVPN and PPTP on XEN VPS
I have Debian based system (Ubuntu 11.10) on XEN VPS. I've installed OpenVPN and works great. I need to install PPTP too, so did it and clients can connect, but they have no internet on client side. ...
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Route a subnet from Debian host to VM
Ok, I have a Proxmox 2.1 system with a Debian Squeeze base, and a FreeBSD KVM. I have a primary IP (obfuscated here) of 325.29.11.168 on a /27 subnet (though mine is the only IP I own on that subnet) ...
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is it possible to change mac address of Network card inside a vps (keeping internet connection)
i want to change the mac address of Network card inside my own vps (virtual private network - windows server 2008 in Switzerland).
is it possible to do this job without losing remote and internet ...
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Setup VPN on VPS
I tried your tutorial here:
http://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/iPhoneVPNServer
But I can't get it to work. I have slightly different setup then the one you wrote the tutorial for. Maybe I just made ...
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Multiple Sessions per Client
I have a PHP script that will store session hash in the database for each client (who's online table). I don't know why, but recently I noticed almost all clients have multiple session ids. I don't ...
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High load httpd - Which type of machine do I need to provide this service?
I am running some very small sites that recieve a lot of traffic in bursts. The content served is < 2MB per user but there have been upto 8000 connections at a single time, this would probably be ...
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Will this increase my Virtual private Server failing rate?
Will this increase my Virtual private Server failing rate if i :-
install Microsoft Window Server 2008 Enterprise
install SQL server enterprise 2008
install IIS 7.5
install ASP.Net Mvc 2
install ...
