Questions tagged [ovh]
Questions about dedicated server, cloud, and VPS services provided by OVH. Other OVH services might not be on topic at Server Fault.
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Urgent help needed with GRUB centos
Today I had an email of OVH saying my server was hacked (it was nothing more than a wordpress plugin of a client messing around) but it ended with my server forced to Rescue Mode and I'm not able to ...
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OVH, centOS kernel update caused server to get stuck, how to use older version [closed]
I've centOS 7, I tried to update kernel from WHM (cPanel) and it got stuck.
I've rebooted server into rescue mode. I've read this tutorial to try to use older working version of kernel. Change kernel ...
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Automatically provisioning a Windows Server at OVH
I'd like to automatically run a script to provision Windows Servers when I set them up as Dedicated Servers at OVH.
I see that they have an option for an Installation script (URL)], but how do I use ...
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Networking start failed on OVH Proxmox 6.4 if a bridge has no interface
We are setting up a new Proxmox 6.4 (based on Debian 10.9) host on OVH (Advance-2) hardware, using the OVH provided template.
In order to create a "virtual" bridge for VMs and LXCs, we added ...
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veeam backup and restore speed
hope everyone is safe.
i have a speed issue with veeam backup and replication 10 and our VMs on vCenter 6.7
the infostructure is deployed on OVH with all data carefully backed up to OVH Storage using ...
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OVH Public Cloud - Adding region to exisiting vRack
I have an OVH public cloud project with several instances connected between two datacenters
in vRack with the classic 192.168.0.0/24 range on the eth1 network interface.
The vRack was initially ...
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Cloud regions apparently fail now and then. How resilient should one expect a cloud region to be against fire or natural disasters?
Today the SBG2 availability zone in the SBG region burned down. All other AZ's (SBG1,2 AND 4) was shut down due to this, and will remain shut down until at least monday.
All SBG zones are apparently ...
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OVH+Proxmox: How to use packer to build Proxmox image with Fallover IP as DHCP?
I searched entire internet haven't see any solution for it yet.
I have a OVH + Proxmox instance. Plan to automatic the launch VM process. I know I can try use cloud-init but since I use Packer + (...
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OpenVPN - client access to VPS private network
I have 3 VPS servers at OVH. I created a private network, where all servers have public IPv4 and private IPv4 address. I'm trying to give a user access to other VPS servers via private address from ...
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Post kernel update: Only OVH's rescue kernel works - but why doesn't mine?
I just went through upgrading from Debian 9 to Debian 10 and I am having a weird issue. Probably not too weird to people that do more intensive sysadmin things, which is why I bring it here:
During ...
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Where to find imap/pop3 data for email - from ovh to google workspace
When I bought domain in ovh I chose it with MX plan (without creating email account). Then I added this domain to mailgun for sending emails from webpage and to google workspace (g suite) as domain ...
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Traffic Control on Pritunl
I have a OVH-Game server with a 1Gbps Port and from time to time I will do speedtest. When the server is in mitigation and the download speed of the test goes over 30mbps you get disconnected for a ...
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Get valid ssl certificates with EC2 and OVH
I have an EC2 instance that I will use for some backend services in my mobile app. In order to get valid SSL certificates for this instance, here is what I did:
Setup EC2 + python backend services
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Consumption-based cloud service
For a current project I am looking for a cloud service which calculates the costs based on the processing power my application is using.
If my application only spends 5 minutes per hour doing any ...
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Vertically scale server in cloud without restart
For a current project of mine I need a cloud service which can (automatically) scale VMs vertically as the workload can not be scaled horizontally.
With scaling I mean assigning more RAM and/or CPU ...
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RAM progressively increasing in Debian VPS
I have a VPS that has below configuration:
Debian OS
16 GB RAM
320 GB SSD
NGINX
Plesk Admin Panel
There are just a few wordpress websites hosted on this server that have no more than a few visitors ...
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Setting default valid_lft and preferred_lft values with Netplan on Unbutu 20.04
What's the impact, if any, on having values greater than zero/forever for valid_lft and preferred_lft? Should I worry about this, and if so, how to set it automatically to forever at boot time (...
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Is there a way to target an interface without knowing its name or mac address?
We're running a handful of virtual servers at OVH, which use openstack.
Most of the servers have a public interface as well as a private interface which is connected to a "virtual private cloud&...
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How to setup OVH firewall for OpenVPN server?
I got my OpenVPN server running, by using this script: https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install
I can connect to VPN network, ping local and external IP addresses, access HTTP server (by using ...
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Unable to configure IPv6 correctly in Ubuntu 18.04
I have a cloud instance on OVH which is accessible over IPv4 but not IPv6. It's running Ubuntu 18.04. I've found conflicting advice about using netplan vs configuring systemd-networkd directly, but ...
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sysctl disable IPv6 autoconf
I'm trying to setup IPv6 on my OVH server using their guide.
In the article they recommend to
disable IPv6 autoconf and router advertising to prevent known issues
You can do so by adding the ...
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Can't connect to public cloud server via http/https in OVH
I'm new to OVH and trying to setup a site inside a public cloud server. I've got the server up and running and i can SSH into it, but can't get to port 80. (server has apache running and it can be ...
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Can't reconnect VPS Essential OVH after removing set_hostname from cloud-init
I have a VPS Essential in OVH with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed.
I just removed the set_hostname module of the cloud_init_modules from /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg and reboot the system and now I cannot connect ...
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Unable to install PHP 7: error undefined symbol: crypto_pwhash_scryptsalsa208sha256_memlimit_interactive
I can not install install php on my server.
I always have the same error :
May 10 12:26:13 vps819983 systemd[1]: Starting The PHP 7.3 FastCGI Process Manager...
May 10 12:26:13 vps819983 php-fpm7.3[...
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Emails go to spam from server A, but form server B not (same configuration)
I have puzzle with my So You Start servers from OVH - from server A my mails go to google spam folder, but from server B it is ok.
I'm not sure that it is problem with SOS servers or some IP addresses....
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OVH server DDOS attack protection
I purchased the server on ovh.com. (not gaming, regular)
For 3 days now I’ve been trying to set up protection against DDOS flood.
Nothing comes out. Support responds once a day and does not give an ...
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How to configure RAID-5 for OS root (Ubuntu Server 18.04)
I have a fresh dedicated server I have provisioned running Ubuntu Server 18.04 and with 3x480GB SSDs (no hardware RAID controller though). The UI of the hosting provider will not allow the “/boot” or “...
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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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Extend linux partition size without losing any data / techniques
I bought a 200G additional disk for my OVH cloud server because my initial disk was full.
Now, my additional disk is almost full (as you can see below). So I added 200 extra more G in it. As you can ...
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msmtp and OVH mail
I'd like to send a mail when a user authenticates on a Debian 9 server. I use OVH mail server. I've set up msmtp like so :
account myaccount
tls_starttls off
logfile ~/.msmtp.log
host ssl0.ovh.net
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Why is dedicated server cheaper than Cloud VPS?
I need to scale my infrastructure and do not really understand why on my provider (OVH), dedicated server seems to be a better value than a cloud VPS instance.
For ~55€ you can get a dedicated server ...
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Enable IPv6 on OVH VPS running Arch
Having inaugurated my new OVH’s VPS SSD 1 I am greeted by a notification reading
Your instance is now linked to a free IPv6 in addition to the default IPv4.
Indeed I can see a “IPv6” and a “...
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Running multiple instances of same springboot application
I've a spring-boot application which i want to deploy on OVH public cloud.
I need t achieve the goal of deploying multiple instances of the same application, and each instance has to have its own ...
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Create a subdomain.domain.example and make a redirection of an IP:PORT to this subdomain
I'm working on a solution with an offshore team and I want to create my server on European union for GDPR requirements.
I want to create a subdomain.domain.example on my OVH control panel and make a ...
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ssh connection refused Ubuntu 18.04 - Proxmox and OVH -
I can connect to my server from my computer by ssh. I have internet connection. Everything works perfectly, but I can't connect to my server by ssh.
please check the screenshot for more information.
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Unable to receive mail from the amazon network
I currently have several servers at OVH including one that acts as a personal mail server.
Postfix takes care of receiving the mails, but I have a problem for the reception coming from certain domains....
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I can't connect to my vpn unless I connect to my server just before (OpenVPN)
so I have successfully set up OpenVPN Servers on a VPS or dedicated server before, but whenever I set one up on a Server that has OVH GAME DDoS protection, it wont work properly.
So here is my ...
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Debian depmod kernel error
I have run an apt-dist upgrade on my dedicated server that uses a kernel from the provider and I am getting the following error:
MTL ➜ ~ apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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SSD cloud hosting showing rotating disk device
I have some application hosted on OVH public cloud supposed to be run on a SSD drive. When I'm connected on the instance through a terminal, cat /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational outputs 1, meaning that ...
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MX record on a VPS
I'm running a VPS on OVH (vps403xxx.ovh.net) from which I send emails.
Problem is Spamassassin tells me I should publish a DNS (MX) entry for vps403xxx.ovh.net or my messages go to spam.
I know how ...
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creating a partition makes the server unbootable
I have a server that comes with a softRaid of 2x450gb nvme disks.
Since all my data is backupped, I don't need the raid and I want to use the full space instead.
From the hosting (OVH) control panel ...
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Proxmox LXC networking
We have 5 physical machines hosted at OVH. Each of them have Proxmox 5.2-10 installed
Machines are inside of OVH vRack.
we have separate LXC for database, separate LXC with loadbalancer and several ...
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IPv6 Gateway outside network (OVH)
We a dedicated server at OVH, assigned 2001:41d0:a:72xx::/64
I have set the machines on a segment bridged to the wan, as per
IPv6 public routing of virtual machines from host
The gateway is 2001:...
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Configure DNS server on Debian 9
I need some help configuring a DNS server in Debian 9 (Stretch). I'm following this tutorial, but I think that there is something that I'm doing wrong...
In my case, we will suppose that I own a ...
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Is it possible to convert RAID1 to RAID0 without system reinstalation?
I bought the E3-SSD-3-32 server from the SoYouStart offer. There is a 3x120 GB SSD drive. Unfortunately, after some time, there was a lack of disk space. Is there any way to convert RAID1 to RAID0? ...
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No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)
I forgot that I wasn’t using SSH Key for that particular VPS and mistakenly added the following line in my VPS sshd_config: “PasswordAuthentication no”
And restarted the server through command. Now, ...
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OpenVPN stopped loading sites in Tunisia
I have had an OpenVPN setup for a few years now. I've got three computers around the world connected to a central server (OVH France), and I've been using this to talk between them and route all ...
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Configure an anti-DDOS on a server with iptables and/or VPN by using OVH's anti-DDOS [closed]
I am hosting my server on my computer at home and I would like to install an anti-DDOS system by using the anti-DDOS managed by OVH. I am actually redirecting my domain name to the IP of one of my OVH ...
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cloud-init can't set up ipv6
I've bought a Public Cloud VPS from OVH and trying to set up ipv6.
Also I've found a tutorial on how to set up ipv6 in their documentation. It works until I reboot the VPS.
In this tutorial they ...
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OVH and HEROKU DNS redirections failing for root
I currently have a domain at OVH (let's call it mysite.com) which is setup by OVH with a bunch of different CNAME for different subdomains like :
smtp.mysite.com CNAME mysite.com
imap.mysite.com ...
