I have gotten my server configured and running, and have been advised to look into creating virtual hosts for each site, I have found good information on setting virtual hosts within postfix, but does anyone have any good reading on configuring Apache2?
I only have one site I intend to host in the immediacy, but I'd like to host multiples eventually.
I have an Architecture/Interior Design firm and send lots of emails and CAD and photo files. I am designing a website and having it hosted for the first time. (I know...I know...I should have done it long ago..) I have read tons of articles on web hosting.
The website will be lots of photos (thumbnails to be enlarged possibly), text.
Has anyone heard of Inmotion? (web hosting company) They seem to have what I am looking for at a decent price and have gotten some good reviews (but I don't know if those reviews are sponsored by someone).
I work on a Macbook Pro and am looking into creating the website on iWeb....
I'm thinking about colocating in Milwaukee, purchasing a rack over at the Cogent facility to resell and was faced with a problem. The problem is, to some people, a rather simple one. How can a reseller sell their servers when competition sells their services for unlimited space, bandwidth, domains, sub-domains and such for only $1/month?
I've done the math I could with the information provided to me but am not able to get around the above problem. I can see why some users go to this type of service though. A lot of websites don't even need more than what these sellers offer, and with good reason.
Usually that person only uses 10MB of space and 10GB of transfer.
To break even on hosting, I would have to be able to sell 12 servers at $169 each. Our hardware would be fairly new, capable of whatever you want it to do, short of cutting your lawn, clipping your toenails and what have you, all with 5mbps standard port connectivity inside a 1u case. Obviously you can upgrade the port speeds, drives or whatever else you need in it. This is to snag users into coming with us. Bigger guys charge much more per month for higher end hardware.
I guess what I'm trying to ask is simple. Is it even worth it? Are there users out there who are happy and able to put down $100+ a month for a dedicated server? I'm willing to expand our current services to this type of offering, but I need your input based on your experiences on what you think will end up happening.
I have been contracted to resolve an issue for a Plesk installation. This installation in particular is receiving the 'no input file specified' error when attempting to access Horde webmail, and I believe it is because:
IIS is in FastCGI mode (as expected) Permissions are not allowing php to execute out of the expected path.
PHP is working for all other domains (there are multiple) on this account, it is just the horde PHP that is not functional.
I have tried contacting Skype support but received no answer.
I have tried running the commands --fix-webmail that were suggested in other threads, but they have no effect.
I am running a SQL test server here that is piping HUGE amounts of data for a test project I am running.
Approximately 30 queries a second - constantly. That's over 2.5M queries a day -- so we are talking big (I think?)
I am currently running this test on a
AMD Phenom 9300, 4GB RAM - SATA 500GB HDD and I am running MySQL 5.0.51a i386 on CentOS
I have programmed a process control for our applications purpose - basically it controls the launching of our SQL intense applications, and stops launching when the Load is greater than 2.5
I have plans to optimize the number of queries (I will build in a cache to some of the applications - and run INSERT statements all together) however I am looking for SQL tweaks that will improve performance. Would running the 64bit version work better?
I'm considering to buy new Intel Quad Core box for running CPanel shared hosting (high traffic sites).
Supermicro 6015P-8
Intel Clovertown E5310 Quad Core (Quantity 2)
4 x Kingston 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667
2 x Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 ST3146707LC 147GB 10,000 RPM (RAID-1)
LSI LOGIC 320X2128-F
Total: $3742
Supermicro 6015V-MT
Intel Clovertown E5310 Quad Core (Quantity 2)
4 x Kingston 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM ECC Fully Buffered DDR2 667
2 x Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM (RAID-1)
3ware 9550SX-4LP
Total: $2950
Which one of the above offers better performance and I/O?
I went with higher end SCSI chassis and higher end LSI card to have 133Mhz on the PCI-X slot, but is it worth the extra cost?
Any better recommendation with similar or cheaper prices?
I'm also wondering which one is faster between a single Intel E5310 Quad Core vs dual Woodcrest 5130?
I'm using php 5.5.9 with Plesk 12 running on Ubuntu and am trying to increase the max_input_vars value.
For the PHP settings in the additional directives box I have added the following: max_input_vars = 5000
I have saved the settings and even rebooted the server, however the max_input_vars is stuck at 1000 when looking at the php configuration.
After peeking around at this board for some years, I decided to create an account.
I'm the original author of Rootkit Hunter and decided to create a new tool, named Lynis.
Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (Linux, BSD and other). It scans the system and available software to detect security issues, bad/insecure configuration options and unsafe file(s) permissions. It tries to assist administrators in using and maintaining best practices, but also in the common things which get forgotten (like expired SSL certificates).
Though Lynis has been available for some months now, and many
updates/suggestions have been implemented, it still can use a broader user base. So my issue (we are in the technical issues section after all) is that I like more input and want to know what other people audit on their systems. Or what tools they like the most. Of course I have many ideas myself, but with the many different people here (in skills and specialties), every input is most likely improving the tool and increasing security for others as well.
In case you like to try the software (GPL, free to use), the software can be found at www . rootkit .nl (can't use URL's yet, due 5 post policy)
Since I don't only want to announce my tool (but like to have some input), I placed it in this section, hope it doesn't look like a "commercial" sell.
I just got a Dell 1600SC dual xeon 2.8 from the Planet with a Dell DRAC3 remote access card. In my RHEL3 system this hardware combination works great, but in the new RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 system the DRAC accepts no keyboard input after RHEL5 loads, thus making it impossible to login to the OS through the drac remote console redirect. Tech support suggested it was because the RedHat Enterprise 5 and CentOS5 kernel does not load the PS/2 keyboard driver which is required for the Drac3 to accept keyboard input. (a drac4 works, but that's not an option for this server I would guess.)
At tech support's suggestion, I added
atkbd.set=2
to the /boot/grub/grub.conf file
rebooting had no change - still text input to enter the bios, but no text input to login to the OS.
I also added
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 -word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal --timeout=2 serial console
which I saw in /etc/grub.conf (which is not linked to /boot/grub/grub.conf but instead a separate file) but still no luck - no keyboard input accepted through the drac3 remote console to login to the os through the drac console redirect.
Has anyone solved this hardware/software combination? Or is RHEL5 simply not going to be backwards compatible with the Dell DRAC3 hardware?
Any ideas, suggestions, or solutions would be greatly appreciated as I've been working on getting a solution for this for a week now and no closer at this point.
I would really like to have the DRAC as a backup connection with my server incase any firewall or software update issue ever prevents me from connecting via ssh. I hate to have roll back to an older OS though to get it. I'm stuck.
I was in the market for a new dedicated server after a couple of years with my previous provider. The previous provider did nothing wrong but they were no longer competitive when it came to CPU and memory.
I moved first to geekrack. And I left them after a week and a half as they never were able to get my rDNS records setup.
I found Universal Hosts on this forum and gave them a shot. I had asked for an operating system that they didn't offer normally (Debian 64 bit) and they said that they could do it. However, when my server was setup it was 32 bit Debian instead. They apologized and had Debian 64 bit setup less than 24 hours later.
When I asked them to get rDNS records setup it took a few hours but they were setup correctly and they worked.
Universal Hosts is also a BurstNet reseller but compared to my other attempt at using a BurstNet reseller they are fantastic. While the initial config was incorrect they worked quickly to fix it and were very professional about it.
So after two weeks - so far so good. Keep up the good work UniHosts!
I am running Apache2.2, PHP5.I have been running with virtual hosts on a Windows 7 environment fine for a couple of years successfully, but have just had to move to a Windows 8 environment.It looks like Apache and PHP have installed and are working fine, but my Virtual hosts are now not being recognised. From what I can tell, it is the Windows 8 hosts file that is having a problem, as it looks as though it is now just setup to Block websites.
If I make the host file just have the one line127.0.0.1 localhost entry, then the very first Virtual Host from my apache config file will come up, but the rest are not found.If I put the usual 127.0.0.1 mywebsite.name aliasname is appears as though my website works momentarily and then is blocked..
CentOS - I had php4 running and php5 as cgi but then decided I wanted to have it the other way around i.e. run php5 standard and php4 as cgi.
php5 is now running fine but php4 bombed with this error:
Code:
Unexpected character in input: '?' (ASCII=15) state=1 in /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php4
I fixed it by doing the following:
EDIT php.ini file:
Normally in /usr/local/php4/lib/php.ini
Under
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Paths and Directories ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
UNCOMMENT this line
Code:
;cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
(i.e. remove the ";" infront)
and
CHANGE 0 to 1:
Code:
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
This is for Linux and must be done with root via SSH
Not sure if this will help anyone, but I thought I'd post it anyway.
I'm getting the feared "input/output error" on /home partition on a freebsd server this server runs RAID-1, dmesg shows:
twed0: controller error - device failure (flags = 0x40)
g_vfs_done():twed0s1g[READ(offset=36997054464, length=16384)]error = 5
anyone knows what's my best action here? unmount /home and fsck it? or shutdown the server and replace a drive? (but, from this error message, I couldn't guess which drive is it... also, the 3dm raid monitoring didn't find any problem, so maybe it's the controller?)
i add the php5 and set php4 as cgi from whm,
after finisging,
it takes errors
Warning: Unexpected character in input: (ASCII=26) state=1 in /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php4 on line 864
Warning: Unexpected character in input: (ASCII=8) state=1 in /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php4 on line 864
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php4 on line 864
Every day we get a couple off Parallels.Diagnostics.RRD.RrdStorageProvider errors:
Parallels.Diagnostics.RRD.RrdStorageProvider - <log4net.Error>Exception during StringFormat: Input string was not in a correct format. <format>Update to database {0} has failed [{2:HH:mm:ss:ffff}]. {1}</format><args>{cpu-1.rrd, Parallels.Diagnostics.RRD.RrdException: Failed to update RRD database "C:Program Files (x86)ParallelsPleskvarhealthdatalocalhostcpu-1.rrd":ERROR: could not lock RRD
, 00:00:09.6084608}</args></log4net.Error>
Source: ParallelsHealthMonitor
We are running a Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server with the latest Plesk 11.5.30 update 16.
Recently I stumbled along a host on here with a good rep and that uses direct admin.
Because they were very nice on the live support I signed up to see what direct admin was like.
Its very diferent from cpanel. Some parts seem to be harder to use like the phpmyadmin requires the username and password to the database you created not the control panel username and password like cpanel. Although I guess that could be a good security feature just in case some one gets into the control panel they can not get into the phpmyadmin, then again if they are smart and were able to get into the control panel they could get into ftp and look what the username and password is on the config file for the script you are using.
The bandwidth meter seems to be better in direct admin although I think its acting up for me as its putting yesterdays bandwidth on todays. I was told by the host that it updates every 2 hours and at first it did but now its gone to every day. Oh and unlike cpanel this bandwidth meter includes bandwith used by the control panel.
Niether one from what I can tell counts sftp though at least for the hosts I have right now.
iconv: unable to allocate buffer for input: Cannot allocate memory
as title I have this error when I try convert database to uft-8
when I try this command
Code:
# iconv -c -f windows-1251 -t utf-8 vbulletin_db.sql > vbulletin_db_utf8.sql
I get this error
iconv: unable to allocate buffer for input: Cannot allocate memory
I'm on paid hosting and accessing the cron jobs through a control panel.
I have a php script that I'd like to run daily.
I've put this script in the folder http://mysite.com/Cron/ .
When I navigate to this file directly in my web-browser it runs perfectly and sends me an e-mail.
When I try to set up a cron tab to execute it, though I get the following error in the cron output...
Quote:
Status: 404
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.6
Content-type: text/html
No input file specified.
The command I entered into the control panel was...
Quote:
php [url]
I also tried...
Quote:
php -q [url]
...and...
Quote:
php /Cron/SendMail.php
...those times getting the error...
Quote:
/bin/sh: [url]: No such file or directory
why this might not be working for me?
I currently have an Apple computer and am looking for a webhost. looked at hostgator but when i tried to view sample website builder i was unable because i have a mac. Are there any webhosts that fully support mac's?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a few questions about hosts.allow
1) There are 2 IPs in this file. I did not put them there. This is a dedicated machine. The IPs go to a Canadian hosting company. I am not in Canada and those are not my IPs.
2) Does my provider have the right to add IPs to this file without my consent?
3) I have already commented them out, of course, but I am concerned.
As some of you may know I have about 4 different webhosts.
the problem is thats to many and I want to maybe cut it down to 2 but not sure which 2 and thats my delema or jam.
Downtownhost is one of the 4 hosts and I have been with them for over 2 years now and its great and support it top notch. So would hate to leave them.
Everity is another one and they are great as well and very honest, which still impresses me today and I have not yet been with them a year but it will be this December. They were able to run my biggest site with out any issues and that was nice then again so was downtownhost able to well to a point until the space the site was using got to big for downtownhost which is why I got everity in the first place.
Hostsimplex is a new one I got to see what directadmin is like and wow direct admin is awesome and almost I want to move all my site to this host. They are also very nice/ friendly and support is also honest and gee a few times while opening up the live support for a question or a problem figiruing some thign out in direct admin I have gotten into long friendly convos with them. Kind of feel bad about that though as I would hate to take the support staff away from other customers. I do like also how they have free remote back up, which is nice but I still will make my own back ups locally just in case. Any way this host is still new for me so I am not sure how good or bad they are but so far its good.
The forth one is liquid webs as as of right now my main and largest site it on it. This hosting is not one I own but a friend/client. I am not even paying for it which is nice. How ever I have little to no support as I have to rely on my friend and he is not always on when I have an issue. Do to that this might be the first one I drop.
Although it it rare that I have issues and I do not have to worry about the cpu ussage, bandwitdth, diskspace because he said I could use what ever i want. He also said the server has a 500gb hard drive and not even 10% is being used.
Any way thats the issue I am having so which do you think I should drop or should I just keep them all as I do have an active site on each one.
if there's a list out there of the "trendy" web hosts; where it's cool to be hosted, etc.
For example:
Joyent
A Small Orange
Maybe these are niche hosts, etc. but it seems people talk about them in the blogosphere.
I signed up to Uni-Hosts (Universal Hosts) a couple of days ago after seeinf one of they're deals in the Deals Forum and I'm still waiting for activation.
Is there anyone here with Uni-Hosts or had experience with them?
I was initially impressed with the deal but I'm getting unimpressed very quickly with they're setup times.
How many different web hosts have you used? Why did you change? What host are you using now?
View 19 Replies View RelatedI have been reading up on VPS solutions recently.
I am very interested by the other thread in this forum about Xen vs Virtuozzo.
I don't need a high spec VPS, just something to run a my personal web, mail, DNS etc. servers. I currently run these on an old dedicated server with 256MB RAM with no problems or slowness (I will be keeping this btw). So I have been looking at 256MB VPS plans.
The discussion in the thread above seems to talk about memory management being an untrue reflection of your actual use. I haven't looked into this in enough detail yet but I think the basic idea is that with Xen you get a dedicated amount of RAM (which can't be oversold) and a properly isolated OS. Xen looks much better to me...
For Xen hosts, I have come across the following
slicehost.com
easyvps.co.uk
a2b2.com
slicehost.com looks fantastic although every one of the sites they list as hosted on their servers (on their wiki page) is slow at loading for me. Anyone else notice this? They also provide servers as x86_64. Has this caused anyone problems? Any other comments on them?
The VPS must has a 100MB network connection. Unmanaged is fine.
Out of the three websites that were hacked the hacker left a get.php file in the root and i decided to see what it was and i ran it. To my shock and horror it gave me all the different types of people hosted on the server and it also gave me their database passwords etc...
Now each time i ran it, it gave me different results of different users on the server each time with a long never ending list. I just couldnt believe my eyes a simple short written php script showed me a lot.
Now im not a PHP guru but this is quite serious and ive notified my web host showing them my findings. I was quite astonished it showed me passwords in peoples configs.
Now my question is... is this something new or old and that my web hosts forgot to look into that area...? I mean its a php script thats all.
How many % of hosts have Zip support in PHP?
If you (the replyer) are a web host, tell me if you are supporting. (yes/no)
Is there a list somewhere of windows hosts using dotnetpanel?
I've looked at the offers forum but only found about 3 of them!
Sure, there must be many others...
I'm interested in a windows host with dotnetpanel and smartermail or mailenable...
are there really hosts that do not oversell? if yes, i need suggestions but i would prefer a host that is not overpriced. I dont have budget in mind but i would want to gather the list of hosts that do not oversell and i can go over them one by one.
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