I have 2 servers. How do I setup the DSN for these 2 servers with my domain? For example, I have domain "mydomain.com" and server1 and server2. I want
ns1.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com --> server1
ns3.mydomain.com, ns4.mydomain.com --> server2
Both server installed cPanel/WHM.
We have two in-house servers, one is hosting our public web server. The other one was just purchased to host a mirror of the production server (as a backup). The site is protected by an SSL cert... my question is how do i set up the server(s) so if/when the backup server needs to be switched into produciton, the SSL cert will transition flawlessly?
They are both apache 2 servers.
I know this is kids stuff to you guys but i wanna verify how to that correctly.
I have a dedicated server with cpanel. So i setup nameservers there. like ns1.ABC.com and ns2.ABC.com
So now i wanna host ABC.com in that server. My registrar is Godaddy.
So how to setup at godaddy? can anyone guide me.
Is it like make hosts like ns1 and ns2 and put the IPs from the server in the fileds?
Then i have to put the nameservers fileds also ns1.abc.com and ns2.abc.com too. Or just making ns1 and ns2 hosts enough?
We are currently looking into getting a new setup to serve our online store, and I would be thankful for feedback as to which servers to choose.
Today almost the entire store is on a single three year old dual proc/dual core server (4 gb ram, RAID5) that is beginning to get overloaded. (There is also a simpler secondary server that serves some static content and does some cron jobs.)
The system is a in-house developed LAMP (where the P is mod_perl/Mason). The database is rather large, two tables with 2-6 million rows are hit multiple times on most public pages - these grow with ~10% per year. Several other often-used tables are in the few-hundred thousand to a million rows, also continuously growing.
We anticipate rapid sales/visit growth over the next couple of years (a good day today is 6000-8000 visits), so I'm thinking of separating the database and web server. The most likely hosting candidate right now is Softlayer's WDC data center (we are located in Europe).
With that background, does this sound like an adequate setup:
Database server
Dual Xeon 5430 - 2.66GHz
8GB ram
RAIDed 3x73GB (or possibly 147GB) (15k rpm). I'm thinking RAID1? The big tables are not written to too much during the day, so read performance is more important than writing.
Web server
This (these) would be serving the Apache/mod_perl part of the system. Some static content (images and some PDFs) unless we put them on a separate server (all static content are placed in a single folder so it would be easy to do a mod_rewrite to an image server).
Dual Xeon 5050 or 7320
4GB ram
2x73GB (SCSI 10k rpm) RAID1
I don't think we need to load balance between two web servers from the beginning but that is something we will keep in mind (and hopefully have to do at some point). Are the two configurations sane (or is one overkill compared to the other)? Generally, how many web servers can a single database server serve? Email is handled separately (Google Apps). I estimate our budget to not more than $1000-1500 a month (if we go with Softlayer we will most likely use some other services such as firewalls, SAN and so on).
We currently use Suse, I have previously used RedHat on personal servers at ThePlanet. Is RedHat 4 32-bit a sensible choice? I have some experience with CPanel so we would most likely use that.
We're building a bunch of new servers (as I mentioned in another thread). What do you guys think is the best drive layout? Traditionally we just have the entire 4-6 drives in a RAID 5, but now I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a separate OS drive, and then the rest in a raid 5?
On a side note, we need a giant ~2TB-3TB partition on these boxes, that's why we go with the multi-drive raid setup. Thoughts? I know it was customary to have a separate OS drive back in the day (I remember having WD raptor's for that), but now when the WD Black-edition (which we'll be using for the raid setup) are as fast as the raptor's, is it even worth it?
How do I setup a site to use two servers? One as a mysql server and the other as a web server.
At the moment I have the site on one server. When I get the second server what steps do I need to take to make this possible?
How do I secure the mysql server to only allow the web server to connect to it?
Do I need a control panel (i.e. cPanel) software on the mysql server?
I have a server at volumedrive it has cpanel and whm installed etc I am trying to setup the name servers but everytime it fails is there something that I might be missing?
View 4 Replies View Relatedsome setup recommendations as I feel I have outgrown my current server.
I have two websites:
#1 is a busy vBulletin based forum with 42,000 members.
#2 is a website with Wordpress and Vbulletin installed (though the forum is nowhere near as busy as the first site) and gets roughly 2000 uniques a day.
When site #2 gets a good surge of visitors from offline media or a large site, site #1 will die first with the "mysql error: too many connections" error and site #2 will take a very very long time to load.
For every other day, the load is quite low, nearly always under 1.50.
The current server that both sites reside on has the following specs:
Quote:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2667.540
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips : 5339.18
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1003 484 519 0 3 192
-/+ buffers/cache: 288 715
Swap: 2047 25 2022
What sort of setup would be best for me?
A files server and a sql server?
A server for site #1 and another for site #2?
A single, more powerful server?
Or something else you recommend?
Also, for the setup you do recommend, can you recommend a hosting company that is reliable and can do it for a good price?
what is the setup time of leaseweb servers after payment?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOne of our customers need to use a domain.de (.de ext), he registered the domain using godaddy, and godaddy have a few very special requirements for .de domains:
• The first 3 bits of the IP address (C-class) is different for each name server.
• A glue record is necessary for the domain on the name servers.
• The SOA (Start of Authority) must be within the following guidelines:
refresh : 10000 - 86400
retry: 1800 -28800
expire: 604800 - 3600000
ttl: 180 - 345600
This is all done, 2 different C class IPs for each name servers, glue record, and SOA has been configured between specified values. Because of the 2 C class, we created DNS at server1, and pointed all www traffic to server2 (where the domain.de will be hosted)
This is the DNS zone at server1 (an Ensim server):
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 3600 ; 1 hour
sitename.de IN SOA nameserver1.server.com. support@hostingcompany.com. (
2008010804 ; serial
10000 ; refresh (1 hour)
1800 ; retry (10 minutes)
604800 ; expire (2 weeks)
345600 ; minimum (1 hour)
)
NS nameserver1.server.com.
NS nameserver2.server2.com.
$TTL 86400 ; 1 day
A XX.XX.XX.XX
$ORIGIN sitename.de.
ftp A XX.XX.XX.XX
www A XX.XX.XX.XX
This is the DNS zone at server2 (an cPanel server):
; Modified by Web Host Manager
; Zone File for sitename.de
$TTL 3600
@ 86400 IN SOA nameserver2.server2.com. support@hostingcompany.com. (
2008010804
10000
1800
604800
345600
)
sitename.de. 86400 IN NS nameserver2.server2.com.
sitename.de. 86400 IN NS nameserver3.server2.com.
sitename.de. 14400 IN A XX.XX.XX.XX
localhost.sitename.de. 14400 IN A 127.0.0.1
sitename.de. 14400 IN MX 0 sitename.de.
mail 14400 IN CNAME sitename.de.
www 14400 IN A sitename.de.
ftp 14400 IN A XX.XX.XX.XX
While checking the domain at [url], an error appears:
Zone sitename.de.
Primary nameserver1.server.com. IP_ADDRESS_HERE
Secondary nameserver2.server2.com. IP_ADDRESS_HERE
Test results
---- fatal ----
f: [TEST SOA record present]: server failure (IN/SOA: sitename.de.)
* nameserver2.server.com./IP_ADDRESS_HERE
I have verified every single thing at sitename.de.db on both servers at /var/named/, disabled DNS Recursion protection, stopped firewall, and the error continues.
And the error as you can see only happens with SOA at second server.
i have dedicated server [ Debian/linux/ ], where isn't installed any control panel.
i'm using this server for my primary domain, but now decide to move to this server on of my domains too.
unfortunately, before this i "add domains" only via control panel, but as i know i can do it via SSH too (w/o any control panel).
can u give me any advice or give me url of tutorial with guide how to do it step by step.
i have experience of work via SSH, so knowing how to do, i'm sure i can do it myself.
i have dedicated server [ Debian/linux/ ], where isn't installed any control panel.
i'm using this server for my primary domain, but now decide to move to this server on of my domains too.
unfortunately, before this i "add domains" only via control panel, but as i know i can do it via SSH too (w/o any control panel).
can u give me any advice or give me url of tutorial with guide how to do it step by step.
i have experience of work via SSH, so knowing how to do, i'm sure i can do it myself.
I have a VPS account with WHM/Cpanel console access. I have three domains that I am trying to setup. Within WHM I have setup three different accounts, one for each domain. I am able to login to the cPanel for all three accounts. This also created a new web directory for each domain in /home/domain_name/public_html/. I have placed my default index.php in all three public_html with the same permissions. But only 1 domain is working the other two are not. What am I missing? I have confirmed that all three have the correct DNS servers with godaddy and I can do an nslookup on all three. My provider told me to share the IP so that is what I am configured as..
View 2 Replies View Relatedif there is any tutorial to setup 2 email servers serving just 1 domain?
Currently, i have 1 dedicate email server running centos with DirectAdmin, it works just fine.
I have signup with everydns. I have read faq for secondary DNS but not understand.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi there, i have few question for the best suited DNS Setup for our compagny.
We have tree server located in montreal.
Two are running web services, one of them is only for dns ( home server ).
Two main server have Whm/Cpanel.
One run Cpanel Dns only.
Main server have 7 ips each
Dns server, only have 1
Let say we use domain xxx.com
Right now we have ns1/ns2/ns3/ns4 point to server1
ns5/ns6/ns7 point to server2
We have no Nameserver that point to our dns only server for now.
I'd like to advoid runing DNS Service on all of them, maybe having two slave one master would be fine. Question: What would be the best suited dns setup with my current config for best responding time and fast replication?
I just got a VPS plan for the first time where I want to host several new websites. In the past I've used individual accounts to host a couple of other websites and haven't paid much attention to nameserver setup, just configured at my registrar whatever I was given from the hosting service.
So, I got a brand new domain to act as the host of the rest of the domains I'm setting up: www.example.com.
In the VPS I have setup this one as the default domain for nameservers: ns1.example.com
ns2.example.com
Question 1:
- Can I setup ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com as the nameserververs for www.example.com ? i.e. nameserver is used for the same domain in which it is named. Even if this is possible, is it a good idea or would it be better to host it somewhere else? When I try to define those as the nameservers in Godaddy I get the error message Nameserver not registered. What am I missing?
Other DNS questions
Question 2:
- If I host my nameservers in my VPS, I will need a separate IP for each one (ns1, ns2...and so on). Can I still use those IP's to actually host websites, or do I need additional IP's to host the actual sites? Any value in keeping each IP dedicated to a nameserver?
For example:
IP#1 = used for ns1
IP#2 = used for ns2
IP#1 = used for website 1
IP#2 = used for website 2
Question 3:
- Are DNS backup services valuable if I host my own nameservers? Any suggestions on good quality providers? Price not an issue.
Question 4:
- If I used DNS backup services for example.com will that apply to ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com which I used for my VPS? and therefore will be applicable to other domains I host? Does this make sense? Or would I need a separate backup for each domain I host? Can I use one backup for multiple domains?
Question 5:
- What are the drawbacks of hosting multiple sites under the same IP? I control all sites under these IPs
Question 6:
- Can somebody recommend a good resource to learn how IP, DNS, nameservers, etc work? Any book, paid website, video... anything ? While there's a ton of info on the web, all is scattered and none seems to be too detailed enough for somebody starting to learn about this.
I would like some help on setting up google apps emails on a PLESK hosting on 1and1.com.
Here is my MX server setup, and doesn't seem too work. I set it up before but i didn't save it and now I forgot how to do it again.
where the error is?
SmarterMail 5.x is setup on one of our servers into Plesk 9.2. Just wondering how I configure a domain to use an external mailserver.
For example, the domain mydomain.org is running it's own extermal
mailservers;
mail.mydomain.org
mail2.mydomain.org
In MailEnable I would do the following;
- Start | Programs | Mailenable Administrator
- MailEnable | MailEnable Management | Messaging Manager | Post Offices
- Expand the mydomain.org domain
- Right-click the Domains folder and choose 'Properties"
- Select the 'domain is disabled' checkbox
- Select the 'Act as Smart Host'
checkbox
- In the 'Redirect mail to' textarea enter in the external
mailserver names;
mail.mydomain.org
mail2.mydomain.org
How can I configure SmarterMail to use the external mailservers of a domain?
to setup domain key (DK) on DirectAdmin (DA) control panel. DirectAdmin used exim as mail server by default.
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhen i create an account from whm it gives me error as below
please tell how can fix this error ?
Error message
Quote:
we are unable to set up this domain name ahmd.co.nz & getting the following error please resolve this issue
Account Creation Status: failed (Sorry, that domain is already setup (remove it from httpd.conf))
I have registered a domain using godaddy. I have hosted my site on a server of my shared hosting provider(lets call them X).Currently I have pointed mydomain.com to the server and it is up and running.Sometimes, I have experienced downtimes.
In order to solve this problem, I have hosted a clone of my site on another server from another hosting company(lets call them Y).
1. I want mydomain.com to point to Y when X is down
2. again point it to X when it is up.
My main aim is to have my site live with less downtime. The probability having both servers down is very less.
I dont know if it is technically feasible, just a thought out of dirty mind. I tried to google but was not able to find an answer specific to my problem.
Can anybody tell me how to achieve this through godaddy domain.
Added note, My site is not a commercial site and I cant afford large dedicated servers with clustering and failovers.
Is it possible to know how can I setup the DKIM default for each domains without manually activate it each time?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am looking for setup a gateway (reverse proxy I guess?), specifically how to configure Apache to point to different webservers depending on domain name.
I currently have a single webserver running multiple virtual domains all accessible via a single external IP address.
I would like to break this into 2 servers each running multiple virtual domains accessible via gateway with a singe external IP address.
As an example, a single internet IP address points to port 80 on the gateway machine. The gateway machine will determine if its example1.com, example2.com, example3.com or example4.com. If its example1.com or example2.com it will direct internally to webserver1 and if its example3.com or example4.com it will direct internally to webserver2.
Webserver1 and webserver2 each host different websites via virtual hosts.
Is this possible and if so, what is the correct configuration of the gateway machine. I currently have installed apache2 with mod_proxy enabled, but I am struggling with configuring it properly.
How would I go about setting up Bind on one of my Dedicated Servers? I noticed that you use three dns servers through pipedns and I thought you might be able to help me answer this question.
How would I be able to have my friends and I point our domains to my server(s) and have bind make it work? I want to have one dns server and then I have my friends each on there own DEDI using my bind dns servers but I'm not sure how to do this.
How would we add domains and the bind server know which server they are hosted on? Do you have to add the domains through bind? If so, how would I do that automatically and how would it work through cPanel when someone parks a domain?
My situation is my website DOMAIN.com is getting very busy and it's currently hosted with fdcservers
I want to order a second server wth fdc but I don't know where to start after that???
How can I split my half traffic going to my new server??
my website lets user to UPLOAD FILES
My Domain is registered with godaddy Do I need to do something on that side?
Or is it all on WHM side?
Someone told me before to create a subdomain then point that to the new server
CAN SOMEONE TELL ME EXACTLY HOW TO DO THAT? STEP BY STEP
I know how to create a subdomain like (subdomain.domain.com) but whats next after that?
I have a dedicated server and now I am thinking of getting my second one. I would like to ask if it is possible with cpanel to have
server1.domainA.com
server2.domainA.com ?
Do I just add a A entry for my host on the first server?
Which one the 2 will be doing the DNS? Could I have both of them?
I know reminds you of something else doesn't it? Seriously though, If I have 1 managed linux dedicated server (CentOS w/ cpanel v.11) and 1 managed windows dedicated server (Windows Server 2003 w/ Plesk 8) and want to the setup automatically through WHMCS under the same domain name (or appearance) how would I accomplish this task?
I know that I could simply add additional servers to the server configuration of 1 whmcs billing software installation. The problem is if I had to buy a separate domain for the other server and run them through 1 website it may appear shady to have the domain name change in the url during checkout.
I've seen few web hosts other both kinds of hosting through 1 website without redirecting to a different domain. If I have to have 2 different domains assigned to 2 different server boxes could I mask/cloak/I don't know the technical word for it so that the url appears as the same domain weather purchasing shared hosting for windows or linux?
