So we move to a new dedicated server company (I won't name) only to fine that our mission critical site that is used for customers software to report home to has an extra shared managed firewall on the network we can't access. Irate customers we have to find a new dedicated server company.
Does anyone know a managed dedicated server company in the US or UK infact anywhere that provide managed dedicated servers WITHOUT a firewall shared by a subnet/rack? Our customers can use the software we sell because of a firewall we can't access. cPanel is ideal.
Stress. www.rapidswitch.com in the UK were BRILLIANT but we wanted a full managed package.
What is the most secure way to dynamically change the allowed/banned ip's , and what is the best firewall for this job?
Example:
I have a database table with the ip's to be banned. This ip's can be unbanned or others ip's can be baned automatically by my script. Haw can the script tell to the firewall that an Ip was banned or unbanned? If you can give examples with the firewall on the same server and with an external firewall,
Do you recommend a software firewall when behind a hardware firewall?
All of our servers are behind Cisco ASA 5505 firewalls which we rent from Liquidweb. All are being managed correctly and setup to there optimal levels. With hardware firewalls firmly in place, do you still recommend a software firewall such as APF or IPTables (we're talking linux); in our opinion we see it as an extra administration overhead. If this is however untrue, we will change out thinking.
I've found a dedicated server at a great price and plan to stick with it, my first ( already have 2 vps accounts ). I don't have the money for a hardware firewall. However, I do have a chance to renew a Kerio WinRoute Firewall license from way back.
Does anyone think this would be better than the default windows 2003 firewall?
I would like to ask you what software I need to control VPS - stop it when it expires the owner's account and he must pay agan to use it.
Software must work with VMware, Solaris conteiners (xVM server), Virtuozzo and etc.
What software for billing the VPS can you recommend me?
Is there a second way to control the access to the VPSs? Can I install hardware firewall before the servers witch host VPSs and install billing software on that firewall so when the owner don't pay for the VPS the firewall cuts the access to the VPS.
I have VmWare VPS hosting, I just started and I have few questions. How can I see how much bandwidth each VPS consumes? How can I know if someone is doing illegal activities like spam, file sharing, IRC, etc.? I ask this because I give complete control over VPS to my customers so I don't have access to it, only thing I do is backup of whole VPS image on spare HDD, and network/hardware troubleshooting. So how to control whats happening on my VPS-es?
I tried contacting the live support from fatcow, and he was no help. It was probably just the guy i had but thats not the point. I think i am going to go with them but what control panel do they use?
I'm up Games for Windows VPS servers with VMWare Server ESXi and wonders whether some option to control the traffic of each IP, I thought about using a "Cisco ASA 5500" but I do not know if it has this option:
Xen control panel because I just got a server so I can try out using Xen instead of OpenVZ. Most of the control panel's that I've seen only support OpenVZ at this time. Would anyone be able to suggest a good panel that I could try out or look at?
I know HyperVM is one but can it be trusted as of now? I know that they have people working on it and there are no major hacks right now (at least not yet) but would it be suggested to use it?
I am tired of lxlabs. Bugs have been submitted, especially with Windows VPS, but lxhelp just ignores. If he could not fix, or doesn't have time to fix, he just ignores our requests without any reply.
So, I am looking for another control panel for Xen. I will need it to run on CentOS mostly. And able to create Windows VPS. I only know dtc, but it's built for Debian.
I seem to have the opposite problem of what most people complain about... I'm using some custom-built PHP scripts, the output of which is not getting cached. I want the output cached, because it doesn't change often.
If it's relevant, I'm using ob_start() to serve up a GZIP-compressed page.
I start off with a header("Cache-Control: maxage=3600, must-revalidate"). Yes, it's first, and yes, it's showing up properly in the browser.
However, requesting the page again returns an HTTP 200, not the 304 I'm expecting. It's pulling down the whole page again. It's not changing in between requests, and I'm simply visiting the URL again, not hitting Refresh. (Although it really shouldn't matter.)
I am running vps business and i would like to have your guys advice of which control panel to offer to all om my customers.
Most people leave my services only because they need to have simple control panel for their vps. So im looking for any commercial control panel which i can provide with all of my vps servers. Also It should not use more than 30Mb of ram and and shold not be a cpu hog.
Right now iam looking at ServerCP (as they have a deal when you can buy 100 for 69 dollars) but it needs about 128Mb of ram to function and its just too much.
I am going to setup a SSH tunnel or VPN connection through a VPS server, and want to share it with some friends (like 2-3), so I'd need some way to control the monthly bandwidth of each one.
Is there how to do this? Maybe directly with SSH or OpenVPN, or maybe with other software? It's simple like: 50 GB for each one in 1 month. I know it is complicated, because the IP's are dynamic, so maybe through user account? I have no idea on how to do this... Or maybe a analyzing utility, and later a script to block the user?
It is with fresh OS. I was wondering which FREE control panel should I install on it.
It is a 2.6Celeron with 512MB RAM (soon to be upgraded to 1GB) with Cent OS 5.
My concern is that if in future I am able to find a cheap directadmin external license then I would want to uninstall control panel and will use directadmin.
So i need advice on control panel: Which is FREE Can work for a website (dont need multi domain fancy stuff). Will only host single domain. Can install apache / mysql / email etc. Use apache NOT apache-light. I saw HostInABox but it uses apache-light which dont work well for my website features. Tested it in a VPS earlier. Can uninstall cleanly if needed so that I dont have to reload OS in future inorder to install DA.
How about webmin or ispconfig.
Do they install easily and uninstall cleanly? I am not an expert but am learning quickly.
I'm on a reseller cPanel WHM account with shell access, and this public FTP for uploading maps for a game.
How do I ban FTP users by their IP? (.htaccess wouldn't do the trick)
How do I regulate priviledges/permissions of FTP users?
How do I control (like configuring how the indexing is displayed, for example) /public_html/somedirectory/ through /public_html/.htaccess?
How do I disallow certain filetypes from existing in /public_html/somedirectory/* or to be uploaded?
How do I disallow apache from rendering any html, php, cgi, java, perl, etc files in /public_html/somedirectory/*?
So, if you had a public FTP (not the "anonymous FTP" cPanel can create, but a regular and single user account shared by everyone), how would you protect your free map hosting service from abuse? What protections would you setup? Etc.
I've done some searches but, didn't find what I was looking for.
Which of WHM/CPanel, Plesk and DirectAdmin requires the least memory to function in an adequate manner and what would that amount of memory approximately be?
If there is a significant difference between the three?
A contral panel like WHM costs extra about $5 and I want to save this, if I don't find out, why it makes sense for me. I know WHM and cpanel and I understand, that I need this for configuration as a reseller or customer to configure all, but with a VPS I have root-access. So why do I need a control panel with a VPS?
I'm setting up a system that is really stretching the limits of what FTP can do.
Right now, I have a repository of files that only certain accounts should see, so I have another folder (one for each user) with tons of links to their appropriate files. Now all users must accept some T&C before any downloads, so I'm doing a per-IP permission based on this acceptance.
I'd really like to do this with HTTP, but our clients like the speed and reliability (resuming) that FTP provides. Are there any other solutions out there? Any different technologies? Any other methods I haven't thought of?
I'm just starting to explore the idea of getting dedicated server or good VPS for hosting websites of clients I do php/sql programming for. I want to learn the right way, so I downloaded CentOS iso's and installed the operating system on an old computer, learned how to use yum to install the server software, set up virtual hosts, etc. I would like to give clients ftp access though honestly most of their sites will be hooked up to CMS, but sometime might arise where somebody just wants hosting and not programming. I would like to do without a control panel and try to do as much as possible from command line. For limiting site's bandwidth i found mod_cband. Anybody have expreience with that? Does it work as it is supposed to? Now I'm wondering how to put a quota on how much space client can use on disk, but after much searching haven't come up with an answer. Anybody have any idea how you are supposed to do that? And also, haven't looked into the FTP end of things, as I can't really test that right now on development server, but is it possible to manage FTP accounts solely from command line and editing config files? Whew...I guess that's it for now.
And i like some free control panel,and to doesn't have high memory usage. And tell me the OS what type to have...I have at the moment CentOS. Also i need security,such block ddos attack or flood.
With Virtuozzo, there is the panel to restart the vps and view bandwidth and server resources etc.
For Hyper-V what is there for me, a customer of the service. ie hosts are telling me they dont have a control panel - so how could I restart the hyper-v should the OS crash?
how can i control via IP who can access a site? I want to redirect everyone to /downtime.php and only allow myself IP 1.1.1.1 to access the /index.php page and the entire site
i got a unmanaged vps and i do not know why i often see folders and files ownership belonging to apache instead of myself and i have to manually reset ownership via directadmin file manager or ssh in to do it....can anyone advise me how to fix this problem as in anything i can do to stop all these apache ownership problem...
Another thing about directadmin, i select all folders and files at once trying to reset ownership but i always get an error and have to reset ownership one by one wasting time....
