I wanted to buy a patch panel, so that i can connect all the ports on my switch with cat5e cables to the patch panel, where the patch panel will be facing the back door. In this case, the front side of the rack will look neater.
I saw some of the sample patch panel photographs online, but trying to figure out how i'm supposed to do the wiring to the back of the patch panel. Do i need to take off the RJ45 plastic head, and connect eat and every single copper wire to the back(i hope not)?
I'm searching for a UK supplier of quality (consistently up to CAT5e spec) stranded patch leads. I'll be buying in semi-bulk quantities; I'd estimate 5-10 of each cable, 50-100 in total.
They should be available in at least 0.5m, 1m, 2m and 3m lengths; longer lengths are unneeded. Ideally, they would be available in 10cm increments. Availability of multiple colors is important.
I'm also searching for 24/1U 48/1-2U CAT5e through coupler panels.
[remove spaces in links - the forum doesn't seem to like me even writing URLs] tinyurl.com / 2xdyn2h (unfortunately, I am not allowed to link to them) and tinyurl.com / yw29ch appear to be good. Comments on them would be appreciated.
Cablemonkeys through couplers are, IMO, very expensive for what you get - Mini5 are reasonable. What difference can you see between them? Cablemonkeys do appear to have better cable management.
I've heard of problems with mixing cable and patch panels from different manafacturers, though mostly with CAT6; would this apply with through-couplers?
i have apply the script patch to my server (ssl_v3_disable.sh) plesk 12.0.8 MU 19, CentOS 6.5.i have update the certificate as see the POODLE thread. when i try to send mail i got this message:There was an error sending your message: Could not open secure TLS connection to the server..this only append with horde (roundcube or external soft like thunderbird) work without problem.
I have used the patch : [URL] .... to disable ssl v3.
After I applied the patch getting error below when i try to send email via horde webmail:
There was an error sending your message: Could not open secure TLS connection to the server.
Roundcube can send mails well but horde not. Otherwise since applied the parch i can't get mails from gmail and maybe other providers i don't know yet.
I indicated that I've basically been using my webhosting company as "file storage".
1) I create all my files in .html using notepad
2) My files are limited to .html, .jpg, .gif, (and a couple of .js and .css) files.
3) My domain is not connected with my webhost; I use the nameserver zoneedit.com and I use URL forwarding and mask/cloak the domain the address bar (using multiple domains) as follows:
domain1.com --> forwards to [url]
domain2.com --> forwards to [url]
domain3.com --> forwards to [url]
4) For uploading files, I go to ftp://123.456.78 and drop/drag/copy/paste files into the window using my browser
5) I'm able to password protect the subdirectories as I choose.
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I called my webhost, Hostik, and told them that I was unable to do anything on my web console. I can't change a password, create a user, or even access my usage/bandwidth quotas.
They told me that I'm on an "old server" using the windows-based console (probably C-Panel / Control Panel) and they're in the process over the next three months of transfering everyone over to "Plesk".
So, they set me up with a new Plesk account, while keeping the old one in place, so that I could move/transfer my files to the Plesk account.
When I went to Plesk, I realized things are not the same:
1) In my Control Panel / C-Panel, I had a unique IP URL Address - [url]
2) In Plesk, it seems there's a set IP URL Address - [url] - that everyone shares.
3) I was told that in Plesk, many people use that IP URL address and that I'm supposed to place my files into the "httpdocs" folder.
Appearently, this is a system of shared hosting whereby many people have the same IP URL address (different from what I had before) and it recognizes each account by the login or something, so the "httpdocs" folder would identify my domain.
I was then told that in Plesk, I must have my domain affixed to the Plesk account.
In other words, I can no longer do what I was doing before, having my domain separated in another location and using URL forwarding from an outside nameserver.
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So, my original question is what's the difference between Plesk vs. C-Panel/Control Panel?
Perhaps I answered most of it above.
Is it correct that I can't do things the way I've been doing them so far if that's the case?
It might be that Plesk is not for me and I may need to find a host that gives me my own unique IP URL Address. However, I was informed that not many companies are doing that as most are switching over to Plesk.
In addition, Hostik does not offer multiple domains.
In response to this thread, David recommended I try synhosting.com
synhosting.com has "Multiple Websites". I assume this means mulitiple domains. Correct?
What's my best option at this point?
1) Find a host that has C-Panel / Control Panel (if any there are)?
2) Use a service such as synhosting.com and move all my domains over to them?
3) If I do use synhosting.com, am I required to move my domains over to their nameservers?
4) I have my MX Mail records pointing to Fastmail.fm for my email virtual domains. Would I still be able to do this if my domain is dedicated to a webhost and opt not to use their email feature?
5) Should I get rid of this old-school thought of using my web host as "file storage" and stop this practice of using URL forwarding and cloaking?
I'm building a couple of VPS host servers for a client.
Each server have to host 20 VPS and each server will be 4 cores with 32GB of ram. So CPU and ram should be just fine, my interrogatioon now is hard drives. The company owns the machines, but not the drives yet.
I searched a lot on your forums but found nothing relating on VPS. I'm basicly a DBA IRL, so I have experience in hardrives when it comes to databases, but it's completely different for VPS.
According to my boss, each VPS will run a LAMP solution (having a separeted DB cluster is out of question for some reason).
First, raid1 is indeed a must. There is room for 2x 3.5 drives. I might be able to change the backplane for 4x2.5, but i'm not sure...
I've came to several solutions: 2x SATA 7.2k => comes to about 140$ 2x SATA 10k (velociraptor) => comes to about 500$ 2x SAS 10k with PCIe controller => comes to about 850$ 2x SAS 15k with PCIe controller=> comes to about 1000$
They need at least 300GB storage.
But my problem is that the servers do not have SAS onboard so I need a controller and in my case the cheapest solution is best.
But I'm not sure that SATA 7.2k will hold the charge of 20 complete VPS.
Does it worth it to go with SAS anyway or SATA should be just fine? With SATA better use plain old sata 7.2k or 10k drives?
That's a lot of text for not much: What is best for VPS: SATA 7.2k, SATA 10k or SAS 10k?
I have read about all of the things you have to do with an unmanaged server, and how beginners shouldn't even try. I am pretty smart though I have a lot of experience with cpanel, and I am not worried about getting my feet wet.
This is the system I want:
Celeron 1.7 GHz 1 GB RAM 80 GB HD 1500 GB Bandwidth cPanel / WHm Full root access
How much time would it take to keep the thing running? How do you monitor the server? How do you know when software updates, and patches are available? Can all of the software needed be found for free? What kind of problems would I encounter, and would this be way over my head?
Now iam useing 320Gig SATA harddrive as my primary hard drive,i dont use 2rd harddrive,iam haveing pure download site,in TOP command 4.5%wa is this bit high? or can i add 2rd harddisk and move some data to there to reduce wa,but my load of the server is fine or any way to reduce wa?
Do the old RLX Blade servers use 'mini' hard drives? I can't find an answer anywhere. I seem to recall that they use smaller 2.5" drives. Is this the case?
And, if so, do they make "good" drives worthy of being in a server in that size? Are they essentially just a laptop drive?
[cPanel smartcheck] Possible Hard Drive Failure Soon
ATA Error Count: 1512 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) Error 1512 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11736 hours (489 days + 0 hours) Error 1511 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11736 hours (489 days + 0 hours) Error 1510 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11736 hours (489 days + 0 hours) Error 1509 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11736 hours (489 days + 0 hours) Error 1508 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11736 hours (489 days + 0 hours) ----END /dev/sda--
What do you advice me to do? ask the DC to change the Hard Drive or wait till damaged?
I have a terminal server with a bunch of applications on it, among which is a database driven app. There have been complaints that access to the db is sluggish. right now the server is on just one 7.2k drive.
I am guessing its a hard drive bottleneck because memory and cpu usage seems okay. I have a few ideas. Please tell me which of these you would recommend.
1. Upgrade entire server to raid 10 system.
2. Upgrade the entire server to a 5-disk RAID 5 system.
3. Create two raid 1 setups. One for the OS and regular apps, the second one to host the DB.
4. Create a raid 1 setup for the OS and regular apps, and a RAID 5 setup for the DB.
Ideally I would like to see improved read/write speeds on both regular files/apps and on the database. The RAID 10 system was what I was leaning towards at first because the stripping increases throughput, but then I realized I may see better performance by keeping the regular files and the DB on independent setups so that OS and file read/writes won't affect the DB read/writes.
I have never had a hard drive fail on me, i dont think the I/O on my servers would ever warrant it but im looking to ask people that have had a hard drive die one them the following:
1. Were you ever cautious before your hard drive failure or did you lose data and if you did lose data, did it make you buck up your ideas (i.e do you now have a solid backup plan or do you still play maverick)
2. If you have had a hard drive failure, has it made you, do you think, overly-cautious?
3. Has a hard-drive failure ever swayed you towards the more expensive raptor drives? and if so, why?
This site has always been prone for attacks on it's servers. At the moment theres been a new owner and so things are not settled back down yet, How ever people are still atacking the site.
The hosting as far as i am aware has no software/hardware firewall i have tould the onwer but has not taken my advice.
This morning i woke up to find it was being attacked, so i went stright to SSH and started blocking them etc.
I was looking around for free Anti DOs tools and came across,
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Seems good, I've only just installed so still need to see the effects.
Week ago I decided to rent another dedicated box , install CentOS 5 64Bit and use LiteSpeed as a web server. What seemed to be trivial at start became nightmare later.
I was unable to compile PHP 5 with --with-litespeed and --with-curl directives. If I removed one of them it was ok but together it didn't work.
Tried to search forums but nothing helped, so I decided to go back to Centos 5 32bit and try there. It compiled OK. So I'm in trouble now. I wanted to have server with 64bit OS + LiteSpeed because of its speed, system resources consumption and good DOS protection. I asked several questions about advantages of 64bit over 32bit OS and the most important thing was how much issues can I expect on 64bit OS (libraries availability). Almost every reply said that it's without issues to go with 64bit OS. My experiences say it's not as easy as I expected.
I didn't find any good protection against DOS for Apache so far, mod_evasive doesn't work as I expected. What do you recommend ? Should I stay with apache on Centos 64bit + apache with everything installed via yum (should work OK) or go with CentOS 5 32bit + LiteSpeed there ? LiteSpeed I'm talking about is Enterprise edition.
anyone know any managed dedicated server provider who we can mail our hard disks to? We have a small pipe to the Internet and this is the only avenue we've thought of.
Or perhaps another solution that we haven't thought of?
my hdd2 is in /dev/sdb1 [root@localhost /]# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) /dev/sdb1 on /backup type ext3 (rw)
I just purchased a 500GB ATA hard drive (meant to get SATA but must have misordered, but I don't think it makes that much difference) to replace a 80GB SATA hard drive on a Windows Server 2003 server. There are two partitions on the 80GB drive, and rather than add the new HD as a third partition, I would like to clone the data on the 80GB drive to the 500GB drive, then increase the partition sizes and remove the 80GB completely. Is there a specific method or software I can use to accomplish this?
