Just wondering... When I set my A-name records in my Domain-provider control panel, it takes almost 24hours to take effect sometimes, yet other times it can be almost instant...
I was just wondering, from a technical point of view, why this is. Does anyone know?
my email address is being spoof/forge. i have added spf record into the DNS for couple days now but i'm still getting rejected/bounced email. is this correct or is spammer is still able to forge my email and sending out spam?
edit: where can i check if my domain/server is on spam block list? since dnsstuff's tool cost money.
I am using Servint and I am looking for another provider with similar reputation/reliability. I have heard many good things about Zone.net on this forum, but they don't have any reviews older than a few months. Have they been around long, if so, why no early posts?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've got a 2.8 Dual Xenon with 2GB of ram. Taking a look at my "top" output I see the following:
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18119 nobody 15 0 20812 20M 9764 S 0.8 0.9 0:05 0 httpd
3388 mysql 16 0 105M 97M 1908 S 0.7 4.8 95:08 1 mysqld
22225 nobody 15 0 18920 18M 9060 S 0.7 0.9 0:02 2 httpd
3391 mysql 16 0 105M 97M 1908 S 0.5 4.8 95:33 1 mysqld
13612 nobody 15 0 16872 16M 7192 S 0.4 0.8 0:05 3 httpd
21871 nobody 15 0 20712 19M 7768 S 0.4 0.9 0:02 2 httpd
I've got MySQL process running 95+ minutes. This isn't the first time it's happened.
I've seen it go as high as 120 minutes. The load average is 1.2. All my sites that use MySQL i.e. Wordpress blogs all run fine.
Looking at "MyTop" output everything looks normal:
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MySQL on localhost (4.0.27-standard) up 37+01:40:24 [20:42:31]
Queries: 39.9M qps: 13 Slow: 211.0 Se/In/Up/De(%): 87/01/04/01
qps now: 9 Slow qps: 0.0 Threads: 20 ( 1/ 49) 64/04/09/09
Cache Hits: 27.5M Hits/s: 9.0 Hits now: 4.4 Ratio: 79.3% Ratio now: 73.3%
Key Efficiency: 100.0% Bps in/out: 571.7/961.9 Now in/out: 941.1/385.6k
Id User Host/IP DB Time Cmd Query or State
-- ---- ------- -- ---- --- ----------
1263533 root localhost mysql 0 Query show full processlist
1263663 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 8 Sleep
1262512 DELAYED gwz3phj_va 9 Delaye Waiting for INSERT
1263618 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 9 Sleep
1263658 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 15 Sleep
1263659 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 15 Sleep
1263617 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 22 Sleep
1263651 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 22 Sleep
1263642 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 37 Sleep
1263640 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 43 Sleep
1263636 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 52 Sleep
1263633 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 53 Sleep
1263630 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 55 Sleep
1263631 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 55 Sleep
1263624 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 74 Sleep
1263625 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 75 Sleep
1263623 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 78 Sleep
1263615 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 79 Sleep
1263621 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 85 Sleep
1263616 gwz3phj_v localhost gwz3phj_va 88 Sleep
Overall my server is running just fine but these odd long running MySQL process have me worried.
I ordered server and payed 48 hours ago by paypal. Why i do not have details for it?
In they website they wrote what they have 2 servers in stock!
the error log shows nothing out of the ordinary.. but its taking about 2-3 minutes to start.. which before it would take about 10 seconds.
load is fine on the machine, free mem is fine also.
Recently however it seems they're getting some bad press, most people are blaming growing pains.
As someone who's seen the before and after picture, i thought i'd chime in and actually put some positive notes on these boards, as I know these guys deserve more credit than this! It's one of those situations where if something goes wrong, people complain, if everything is right, not enough people speak up!
Server speed / specs:
one word: fantastic. i now have 2 VPSs with them - one in their new data center. I had moved the 2nd VPS from another host (also very well known on these boards, who I won't mention) where I had been having loads of issues regarding load and IO wait times. Load would spike up to 20+, server would crash, reboot, and this would happen 20+ times a day. Nothing critical on that server. Post-migration, using very very similar specs on futurehosting, and the load has been <0.10 since I started her up 3 days ago.
My current server sees load going up once in a while - during a large scale DOS attack last month the load only went up to 4, with over 1000 TCP connections. I only realized there was an issue as I checked one of my status scripts and noticed the enormous tcp count. I've recently moved to a new VPS on a new node, and load has been incredible, along with responsiveness.
No complaints at all on that front.
Network performance
Their old data center, softlayer, has much to be desired. There has been at least one outage every month so far which lasts in the hours duration. However, FH has made the very wise option of expanding out to a new datacenter and will hopefully slowly phase out softlayer, which has become quite pathetic. Connectivity wise though (speed/bandwidth) - no complaints.
Support
I remember getting a response within minutes months ago. However, that being said, months ago the customer service could only deal with the most basic of problems, and would escalate the issue if it was complicated, which would take time for a response.
FH did go through a growing pains phase a little while ago with regards to customer service - you wouldn't get a response too quick.
However now it seems they have begun improving. They are expanding their support base, and if you deal with the support guys you'll definitely be impressed by how dedicated and "hardcore" they are. Very recently I had a major issue with my server - it got compromised via root and someone wreaked havoc. Some script was installed that basically self-DOS'ed the server and basically killed it.
FH support instantly shut down the server and put me back up on my old server which I had migrated from only a week ago. They thoroughly went through and wiped clean my current server, fully bullet-proofed it and cleaned up the security of it all (something that was not a problem when they set it up - but rather my fault over time as I had disabled some very silly things I shouldn't have...) The guy working on the server, Jim, worked his *** off, pulled an all nighter (he was still responding to my tickets at 9am GMT, which was 4am his time - and I know he's not a night shift guy!). By the end of it all, he put me back onto my current newly-secured server, and was still revving to go, asking me what I wanted and to give him another challenge!
So, to sum this section--
good attitude: check
know-how: check
laziness: none.
I guarantee one thing - the vps company I just moved my 2nd vps from in this situation would not have spent an entire night rebuilding my server the way it was, but would've simply put me back on my old one week image, said "oh well, sorry, bad luck" and moved on.
All in all, my experience with these guys over the past couple of weeks (since the new data center opened) has been nothing short of positive, and I know they're rising out of the slight slump they had gotten themselves into.
I'll submit my URL to the mod to verify this post. And no, I don't work with FH
I had Qmail installed and configure more than 2 years.
Last week, when I using Post Client (The Bat) try to send email, "Connection to Host" message shows Toooo long (aprox. 10 minutes)
POP3 connection working well.
OS RedHat Linux 2.4.25
[root@host smtp]# tail /var/log/qmail/smtp/current
@400000004733722622dcef34 tcpserver: status: 16/20
@400000004733722623095e34 -Table 'vpopmail.relay' doesn't exist-db_close() called!
@4000000047337226230be6a4 db_ping() is re-calling open_db!
@40000000473372262311f954 tcpserver: status: 17/20
@400000004733722623ad3b6c tcpserver: pid 6923 from 76.65.180.227
@400000004733722625a588fc -Table 'vpopmail.relay' doesn't exist-db_close() called!
@400000004733722625cf11cc db_ping() is re-calling open_db!
@400000004733722625fe863c tcpserver: pid 6926 from 76.65.180.227
@400000004733722d1b7434b4 tcpserver: end 6190 status 0
@400000004733722d1b744454 tcpserver: status: 16/20
and ps -aux return approx 10-15 lines with:
vpopmail 7330 0.0 0.1 2152 788 ? S 15:32 0:00 /usr/bin/tcpserver -v -R -S -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 107 -g ...
Panel-Version11.5.30 Update #38
BSDebian 7.4
Save Web Hosting Settings takes a long time. The Domains (Apache Server) are not reachable for 36 seconds.
We had many backups stored on our Plesk 12 server about 51 GB in total.
After reducing the backups back to 10 GB by removing old backups through the Backup Manager.
The issue is that Health Monitor still reported that there was low diskspace displayed by color yellow. And it look Health Monitor over 16 minutes to change the alarm level from Yellow to Green
However the statistics at the specific subscription still present the Backup usage of 51 GB's whilest they are no longer there.
What can i do about this in order to speed up the synchronization?
This is a rare issue i have on a RHEL 5.2 + cPanel server.
Server time is:
Tue Nov 11 17:02:51 CST 2008
Squirrelmail time show:
Code:
Last Refresh:
Tue, 5:02 pm
So, that is correct too..
But email arrives with -4 hours time, example:
webmaster@xxx.com 1:03 pm testing email
I already rebooted httpd, exim, and imap server, and the server itself too.. and problem stills.
I had made a website which name is uscarland.com it is very attractive site therefore I had got Google Page Rank 3 But Now our site have losted Page Rank. Last weak I changed our DNS .
Can DNS effected on PR?
I wanna ask from you why I have losted our Page Rank.
when I searched my site at the google then google show it But I try to open then my site is not opened ? why
When I opened it directly then it will opened? How can Possible?
Which VPS package would I need from Host Gator to survive a front page Digg?
[url]
Would a level 3 work?
Running wordpress with the wp-super cache plugin.
if there is a way to detect traffic spikes using weblogic server logs and depending on traffic load redirect to a static page, or load the dynamic page.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm reading about the fail-over system on precision effect's site, but am not 100% clear on a few points. Their live chat isn't active right now and I'd kind of like to hear from someone that actually uses the service anyway.
If there's not anyone who knows for sure, I'll just ask their live chat later on when their awake
Is their fail-over system actually a load balancing cluster comparable to cartika's hsphere plans?
I'm trying to decide between checking out cartika, precision effect, or opening another account with medialayer just for a couple more domains. Between the 3, price isn't really a concern, since the package I'd order from each, with addons and such comes out to within a dollar or two of the others.
Medialayer has been great, and I'll keep my site with them, but I have a couple other sites to put up, and am kind of drawn to the clustered solutions for max uptime per dollar.
I was searching for the web hosts that could survive the ****.com effect then I researched myself to compile this list of Web hosting providers that survive it. Web hosts that survive the **** effect
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to ask about suexec.
Currently I disable suexec in my dedicated server.
Which is better, to enable it or not?
What will happen to existing sites folder permissions if suexec is turned on?
I got report from webceo that I have some issues. May someone help me fix this?
DNS Lookup: 0.22 sec
Connect time: 0.33 sec
Host ping: 0.10 sec
That mean too slow with the other sites!
I can't get access to a certain site. I always get the page with:
network time out - server at *** takes to long to respons. More people have noticed this and apparently it only happens to people with certain specific providers. And not all the time. Some times they DO get access eventy to they belong to the same ISP. So I guess an ISP isn't blocking access to it otherwise it would be permenantly/The site administrator insists that certain ISP's are blocking his site. He's hosting it on his own server. The domain belongs is registered at namecheap.com.
If an ISP is blocking this site (if that's possible?), that would lead to that 'network timeout' page wouldn't it?
What is the most likely reason for getting a timeout page anyway?
I've been browsing Google and have learned a lot about how to read stats and what to look out for. However I'm not understanding what effects what.
We've increased
max_user_connections from the default 25 to 50 and
max_connections from 500 to 1,000
What area would this effect, RAM? CPU? If I'm having issues with CPU during my heavy load times, What should I look to optimize on our web site? We also disabled gzip on css/js files to prevent the server from over-working.
I've also run into the Today's stats for the server. Can someone tell me more about the part:
Quote:
Top Process%CPU 29.0/usr/local/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update
Top Process%CPU 28.0/usr/local/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update
Top Process%CPU 27.0/usr/local/bin/perl -w /usr/share/munin/munin-update
I currently pay $9.99 USD per month for a dedicated server to host my little news site.
The specs are 667mhz / 256Mb ram / Centos / about 20-40mbit BW on a shared 100mbit port.
Anyway, I have a possibility to have one of my articles dugg soon, as It may become popular and I am wondering.. is there anyway i can tweak this box to survive DIGG?
I'm using wordpress at the moment, with lighttpd and mysql and I could possibly just make it a static http page I guess for the digging.
I think that even with lots of tweaking and serving a static HTML page, it may still die.
SO, anyway..
My maximum budget is approximately $25 USD per month, but I'd like to spend less, ideally.
Do you think I should A) get a 2800+ sempron / 2.8ghz p4 with 1GB of ram and unmetered 10mbit / 100mbit with 1.5TB
Or shared hosting? Or a VPS? or what?
OR just stick with what I have now?
Basically it will just be news articles / blog type stuff + some images.
The reason I say 10mbit unmetered is at least I know what my bill is going to be etcetc.
It has been a little while since I have frequented here, but I thought it was time that I step in here and offer up a review of Precision Effect over at www.precisioneffect.com after moving to them this past February. I have now been with Precision Effect for approximately 7 months.
I had been with a previous host, A Small Orange since June 2006, and it seemed that at least once a week I was seeing 20 to 30 minutes of downtime. After awhile, I got used to it, thinking that that is just what happens with your web host. Well after things continued to worsen over time, it got worse during the winter (end of 2007/early 2008), and I was having a number of up-time problems, including a day and half of downtime at one point (that I had posted about previously here: [url].I was finally fed up in February after I had to email their support services for a few days straight to continue to fix things.
Needless to say it was time to move as my site was growing in popularity and as I run an official message board for a #1 New York Times Best Selling Author (that I fund on my own), I felt it was only right to move to a more professional host that had better up-time and customer support.
Precision Effect is where it is at!
They completely took care of me during this stressful move from one host to another and did the complete transfer for me.
I have had a few questions here and there (very minor in nature), and they have always provided me with a professional and caring response (no matter how minute or how stupid I may have sounded to them). To me, this is a company who takes care of its customers.
The members of my site, never knew this, but one day after I was completing an update on my site, I made the mistake of deleting a directory on my server, that I believed to have been a backup file on my server, and wiped out my entire site! In ten minutes my site was backup and running from one of their backups...I don't know how they did it, but I didn't lose one post on my board!
If you are looking for a company that offers amazing up-time, professional, caring and courteous staff who will take care of you, then this is the web host for you! If this company continues to operate the way that they have for me for the past 7 months, then they have a customer for life.
This week I am about to pay for my 3rd year at Precision Effect. (Since December 2006) I've had several hosts in the years before, but after signing up for Precision Effect (heard about them on WHT), I have had absolutely no reason to change.
When I first signed up, I was worried that I would have to manually upload all the files to precision effect by first downloading them to my computer and then re-uploading them to Precision. After chatting with their tech support, however, I was able to give them a link to a rar file on my previous server which they downloaded directly to the new server and decompressed for me. They even ran a database restore with a backup file from the old database server. I could have done this myself (as I'm sure most of you could) but I really liked to see that the tech support took the time to get me settled in, especially since (at the time) I was only paying about $20/year. Past hosts would have just brushed me off.
In the past two years, I only had to contact tech support twice. Both times, I received an almost immediate response to the email (I usually email late at night) and it really felt as if they were dropping everything to fix my problem.
I'm still on one of their older (not their "LiteSpeed") servers, so I can't attest to the speed of the new ones, but my server has always been very fast. My websites are a bit graphics/database intensive and I've never had load time issues. I've also never had unscheduled downtime (a couple of times they would have some small amount of downtime for upgrades) that my "downtime detector" found, though its accuracy is only about once every 15 minutes.
So, this is a long-winded review, but Precision Effect is highly recommended!
My site will be powered by drupal and I want to know if a vps under $30 can handle instant and huge traffic that comes from digg
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've been reading more and more posts about how a quality network card is important. We build all of our servers from new, quality parts but honestly we always rely on the built in NIC on the motherboard (which are brand name motherboards, but nonetheless)
How can a lesser quality NIC effect a server other than total failure of network activity? What signs should we look for and what are quality brands? My first guess is dropped packets or low throughput. I've also heard of people saying that load can go up from a bad NIC - is there any truth to that?
How well would a website do if it was featured on d-igg with these specs? (assuming it was the only site on the server)
Xeon 2.8, Quad core 4mb cache
4gig RAM
2x73gb SCSI
2,500gb b/w
i have a cpanel server with centos,
and i put a script on it,
and i get the error
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Warning: Unknown: Your script possibly relies on a session side-effect which existed until PHP 4.2.3. Please be advised that the session extension does not consider global variables as a source of data, unless register_globals is enabled. You can disable this functionality and this warning by setting session.bug_compat_42 or session.bug_compat_warn to off, respectively. in Unknown on line 0
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I've been scouring various hosting review sites trying to get a feel of what might be the best fit for me. After reading a few reviews on the WHT forums, I'm down to a choice between Fused Network and Precision Effect. It seems like both are equally preferred by the users here, but I haven't been able to grasp what might be the best fit for a personal site. I don't anticipate needing to upload any massive media files, but I'd like to have the option. The site would mainly be used to showcase my web work, and probably aggregate information from different social networking API's (e.g. Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr).
Some of my questions I have are:
What are the advantages of cPanel over Plesk?
Is 20GB bandwidth a reasonable amount if I'm expecting to be dugg once in awhile?
Is performance/page-loading time noticeably better due to PE's accelerated PHP environment?
Maybe this is overkill for a personal site, but I'd like to find a reliable host that I can stay with for over a year while I construct my online present from the ground up.