How To Write A Good Survey
Jun 20, 2008I want to make a survey for my small business company (domain names, hosting, web design).
I don't know what is the roadmap to do it. some help link or documentation
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Servage Fixing Its Customer Survey
Jan 12, 2009I was sent a link to fill in a questionnaire for servage. I filled it out totally honest the over all rating was pretty poor but they did have one or two upsides which I did give a good rating, but over all it was a bad review for them.
I got a confirm page thanking me for taking the survey.
2 weeks later I then received another e-mail saying I had not entered the questionnaire and would I like to enter it? I already did 2week earlier.
So on to their infamous customer un-service. I told them what happened and true to servage form I got a copy and paste answer that had no relevance to the question,
What URL? So I answered back, its your own survey that you sent an e-mail inviting me to take you must know what it is? They then answered they don't know what happened to it and they will look in to it. This is the first time I have had a proper answer to any question from servage.
So my point being are they fixing the survey in their favour? I mean the amount of negative reviews they get just about anywhere else on the web they wont publish that on their own site.
Linux Vs. Windows Server Survey
Sep 6, 2007where to find data of how many servers in the US are using Linux vs. Windows Servers?
View 8 Replies View RelatedSurvey Of Tranfer Rates And Monthly Bandwidth
Jun 25, 2008Maybe this will help in my search for a web hosting or VPS site. Please reply to this list if you know the data. I'm showing tranfer rates and bandwidth in bytes not bits.
Ipower
Observed transfer rate, throttled to 360KBPS, virtually guaranteeed though. I've seen peaks over 600GB / month with no complaints from Ipower.
Westhost
Average transfer rate 170KBPS, peak rate 250KBPS.
VPS Providers! What's Your Take On "write Back" & "write Through"
Oct 9, 2009I recently worked on an issue involving a severe performance issue between "write back" and "write through" caching on the RAID/HD.
Long story short, we purchased 12 IBM x3550 M2s came with LSI SAS1068E/SR-BR10i (gimp redheaded stepchild of the MR series. No BBU, no onboard DIMM.) RAID controller and had very bad and inconsistent write throughput with it. Sometimes it writes out 300-400MB/s (dd test, I know... don't flame. I know dd is NOT a good test.), somethings as low as 30MB/s. The server is configured with 2.5" SATA 500GB on HW RAID-1.
From dmesg log it was default to "write through" on sda. I figured out via lsiutil, you can set the drives to "write back". Once we did that, the write performance is more consistent. NOTE, this enables write back on the SATA drives, NOT the controller itself.
I loop out lspci on all our VPS servers. Found out those with LSI (SAS 8344ELP) cards have sda set to "write through w/ FUA". Those are already all RAID-10s, and I have not heard a single complaint from any customer stating poor I/O performance.
I believe the 8344ELP do have a BBU, I can double-check with DC. The DC is on UPS as well. So that rules out the shortcomings of enabling write back caching.
I want to ask those of you using Xen (3.3 & 3.4). Do you guys have better I/O performance with "write back" or "write through" caching? I'm actually looking for real world results. Where you guys actually deployed production VPS server with clients on it.
Config.php To Not Have Write
Mar 11, 2007config.php to not have write permissions for everyone? I am running cpanel 10x with whm/extras Here is full report when i try and load fantastico scripts. You must secure this program. Insecure permissions on config.php While installing CSLH you might of needed to change the permissions of config.php so that it is writable by the web server. config.php no longer needs to be written to so please chmod config.php to not have write permissions for everyone. you can do this by UNCHECKING the box that reads write permissions for the file:
Where can i find the box it is talking about?
List Of Good Hosters With Good TELEPHONE Tech Support
May 6, 2008I'd like to start an ongoing thread here listing the 'Good Hosters with Good TELEPHONE tech support'. In other words, out of the 1,000s of host companies, this may cut it down to less than a dozen.
( And for all you Hosters out there who really want your company to grow, and want to know how, - it's easy: just read here.)
Good telephone support is the #1 ultimate requirement, because:
-It's a lot faster and easier for both the user and the host company, because you can state and answer all questions and clarifications on the spot, you don't need to continually pass new emails with new questions and clarifications, back and forth for days on end, until the issue is solved. It saves tech time and user's time. And saves a lot of nerves.
- It's the best way to sort the good guys from the bad. A bad company isn't going to bother to answer the phone, - or will make you wait way too long, - because they are likely getting endless complaints. The good guys are always ready to answer the phones, with a friendly voice, - because they really WANT to please the customer.
- If a company can't be bothered to pick up the phone, we can't be bothered to even consider them. They're a joke, and so won't be listed here on this thread. (So, before adding or listing any Hosters here, please verfify that they do have Good, quick, friendly, telephone support,; ideally 24/7, but 9am to 10pm might be acceptable, if it was supplemented by some emergency contact.
AND:
- Hoster ALSO needs good EMAIL support (and preferably, Chat online, extended hour availability). (I spend a lot of time overseas). It sems all emails should get a non-automated response within about an hour, - and then support should jump on fixing any problem.
I only need support a few times a year. To answer some questions, or fix a problem, or do an install. That's lesss than 1 hour total, so any company paying maybe $18/hour tech support should be able to handle this. It IS reasonable to charge a custm for extended calls, beyond say, 90minutes a year, IF you don't count the 80%? Of times an issue is the Hoster;s fault of stmg gone wrong, and don't count the 'hold' times.
ALSO IMPORTANT:
- Uptime
- site Speeds
- Monthly plans, no contract (Only a dishonest host will try to force you into a contract, where they can then ignore you.)
- Reasonable price. (? Maybe $12 to $18/month for a basic business site. We don't need massive bandwitdths, - we all know that's an overselling scam, and can't ever be delivered.)
- a good upgrade plan of bigger options. Maybe even VPS.
- Dedicated IP, and availbility of SSL
-PHP 5, mysql, phpMyAdmin, etc
- cPanel ( Some Hosts are using problematic panels, like Hsphere, which are slow to load, slow in operation, require many more clicks, have too many options, spread apart on many separate pages. Time is money, and this really slows down the ability of a small business to manage his own site in effective time. For example, one WHT user wrote somewhere: "I don't feel that HSphere's interface is nice at all, although I have worked with cPanel and DA all my life... I just found it to include un-necessary features or split features up in to different hard to find pages, such as backups - mysql backups you had to find on a completely different page than file backups, and then there were options to have it in the home directory or server-end backup, in which then you had to wait a good 10 minutes before it was ready. cPanel, just hit backup and hit download and instantly it does everything you need...".
I have used several hosters. Currently on Aplus.net and Godad, which have phone support, and mediocre service.
My LIST So Far:
- Liquidweb: a very impressive company with good, 24 hour support. But to get dedicated IP, you need to go with their $25/month plan. Yikes!
- NewIdeaHosting.com. A very small company. My call was returned, and the owner chatted with me for an hour on the phone! Plans have small bandwidth, but promises No overselling, and personalized attention. Extra $5 for dedi IP. He specializes in Small business sites, and small eCommerce sites. He has only 250 accounts, on 3 servers. He rents servers from the Equinox data center of Chicago. Seems exceptionaly honest.
- MegaHosters. Excellent phone support and WHT reviews. But company was taken over by another company, and so may well go downhill in future. Another problem: uses Hsphere.
- Steadfast. Has a good rep on WHT, and seems impressive. Tech answered the phone immediately, but they say they prefer emails. Sales phone has limited hours. Good price on $20 SSL. But, uses Hshhere.
- JodoHost 24 hour phone. But, uses Hsphere. An Indian company with office in Florida, and good rep. I like the idea of outsourcing phone support, if it makes it more available and affordable. But, the accent on the phone was very hard for me to understand, so maybe this might not work.....
- Hostgator. Yes, it's a big overseller, but seems to get good reviews/results anyway, and good phone support.
- ? ThePrimeHost ?? Mostly good WHT reviews; some dissenters. Site says 24hour phone, but when I called on several nights, no one ever answered...
- Can anyone add to this list? Please list only hosts that meet the above minimum requirements of phone support, etc. Especially useful is hosters you've tried.
TO AVOID:
- Avoid Arvixe. I had a horrid experience with them, here: [WHT forum]:/showthread.php?p=5097822#post5097822
- Avoid WebHostingBuzz. This company never returned my phone msessage inquiries.
/tmp Create/write LINUX
Jun 21, 2009when i am trying to use php my admin i am getting
#1 - Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_bba_0.MYI' (Errcode: 30)
when i am trying to delete a file from /tmp i am getting
rm: cannot remove `sess_***': Read-only file system
i have Linux box with cpanel,
After Rotation Mysql Don't Write Mysqld.log
Nov 6, 2009we have set logrotate for rotate mysqld.log daily
file is compress, deleted and created from logrotate but mysql not write anything
Any idea about why?
How To Write Cookie Data To Web Log File
Jun 21, 2007I use a persistent and session cookie in order to help track return visitors, latent conversions and keyword tracking. My problem is that my hosting company, BlueHost, does not allow me to write the cookie data to my raw access log which would enable me to analyze this information.
Does anyone have any experience with using a script in order to get around this issue and write the cookie data to my log file....or as an alternative can people recommend a good hosting company which enables this functionality?
BlueHost has generally worked fine, so a work-around would be preferred, but if needed I may switch.
Raid Card - Write Caché - SAS 5/iR
Oct 8, 2007I have bought 4 servers with DELL SAS 5/iR.
All is fine but the writes are very slow; I supose it's because write cache not enabled.
I have enable it and make some test and there is a lot of difference:
[url]
I'm worried about enabling it because if the server goes down I think it can cause disk corruption and loose data and maybe the OS. What do you think about that? Data is a priority!
Disks have this technology: Seagate-exclusive IRAW (Idle Read After Write) enhances data
protection by verifying—during drive idle time—that data in thedrive buffer was properly written.
The servers are on a datacenter and have RAID 1 with Cheetah® 15K.5 SAS 3Gb/s 146.8-GB Hard Drive - ST3146855SS
[url]
I'm also VERY worried about the coments about this card:
[url]
Is it true that the raid don't get rebuilded? If it is like this I don't know why I'm running raid.
Apache :: Write HTAccess File For A 301
Apr 15, 2013I have learned some bits of regular expressions for simple scripting, writing a .htaccess file is, uh, syntaxically daunting.
THE CASE :
The URLs of my site used to be of the form [URL] ... . They are now of the form [URL]......
I am trying to perma-redirect (301) the old format (affiche_fiche.php) to the new format (fiche.php) using a .htaccess.
So far all I have achieved is a hatred of punctuation signs. What's the correct syntax to have a .htaccess that does the redirect ?
THE CONTEXT : The format change took place more than six months ago, but the Google Webmaster Tools still spits 450 problems a day with 404s on URLs using the old format. I had assumed that these would just fade away, but they don't. So I guess that 301'ing them is cleaner. Or would be, if I understood the syntax.
Apache :: How To Write Dynamic Image Url
Mar 15, 2013how can I rewrite a dynamic image url? URL....
View 3 Replies View RelatedHigh Iowait : Write Access Request
Nov 22, 2008diagnosing my server which currently experiencing high iowait for weeks, I'm still figuring the root cause.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4051 3653 398 0 341 2847
-/+ buffers/cache: 464 3587
Swap: 8191 0 8191
The server spec as follow :
HP DL 380 G5
4G RAM
2.6.18-53.el5PAE
the load is around 1 or 2 , but iowait have been on the high side even the server currently is under utilized
I'm running LVM and hardware RAID 1 on the server.
BirdHosting - Worth My Time To Write A Review
Dec 18, 2008BirdHosting - worth my time to write a review
I just completed my latest site launch with BirdHosting.com and I have to say Mike knows how to operate this hosting company. I've been with ourinternet.us (spare me ever again---please), HostMySite, and GoDaddy. Godaddy was my latest host until I moved it over to Bird. Godaddy didn't give me much flexibility with their VPS windows hosting plans. I needed more then 10 gigs on a windows host.
A buddy of mine referred me to Mike from BirdHosting and Mike had me up and going before I even gave him a credit card. He really wanted to impress and meet all my needs. I now have a 50 gig / 1gig windows vps for a super great monthly price. I enjoy the personal attention I get when something goes wrong.
BirdHosting also helped me pick out two servers for where I work at too. Mike spent over 45 minutes on the phone with me answering questions I had. Godaddy would NEVER do that.
Anyways - I'm enjoying super FAST up time since going over to the birds nest. worth a look at if you are considering hosting companies.
Windows Hosting That Allows File/Image Write Through Script
Mar 21, 2009I have a website built with asp .Net with MS SQL database. The website have some pages that uploads images and files in some folders.
I have tried GoDaddy shared Windows hosting. But they don't seem to allow file upload using a script.
Then I tried GoDaddy Virtual Dedicated. The tech guy told me MS SQL would be part of the hosting. Later I find he lied, there is no MS SQL as part of it.
I am trying to find an affordable hosting that has MS SQL and also allows file upload using script.
MySQL Error: Can't Create/write To File '/dev/shm/MYxQT8lz'
May 19, 2008one of my site shows this error
MySQL Error: Can't create/write to file '/dev/shm/MYxQT8lz'
I checked space on the server is still 25 GB free,
Typical Read/write Speed For Software Raid1
Dec 21, 2008I just got 2 dedicateds, and while creating software raid 1, upon initial sync up I'm getting around 7 megabytes per second (6700 kb/s) in write speed I assume.
This is a quad core, sata2 setup...
Setting Directory Read/write Permissions With WAMP And IIS
Jul 26, 2007I'm using WAMP and IIS for the first time so bear with me if I overlooked something obvious.
I have a simple script that creates a few files and then attempts to move them to a subdirectory. I am getting a permission denied error when attempting to move the scripts in WAMP. I am uncertain how to set directory permissions in WAMP. I am also unsure how this will affect the script when I migrate it to an IIS server.
Apache :: Write HTAccess Rules For Dynamic Pages
Feb 15, 2013I'm really struggling to write htaccess rules for dynamic pages. I've like 20 pages to redirect What I want to do is redirect:
[URL] ....
to
[URL] ....
Plesk 12.x / Linux :: Backup Does Not Write Dump To FTP Repository
Oct 24, 2014Beginning with today, all Backups to FTP repository failed. Even updates being started manually fail.
FTP Space is not full, there are still app. 400GB free space left.
I was also able to do a ftp upload on terminal using ftp client.
Server is accessible, credentials are right, but backup fails.
Why backup stops working after having done login.
This are the last few lines of the current psadump.log (removed server url and username):
[2014-10-24 13:38:46.754|17907] INFO: Repository 'ftps://[XXX]//as/': Initializing...
[2014-10-24 13:38:46.754|17907] INFO: Transport: Get repository transport ftps://[XXX]//as/
[2014-10-24 13:38:46.754|17907] INFO: Transport: Init credentials for user '[XXX]'
[2014-10-24 13:38:46.756|17907] INFO: Repository 'ftps://[XXX]//as/': Initialized
[2014-10-24 13:38:46.758|17907] INFO: pmm-ras finished. Exit code: 1
==============================
Proftpd Config - How To Make Directory Have Read/write Access
May 22, 2008Followed the guide over at [url]to get proftpd setup.
It only lists ways to create a single upload directory and a single download directory.
Tried all possible ways to get a directory creating allowing read/write but so far unsuccessful.
how this can be acheived?
Here is my current config.
#start of config
<Directory /home/FTP-shared>
Umask 022 022
AllowOverwrite off
<Limit MKD STOR DELE XMKD RNRF RNTO RMD XRMD>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Directory>
<Directory /home/FTP-shared/download/*>
Umask 022 022
AllowOverwrite off
<Limit MKD STOR DELE XMKD RNEF RNTO RMD XRMD>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Directory>
<Directory> /home/FTP-shared/upload/>
Umask 022 022
AllowOverwrite on
<Limit READ RMD DELE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
<Limit STOR CWD MKD>
AllowAll
</Limit>
</Directory>
#end of config
/home/FTP-shared/read-write is the folder I want to be able to read and write data to.
Warning: Unknown(): Write Failed: No Space Left On Device (28)
Jun 26, 2008Warning: Unknown(): write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0
Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
I am getting this error on my site. I have googled this error and it is telling me it relates to a /temp/ folder of some form. I am currently on a hosting plan (not a dedicated server). Is there ANY way I can access to fix this problem either from my control panel or by code?
Plesk 12.x / Linux :: Write Recursive Rights On Files / Folders
Feb 20, 2015I have a concern during the installation of PrestaShop. I created a subdomain through Plesk, put my files on my server via FTP. During installation of PrestaShop, I have a problem:
Recursive write permissions for the Apache user on the ~ / config /
My user is "NOWIS" and my group is "psacln" ....
I think the user "NOWIS" has no rights as "Apache" ....
Plesk 12.x / Linux :: PHP Message - Failed To Write Session Data
Jan 26, 2015I just discovered there is seperate error log for php-fpm and since only 1 site is running fully nginx, the log is full with this error:
"NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/lib/php/session) in Unknown on line 0"
I've checked and the path is correct....
Exim Sda7: Write Failed, User Block Limit Reached
May 23, 2009i have run exim -qff from SSH then i got below error let me know what to do
Code:
root@web [~]# exim -qff
sda7: write failed, user block limit reached.
sda7: write failed, user block limit reached.
sda7: write failed, user block limit reached.
How NOT To Require CHMOD 755 Permissions To Create, Write And Delete Files On Linux
Dec 30, 2008On my previous server and on some other hosts, I was able to write to files (for example with PHP) without having to chmod the files first.
Now I cannot, and files are required to be chmoded properly so I can write to them.
I cannot even touch() a file with PHP.
Is there any way to have this permissions removed?
I don't want to chmod the all thing, all I want is to change the configurations so I can fwrite() or file_put_contents() normally.
I's a dedicated un-managed server, so basically any advanced configurations can be done.
Plesk 11.x / Linux :: Python Permissions To Write Files In Another Web Space On Same Server
May 15, 2014I have a python script that generates images and is able to write them into a directory on the same web space
However, I would like the same script to write files into another directory located in the web space of another domain on the same server.
For example, script lives here...
/var/www/vhosts/domain1.com/httpdocs/scripts/myscript.py
this works...
/var/www/vhosts/domain1.com/httpdocs/scripts/images/
this fails...
/var/www/vhosts/domain2.com/httpdocs/web/images/
The directory structure already exists, so there is no need to create any new directories
I have tried setting permissions for the destination "images" directory to 777 and that didn't work.
Do I need to specify something within Plesk to enable it to write to another directory?
Plesk 12.x / Linux :: Upgrade 10.4.4 - Postfix Queue File Write Error
Jan 29, 2015I just upgraded our Plesk 10.4.4 to 12.0.18 (on Ubuntu 10.04, about to be upgraded to 12.04). Now I get the dreaded 'queue file write error' in postfix on message delivery.
It tries to open /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/postfix-queue (which is not there) in this block in master.cf:
Code:
plesk_virtual unix - n n - - pipe flags=DORhu user=popuser:popuser argv=/usr/lib/plesk-9.0/postfix-local -f ${sender} -d ${recipient} -p /var/qmail/mailnames
127.0.0.1:10025 inet n n n - - spawn user=mhandlers-user argv=/usr/lib/plesk-9.0/postfix-queue 127.0.0.1 10027 before-queue
127.0.0.1:10026 inet n - - - - smtpd -o smtpd_client_restrictions= -o smtpd_helo_restrictions= -o smtpd_sender_restrictions= -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject -o smtpd_data_restrictions= -o receive_override_options=no_unknown_recipient_checks
127.0.0.1:10027 inet n n n - - spawn user=mhandlers-user argv=/usr/lib/plesk-9.0/postfix-queue 127.0.0.1 10026 before-remote
plesk_saslauthd unix y y y - 1 plesk_saslauthd status=5 listen=6 dbpath=/plesk/passwd.db
And on top of that, If disable all the milters/proxy and just try to deliver to plesk_virtual directly, the e-mail just disappears. Postfix thinks it was delivered, but it is not.
I also tried piping some text through /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/postfix-local with the same parameters postfix gives it, but also then nothing. No error, no exit code, no message in maildir.
There are a bunch of fixes around for the queue file write error, but nothing works because the nature of my problem is different. There is a KB article around for Plesk 9, which can hardly be useful.
I tried restoring postfix-queue from the backups, but if I try to use that, the mail.log eventually says:
Code:
Jan 30 01:20:00 ytechosting /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/psa-pc-remote[6621]: Message aborted.
I also used /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk to no avail: the only change it makes to my master.cf, is adding an empty line. And, I suspect it uninstalled my psa-courier, because it was gone at some point, and mchk was the only thing I did after knowing courier was still there.
How can the postfix config refer to that postfix-queue when it's not there? Is this even a valid master.cf file for Plesk 12?