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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Why would I need a firewall if my server is well configured?
I admin a handful of cloud-based (VPS) servers for the company I work for.
The servers are minimal ubuntu installs that run bits of LAMP stacks / inbound data collection (rsync). The data is large ...
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How can I stop a currently active DDoS attack? [duplicate]
My VPS is under a DDoS attack. I cannot access RDP, and I cannot take it offline, or access it in any way at all. What can I do?
They are not trying to bruteforce, just trying to stop access to the ...
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Linux says my space is full with 2.4/50gb used
Today I ran across a problem and I'm not sure if it's a wrong configuration of my hosting provider, because I haven't changed anything about the file system.
df -h says:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used ...
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Who is your favorite VPS Provider? [closed]
Who is your favorite virtual hosting provider? I'm looking for your thoughts on SliceHost, Dreamhost VPS, Linode, 1and1 VPS, etc and why you like the particular provider you named.
Thanks!
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Linux out of memory on VPS
On my VPS (CentOS) 4GB ram (2 + 2 dynamically assigned when needed) and i have tomcat running with following options JAVA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m".
Now when i try to start ...
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What is the difference between a cloud server a virtual server and a dedicated server?
What exactly is the difference between a VPS (Virtual Private Server), a Cloud Server, and a Dedicated Server? I'm having trouble finding a concise explanation that isn't littered with advertising.
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First request after a while always slow - ASP.NET MVC / IIS 8.5 / Windows Server 2012 R2 VPS
I'm hosting a low-traffic ASP.NET MVC 5 application on a VPS with Windows Server 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5, with 1 GB of RAM.
My problem is that the first request after some time without any requests always ...
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Optimize apache/php/mysql running on VPS for heavy load
Question about optimizing an apache/mysql server on a VPS with 512m of RAM. Under normal load everything runs fast, no connection lag. However when we get our heavy traffic days (50k+ visits) the ...
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How to find out the virtualization type of an linux VPS?
Having access to an VPS, i need to know which type of virtualization it is running from the terminal.
How can determine the virtualization platform that my VM is running on? (OpenVZ, Xen, KVM, etc?)
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Is it insecure to have an ansible user with passwordless sudo?
I'm new to Ansible. Most VPS provisioning guides I've seen so far do this:
disable root from logging in
create a new user who can only log in with ssh (not password)
add the new user to the wheel ...
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How do I set up a basic mail server for the first time? [closed]
I have a site running on a VPS, now I want to be able to receive mails at [email protected]. How do I need to set up the server? And how should I set up the mail client on my PC to receive those mails?...
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How to allow communications with client to client on OpenVPN Server?
Client 1: 192.168.255.3 cannot ping Client 2: 192.168.255.4
How to do it so that Client 1 can communicate with the Client 2?
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# cat /var/lib/docker/volumes/ovpn-data-example/_data/openvpn.conf
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Setting up and configuring a new VPS server
I am new to VPS servers. I have always used a shared hosting platform all my life. At the moment, we are working on a project at work thats is going to require more than just a shared hosting server, ...
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About to go live: virtual dedicated server or cloud?
I am about to launch my startup company, and we will be going live in a few weeks time. We have really tight budgetary constraints, since we are bootstrapping - and would prefer not to raise external ...
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firwalld on VPS without nf_conntrack kernel module
I'm running a VPS of a german provider and want to switch from Ubuntu to CentOS. There I tried to install firewalld (was not preinstalled), but it always fails with the error
ERROR: Failed to load ...
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configure server to handle a lot of requests
I have a website and we bought some advertisement on neobux.com. We bought 1000 views hoping to get more users on the website. We have a VPS with 1gb ram and 1gb burstable running apache. When we ...
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nameserver problems with webmin/virtualmin [closed]
[I've also asked this in Webmasters - it seems to fall into a grey area between here and there]
I'm setting up a shiny new vps with my own nameserver. Fortunately I had a spare domain that I'm using ...
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CentOS 7 firewall-cmd not found
I have just installed CentOS 7:
[root@new ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
I am trying to configure the firewall, and I'm told that in CentOS 7 iptables is no longer ...
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Automating server deployment
I find i am constantly settings up pretty much nearly identical servers and VPSs for a number of my clients and it can be very time consuming. Often the only thing that changes between each deployment ...
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Why is the chroot_local_user of vsftpd insecure?
I'm setting up on my VPS a vsftpd, and i don't want users be allowed to leave they're ftp home directory. I'm using local_user ftp, not anonymous, so I added:
chroot_local_user=YES
I've read in a ...
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Change amount of Ram and CPU cores in KVM
How can I Change amount of Ram and CPU cores for a virtual machine in KVM that is already created?
Thanks
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How much VPS ram would I need to run Wordpress, Apache, SVN & MySQL?
Does anyone have a ballpark figure of how much VPS ram (without burstable) I would need to have apache with wordpress and subversion as well as the MySQL instance?
Apache would host a couple of sites ...
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Dedicated server or Cloud Hosting?
This is a Canonical Question about Cloud Hosting
When deploying my application to the Internet:
Should I chose a dedicated server, cloud hosting or a VPS?
What factors should I consider when ...
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Renting a dedicated, but getting a VPS. How to detect? [duplicate]
When renting a dedicated server, how can one be certain than he/she is not getting a VPS or some other virtual machine variant instead of a true dedicated hardware box?
Which checks can be run (...
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How to point 2 different domains to 1 IP address (Apache)?
I have two different domain names, which I want to host on the same private hosting I have. I want them to point to the same IP address and yet have different content (of course). How can I do that? ...
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Trying to set up OpenVPN server on a vps
I'm trying to set up an OpenVPN server on my VPS for myself when I'm in public places, using this tutorial, http://tipupdate.com/how-to-install-openvpn-on-ubuntu-vps/
However whenever I try to start ...
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VPS Administration for the Absolute Beginner
I have a new site that I want to build, something that I as a programmer wish existed. While there is no way this site would ever reach StackOverflow levels of success, I do hope that it will have a ...
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Are vCPU the same as 1 Socket, or a single Core?
Currently I have a Hyper-v VPS with 2 (vCPU) processor. I would like to install SQL Server Express 2012 that has a limitation of 1 Socket or 4 Cores, whichever the lesser.
My Question: Are vCPU's ...
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Which virtualization platforms should I choose, Xen or OpenVZ? [closed]
I am upgrading my shared hosting to VPS hosting, mainly to just add server administration skills to my development skills, so I'm facing a lot of new choices just signing up.
I need to choose a ...
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How should I setup DNS when all I have is a VPS with a static IP? [closed]
I have a VPS with a static IP and a domain pointed to the registrants nameservers, so I can change all of the DNS records.
In past, I've always just set nameservers to my VPS/hosting provider, but I ...
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Load balancing / Failover for multiple VPS's set across different datacenters
I know many variants of this question has been asked already, but I still can't find a good answer to my needs.
What I want to do is setup a few (2 at minimum) VPS's to host my web apps on. I'd like ...
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Secondary IP (eth0:0) acts like main server IP
I have a CentOS server, configured with 4 consecutive IPs:
eth0 5.x.x.251
eth0:0 5.x.x.252
eth0:1 5.x.x.253
eth0:2 5.x.x.254
The problem is that all traffic goes out to the internet with eth0:0 (...
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Clear / Flush cached memory [duplicate]
I have a small VPS with 6GB RAM hosting a couple of websites.
Recently I have noticed that my cached memory size is quite high - see below:
Cpu(s): 0.1%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.1%id, 0.0%wa, ...
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Can't use external IP on Hetzner VPS
I've changed my virtual server model on Hetzner recently. The new one has an external IPv4 address on which it's accessible from the internet (as it should). But I can't use this external IP in ...
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The CPU and memory is limited in the Cloud, So where is the scalability?
I don't understand cloud, the CPU is limited, Memory is also limited, where is the scalability? Isn't it just the same like VPS with more expensive cost for bandwidth?
So what scaling advantage is ...
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innodb memory usage mysql
I have a small vps, with only 256mb of ram, with maximum burst up to 512mb. When I configure my vps without innodb, it only uses 130 mb of ram, so that is no problem for me. But when I turn on innodb, ...
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Cloning a VPS into a local VM?
I've got a fun challenge for you all. A company I'm working with is setting up its development/release workflow and environments. The eventual production environment is a VPS hosted with a popular ...
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Choosing a Host -- Reseller or VPS?
I'm developing a common-interest social networking community which is soon ready for release. I need some advice on what type of a hosting plan will best fit both my emerging website development ...
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Java VM problem in OpenVZ
I bought a vps for hosting my java needs. But I can't run java on it. Everything about java is correctly installed but when I try to run java ("java -version" forexample) I get this error :
Error ...
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How to stop unauthorized website replication/mirroring
I'm running a website in a vps server (nginx). I recently found several other websites that are 100% duplicate of my website.
Even when I change a post or delete files from my server, these other ...
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Swap memory exhausting server even site has small visitors
I have CentOs 6.5 running on a 32bit VPS host. It is running only php-fpm, nginx, and mysql.
I have a site that gets on average 20 visitors per day, but I am recently getting this message from my host ...
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When should I consider a dedicated server instead of cloud VPS?
Currently I have a web app running where I have 9 VPS servers connected to a Load Balancer. As my web app has been getting traffic, I've been purchasing new VPSs to handle the load. Managing so many ...
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How do you host multiple public facing websites on a VPS?
We host about 30 websites using typical shared hosting plans using ASP.NET and SQL 2000/2005/2008.
I am now wondering about hosting all of these websites using our own virtual private server.
This is ...
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Best way to migrate data between two linux VPS
I need to move my site from one linux VPS to another VPS, and I just need to copy over the public_html folder and probably the databases, however it is quite large(over 20gigs) so ftp is a bad choice. ...
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Industrial standard for multiple node apps on a single VPS?
I have a VPS that runs several node apps behind a reverse proxy. Each app is run via pm2 by a different user (i.e. each user runs pm2 on it's own), app-specific environment variables are set within ...
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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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Bulk email advice
I need to send email campaigns for my site. There are services like mailchimp but I want to send my own.
Do you know any good VPS providers for sending bulk emails?.
What are the issues (such as ...
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Is there difference if you are running 32bit Linux on low end VPS instead of 64bit in memory consumption?
Is 64bit Linux using more memory than 32bit version? I'm interested in this because I'm going to install linux to low end VPS, which has not that much memory etc., so if it is possible to save memory ...
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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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What is the solid Windows Server 2008 VPS hosting (preferably) in Europe? [closed]
I am looking for Windows Server 2008 VPS hosting to host a few sites/apps with special needs.
I spend few hours googling but I am not satisfied with the result. I looks to me that this business is ...
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