I select a vps of Smokyhosts last friday, but I found the clock of it an hour off the correct time,
eg. I set the timezone to UTC, the correct NTP time is 3:00, but the clock of vps is display 2:00, It's an hour before the correct time.
I think this is an error when they first set the clock of host node, I send several tickets to Smokeyhosts support, but they told me I can set to another timezone not in my country, I think this is not reasonable.
and they told me they do not allow any time change requests for the hardware node even if it's error.
Since the clock of VPS is an hour error, even if I can set another timezone not my country. but if I have a forum on this VPS, and user can set their own timezone settings, they would be puzzled to find what they seclectd timezone is always an hour off,
I must be explain this to them? I think this is not acceptable.
I understand the NTP would be impossible to all VPS, but they should ensure the host node's clock is correct relatively, now it's an hour off, I think they can correct this easily if they would like to do.
another small question is when I get the vps, Mysql was installed, but the user "mysql" is not exist in system, So mysql service can't start, I add this myself, and it's ok.
Now all other things looks well except the clock.
their support always response quickly, i'm very satisfied with them.
I got a VPS with smokyhosts in summer of 2007, and now is as good a time as any to write a review here on WHT (where I found them in the first place).
Quite honestly, the reason I went with them initially was that they were the only ones meeting my requirements (price!) at the time - with their discount offer.Support My VPS was setup fairly quickly. I made the payment during the night and had the access details when I checked again in the morning, can't say exactly how many hours but surely fewer than five.
In all, I've called upon their support three times -DNS settings in resolv.conf got cleared (and I obviously didn't know what they were before) - they responded with the nameserver IPs, which I then put in myself.
VZPP backups not working due to some reverse DNS issue - Fixed overnight.
My IP range blacklisted at outblaze (I contacted Outblaze, who obliged by whitelisting my IP) - I also contacted smokyhosts support, so that they'd be able to identify which one of their clients caused this. Not sure of the action taken one this.
I always was ready for the "unmanaged" service I had purchased - so I always asked for support I "deserved" and not what I thought "would have been cool to have". eg., instead of "I'm unable to send emails" I first found the root cause myself and then did a "my NS settings are messed up - please re-send details" instead.
All in all, although I never really taxed their support with anything large (which in itself might be considered a good thing), I always got satisfaction when I did.Uptime I have been with two other VPS providers before this and I have to say the uptime here has been the best.
There hasn't been an instance when I wasn't able to reach my site (or someone else reported having problems) when I wasn't aware of the issue beforehand. I was always notified in advance.
I'm not having site monitoring/tracking so no numbers, unfortunately.
Total of three known downtimes. The longest one being due to data center outage.
But if it's any good - my VPS's uptime as of writing this is 154+ days and even the last restart was of my doing.Speed On my VPS I'm only running three low-to-medium traffic sites for my friends - one SMF forum and two wordpress blogs. That includes HTTP/SQL/MAIL/POP/IMAP/FTP ... the works).
Mainly command line administration assisted by an extremely light control panel (ISPCP - for my friends to manage their own sites).
Each of my friends is happier now with the speed/stability than with previous VPS providers (slower speeds) or shared hosting providers (messed up/badly configured/unstable hosting environments).
Server load as of writing this, with 6 users online on the SMF forum - 0.07 0.06 0.03. The only times I've seen load figures close to 1 are during the nightly backups that ISPCP does (gzip).
Data transfers are slower than you'd expect with a 10 mbit connection, but still good enough. Various site speed test tools report that my SMF forum loads in about twice the time WHT does.Overall
My hosting requirements are pretty simple (and easily met, imo) - a plain-vanilla, no-frills, unmanaged, low-medium config VPS with an excellent uptime. Constant/recurring nagging issues, no matter how trivial, are a total turn-off - I like my environment to be stable.
So far smokyhosts has met these requirements pretty well.
I understand I'm supposed to report my own post and submit one of the domains hosted ?
I have an VPS at cheapvps.co.uk since November 2007. It has worked like a charm until a week ago. Since the massive crack from last week and the subsequent shutdown & boot, the clock on my VPS is going crazy.
Clock is really accelerated, a minute in the real world equals to more than 2 minutes within the VPS. I'm having lots of problems with dates in the future, and cheapvps support team is working to get this solved with no success.
One of our server's system clock seems to gradually creep away from the correct time. It has been causing us a lot of issues. After one day it becomes more than one hour off. After each minute it becomes a few seconds off.
Any ideas what could be causing this? It's uptime is ~2 months so it doesn't happen when it goes offline, it happens while it is running.
Right now we have a cronjob running ntpdate every few minutes as even with the ntpd service running it would end up off by several minutes when we would check. I have a feeling this isn't a very reliable fix though.
There is serious clock skew all across the 4 CTs I have put in an OpenVZ HN which runs Debian GNU/Linux, the kernel Linux is v2.6.26, waldi tree. The HN shows correct time, the CMOS RTC is bang correct.
Let me try this question in here as I think there are many companies in here who have remote employees.
Can anyone recommend an online punch clock system to keep track of employee time in's and out's? We would need something that is easy to do payroll and it has to be online so remote users can easily access it.
Is this behavior normal when running a utility such as bonnie++?
I'm running bonnie++ to check for the performance of my drive. When it gets to the part of Writing with putc()... the syslog starts to pop the message in the screen saying:
Message from syslogd@machine at Wed Jun 20 18:06:41 2007 ... machine kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal
I'm using the following OS:
OS CentOS 5
This is the uname information:
Linux machine.domain.com 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:46:53 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This is the output of bonnie++
[root@machine ~]# bonnie++ -x 3 -u 0 -n1 Using uid:0, gid:0. name,file_size,putc,putc_cpu,put_block,put_block_cpu,rewrite,rewrite_cpu,getc,getc_cpu,get_block,get_block_cpu,seeks,seeks_cpu,num_files,seq_create,se q_create_cpu,seq_stat,seq_stat_cpu,seq_del,seq_del_cpu,ran_create,ran_create_cpu,ran_stat,ran_stat_cpu,ran_del,ran_del_cpu Writing with putc()...done Writing intelligently...done Rewriting...done Reading with getc()...done Reading intelligently...done start 'em...done...done...done... Create files in sequential order...done. Stat files in sequential order...done. Delete files in sequential order...done. Create files in random order...done. Stat files in random order...done. Delete files in random order...done. bigblue.diversityjobs.com,8G,63756,90,96753,25,43654,9,66384,94,104946,10,292.7,0,1,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++ Writing with putc()... Message from syslogd@bigblue at Wed Jun 20 18:06:41 2007 ... bigblue kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal done
Message from syslogd@machine at Wed Jun 20 18:06:43 2007 ... bigblue kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled
I am running windows 2003, and I patched it with the timezone windows update, everything was fine, but when I looked today, the clock is one hour slow.
But when I run my php scripts, it shows the time being correct. I thought php grabbed the time from the system? Perhaps this is just a bug with the clock, and the internal system time is correct? It is the only thing I can think of.
which type of CPU would be better for a web server that will run Windows, PHP, ColdFusion, mail, DNS, and IIS. Would a dual core CPU with a higher clock speed do better than a quad core CPU with lower clock speed? For instance, would a dual core 3 Ghz processor do better than a quad core at 2.4Ghz?
I'm trying to upgrade from php 5.2.0 to 5.2.2 but for some reason I receive the following errors:
/scripts/easyapache
Quote:
make [@php-5.2.2]...(-j 2 clean)....Done make [@php-5.2.2]...(-j 2)................................. Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:17 2007 ... matrix kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:17 2007 ... matrix kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold
Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:17 2007 ... matrix kernel: CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode
Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:17 2007 ... matrix kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode .............. Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:31 2007 ... matrix kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold
Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:31 2007 ... matrix kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold
Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:31 2007 ... matrix kernel: CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode
Message from syslogd@matrix at Sat Jun 2 15:06:31 2007 ...
I have worked with VMWare quite a bit, and have found that no matter what tweaking you do a clock skew of up to a minute (relative to the host clock, itself kept accurate enough via NTP) is unavoidable at times, at least for a Linux 2.6.x based guest.
Do any of the common technologies allow guests to be kept more closely in sync with the host clock and so be more accurate (assuming the host's clock isn't wide of the mark, of course)? Do some of the technologies work OK with using NTPd to regulate the guest clock (under VMWare this is bad idea as it "conflicts" with VMWares own clock synchronisation method potentially making things worse than they otherwise would be).
The reason for the question is that I'm playing with some code that will run on a few different locations and while I can use an external source to fake a clock to the accuracy I want (+/- a second or two) most of the time, I wouldn't have to if I could rely on the VM's wall-clock being that accurate. If the project goes anywhere (my toy projects usually don't!) it would use real machines, but at this stage I'd rather avoid that expense/hassle.
Can not change in 24 hour Clock mode Plesk 12?The scheduled backups start false, because in Plesk 12 running 12 hours mode.The language in Plesk is German.
