So far I had only dealt with shared hosting. Now I think it is high time to move to a VPS server. But before I migrate, I want learn how to manage a VPS server. Can anyone plz tell me how I can setup a VPS on my system, so that I can learn how to work with it.
View 12 RepliesI am leaning towards people who made the switch from reseller to vps. I dont know much about servers and getting managed servers become pricy so i just want to know how you learned.
View 14 Replies View Relatedi find some post say xen need some time to learn, and it will be a learn curve here,
is it really xen hard to learn and use?
Where do I begin if I'm planning on purcashasing a Linux VPS?
How to use SSH? and other things O_O..
Set up stuff..
I was wondering if anybody had a suggestion of what to look for in a VPS that I could use to learn and grow on. I generated a decent-sized web application (PHP5/MySQL) and I'm looking to grow in userbase and features.
I started it on Lunarpages shared hosting (which was a nightmare) before realizing I needed something a little better. I ended up switching over to WestHost and I've been very happy with them for a few years now. Though some may argue it's not a "true" VPS, it's done everything I wanted it to do so far and been quite reliable. It was a great stepping stone.
My site has been growing, as have my service plans, budget, and aspirations. I like to learn by getting my hands dirty, and I wanted to learn some of the more advanced aspects of running a webserver, so I'm in the market for a VPS with more freedom.
What VPS features or aspects should I keep an eye out for if I'm looking to both learn about the server and expand (aka do development work) at the same time? Benchmarks, RAM and CPU? Upgradability, managed and good support? CPanel, DA, Plesk? Snazzy logos and plan names?
i want to learn windows server using,
there are many version,2000,2003,2008,
which one i should take time to learn?
at 6 in the morning sa-learn / spamtrain starts to learn from junk mails.This causes high load on the system und takes about 2-3 hours.Is there any way to change the time to some hours earlier to avoid high load in office hours?
nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php >/dev/null 2>&1
... to solve the issue, that it didn't seem to have any effect to your CPU/IO usage. Please try as well the full path, if you experience issues, as for example:
/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php >/dev/null 2>&1. Please make sure, that "nice" and "ionice" are located at the given paths and don't just copy&paste the suggestion with the whole path - usage ( you could use "locate nice" / "locate ionice" to verify the paths ).
You asked as well for a different execution time, to avoid high usage during office hours. I would recommend to try several spamtrain - cronjobs, which you might setup with
For Plesk 11 you would use:
nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -f execute-spamtrain >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -f execute-spamtrain >/dev/null 2>&1
For Plesk 12 you would use:
nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -f ExecuteSpamtrain >/dev/null 2>&1 /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -f ExecuteSpamtrain >/dev/null 2>&1
or use the direct command with: nice -n 19 ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/spamtrain >/dev/null 2>&1/usr/bin/ nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/spamtrain >/dev/null 2>&1
If you still would like to exclude one of the daily DailyMaintenance - cronjobs from your "50plesk-daily" script, you have to modify the line /usr/local/ psa/ bin/ sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php >/dev/null 2>&1
to all different parts like:
/usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -f Plesk-COMMAND-name1
/usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -f Plesk-COMMAND-name2
/usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -f Plesk-COMMAND-name3
where you have to leave out the commands, which should not be executed daily. ( Please see the current Plesk-commands for the DailyMaintenance - script with "/usr/local/psa/bin/sw-engine-pleskrun /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php -l" and be aware that Plesk 11 and Plesk 12 have different commands! )
From time to time, it is wise to clean up the spamassassin - database ( as you already found out with the linked forum-thread), but I would recommend a 6-month-cronjob and not a monthly one. that spamtraining with spamassassin can be very time investing and you should try out addons, filters and rules to find the most efficient configuration for each, unique server - unfortunately there is no "best-for-all" solution.
Notice: This is a discussion thread for comments about the SitePoint article, Learn Apache mod_rewrite: 13 Real-world Examples.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI recently got my hands on a few unmanaged VPS to play around with and learn how to work on them (eventually plan on going dedicated, so this is a preparation for that). I know the basics of working on Linux via command line, but beyond that I'm clueless. Does anyone know of any good guides for setting up and managing a LAMP environment on a VPS?
I'm mostly interested in CentOS and Debian.
I can find guides specifically for 1 or 2 things, but so far the only useful (complete) guide I've found is the one here. I'm not sure if that's still up to date on todays standards as it was written 2 years ago?
Things I'm looking for:
- Installing and setting up a LAMP environment
- Jailing SSH
- User/Group management
- Firewall setup / security hardening (I've read the thread in VPS tutorials as well as the one in Technical and Security Tutorials about securing your hosting company)
2 more questions...
1) Wondering what would be better... webmin or ispconfig? From what I understand webmin is more OS oriented and allows easy configuration of various parts of the OS while ispconfig is more hosting oriented? I take it running both at the same time is not recommended/needed?
2) Still not entirely sure what OS to choose. In my VPS atm I have the following available (along with the likes of Ubuntu, Gentoo and SuSE but I think the list bellow is what I should use). Would love if someone could list some advantages/disadvantages of each.
- centos-5-i386-afull
- centos-5-i386-hostinabox571
- debian-3.1-i386-minimal
- debian-4.0-i386-minimal
Appreciate any input.
Thanks for reading.
any VPS with management provided?
i only used share hosting before, with knowledge in cpanel
however, i am afraid i cannot handle with VPS.
Hence, i would like to ask any VPS with managment or support provided?
my visitor mainly from hongkong, taiwan, USA and china.
My buget is around 30 US per month.
How do i go about setting up a DNS zone using WHM for my new dedicated server? Also, what does record type mean (as in: A, A6, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, TXT, WRK)?
If someone can point me to a good tutorial or reference so that i can get my server up and running with multiple domains, I'd appreciate it.
We run around 300 domains for our clients; in the past we've believed that it was better to outsource DNS hosting, we've used a few different local companies but now we're getting to the stage that I'd like to consolidate all the records to one company.
Does anyone have any reccomendations for ultra reliable, easy to manage? Or is it better to put a dedicated machine in and run our own service?
I've got a few domains with Zoneedit, but I want to way-up some alternatives, I don't think the zoneedit admin is particularly user friendly and it's quite expensive $1000+ a year for what we need.
I'd like to know your opinions about various VPS management systems.
What is the best VPS management system?
1. Virtuozzo
2. VDSmanager
3. HyperVM
4. SolusVM
webinterface or windows app to help manage and compile alter apache/php configs, and install apache modules ext.
Im not a linux tech savy person. So im looking for something to go along with my plesk control panel to help with things that plesk cant do.
I have a vps using centos5 and plesh 9.2.1
i have few dedi servers from one Us company, i am currently using their DNS service, we are into small level hosting, i want to run my own DNS, is it necessary to run a separate server for DNS?
Actually how the hosting companies do the name server pointing, for an example if i am buying a server and want to host a few domains in that server, what normally we do is we will change the name server to that companies name server
ns1.domain.com
ns2.domain.com
my question is if i am pointing my domains name server to the name server
ns1.companydomain.com
ns2.companydomain.com
how that company points the domain to my server for an example its ip is 72.xx.52.xx i am bit confused in this.
Also i have a doubt how they are creating this for n number of domains?
We are working on our pci certification ( fun times right? ) and i was wondering what other people do for server management in the dmz. Few things we are looking at listed below. We will be doing cisco zbfw for firewalling and using NAT.
#1
Servers have 2 nics, 2 ips, gateway ect. One of the networks would be considered a "management vlan/network". Other network would be for all other traffic, including natting to the internet, and traffic to the "internal" zone but locking down traffic to source,destination, and protocol level.
On windows you really on have 1 true default gateway, and because windows doesnt just send traffic out the interface it came in, but looks at the routing table, some network routing issues popped up.
#2
Use only 1 nic/vlan/ip/gateway. Lock down traffic to source,destination, and protocol level for dmz to "internal" traffic and do an "inspect" statement to allow all necessary traffic back in and drop everything else. "Internal" to dmz would just be an inspect all because this traffic wouldnt need to be firewalled so management traffic would work just fine.
Does anyone know of any software applications available of which would allow staff/employees to log into SSH while actively logging all input and prohibiting certain commands from being run?
A list of applicable servers to log into would be amazing as well, although that might be reaching too far.
I have 4 ip addresses.
74.63.67.146 - my main server. I have also configured my main domain to "own" this IP address and have installed an SSL cert. The domain and the cert work correctly but when you type in the IP address in, it shows "Apache is functioning normally".
74.63.67.147 - this is owned by a client. Same thing happens as above except that the domain name and the IP address point to the Apache message.
74.63.67.148 - this is the shared IP. Everything works correctly.
74.63.67.149 - this is another owned IP and it works correctly.
The only thing that is different from 146, 147
I just want to know what is the best way to run a hosting solution remotely. I.E have OS re-installed without having someone to do this for us in the DC for example?
I've heard KVM over IP but unsure to where that would lead us.
Anyone know of any service that will provide 24/7 support for colocation servers I own?
By support I mean regular system updates, monitoring server stability, and be available 24/7 if problems were to occur.
I plan to colo with steadfast networks.
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Anyone used it? One of my friends showed me it, looks pretty neat actually.
My mickey mouse company just bought a new server recently. However, all our email send from the new server went to our client's junk mail. Is there a solutions to this? How to prevent going to people's junk mail?
View 4 Replies View Related1-On a VPS if I have 128 RAM guaranteed and 512 Burst, when I do top I can see the 471856k, it means at that moment I can use 471856k RAM, or this memory show is something I cant trust?
2- If I have 128 guaranteed and for some reason a a process tries to eat more than that(like 1 gig for exaple) it will be not allowed? Do I have to pay anything for that leak? DO the leak affects the ENtire host?
I believe I kno all those answer but is better to double check them....
file/folder management system where I can upload files thought the system of FTP program and setup accounts that can access that folder with various permissions.
The goal is to be able to create any amount of folders and sub folders and assign unlimited amount of users to individual folders with permissions to upload (with or without over-right privileges), and download files in the folder they have access to.
I am open to using a third party, if Yahoo! or some similar file hosting company offers such a service.
Does anyone know of any good IP management software that will handle subnets and all?
I want to be able to add a range and then control what is taken and not and etc.
We saw the special offer of ThePlanet here on banner advertisement and tried to get a special promo but since the last 3 days, I am running after them and every sales person is telling something different about promo and my deal even it's confirmed by management...
View 8 Replies View RelatedJust curious if there are any decent control panels to manage Hyper-V VPS containers besides DotNetPanel...
I've been trying to find a viable alternative, but I am striking out on my search.
I just cannot seem to understand why DotNetPanel is so expensive, $70/month for the enterprise edition, plus $50/month for 10 VPS containers.
Best management with Lots of bandwidth...
I am going to be starting a filehosting site soon and i need a dedicated server fully managed one. With that i also need alot of bandwidth.
Budget: $150-200
I was looking at [url]but didnt like it much.
I can't get the following - Full WHOIS Management.
How can it be?
I wondered which Content Management System (CMS) is the best for a website? I read that there are many to choose from, examples are Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla etc. Which CMS is more SEO Optimised?
Th website I will be setting up will be of the same genre as the following website startutor.sg. Therefore, I am wondering what CMS to use.
I thought of designing the website using AI or PSD and asked someone to code them (not sure of the terminology used) for me as I don't know anything about CSS, HTML etc.