I am looking to purchase either a VPS1024 or Hybrid1 server from WiredTree this Friday.
The purpose of the server is to house a fairly active phpBB3 forum (10,000 registered members with around 100 members online at any one time). Now what is the benefit of going for the more expensive Hybrid1 ($99 with coupon) compared to the VPS1024 ($71.20 with coupon) - thats almost a $30 difference in price?
In layman terms - am I going to get a greater benefit with the Hybrid1 over the VPS1024?
I am still in a thinking stage and will like to learn from your experience, and was wondering if any of you folks have a hybrid environment i.e. Linux and Proprietary systems and what kind of issues do you run into. And also, what pieces of technology you have - which are open source and which ones you have are proprietary and any changes you anticipate 1 year out.
I'm just posting a little topic here to see what kind of demand numbers and opinions I might get for the Hybrid VPS industry. Hybrid as in semi-dedicated, being packages like 2GB ram, 25% guaranteed processor, etc. "Semi Dedicated" if you will. I've been considering opening up a sub-company of GeekLayer for a few weeks now that sold fully managed xen virtual private server "hybrids", although be it with a slight twist.
I'm curious. I have read some stuff recently about Amazon, Mosso and other clouds. I know Mosso has switched over to a request based pricing model and I realized that I am not sure exactly what a 'request' is.
I think that a hit, as tallied by AWStats, Webalizer, etc. would be the same thing as a request, but I wasn't 100% sure if that was the case with Mosso. I actually contacted Mosso support (someone I know is considering using them) to ask them for clarification on a request. They stated that a page with two images would be three requests, one for each image and one for the page itself. I asked if it was the same as 'hits' and they said no, it isn't. This didn't sound right to me, because my understanding of 'hits' is the same as how he described 'requests'.
So, I figured I would just ask the experts on WHT.
what is the difference between www and public_html? I have hosed my domain in a small hosting company and when i was going through all its folders i found both the folder www and public_html has the same content. but by hosting company asks me to upload all my files into public_html. Iam curious to know the difference between these two folders.
whats the difference between http and ftp ? I have read many references of those but still couldn't comprehend. The internet world is way too many inferior quoting.
What is the difference between RAM and burstable RAM?
What even is RAM!
I ask because I upgraded my server (again) today. I went from 256 RAM, to 512, now to 1024 of RAM. Is 1 gig of RAM good?
Also, I want to know in general if I am getting a good deal here
I have a VPS now with these specs: Dedicated RAM: 1024 MB Burstable RAM: 4096 MB RAID 10 Disk Space: 100 GB FREE Backup Space: 100 GB Premium Bandwidth: 4000 GB Dedicated IP Address: 2 Monthly Price: $119.99
does that seem like a good deal to you?
I ask because I am new to all of this, and don't know if I am getting jipped.
Should a site on this server run fast, if it is a high traffic "tube" site?
I have a partition /dev/sda2 which is mounted to /webroot.
Today, I find that I can't upload any files via IPB (running on lighttpd) So, as usual, I went on SSH and tried df in order to see how much space is left on the server:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on <deleted> /dev/sda2 20641788 19483292 109856 100% /webroot Since lighttpd is running inside chroot, I thought it was the log files but even after I deleted them, it is still at 100% usage. After spending some time, I couldn't find any large files so I did du -hs to see which folder is using large amount of space.
web1:/webroot# du -hs /webroot 2.2G /webroot I'm without a clue on this as what du -hs is telling me and df is different but it seems like the partition is really full.
Any ideas?
Here is the output of tune2fs for reference:
web1:/webroot/var/run/lighttpd# tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 tune2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Filesystem volume name: /webroot Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 62625b28-9ad6-4258-8acc-0bfa0e7b5f48 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large _file Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 2626560 Block count: 5242880 Reserved block count: 262160 Free blocks: 5123494 Free inodes: 2626465 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 16416 Inode blocks per group: 513 Filesystem created: Fri Jun 27 13:34:27 2008 Last mount time: Sun Jun 29 01:11:27 2008 Last write time: Sun Jun 29 01:11:27 2008 Mount count: 7 Maximum mount count: 36 Last checked: Fri Jun 27 13:34:27 2008 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Wed Dec 24 12:34:27 2008 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 First orphan inode: 820811 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: de38e2ce-4ee2-4ecd-a562-16ecb5982500 Journal backup: inode blocks Also /etc/fstab entry for /dev/sda2:
you can get really cheap ones, like $20/year, but you can also get really expensive ones, I've seen over 1k per year.
What is the difference between these? Right now I just use self signed but eventually I'll probably want to get a "real" one to suppress all the warnings. (newer browsers are bad for that, they make it look like the site is down, to a typical user).
I think I'm ready to take the plunge for an unmanaged dedicated server but before I do,
I was wondering what's involved when managing a server (brief summary)?
I've been reading these pages and I'm sure this is within my capabilities.
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Obviously there's more to keep it ticking over smoothly so that's what I'm not sure about. I'm going to go for a server at Limestone Networks with cPanel.
As a VPS customer, are you more likely to spend slightly more on a provider providing the same specs but Virtuozzo instead of HyperVM? Why or why not? I'd love to hear some people's opinions on the matter, as I know people are very divided as to whether Virtuozzo is better than HyperVM or not.
can someone explain the difference in a VPS vs a Shared hosting..?
All I know is it's your own server or virtual..?
i am trying to set up an acct now and having some serious problems.
I can't even find the File manager to add files, images, etc. add email accts, forwarders..etc..
Please help the host's tutorial didn't give me much. Icalled support & they want to charge us to ask for support since it is a un-managed vps. I did manage to update the NS and add the hostname...so I think there are only a few more simple steps. BUT I can't believe the file manager is not there or email set-up.
is there any diffrence between admin_backups and user_backups? They are both stored in my home dir from my dedicated server. Both will also make backups of the MySQL's, emails etc?
I've been personally scanning the web and looked through different webhosting sites and attempted to compare their prices and hosting features. I found that m0st sites offer identical packages, same promises at minimal pricing difference. I've found it very confusing and I'm in dilemma deciding which one to go for. Is it the company's reputation that becomes a deciding factor for this? What if the company is new and they boast that there servers are not so populated therefore possibly better performance?
when i see best prices for colo on a 42u rack its about 600-800$ for a full rack + 20 amp + 1-5 mbps bandwith but when i see the offers for 1u or 2u colo its almost 50-60$. Why is there such a big difference?
