i'm thinking of upgrading my server....
I really do not want to signup with 1&1 after the stories i have heard...
However they are offering:
* Dual Core AMD
Opteron 1218
* 4 GB DDR RAM
* 400 GB (2X SATA drives in RAID 1 configuration)
* 400 GB FTP backup
* 4,000 GB monthly
transfer volume
$299/month.. .seems decent.. I would be managing it myself and would not need to speak to support....
experienced people in Windows 2003 Server edition then me.
Now working for this client of mine seems they have much more problems then just a single hard drive issues as posted in another post.
Now they also have a Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition on their server, which is activated but their Product Key fails every time they try getting an update like SP1, etc...
Now, I'm guessing it's because their product key isn't the original or fake as they never purchased Windows 2003 but the tech they fired installed it any ways and got it working.
So I went out and purchased an Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition (OEM Version) as it's cheaper and I had to build a system recently so that worked out pretty well.
Anyways, using all of the tips on the internet to disable or deactivate windows worked well but when using the Activation Wizard and entering the new product key, it just comes back to the product key area again. So I've called Microsoft and the guy on the phone wasnt able to help me nor activate the windows.
Question:
Does anyone here have experience with Windows 2003 Server and would know why this is happening or know a fix?
Do I have to reinstall the OS?
If reinstalling, can I do it the same way as Windows XP that you select to install a new operating system, then select the partition, it detects the operating system on there and replaces the OS files only with the new ones but leaves everything in the same state, does something like this work or is available in Windows 2003 Server?
I'm in an environment where we have hundreds of users uploading content to a web site.
With the current system, someone could potentially run a command that would wipe out hundreds of files (and it has recently happened). We are currently looking at ways to improve security and prevent "accidents" by separating the public server into to parts.
A public server and a quality assurance server. Everyone would have access to the QA server, and the QA server would upload all changes to production.
I personally see the benefit, but don't see the problem being completely solved. Does anyone have any advice on this or link to articles or books that might help to set up a secure web server structure?
im scanning my site via Acunetix vulnerability scanner and see that it has high risk vulnerability "Mysql enterprise server 5.0"
It says upgrade to 5.1.How to do it in UBUNTU 8.04?
I have a somewhat unusual question for a hosting forum, but it seems to fit here reasonably well. I figure that anyone who does colo would know about buying and selling servers.
Right now, I have a very high-end system, basically a Sun V40z:
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It is fully configured with processors, memory, but only has a single hard drive currently. The system comes with a built in management processor and OS; from the console you can boot/restart the server, check which DIMMs or processors are working (or failed), etc. It has been barely used, and is in mint condition.
I'm thinking about selling it, because I'd prefer a smaller, more compact server.
Where do you guys go to sell servers? Based on listings here, the server seems to sell in the range of 20K, with a warranty of sorts (30 days):
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Obviously, I can provide no warranty, but I have pretty much the same configuration.
It's meant to be a pretty high-end database server, and I just don't need this many horsepower.
I found eurovps.com and I think it is very good regarding specs/price ratio.
I am interested on VPS 200W.
i am thinking to get a server with Brustnet. i do have my own windows 2003 enterprise edition license. i just want to know am i allowed to install my own cd iso with license.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have Plesk 11.5 (service provider mode) on a Windows 2008 server IIS7.Most of my sites are developed in .asp and therefore i use a custom 500-100.asp error page that check s the IP of the visitor then displays either a friendly error, or if its my IP a full error of what has happened (it also emails me the error). This allows me to debug pages easily whilst developing and to keep an eye on anyone trying SQL Injection hacks on my sites (as the error and email also have session variables and IP address).I dont have root access to the server as it is a Webfusion dedicated server.I have following the Plesk documentation -
1) Switch on custom errors for the subscription
2) Look in virtual directories and navigate to error documents
3) Find the error in question (500:100) and change it to point at either a file or URL
FILE - I had the data centre add in the 500-100.asp error page in to the virtual template so that my page is available in the list of virtual files - this didn't work but that maybe because its not a static page??
URL - when i add the path it says its incorrect, if i add a fully qualified address, it accepts it but it doesn't work.give me a specific example of the URL that can be entered relative to the root as the format in the documentation isn't accepted. The last step is to restart IIS which is also an issue as i cant seem to do this from the Plesk panel..It is as if it isn't catching the 500:100 error, and only catching the general 500 error??
I am considering renting a server, but got one question first.
If I sign up for one unmanaged root server with a control panel, from a provider. And just put my website on the server, and let it run there.
Is that a security risk? Is it easy for people to hack into my server, or anything like that?
direct root logon to a server is disabled; using another login, obviously. However, I need to be able to SFTP files from my computer to a directory on the server using said login - yet it does not have correct permissions, evidently, and therefore can't even see the directory I need to be able to SFTP files to.
Tried CHOWNing the directory with that usename, giving it 777 permissions, etc.
I'll try to make this long story short, but this morning I logged into one of my servers and it showed a read-only filesystem, which I thought my server guys could fix easily. So I put in a ticket. 6 hours later, they tell me that they think the OS is corrupted and I need a new install. They give me KVM over IP so I can go in and 'do' things. I tried to log in as root and it wouldn't let me, so they finally booted in single mode and I can get in and such. When I try to su - root, it tells me that user root can't be found. I also tried to ftp into and out of the server with no luck. I really need this box back up. If not, I need to get all the accounts saved off so that I can build a new box. Everything is there, so I don't want to give up yet.
View 10 Replies View RelatedWe would like to offer root servers to customers, but we worry that they change the IP address to another IP address in our network and make troubles like this. I think, if a customer takes the same IP like our gateway router, our whole network is not reachable anymore. How can I avoid this?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI am actually very inexpirience in server management. I have a small - I believe - problem. I need to get config file onto my computer from my root server. I can access it through terminal, but it is not very confortable. The config file is on root server.
the file is located at //etc/xxx.conf
Do I need to use web browser to do it? If so how?
Or is there a way that I log to my root server through ssh and transfer onto my computer?
creating a basic redirect. What I need is to redirect the root of my server 173.x.x.x to a file called test.php in the root of my folder.example: when I go to http://173.x.x.x I get redirected to http://173.x.x.x/test.php..
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy server hosted with 1and1.co.uk (and therefore in Germany) has been down since 6PM UK time (20 hours ago) - support is just excruciatingly bad - the structure they have set up to make sure the actual datacentre people aren't customer facing is atrocious... you can't speak to anyone who knows anything, it's so frustrating.
I'm writing this to ask if anyone else has a root server in Germany as the latest fob off is that a router CPU has gone down knocking all those root servers offline. I'm surprised to not have seen any other threads from disgruntled customers if that were the case. They even added the router is in Canada... which begs the question - why would that knock out my German server??
My server isn't even accessible by the serial console and the reboot/recovery system isn't restoring it - they swear it's network related, but surely I'd be able to get in via the serial console?
This is winding me up good and proper, I can't concentrate on any other work and I just find myself trying to find other ways of getting any kind of real information out of 1and1 given their complete lacklustre attitude to coming forward with any themselves. 1 hour of downtime I can put up with, 20 hours without a hint of belivable feedback is just unacceptable...
I've just signed up for my first VPS with CMBHosting and the person in charge, Chetan Bakhru, seems like a genuinely nice, friendly and helpful person. In other words this new service look promising at the moment.
However ...
When I signed up I selected his CentOS/LXAdmin plan because I figured that with a pre-installed control panel like LXAdmin I could avoid as much ssh as possible and simply get "up and running" more quickly. Plus I have some experience managing my own CentOS development machine, and I know that a special software package I plan to install runs on CentOS "out of the box" -- so I was expecting good things from this new VPS.
But when my account was created LXAdmin did NOT create an FTP admin account for me with root access to my VPS!
Instead it created an account that drops me into web server's document root folder, and this is far too limiting for me. I really need FTP root server access -- and I'm surprised that LXAdmin did not provide this access by default.
Not only that, but it appears that I cannot create a new FTP account that has any deeper access than the existing admin account!
Does anyone with LXAdmin experience know if this is the way LXAdmin normally works by default? Or is this perhaps a special configuration created by my new VPS host?
How do I go about changing the root's server email address?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having problem login to my server using root as login.
Here is the situation:
I have the root access for WHM as user1 for login, and password1 for password. This can allow me to login to my WHM.
However, in SSH (Putty) I tried to connect to the server using user1 as login, but when I typed password1, it said access denied..
I'm trying to setup a new SSL host on my server. I changed the IP address in the WHM, and even though the httpd.conf file shows the proper path to the site's directory, when i type in the domain I get the cpanel default page at the apache root directory.
anyone else have this problem? know a fix?
I restarted apache and BIND, but no luck.
on one my root server runs a DDOS attack, apparently from a Botnet, however all have the same Referer. Who can give me Tipps, how I can prevent the attacks? Preferably evenly stop over the Referer?
View 6 Replies View Relatedi can not login to my decated server by using root. the password is not correct.. becasue i did something wrong with my server. i used chmod 777 -R /public_hmtl and chown to modify my server. and i can not login anymore, LT asked me to reload my server, do i need to reload it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to have an email alert everytime someone login into my server using ROOT user.
The server is based on Linux system.
I am hosting about 12 TYPO3 websites in a shared hosting environment, but I need to think about upgrading to a faster (dedicated) server as some of the sites have a higher traffic volume.
I am not a pro and use Linux only as a user. How dificult is it to manage a root server? Is all done via an easy Control Panel or do I need expert knowledge to install software etc?
Or shoud I look for a managed server where all is done for me?
I setup my cron job run daily and it automatically sends email to root@server.mydomain.com after it done. How do i setup forward email from root@server.mydomain.com to my gmail or other external email provider ? That means every time if root@server.mydomain.com receive email than my other maail will get that email too.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just got a dedicated server and i'm gonna tell you know - i'm not an expert! Sort have came to a problem with a zone file missing. Im running centos with cpanel/whm I get the following error.
The zone for the root domain ******.com is missing, or could not be read. The ip address will be read from the webserver configuration and a new zone will be created for this subdomain. Bind reconfiguring on server1 using rndc
Created DNS entry for *******
No Entry Shows after either.
I have read that although chained root ssl certificates can be more difficult to install they are actually more secure since the root certificate cannot be compromised, only the intermediary.
Is this true? It looks like both google and amazon both use chained SGC certs.
I'm about to purchase several Dell R610 and R710 servers. Has anyone experience with iDRAC6 Enterprise? Is it worth the extra $349/server or would you recommend another KVM IP solution?
View 6 Replies View RelatedHi, I'm going to open a site (visitors outside US) using tons of space and data transfer.
It's something need lots of space like file hosting (but most file less than 10 mb each)
So i need an affordable dedicated (or semi-dedicate) with less than $100 a month to host my site. Until it grow and i can move site to local provider (better speed, more expensive)
Currently i aimed to netfirms enterprise 2. it's $69 a month, 100 GB Space/2000 Data Trans.
Do you recommend this to me ? Or other's are better.