Best Approach For High Availability
Jan 5, 2007
We are trying to develop a design for a cluster of web servers at a single data center which will ensure that the cluster, as a whole, has very, very high availability.
Each of the servers is basically identical. They all serve web pages, and each can act relatively independently of the other.
Our initial thought was to put the servers behind a redundant, hardware-based, load balancing solution. The load balancers would be able to detect if any single webserver went down, and would redirect traffic to the other servers in that case.
An alternative -- less expensive -- solution that has been suggested to us is to use EtherChannel. We're concerned, however, that it might not be as robust an approach as the load balancer solution.
how we can best assure the high availability of our cluster?
Cost is an important consideration for us.
In addition, we'd prefer a solution that allowed for session maintenance. That is, once a user starts interacting with a particular server in our cluster, it would be nice if they could continue interacting with that particular physical server.
As an aside, I'll mention that we intend to implement this approach at two different data centers in different geographic regions, and use round robin DNS to further ensure high availability of the overall set of servers.
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Sep 24, 2009
we are currently planning to implement SAN to our enviroment - VPS hosting.
Al VPS should be placed on the SAN - iSCSI connected to be able live motion etc.
Currently we are fighting with idea of Failover/High avalability.
There has been rumors that dual controller SAN from HP/DELL are much more problematic than single controller versions.
We are also thinking about running some opensource like OpenFiler/FreeNAS/OpenSolaris or NexentaStore on supermicro boxes with SATA or single RAID controller.
But in that case - how make the iSCSI target highly available? Mirroring of the data/space is pretty easy with DRBD or ZFS but when one SAN box goes down, there should be no interruption in iSCSI targe service - no IP change etc..
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Mar 21, 2008
I am having a new mission to achieve and I really need some pro-Windows system to help me with their advices.
I have a server which requires high availability of data and service. Basically the server run a server/client service and all clients makes their operation over this server. The server is a simple Windows 2003 Web Edition server.
My goal is to have one server running (let’s say Tom with IP 192.168.0.1) and one running as stand-by (let’s say Jerry with IP 192.168.0.2) ready to take over if the first server crashes (this would remind pro-Linux some kind of DRBD and Heartbeat server).
So, the the first server run without problem, all transactions are going to be written in the directory “D:/Transactions”. This directory must be saved in real-time to the second server which stands in case of failure...
The first server also run a Windows service, which has to be stopped on the stand-by server and started ONLY if the first server is not working anymore.
I would like also the two servers (Tom and Jerry) to share a virtual IP address on the one which is having the service running, let’s say this IP would be 192.168.0.3.
When the first server goes offline hung or whatever, the second server take over, start the service and does the job of the first - when the first come back online, I re-sync the data from the second to the first and then, I switch it back (or all this fully automated if possible).
NOTE: the service that I need to run is special and is not one of the normal basic Microsoft service, it’s an in-house written service.
My question are :
- What software(s) do I need to do this ?
- Is there anything that I should be aware of ?
- Is there some provider (on both east and west) cost which can provide me help for the hardware part of this project ?
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Jun 17, 2008
This is clearly the next logical step in hosting. Consider what RAID1 did for hard drive availability. Worried about your disk failing? No problem - throw in a duplicate. From a user/admin perspective the mirrored disks appear as one, highly reliable disk. Every modern OS supports this, even cheap motherboards support it, with a minimal amount of configuration.
The perfect high availability cluster should be completely transparent. Think about it... What if clustered hardware allowed you to manage a single instance of your chosen server OS with no worries about hardware/network/power failure?
The closest you can get to this finding a host that will give you a dual power supply server connected to different power feeds, dual network cards connected to different switches, and hot-swappable mirrored hard drives. This solution still doesn't give you any protection from CPU, memory, or motherboard failure.
I want a solution that is as simple to configure and manage as simple RAID1 mirroring.
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Jan 16, 2008
I'm trying to determine what type of hosting setup (and hardware) I'd need for a web-site that expects 50,000 page views daily with peaks around 500,000.
the idea is to have it stable and serving content (almost all of which will be static).
Are there any hosting organizations or hardware configs that people would recommend?
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Aug 10, 2007
I already have a VPS with Knownhost but since i'm hosting a critical application i really need High Availability.
Could anyone recommend a company that can provide me this?
I rent a VPS with them + pay additional tax and they conf a VPS Cluster.
The application is PHP + Mysql based. Everything is stored on MySQL and the PHP is only changed when there is a upgrade. Also, PHP is compiled with Ioncube ( doesn't know if this matters ).
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Jun 28, 2008
We have created an ASP.NET (so solution needs to be windows) web service which other website will access to draw data.
I have been testing GoGrid, whilst the concept is great the uptime is not quite there at the moment, but its only Beta so this is to be expected.
I ideally want a load balanced system, but one that can detect failure and stop directing traffic to the failed server.
Can anyone recommend a company with an option for load balancing with failure detection?
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Aug 1, 2008
has anyone had experience in building high availability systems?
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Oct 1, 2007
As websites are becoming a new and increasing vector for malware attacks, I believe that we as a service provider should carry some responsibility for helping prevent this.
Currently my approach is that of user education (notifying of important patches to the major software I know are used on my servers - phpBB, IP.Board, etc) as well as a weekly cronjob running clamscan on the /home directory identifying any viruses (which is currently doesn't, apart from the EICAR test file I have in my home directory to ensure that it works).
However, is this all I can do, or is there more? Is weekly enough for a virus scan? It's quite an expensive job to run CPU time wise, so I don't particularly want to run it too often.
Is ClamAV a good enough tool for dealing with web-based threats? It's reviewed well for a virus scanner, but I'm not sure how appropriate it is for what I want (I use it for mail scanning also). I've been considering using Sophos Anti-Virus instead.
What are your approaches to preventing web-based malware being delivered using your servers?
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Jan 11, 2007
Is anyone aware of the current availability of colocation space at Equinix in Ashburn, VA? We are currently trying to obtain some space with them but getting my dedicated sales contact to respond is like pulling teeth! Are they so full (and thus full of themselves) that we will have to operate on THEIR terms (if at all)? At this point we are soliciting quotes from other datacenters of known lesser quality just so we can get this deployment live...
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Apr 18, 2008
where I can now ip is availble or not? and how i buy it?
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Nov 3, 2009
Has anyone been able to find any compatible RAM in 2G DIMMs for the SuperMicro X8SIL motherboard running either Corei7 or X34** LGA1156 processors? And what about reasonably priced 4G modules? I just want to make sure to purchase the right RAM before moving to a setup with this board / processor. Unless the RAM for this is crazy priced, I really don't want to go the Core2 Quad route when for about the same I can go with the newer LGA1156 stuff. But I have seen where people are having issues with RAM compatability and availability.
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Jan 6, 2009
any recommendations for a website availability monitoring service? That is, I'd like a service that checks my site regularly, say every 5 minutes, and then calls my cellphone /txts-me if it ever goes down.
Googling around turns up a sizable number of places that do this. But, I'd like to make I'm going with somebody who's reasonably good.
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Feb 20, 2008
I have a cPanel server with 4GB RAM
My server hangs time to time, once or twice a day. This is the last status when it happens.
Server Load 75.90 (2 cpus)
Memory Used 92 %
Swap Used 65.78 %
When I was still inside SSH when it happens, the processes I can see inside "top" are a lot of httpd processes.
So I "killall -9 httpd", I had to do it 30~40 times
#killall -9 httpd
#killall -9 httpd
#killall -9 httpd
x 30~40 times until no pid process found & the server load is back to normal.
Before that, I check httpd fullstatus, they look very normal, same goes to what I see inside WHM Apache status & cpu usage status.
At first I thought it was a memory problem after consulting with a server admin, so I replaced all 4GB new ram stick (such a waste)
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Nov 14, 2014
This is my free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1998 1903 95 0 45 542
-/+ buffers/cache: 1315 683
Swap: 2662 36 2625
Not good ....
I got 5 wordpress and 5 statics website on this server and 100 visitors by 24H00 each day.
Question 1 : Why the memory is so low and the swap so high ?
Question 2 : Why i don't find high usage process in top command ?
Question 3 How can i resolve this problem ?
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Oct 31, 2009
My server is very slow, High CPU, High Apache load....
I got a new server and i had setup a script on it.
No server tweaks has been done.
I run a filehosting site so it gets very slow when traffic is high.
Here is some info:
Code:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4135 filedip 19 0 12812 8892 2212 R 18.9 0.4 0:00.74 index.cgi
3140 apache 15 0 22624 9604 2768 S 17.3 0.5 1:54.45 httpd
3556 apache 15 0 22792 9592 2768 S 17.3 0.5 0:43.53 httpd
3739 apache 15 0 22672 9556 2744 S 17.3 0.5 1:09.67 httpd
3884 apache 15 0 22664 9560 2744 S 17.3 0.5 0:23.98 httpd
3474 apache 15 0 22672 9572 2756 R 16.1 0.5 1:34.09 httpd
3548 apache 15 0 22792 9560 2740 S 16.1 0.5 1:33.67 httpd
3991 apache 15 0 22640 9588 2756 S 15.1 0.5 0:22.44 httpd
3475 apache 15 0 22672 9580 2756 S 13.2 0.5 1:31.42 httpd
3493 apache 15 0 22664 9592 2768 S 12.9 0.5 1:15.52 httpd
3769 apache 15 0 22664 9580 2756 S 12.9 0.5 0:45.19 httpd
3638 apache 15 0 22664 9576 2756 S 12.3 0.5 0:32.82 httpd
3724 apache 16 0 22664 9580 2756 R 12.3 0.5 0:34.25 httpd
3626 apache 15 0 22672 9580 2756 S 11.7 0.5 0:52.54 httpd
4023 apache 16 0 22792 9560 2740 R 11.3 0.5 0:13.16 httpd
3882 apache 15 0 22664 9576 2756 S 10.1 0.5 0:38.56 httpd
3005 apache 15 0 22672 9588 2768 R 9.1 0.5 2:06.61 httpd
I dont know much about server managment...
how to fix this so server doesnt go slow?
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Jul 2, 2009
I have a site that is eating up my server resources and need to know what the best solution for this is. I'm thinking of getting another server just for mysql but do not know what specs the server should be to handle the current traffic/database load and have the site run smoothly without slowing down to a snail's pace.
An alternative is to get another server just for the videos being served and leave the database and html on the current server. This is where I'm stuck and don't know what route to take with this.
My current server stats:
Dual Xeon 5130
4GB RAM
250GB
50 Mbit/sec
CentOS 3.9
Website traffic stats:
15,000 visitors/day
150,000 pageviews/day
Serving videos
I've attached screenshots of top and bandwidth usage per day. Hopefully with this information you could tell me if I need another server or if there are any things I can do to the current server to help things move faster.
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Jul 2, 2008
I am running in a High load problem lately. I have one of those cheap 1and1 servers which was running fine until 2 weeks ago. Once I rebooted accidentaly, it did not come back with some unrepairable kernel errors and I had to re-image it.
I chose to reimage the server with CentOS 5, for better support. The new re-image worked fine for some days, at least so I thought and now I am having high loads. The server crashes if not monitored every moment as the load is unpredictable.
Just a restart of the Apache will bring the server back to normality, but I am not sure if it is apache or some other script to be blamed.
I have beeing monitoring through apache server-status, but I cannot organize something unusual in the high load moments.
At this moment for example:
top - 09:00:36 up 15:43, 3 users, load average: 3.57, 4.60, 5.32
Tasks: 144 total, 2 running, 142 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.6%us, 6.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 18.7%id, 63.5%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st
12:00:29 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
12:10:01 AM all 9.14 0.00 5.52 44.66 0.00 40.68
12:20:14 AM all 6.83 0.00 3.98 27.88 0.00 61.32
12:30:10 AM all 6.44 0.00 4.20 81.25 0.00 8.11
12:40:09 AM all 5.25 0.00 4.09 81.93 0.00 8.73
12:50:15 AM all 5.11 0.00 3.79 90.74 0.00 0.36
01:00:07 AM all 7.22 0.00 4.52 57.11 0.00 31.15
01:10:13 AM all 6.89 0.00 4.01 55.38 0.00 33.71
01:20:14 AM all 4.37 0.00 3.27 41.88 0.00 50.48
01:30:25 AM all 4.26 0.00 3.29 63.42 0.00 29.03
01:40:06 AM all 27.18 0.00 4.75 58.27 0.00 9.80
01:50:03 AM all 29.64 0.00 6.61 51.50 0.00 12.25
02:00:07 AM all 27.00 0.00 8.48 55.49 0.00 9.03
02:10:10 AM all 19.29 0.00 4.97 73.80 0.00 1.94
02:20:04 AM all 37.85 0.00 6.78 40.70 0.00 14.67
02:30:05 AM all 15.65 0.00 4.80 68.47 0.00 11.08
02:40:08 AM all 9.06 0.00 5.60 37.49 0.00 47.86
02:50:07 AM all 5.36 0.00 3.62 42.29 0.00 48.73
03:00:02 AM all 6.05 0.00 4.08 47.27 0.00 42.60
03:10:02 AM all 4.22 0.00 3.68 38.17 0.00 53.93
03:20:02 AM all 4.06 0.00 3.75 41.37 0.00 50.82
03:30:22 AM all 4.42 0.00 3.93 45.25 0.00 46.41
03:40:11 AM all 4.34 0.00 3.95 39.58 0.00 52.13
03:50:02 AM all 4.67 0.00 4.01 32.53 0.00 58.80
04:00:08 AM all 3.72 0.00 3.87 28.40 0.00 64.02
04:10:02 AM all 13.49 0.00 6.58 20.82 0.00 59.10
04:20:01 AM all 6.70 0.00 4.63 6.06 0.00 82.61
04:30:02 AM all 1.44 0.00 1.21 4.75 0.00 92.59
04:40:01 AM all 12.42 0.00 8.12 7.65 0.00 71.81
04:50:02 AM all 1.43 0.00 1.07 4.02 0.00 93.47
05:00:02 AM all 1.60 0.00 1.40 8.62 0.00 88.38
05:10:10 AM all 3.80 0.00 3.02 17.86 0.00 75.32
05:20:06 AM all 5.10 0.00 4.22 23.34 0.00 67.34
05:30:02 AM all 1.54 0.00 1.40 11.22 0.00 85.85
05:40:05 AM all 1.75 0.00 1.89 13.12 0.00 83.23
05:50:12 AM all 2.15 0.00 2.22 18.92 0.00 76.72
06:00:02 AM all 1.92 0.00 2.01 12.87 0.00 83.20
06:10:02 AM all 2.27 0.00 2.16 11.53 0.00 84.04
06:20:03 AM all 3.56 0.00 3.02 25.26 0.00 68.16
06:30:10 AM all 2.66 0.00 2.05 18.13 0.00 77.16
06:40:02 AM all 2.58 0.00 2.25 22.87 0.00 72.30
06:50:02 AM all 2.68 0.00 1.92 15.77 0.00 79.63
07:00:03 AM all 3.06 0.00 2.48 26.01 0.00 68.46
07:10:03 AM all 3.65 0.00 3.20 36.54 0.00 56.61
07:10:03 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
07:20:03 AM all 4.40 0.00 3.28 43.86 0.00 48.46
07:30:02 AM all 4.10 0.00 3.17 31.30 0.00 61.43
07:40:06 AM all 7.67 0.00 3.95 50.79 0.00 37.59
07:50:02 AM all 4.72 0.00 3.11 44.30 0.00 47.86
08:00:03 AM all 5.57 0.00 3.72 47.15 0.00 43.56
08:10:07 AM all 10.66 0.00 3.59 71.62 0.00 14.13
08:20:17 AM all 5.67 0.00 3.42 58.81 0.00 32.10
08:30:10 AM all 11.12 0.00 3.49 76.71 0.00 8.67
08:40:03 AM all 7.00 0.00 3.36 47.94 0.00 41.71
Average: all 7.53 0.00 3.76 38.90 0.00 49.81
Some configurations:
The reimage partittioning looks like this:
/dev/sda1 950M 138M 765M 16% /
/dev/sda5 4.7G 1.9G 2.9G 40% /usr
/dev/sda7 63G 58G 5.0G 93% /var
/dev/sda6 4.7G 23M 4.7G 1% /home
none 1.0G 500K 1.0G 1% /tmp
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 300
KeepAliveTimeout 15
<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers 10
MinSpareServers 20
MaxSpareServers 50
ServerLimit 256
MaxClients 180
MaxRequestsPerChild 2000
</IfModule>
<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-locking
query_cache_limit=1M
query_cache_size=32M
query_cache_type=1
max_connections=250
interactive_timeout=100
wait_timeout=20
connect_timeout=10
thread_cache_size=80
key_buffer=64M
join_buffer=1M
max_allowed_packet=16M
table_cache=512
record_buffer=1M
sort_buffer_size=1M
read_buffer_size=1M
max_connect_errors=10
thread_concurrency=2
read_rnd_buffer_size=1M
myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
server-id=1
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 3
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2793.324
cache size : 1024 KB
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Nov 8, 2008
I have extremely high CPU load average, but when I run TOP command there are not any process with high CPU
CPU load averages:
211.65 (1 min) 227.29 (5 mins) 247.89 (15 mins)
Tasks: 364 total, 2 running, 360 sleeping, 2 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 99.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2065460k total, 2012372k used, 53088k free, 60964k buffers
Swap: 2040212k total, 3280k used, 2036932k free, 619900k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
19871 root 15 0 4944 2488 1656 R 1 0.1 0:02.73 top
1 root 15 0 4208 1320 1136 S 0 0.1 0:01.55 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.77 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.16 ksoftirqd/1
6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.04 events/0
7 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.65 events/1
8 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
9 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
35 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.15 kblockd/0
36 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
37 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
127 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:13.16 ata/0
128 root 16 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1
129 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:01.15 ata_aux
130 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
158 root 16 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
159 root 15 0 0 0 0 D 0 0.0 0:01.00 pdflush
160 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:10.68 kswapd0
161 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
So my server is "unresponsive" for abour 18 hours, burst net didnt answer my tickets and I dont know what to do. Ive been with this setup for almost 5 months with no problems, No changes have been made to hardware or software.
Im using Centos 5.0
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Apr 14, 2009
When I run the top command on my server, my output is as follows:
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Tasks: 515 total, 50 running, 363 sleeping, 1 stopped, 101 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.1%us, 2.6%sy, 94.3%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1026792k total, 976680k used, 50112k free, 27548k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 466248k used, 1630224k free, 251920k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
400 nobody 17 1 48592 18m 6956 R 20 1.9 0:17.65 lsphp5
6925 nobody 17 1 50008 17m 4048 R 20 1.7 0:06.15 lsphp5
13819 nobody 17 1 47900 14m 3372 R 17 1.4 0:04.23 lsphp5
24392 nobody 17 1 51084 16m 4304 S 11 1.6 0:13.07 lsphp5
3339 nobody 16 1 50620 17m 3876 D 11 1.7 0:08.43 lsphp5
358 nobody 17 1 49260 17m 5352 R 10 1.8 0:13.00 lsphp5
4059 nobody 17 1 47824 15m 4688 S 9 1.6 0:08.23 lsphp5
26979 nobody 16 1 51220 19m 5392 R 9 1.9 0:12.04 lsphp5
11864 nobody 17 1 48592 15m 4376 R 8 1.6 0:03.76 lsphp5
381 nobody 17 1 52100 19m 4576 S 7 1.9 0:09.34 lsphp5
4056 nobody 17 1 48564 15m 3932 R 7 1.5 0:06.58 lsphp5
12838 nobody 17 1 48856 16m 4088 R 7 1.6 0:06.11 lsphp5
6924 nobody 17 1 51060 15m 4188 R 6 1.6 0:04.36 lsphp5
14343 nobody 17 1 47736 13m 2712 R 6 1.3 0:00.18 lsphp5
11848 nobody 17 1 48580 16m 5268 S 5 1.7 0:06.18 lsphp5
11862 nobody 17 1 48124 14m 3848 R 5 1.5 0:04.23 lsphp5
14293 nobody 17 1 47872 13m 3020 S 5 1.4 0:00.84 lsphp5
=====================================
lsphp is my webserver (litespeed). The sleeping processes are my SHOUTcast servers.
The thing I am concerned about is the "94.3%ni". This is slowing down my server completely and I am not too sure of what it is. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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Jun 24, 2009
My VPS holds about 80 domains and low-use accounts.
Every night, from around 1.30am, the load suddenly skyrockets and will usually be around 5 to 10 for a few hours. Occasionally it'll spike to 30+ for a few minutes.
I had some antispam software running, and a couple of other packages (mail queues, mail manage etc), so I disabled all of that and removed all the crontab entries etc.
It's not really made any difference.
I can see the load stats going back 8 hours, as part of the ASSP spam package (I've just left the ASSP server load cron running just so I can continue monitoring it!)
Can the apparent load on my VPS be caused by other VPS's on the same node?? So in reality, my load is fine but is being affected by other people's VPS's?
I hope that makes sense. I'm 99% sure that my VPS is 'clean' (in so far as cron entries)
I'm asking the question because I took a second VPS on the same node and that one too has high loads overnight when there's nothing running on it (ie, no add-on software, no Cpanel accounts added)
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Apr 19, 2009
I have a VPS with LXadmin control panel and 1024 Ram.
the memory always 333-450 but now it is more than 800 and the VPS stopped I restarted it many times but after restarting it the memory gone crazy again.
So, how to know what causes high load and eating my Memory?
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Apr 25, 2009
Anyone know of any good/cheap high-bandwidth VPS providers? Don't need anything crazy as far as processing power or RAM (512MB with no burstable is fine). Sorta like Slicebox's budget servers, which I've had good experience with.
To e upfront, the box will be used for a little bit of testing, etc. but mostly to seed the latest Windows 7 builds :p. Don't think Microsoft minds all that much...Win7 requires a legitimate beta key to activate (which I have, and I'm not giving anyone mine) and it's a whole lot cheap for them to let people download over BitTorrent than Akamai, which they normally use.
So, any ideas? EU isn't out of the question...anywhere with a lot of/unmetered bandwidth for cheap, and a VPS that's reliable + has at least 512MB of memory for prices comparable (or slightly lower than) to Slicebox.
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Jun 16, 2009
I've a remote download site that uses tons of BW (about 900GB daily), and it uses sql connection quite alot - I've set it to max connection for my current server.
For now, I've the intention of separating main site with download server. where The main site will contains the sql DB. But my concern is, I want to buy a cheap VPS for the main site, but no idea if I need high BW and ram.
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Mar 31, 2009
I've got a dedicated with LW.
I've had it for a while and during that time I've never seen the swap memory go over 20%.
A month or so ago, I had the server upgraded to 8GB of ram to make room for more planned sites.
Since then, the swap memory has gone rampant. It regulary goes to 93% used with less than 20% of the regular ram and really no load on the server.
I've contacted support twice about it and was told don't worry it's normal.
From what I've read in the cpanel forum, no it's not normal and may in fact be caused by bad ram chips and if it hits 100% could freeze the server.
There are no processes or users causing it, so It's something else.
Has anybody had this type of problem that they resolved and could share what they did to resolve it?
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May 12, 2009
What is the point of a high end quadcore cpu with 7200 rpm sata drives ?
i see tons of offers with really nice cpu's with either a single sata drive or 2 drives on crappy fake raid.
I have old dual single core xeon servers under 50% cpu usage that end up hitting the disk IO wall before they ever get to over 60% cpu usage.
Either me and my customers dont user software thats crap and eats up cpu for no reason or im missing something.
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Oct 21, 2009
i have a vps and its quite a new one since i just ordered it and transfered everything from my previous..
But im getting really high cpu useage and im wanting to know whats best ways to optimize this...
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Jan 2, 2009
I host a podcast that's rapidly gaining popularity. At the moment, we push about 100gb/day of transfer for the episodes, but could easily double that in the next few months. I need a host that does at least 2tb a month with the ability to later upgrade to more. My operating budget is about 110$/month, but could go a little higher if needed.
Most of our activity is composed of sending files, so usage is pretty low. I'd probably only need a few gb to store the actual content (30mb mp3 files). It's also important that Adult material is allowed (the content of the audio podcast is explicit).
I'm aware of FDC and AT&T, but would like any other recommendations you guys could give.
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May 5, 2009
Anyway I can trace down who is doing it or what is going on?
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Oct 29, 2009
i have problem in time_wait it's very high
netstat -an|grep ":80"|awk '/tcp/ {print $6}'|sort| uniq -c
13 ESTABLISHED
15 FIN_WAIT1
2 FIN_WAIT2
1 LAST_ACK
2 LISTEN
10 SYN_RECV
1026 TIME_WAIT
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Oct 5, 2009
I have a Shared Hosting , and a Vps . i use the VPS to Storage Audio files and Leach to them from my Shared Hosting . the shared hosting Only Has Some php, and Html pages with the links to leach from the vps ..
Now which One Gets The Load , or which one is the One Suffering the Load . the Shared Hosting or the VPS ..
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