Recently the Apache recompailed with eAccelerator after that the below error log has created and also the Apache got crash when reach high traffic.
[notice] child pid 13013 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[notice] child pid 13054 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
Due to this problem I ran the /scripts/upcp --force and again recompailed the Apache with eAccelerator.
later the signal Segmentation fault error not created but instead of above error the following error has been creating. And also again recompailed the without eAccelerator still the below error creating.
Parallels Plesk autoinstaller emailed me 03:34 to confirm that Parallels Plesk was successfully updated, but ever since then /var/log/httpd/error_log has entries every 5 minutes stating 'child pid xxxxxx exit signal Segmentation fault (11)'.
I have just moved my sites from shared host to a vps. After several initial problems (cpanel issue, config not set up correctly, memory spikes and sites down every morning due to backup and stats) I thought everything was going to be ok. hmm.
My server load starts off fine first thing (less than 1) then creeps up nearly 1 per hour, ie been 3.5 hours now and it is at 2.57. Sites are ok at the moment but yesterday load got up to nearly 7 and sites were extremely slow.
CPU usage is HIGH for one site and goes up very quickly throughout the day. Yesterday it reached well over 90%. First thing today it was already amber and showing 14%. It is now 70.54% and shows below it :
Top Process %CPU 80.2 spamd child Top Process %CPU 79.8 spamd child Top Process %CPU 79.4 spamd child
I have a ticket open and they (Liquid Web) they are not sure what the deal is, but are apparently monitoring it to see if they can isolate the cause of the problem. But that was a couple of days ago and now the ticket is due for closure.
I telephoned them (expensive as I'm in the UK!) and raised my concerns, but was just told that everything looked ok on the vps, cpu usage was in fact not high and to ignore the warnings.
So, I am posting here to see if anybody can help me get to the root of this.
I understand that spamd child is to do with email / spam assassin?
My problem is that this is the first vps I have had and don't have a clue now where to go or what to do.
Anybody understand about spamd child that can explain it to a poor dumb blonde and how to fix it?
Each one takes up like 4% of the available ram - and when the ram is gone, the server dies (it doesn't have a swap file - half the time you can't even log in to it), and you have to reboot Apache.
I thought of limiting maxchilds, but would that break something else?
Should I just make a swap file? Will that defeat the point of creating child processes?
I signed up with with Dediwebhosting in November of 2007 and canceled my service on good terms June 1st 2008. It was my first experience with a dedicated server and, at the time, my primary focus was a budget solution.
The server was used for hosting my web design clients (around 50), which were mostly smallish & semi-dynamic websites with an average of 4GB/month bandwidth per account. The domain linked in my signature was one of the sites hosted on the server.
Setup & Billing:
Being completely new to dedicated hosting, their sales team was very friendly and helpful with my novice questions. When I was ready to order, I faxed my photo ID & credit card info to them and was set up within a day. The entire process was a lot less painful than I was expecting.
I went with their B600 package (P4 2.8ghz, 1GB, 129GB HD, 100Mbit, 600GB Transfer) - which fit perfectly with the budget I was working with (85.00 + extra for cPanel).
Support:
Although they don't provide any management services, their support department was always quite fast (around 30 minutes) in taking care of any rDNS or IP requests I had. They also made a very good effort in trying to help me with some issues I was having with AOL's mail server (which never got resolved, but was no fault of their own).
Also, I think it also bears mentioning that their support personnel sound like real people. Instead of getting 'it's fixed' or 'this has been done' responses....they usually responded in complete (even multiple) sentences. That may not be important to you (and I don't really mind the short responses), but it was something I noticed and was appreciative of.
Reason for leaving:
Aside from the inability for my hosting clients to send/receive mail from AOL accounts (which was a big deal for the type of people I host), my primary reason for leaving was that my design business was growing and I was ready for an upgrade to more powerful hardware. I found a great deal on a dual-core system with Pacific Rack and decided to move on. I was also hoping that moving to a different data center would clear up the AOL problems (which it did).
They were quick to process my cancellation request - so no problems there.
Overall Experience & Recommendation:
Aside from the AOL issues, my experience with Dediwebhosting was very positive (and I don't blame them for the AOL issues). Their support was friendly, fast and they made an effort to help me with an issue that went beyond their service agreement.
As mentioned above, I rarely received complaints of service or network issues from my hosted clients...so I can vouch for reliablity. As my first dedicated server, I can also say that they helped to make the experience much less intimidating than I thought it would.
Their website is kind of ugly and in need of an update...but as a designer, I'm overly-critical of such things.
So yes, I would definitely recommend Dediwebhosting to someone looking for an entry-level, budget solution (they offer bigger systems, but entry-level is the one I have experience with). I can't promise that AOL would work for you...but I don't think you'd be disappointed with everything else.
I have seen 1 vps provider having very poor ping results in few online ping sites and they have a very cluster slow loading pages as well.
One of my friend has a package with them, the ping results are very poor even for him as well. Just made an traceroute found its on some node1.vpsprovider.com
Ya, one more major important similarity noticed was, the vps provider emails weren't set properly to yahoo mail, and my friend's emails sent from the server to yahoo weren't delivered as well.
So if the vps provider has poor content may be due to firewall or internal settings do the systems under the node also be affected?
I have no problems with my host so nothing to be worried about, but need to help him as he is just starting it out with a cheaper vps
I'm running CentOS with Paralells Plesk bundled Paralellls Premium Antivirus (Dr Web). After the latest yum updates DrWeb continously seems to crash and be restarted by the Parallells watchdog. By default there were no logs for DrWeb, but when I enable logging to a file it gets spammed continously with the following error:
Cannot create pipe for communication with scanning childs (Too many open files)and the Drweb process runs at 99% CPU for long periods. This totally fills the disk with logs and I've now disabled logging again and Drweb is back to continously being restarted by the watchdog.
As many of you may have already read my initial review or the New York NOC I wanted to leave an additional exit review of the company and share a personal recommendation.
It started a little over a month ago when I jumped VPS providers and initially purchase 2 VPS plans . Initially the boxes were rock solid. I could get to my websites, admin area, and have support tickets responded to in a timely manner. Roughly a week later I ended up moving another site to itâs own VPS . This is when I noticied my first issues. CONSTANT ERROR MESSAGES stating the backend was down and to please restart it.
I would launch a support ticket, roughly 2 hours later the backend would be rebooted and I could once again access the admin panel and do what I needed to. Like clockwork when I would try to login again later to my admin panel I would be hit again with the backend was down (hypervm would be in a constant refresh). Sometimes my sites would remain online and sometimes they would go down too. This got frustrating but was bearable (I thought). Within a few days I see a BIGGER problem arise. I woke up one morning to find error alerts coming in and realizing 2 VPSâs had been offline for hours on end. I again launch another support ticket for the backend to be rebooted. I get a response everything is ok so I go about my day. I later receive an e-mail stating all of my sites were showing a mysql connect error and panic. Come to find out they had corrupted this time when the backend went down, I repair and optimize and everything is ok. VERY next day I wake up and check my nightly logs to make sure the nightly backup was loaded onto my home server. I donât see it and find I received an e-mail from lxadmin stating it could not backup the database. Once againâ¦..corrupted. This has been going on since that time frame on almost a daily basis. The backups are iffy if they will come in since when the backend gets overloaded and crashes in the middle of the night, it immediately corrupts all dbâs on the VPS. I could understand 1 VPS doing thisâ¦..but 3? Come onâ¦.
Now comes Thanksgiving, my boxes go down for roughly 5 hours before reboot and once again I have to repair them on a blackberry with ssh since I am away (never fun to type that on a bb). I am back online and go about my dayâ¦â¦.thenâ¦..Friday. My box goes down at 5pmâ¦..I send in a support ticket to have it rebooted. The next morning at 11am it finally gets turned back on and I get a response that it must have been on my end since everything looks ok from there (granted 3 monitoring services were all showing it down). Once againâ¦..corrupted. I rebuild and think the SLA was 99.9% so I send in a nice message to ask about it. Here is the response:
Posted: 11/29/2008 12:33 Hey Guys. Since one of the VPS accounts was down for 17 hours do I qualify for the 99.9% SLA? (3 Monitoring Services show the outage happened at 5:34PM last night and I have recovery notifications for this morning at 11:16AM) Thanks ---------------------------- IP Address: 71.76.239.xx Andy StaffPosted: 11/30/2008 20:49 Hi Ryan, Unfortunately our SLA applies to network uptime and not power or hardware related. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. ------------------------------- The New York NOC Inc. www.thenynoc.com Visit our new forums! [url]
Soâ¦â¦99.9% SLA does not cover if no one is in the datacenter to reboot the box because it is off-lineâ¦..I thought SLAâs covered your box being on-line, am I wrong?
So now after too many corruptions to count, support taking longer and longer in between responses I am left looking over my books. Last year alone between Thanksgiving and the following Sunday I brought in roughly $2300 dollars in sales. This year for the past 4 days I have brought in $10â¦â¦ I have had some longtime recurring customers so I asked them for any feedback on what we could do to earn there business again. Out of 40+ people all but one stated that if I could fix the sites downtime they would return (the other responses was of course to lower prices). Second suggestion they had was to fix my e-mails from ending up in their spam box. Yes I was sold ALL dirty ipâs which had all been blacklisted. Some major ispâs worked with me and allowed me inâ¦(some)
Before I get flammed for choosing these guys, they truly were great up front so obviously I got fooled. I have no doubt they are great for some people but I simply can not drive my business into the ground because I went cheap and in the end got what I deserved. I moved to futurehost today and almost **** myself when a response ticket was answered in under a minute (kinda scary for a low priority ticket).
With this said, before you consider NewYorkNoc simply ask yourself if your business or site is important to you, if you can afford to lose business, and if you want constant downtime along with mysql corruptions daily. I am not saying they are the worst as they were helpful at first. Just EXPECT that when the deal is that good, you are being oversold. There is no other explanation in my books.
To sum this up:
Uptime: 3 out of 10 (there were up sometimes) Customer Service: 2 out of 10 (would have given higher I did not have to repeatedly e-mail over the backend issues) Price: 10 out of 10 (admit it, the price point these guys have is good) Value: 1 out of 10 (I made a bad choice, I lost a ton of money in business and now have to work hard to recover my losses and rebuild relationships) Recommend to others: 2 out of 10 (why 2? This place might be good for offsite backup maybe?)
This review is NOT out of spite due to my recent downtime. This review is merely my opinion and personal experiences and not written to bash NYNOC. If your happy with them then you are doing well. If you are considering themâ¦â¦.I urge you to think elsewhere. All my data is off the VPS and I am running before the backend crashes again corrupted my DBâs.
I have sent a DMCA notice to softlayer because I saw warez forum thats abusing USA laws and they are giving away lots of hacked rapidshare accounts to its users. So I have made my complaint but I didnt said what infringed my copyrights. And softlayer can see the warez site and decide them selves.
So this what I got in reply after 2 weeks-
Quote:
Please review our DMCA procedures which follow the OCILLA. Also note, the sworn statements and all other information listed on our DMCA page are not only required but mandatory for any DMCA report. This will allow you to specifically identify the intellectual property that you own and is being infringed upon, which is required by law.
There are many verified third party DMCA/COPYRIGHT agencies who act on behalf of the intellectual property holders who can verify and submit these claims on behalf of the intellectual property owners. This will insure that legally, the intellectual property owner and the ISP is protected in the event of an account termination.
Softlayer DMCA information [url]
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And they didnt took any actions against that site and what I see is that warez site is operating till now on softlayer servers. Looks like softlayer didnt warned the site admins too. 1 month passed after my complaint and its still operating.
I design Web sites for clients, and also am a hosting reseller. The problem I'm having is selling all these hosting packages, but I don't know when their hosting package expires, except for periodically logging in and checking the setup date. I am currently using hostgator with the whm (WebHost Manager). Is there a way to set it up for 1 year and have it e-mail me when an account is about to expire, or is there some really cool database program elsewhere that I can use to help facillitate all these Web hosting packages?
One of the sites I help run has 1.5 million pages of parts that can be ordered and information about those parts. We started seeing a ton of hits at around 20-30 pages per second over the past couple days.
There is no information about them on the internet and they are also masking as GoogleBot.
Be on the lookout as I am pretty sure they are trying to steal content and post it up for search results. They are using Amazon EC2 servers to do it also.
This is how they are identifying themselves: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Adtuitionbot/1.0; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
Offending IPs: 174.129.155.59, 72.44.52.93
In a 24 hour period, we blocked 408,821 requests from them.
How much Notice do I need to give nocster/burst before cancelling?
Not ready to cancell just yet but probably will be at the end of next month. (Moving to co-lo and as i'm in the UK burstnet's datacenter would be a bit far to travel so Won't be using them for Co-lo)
Couldn't find mention of the minimum notice period on their site.
I am in the process of fighting a Hosting company on a dedicated server. It was turned off without notice a couple of months ago. They said I had not paid last years bill for this server (10 months ago). When I sent them the paypal confirmation number from last year finally they agreeed but said I owed an inflated 2008-2009 bill. The first bill I got was when the server was suspended. The bill increased over 20%. In order to get my clients back online I paid the increased bill but sent the initial price guarantee and asked for a refund of the difference. What I got was a half apology and the double talk below. I switched hosting companies and asked for a pro-rated refund and even though the server is paid up until Sept 2009 they have suspended the server. I am going to leave the hosting companies name out.
"Dear Mark,
As explained by Tom, the amount you paid is the amount that was due.
Since you originally purchased your server, our costs have risen by approximately 46%. The increase in price for your server only represents approximately 16%. While in the past, we have been able to absorb price increases and not pass them along, unfortunately, on this occasion we had no choice but to pass along part of the increase - the increase applied is just over half the increase we have personally seen since the start of this year. We have been able to keep the increase low through additional cost savings and reducing our profit margins, but, there is a limit to that and we unfortunately hit with the latest increase we've been hit with.
The issue with your server earlier this month was due to human error. We do not have any due invoices from 2007 (any unpaid would have been passed to collections), and as we are human, have gotten into the habit of simply looking at the day and month. One of my billing staff members alerted me that your invoice was overdue, believing it was a 2008 invoice due 1st August 2008 and requested that I authorise a disconnection. I then looked at it and also missed the 2007 date. Tom unfortunately does not have full access to billing details and cannot correct (nor view) errors such as that.
In terms of the invoicing - the system expected a recurring payment, through the Paypal subscription, to occur automatically and this is why no invoice was generated. As your invoice last year was manually paid, there was no subscription to update and pay. As a result, I had to manually update your account to reflect the payment details and manually generate the invoice. The invoice in your account when you paid the invoice correctly reflected the $1274.20 value. One of the emails quoted above, which should have been received after the emailed invoice, stated "generated the correct invoice for the 2008 to 2009 billing period.". I am sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
I really do not want to mention the name of the hosting. I have been with them since the beginning of 2007.
My VPS was shut down about 15 hours ago because there might be a problem with the recurring payment. Actually I was informed that the payment has been processed and approved successfully last week. And there is no any email telling me that there is problem with the recurring payment.
I have been asking their support to re-start my VPS first but they said this is the sales issue. It has to be handled by the sales. Just waiting....... waiting..... Very disappoint!
Will you shut down the VPS of your customers without any prior notice?
I just got a notice from Leslie at Colo4Dallas that they are raising their rates by 20% effective June, 2007. Did anyone else get this notice yet today? And in order to get the lower price (20% increase), I will have to sign a 12 month contract. So for example, my 1/2 rack will go from $399 to $478, or if I choose to stay month to month, the new rate will be $600.
10 20:56:02 h96256475587 named[4421]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file named.local: file not found Nov 10 20:56:02 h96256475587 named[4421]: zone nbe-broadcast.com/IN: loaded serial 2007111001 Nov 10 20:56:02 h96256475587 named[4421]: zone localhost/IN: loading master file localhost.zone: file not found Nov 10 20:56:02 h96256475587 named[4421]: zone h96256475587.serverkompetenz.net/IN: loaded serial 2007092700 Nov 10 20:56:02 h96256475587 named[4421]: running Nov 10 20:56:02 h96256475587 named[4421]: zone h96256475587.serverkompetenz.net/IN: sending notifies (serial 2007092700) Nov 10 20:56:02 h96256475587 named[4421]: zone nbe-broadcast.com/IN: sending notifies (serial 2007111001) Nov 10 20:58:31 h96256475587 ntpd[4244]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10 Nov 10 20:58:31 h96256475587 ntpd[4244]: kernel time sync enabled 0001
