Frequent MySQL Downtime
Jul 14, 2007One of my CPanel server often has MySQL downtime randomly.. once every 30-60 minutes
I suspect is an overload or one of the user database is broken.
How do I check and fix?
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Frequent Downtime Of Site
Apr 30, 2008I bought a plan from SurpassHosting and hosted my site, tenshi-dream.net. The domain name was purchased from namecheap.
Recently I noticed that most of the time, only the main page (tenshi-dream.net) can be access but not the rest of the pages (eg. log.tenshi-dream or tenshi-dream.net/network.html)
Hence, I submitted a ticket to SurpassHosting. After investigation, they replied that the cause was not them and told me to contact server2.verygoodserver.com. I have no idea why because when I check Whois database, my domain does not belong to that nameserver.
I wish to move to another host but am afraid that the problem will still persist.
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I can easily point the IP in the script to the new server in 1 second.
However, how to physically move the DB instantly without downtime?
I don't like the idea of export, import and then point IP.
Frequent Rebooting
Jul 14, 2007I have a server that is monitored with a system that automatically reboots if a service appears to be down. The server is being rebooted several times a month and it seems to be getting more frequent.
The server load is almost never high. It's a dual Xeon with hyperthreading and the load is almost always below 1. Practically the only time it goes high is during cPanel backup and it hardly ever reboots during that.
The DC tried replacing the RAM, but a day and a half later it rebooted again.
The server has 1 fairly active MySQL message board and 3 fairly high bandwidth sites (images and video clips), and the rest of the sites are quite small and inactive. One thing the tech said was "Apache gets a lot of traffic so I'm not surprised to see an apache restart once a month or so. You have 115 concurrent connections to apache and over 25,000 hits in the last 2 hours alone" but I've gotten reboots a few times/week.
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i am asking them why only this account getting affected if i have virus in my system.i already moved one site to another host where it is working fine now. Except this problem they are very good. So i can't left them.
if any one has experience this kind of problems, please suggest me what to do?
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Frequent Failure Notices (exim, Clamd, Etc.)
Dec 12, 2007On 11/29/07, I posted the following question, but have received no replies to date:
Quote:
TITLE: Are frequent failure notices common with VPS hosting?
We have a VPS1 account at Liquid Web ($60/month). Below I have copied just the most recent series of failure notices (clamd, cpsrvd, exim, ftpd, mysql, pop, spamd). We tend to receive these by e-mail on a fairly regular basis, accompanied by the usual message "A restart was attempted automagicly."
Since March 2006, when we first switched our web host to LW, there have been well over a hundred of them.
My question is: Are such frequent failures commonplace (i.e.: benign) on a VPS, or should I be concerned about them?
I usually check our web site after receiving each notice, and it is always up by the time I get there. Nevertheless, it would be nice to know if all these occurrences are considered normal. For example, 19 exim failures over a 6.5-hour span on 9/29/07 do seem a bit extreme.
If anyone reading this thread is technically inclined, I'd like to know what process or hardware state is usually responsible for causing such failures.
FYI, I use cPanel in my web browser to administer the site from a Macintosh computer running OS 9.2.2. I have never used SSH, and have also never read any raw logs. If I did, I'm not sure what they would tell me about this, anyway.
I should also say that our site uses nowhere near the capacity provided by our VPS1 account. We are well below the maximum HD space and monthly allowable bandwidth. The site uses only standard HTML, text include files, and GIF/JPG graphics files; no streaming. There is only limited use of a CGI script for routine form submissions, and currently there are no PHP scripts running for BBs, calendars, blogs, chat rooms, or any MySQL databases being used. In short, I would think that the site places little load on the server or its processes.
I would greatly appreciate any feedback.
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/9/07, 11:53 PM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:06 AM mysql on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:06 AM spamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:07 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:07 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:08 AM ftpd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:08 AM named on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/10/07, 2:08 AM pop on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/27/07, 11:42 PM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 12:59 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:09 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:30 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:39 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 1:58 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:10 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:22 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:31 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:41 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 2:50 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:00 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:09 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:40 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:50 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 3:59 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:09 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:19 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:28 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 9/29/07, 7:37 AM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 10/7/07, 11:41 PM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/8/07, 12:42 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/19/07, 12:37 PM exim on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/21/07, 12:43 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/22/07, 12:44 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/23/07, 12:42 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/25/07, 11:32 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/25/07, 11:44 AM pop on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/25/07, 12:06 PM spamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 11/29/07, 12:41 AM cpsrvd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
This morning, I received a total of 17 failure notices over the span of 2h19m, as follows:
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 3:26 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 3:36 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 3:44 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 3:53 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 4:02 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 4:11 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 4:19 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 4:28 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 4:36 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 4:45 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 4:53 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 5:02 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 5:11 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 5:19 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 5:28 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel @ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 5:36 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
cpanel@ host.xxxxxx.net 12/12/07, 5:45 AM clamd on host.xxxxxx.net failed
(Note that our real host name has been replaced above with "xxxxxx" to prevent possible spamming.)
I would appreciate any comments from experienced VPS customers or technicians, as to whether these incidences are considered normal with all VPS accounts, or if they might be indicative of a more severe problem with our web host's (Liquid Web) server.
As I mentioned on 11/29/07, "I use cPanel in my web browser to administer the site from a Macintosh computer running OS 9.2.2. I have never used SSH, and have also never read any raw logs. If I did, I'm not sure what they would tell me about this, anyway."
In the course of reading a number of posts in another WHT thread, there seems to be little agreement on the possible causes. Some have suggested that (1.) there may be "no space left on the device"; (2.) we may be "out of Semaphores" (I have no idea what those are!); (3.) we may be "out of RAM"; (4.) "/tmp is full"; or that (5.) "something is wrong with /tmp permission."
When I inquired in 2006 to Liquid Web's technical support about these recurrent failures, I was told that they are normal with this sort of hosting account. We pay them a hosting fee with the expectation of receiving an accurate diagnosis, but it would be very helpful to receive some impartial, third-party input.
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How Much Downtime Is Too Much Downtime
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Jul 17, 2007i have 150 domains my server I wish it to migrate to a new server I can do restore domains, mail and users and data, stats to new server. I need minimum downtime so I need your's advice step by step which service need to restore first so my user get minimum downtime.
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Quote:
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I have been a loyal customer of LW for the past 2 years (almost)
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on Friday night, the network engineer told me the "DDos Attack" has stopped and problem should have been resolved. However, no websites were accessible.
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Take a look here [url]
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