Dedicated Server Or Collocation For Web Application
Nov 10, 2008
We're a startup company located outside of the US that's deploying a web application that will be used by our clients in New York City and Boston. We're interested in deploying the app on a couple of strong (2XQuadCore with 4GB RAM each) servers. We're running CentOS and our bandwidth requirements are humble (10-100GB a month). Our application is database intensive. We also need 1G Ethernet between both servers, and a VPN SSL connection to the servers.
This is our first time hosting in the US, what would be the best way for us to go?
1. Buy our own servers and have them collocated to a data center?
How can I set dedicated IIS Application Pool for each domain/subdomain? I only can found the setting assign one application pool for each subscription. But my subscription have two subdomain (one subdomain have virtual directory to share to other subdomain) and would like have two application pools.
I have an issue with Plesk 11. I have a few websites with different subscriptions, each running in a dedicated application pool.The moment I access the website (via browser), the application pool is automatically stopped and 503 Service Unavailable is returned.
After I manually start the application pool, it runs (no stop icon for that app pool in IIIS Manager) until the first attempt to load the website is made.
The users for the respective pools are the ones created by Plesk when subscriptions were created.Details: Pesk Panel 11.0.9 Update #53, IIS8, running on Windows Server 2012.
whenever one of my customers tries to install an application from the application installer, they get an error that looks like this.
Error: Installation of WordPress at http://*******.com/wordpress failed. Non-zero exit status returned by script. Output stream: 'PHP Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user 'ndari_wordpres_7'@'aeris.jdrepo.com' (using password: YES) in /opt/psa/var/apspackages/apscatalogSTqEEM.zip7b3ca133-9714-5d/cache/scripts/db-util.php on line 66 '.
Error stream: 'PHP Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user 'ndari_wordpres_7'@'aeris.jdrepo.com' (using password: YES) in /opt/psa/var/apspackages/apscatalogSTqEEM.zip7b3ca133-9714-5d/cache/scripts/db-util.php on line 66 '.Click to expand...
how or who can help do collocation of 1 machine, a provider that can actually order parts, assemble it test it and put it online and the machine still remains under my name in case i need to move it to different datacenter, plus how much usually it costs for collocation for 1 machine, with 2tb bw, at 100mbs port speed ? No idea what all this percentile thing means.
I know everyone is in the collocation game, and wanted to know the best way they think there is to get collocation customers and to keep them happy? How do you go about gettting new customers for all the collocation Data Centers? Let me know what you do different to get new customers and to keep them happy and be with you long term?
I'm going to locate some of my servers in Philadelphia area. And I need a reliable web hosting company that provides collocation solution. I'm thinking of RazorServers.com for this purpose. This company has many possitive feedbacks and their prices aren't very high. Their datacenter is in Philadelphia and has N+1 redundancy. What can you tell me about this company?
currently i have 1 Dedicated server in Leaseweb and 3 Collocation servers .
Please i'm looking for a good company with fair price . and fast support , i don't have a problem to pay for the support every time when i will need . payments by paypal every each month. soon i'll need to host more servers.
I'm currently running some .NET 2.0 apps on a W2003 standard server but am in the process of ordering another server and not sure if I can get by with just a Windows web or Small Business server edition for the OS (because W2003 standard is so ridiculously expensive).
I need to run:
IIS & ASP.NET PHP MySQL
And
VB.NET applications Some 3rd party applications (Mailbee etc.). Email (POP3)
I don't have any clients accessing the server (all users hit the web app) although I do have about 10 or so POP3 accounts. Other than that I just use remote access or LogMeIn for administration.
This is my first post here and this sub-forum seems to be adequate for my question. If it is not, I apologize in advance.
I want to create a web application for an upcoming project of mine that has the potential to attract a large number of people. So the web application needs to be fast and secure at the same time.
I used PHP for minor projects for some time now, and although it is really efficient for quick web development, it _appears_ to me like a house of cards waiting to collapse. If you know how to use it properly, it can be acceptable, but there are still numerous security exploits in PHP itself that have surfaced over the last decade. Additionally, it tends to be quite slow and has a lot of bugs that aren't really security related, but can make your life hard. I've run test scripts (that I optimized for web deployment) on my own computer, and even on my own computer which is way faster (in terms of CPU speed, number of cores, RAM, and so on) than most servers, it runs slow--without any database access! And I honestly don't buy the "your server will spend most time in your database anyway, so don't worry about that" statements. I've tested it with databases that have millions of rows in them, and coded a test script that accesses the table and then calculates stuff from that and outputs it. If I comment out the database access the time needed to execute the script is only marginally reduced. I observed the same in my other projects. I also used Python and the problem seems to be the same.
Now, before the PHP/Python fanboy crowd yells at me: "Google uses Python and Wikipedia uses PHP, too". Yes, I know. But they have a lot of money to throw at the problem and can easily add new hardware if needed (Wikipedia alone has collected over 6m USD in the last year from donations). And a Wikipedia staff member I talked to some while ago told me that it's a miracle that Wikipedia is still running given that it is written in PHP with all its security problems (not my words).
So I thought: why not use a compiled language?
The obvious advantages would be that it is faster, and that I can leave out all the junk that is not needed in my case, thereby decreasing the chance of badly written code running in memory.
I have coded in C and C++ for a long time, including security-critical applications. So I absolutely know how hard it can be to write really secure applications, but I think it is also fair to say that I know how to minimize the risk of buffer overflows, validate user input properly, and so on. I often force myself to review my code some time later, in order to spot coding mistakes that you just won't see the first time. Additionally, I've created a neat string library around the standard library that makes string manipulation as easy as in PHP or Python.
So I continued my thinking: why not use C/C++ for your web applications and 'somehow' interface them with your web server?
And that's the problem--the 'somehow interface'. I don't know what to use that won't be deprecated in like 5-10 years from now. CGI seems to be quite okay, but I heard there's a huge overhead due to loading the executable into memory each time a user requests a page. FastCGI seems to be a better solution, but is not as widely supported.
My question is: What interface should I use if I want my web apps to be compiled? CGI, FastCGI, what else? The interface needs to be supported into the far future, it needs to be efficient and fast. And there's also one more important factor: time. Coding the application itself is an acceptable time loss, but if I can only run the app on a dedicated server and have to manage the whole server myself, this can become quite cumbersome. I'd really like to use a solution that can be run on a managed server.
i developed a socket application to recive data from port.this application recvng data from a unit through port no 4444(Vehicle Tracking unit). this application recvng data and evrything is ok....but some times no anydata is coming in to this application.for eg:if application recves data 2 days after that 2 days it will recve one or two data only....again after 2 days it will recve all data correcly....that means lot of missing data we have....my question is whether this missing data is bse of my socket application or unit?
The manufacturing company telling us unit is sending the data continuiously..but some times this socket application is not recvng data in 2 days interval....i dont know how to solve this issue....is any other setting is required in server to recve data continuously....
i think socket application 100% is ok...unit maufactures telling unit also sending data continuously...then where the problem is???can anybdy share ur idea about this?
I have Apache 2.2 installed on Windows to host a web2py application using wsgi.
Apache crashed once stating it had run out of worker threads, so I inscreased ThreadsPerChild to 500. It has since crashed/become unresponsive without giving anything in the error log.
I set up mod_status, and am looking for understanding what I see when looking at server-status page.
It says 135 requests currently being processed, 365 idle worker. However I don't think there are 135 people connected.
Here's the request lines:
SrvPIDAccMSSReqConnChildSlotClientVHostRequest 0-1253840/0/0W138495448300.00.000.00 ... the line above is repeated identically 125 times 0-1253840/32/32W000.00.460.46127.0.0.1dalgety-svr8.havelock.intGET /server-status HTTP/1.1 0-1253840/0/0W52400.00.000.00192.168.202.109dalgety-svr8.havelock.intGET /HubForms/ProjectFolderIndexing/index HTTP/1.1
[Code] ....
Question:
1) What are those 125 requests, and why are they not exiting. Are they anything to worry about? why is there no Client/VHost/Request? Could they be from the python process? Could they be what's causing the issue?
2) The Acc entry 0/121/121 on /HubForms/capacity_requests/index - is this representative of an issue?
3) When I restart Apache, it typically says "Terminating 375 threads that failed to exit" but that number doesn't match up with anything. Are these the idle threads?
Also I'm not sure what "restart" actually means, i.e. what stops and what stays (i.e. why am I on generation 0-12?).
4) Is any of this anything to do with why Apache becomes unresponsive, or should I be looking elsewhere?
My new plesk 12 windows server was not showing the application vault (even after login as admin user). Hence I have changed the entry enabled = on in the file
C:Program Files (x86)ParallelsPleskadminconfpanel panel.ini as per [URL] ..... Now the application vault is showing well.
My question is, whether this is a new procedure change for Plesk 11/12? I believe, I used to see application vault enabled as default in all my other old servers.
Windows Application 2003 crashed on RAID 5 server, we tried to take the NTFS files from the hardrive and mount them on a knobix which was booted from a cdrom drive. Knopix could read the files but it was unable to mount them I guess for compatiblity reasons.
Is there anyway we can get a backup of that ntfs file and restore our data?
I am currently using a shared hosting but due to increasing traffic and server load my existing host is not able to provide reliable services and I am planning to upgrade my hosting service.
While I was searching for Dedicated Servers, I learnt about Virtual Dedicated Servers but I am not very sure about their reliability? Are Virtual Dedicated Servers useful? My website current serves over 2500-3000 visitors a day resulting in 30,000 pageviews and I am expecting the traffic to grow by atleast 2 folds in the next few months as I start some PPC campaigns and Email Marketing for my website. Can a Virtual Dedicated Server cater such needs assuming my website to be more of less dynamic website written in php?
I've written an application that acts as a game server for a simple game I'm creating. From what my friends tell me you can't run an exe on a webhost. They did however tell me that you can run java apps on a host that gives ssh access.
I want to monitor my application to make sure it is 24x7 uptime, if there is anything interrupt, I will be notified by email/SMS right away. There are several web monitoring service, but they all monitor ports, not application. I have bad experience, like, althoguh the web server is alive, but the application is already dead.
So, I want to monitor application instead of monitor a port. Anybody knows where I may find this kind of service?
One of our customers have a Web Application with Framework 2.0, but many times a day the Application just stop working, if you try to open any file into the application it never answered. We need to restart the Application for solve the problem.
Is posible to know why the application stop working, where can i the logs or something?
We need a good (best?) network/hardware monitoring application for monitoring our servers located at 3 different datacenters and around 50 servers.. I've founded some programs but they don't cover my needs 100%
Basicly I need these;
- Adding servers easily.
- Adding monitoring channel for each servers. (load, network, disk/ram usage etc..)
- Adding users and attaching users to servers seperately. (For example I will add justify user and attach him to server1, will add wht user and attach him the server2 and their permissions will be different and they will have no control on other's servers.)
- Web based controller for users/admins
- I want to install it to my windows/linux servers and monitor all remotely..
When I try and run a Rails application, I got this error:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:406:in `initialize_components': undefined method `first' for :notification_viewsymbol (NoMethodError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:340:in `initialize' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:616:in `connect' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:645:in `named_route' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:651:in `method_missing' from /Users/Mike/Documents/dotherightthing/config/../config/routes.rb:2 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/routing.rb:625:in `draw' from /Users/Mike/Documents/dotherightthing/config/../config/routes.rb:1 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:140:in `load' ... 11 levels... from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/bin/mongrel_rails:85:in `run' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel/command.rb:211:in `run' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/bin/mongrel_rails:231 from /usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails:18
to launch a web/mobile app that requires the users to choose a hosting plan with their account. I was hoping to allow them to choose from 1GB / 5GB and 10GB plans.
I'm curious to know the best place to host such a service, and how it's possible to sell the space so cheap. For example [url]- They seem quite inexpensive for the storage you get.
Would[url]pricing be the best option or is there anywhere better?
I am currently developing a PHP socket server for a flash application that needs constant client -> server communication. I understand that this is not typical for hosting solutions so does anyone know of a host that would allow me to run a custom application running on a non-standard port?
