for a server to run a lightweight game server. It will require about 15-20KB/sec bandwidth. Fairly low ram requirements, and very little disk requirements.
My issue is, i need it to have VERY VERY low ping rates. Users will be connecting from Europe and US. Where can i go for something that would fill these needs? I've tried Amazon EC2, but its flaky sometimes..
15ms ping vs 40ms ping vs 170ms ping
Which you think is still acceptable for a website?
I registered with www DOT supergreenhosting DOT com
The website I am hosting is for a business we just started, that is an Organic Orchard and we will ship produce to people. I chose Super Green for various reasons:
Good, cheap hosting plan.
Good reviews, from what I found online.
"Green" (although not really too green, but it would help our business image to claim we're hosted on "Green servers")
Free domain name.
So, I thought to myself, "Ok, this is who I want to go with"
I wanted to use the 36 month plan, which is $3.95 a month.
First off, I decided to test their customer service, so I began a live chat with a representative. There will always be, "1 person ahead of you, a representative will be with you shortly" bot auto response. Then, an autoresponse saying something like, "Hello, bla bla bla, how can I help you?" (Then normally a real person will say something after that)
My first question was how the billing worked. If I chose the $3.95 a month plan, will the first initial payment be just that? Just $3.95, and will I be charged $3.95 a month for every month after that for 36 months?
I was told, "Yes", that was how it worked.
So I go to register, I fill out the information, put in the card info and hit "Continue".
I was charged $142.20 or something, the entire amount! Not what I was told just moments before. I go back to live chat, and of course it is someone new now. I explain to them that the person before had given me mis information about the billing, and he just said, "You have to pay for it all up front", which was NOT at all what I was previously told.
So we're off to a bad start here.
The account activation is supposed to be "Instant". Here I am, two days later and I have yet to receive any more information about the account. Yesterday I got on their "Live Chat" again, and explained the situation. I was told that billing does not work 24/7 and the status of the account was "pending". Billing? the money is already gone! I've been "billed".
So, my question is this: Does anyone here have any experience with this host? www DOT supergreenhosting DOT com
Good, bad, what? I'm pretty bummed out about all of this. My employer is paying for all of this, and i'm doing the work for him. I feel like i'm getting the run around, and I don't know what to tell him other than try to insure him that its a legitimate company and we should receive the hosting details soon.
Sorry for such the long, rambling post. New member so I can't link you with URLS.
I have a VPS and I host 3 sites on it.
2 sites load perfectly fast, and 1 site loads.. 7 seconds slower.. ( estimate time ). When I asked some other ppl to load the site, 95% said it loads fast and 5% said it loads slow.
And no it's not the isp, the one person who has the same isp as me said it loaded fast no problem.
This is really strange.. anyone have a possible resolution?
Server CPU is at 0.10, and running smoothly.
[Review] Super Special Servers
Well, this isn't so much of a review as me saying what's happened in the last week since I ordered a server from them.
November 29th- Ordered a server, expected 2-3 days till my server was up. It turned out to be 2-3 business days (M-F). This, I admit is my fault for not reading carefully. A few more days, I did not mind.
I also submitted a ticket requesting more information on delivery dates and they said that my server would be up in 1-2 days.
December 2nd- I submit a ticket (Tuesday) just checking that they still remember by server. It's fine, they give me information on how their process works and why it may take up to three days.
December 3rd- It's now been 3 days, so I submit a ticket. I get a reply saying that it will be up tomorrow.
December 4th- Still no server.
December 5th- Still no server.
So basically, now I'm just hoping that I will get this server within the next little while before all of my players (I'm using this to run a web based game) disappear from the 2 day downtime so far.
This is an important project so I need 100% uptime, high quality host, with very good support.
Which host is the leader in highest-quality dedicated servers and support?
I thought I would write a quick review of Corenetworks.net!
I've had a server at Core networks for about a year now, and have worked with support as well as billing.
Support
Lets start off with the most important thing, support. I am not one to need hand-holding from support, but every once and a while I need things like IP-KVM access, hardware upgrades, hardware replacements, etc. I've put in four requests for IP-KVM access via their ticketing system since I started hosting there, and each request was fulfilled within 30 minutes. I have to admit that 30 minutes is impressive for a dedicated hosting company. It must be remembered that they are unmanaged hosting, and managed hosting services cost extra. I find this scenario fits most technical people well because more resources are put into *real* requests such as hardware, kvm, etc instead of resources being used for hand-holding (i lost my root password, my apache process is not starting, etc)
Hardware
The price compared to the hardware you get is exceptional. A lot of hosting company's out there will push overused hardware on you. (some larger companies reuse hard drives over and over, check the smart drive lifetime with smartctl) The hard drive I was provided had a usage time of 3 months. That is VERY good compared to the average active drive life time at other hosting providers of 2-4 years. The hardware has been reliable and fault free (i have 2 machines now with no problems)
Uptime
This is the greatest part, every other budge dedicated hosting provider i've been with has had horrible power (sometimes reboots every few days, and the occasional downtime of a few hours) I have not had a single power outage or reboot since I first started at core networks! One of my severs has an uptime of 355 Days.
Network
The network is not blazing fast... with the package I got. I decided on the metered 3Mb connection (no extra cost) There is also an unmetered connection with a bandwidth limit, if anyone can chime in on this it would be great . I do know that I have always had a 3Mb full pipe on this plan (up and down) which is more then enough for my hosting purposes.
Features
Core networks has all of the features of the big-boys: Remote power management, bandwidth mrtg graphs, network status page, Free IP-KVM, etc.
Cost
The company does utilize it's cheaper servers as a bargaining tool for sales. It seems they unleash their $24/mo servers for a week or two to drive sales and then mark them as sold out. Currently I have the $49/mo servers (with a bit extra oomph) and I am ecstatic with the price. If you can catch the $24/mo servers, get them when you see'em!
Overall
Overall I would recommend corenetworks.net to anyone who is seeking a quality server for personal use or small business use. I am not sure how the service would meet enterprise level businesses, but they do have more expensive plans and I see no reason those would suck.
"Offical, im a reviewr score": 9 out of 10'
I've been trying to configure Plesk as a hidden (super) master for a domain and I've run into some problems.
First off, for those who don't know, a hidden master is a nameserver that is actually the master server, yet does not list in the NS records of the domain.
The servers listed as NS in the zone have accepted the server as their master, but the rest of the world does not know it exists. Hence the term hidden master. The slaves consist of two PowerDNS servers that acknowledge the Plesk server as a supermaster, thus enabling automatic zone configuration and the like upon receiving a notify from the Plesk server.
However, the Plesk server refuses to send automatic notify messages to the slaves (listed in the NS records, also added to the ACL / transfer restrictions template). When requesting an AXFR by hand the Plesk server happily transfers the requested zone to the PowerDNS slaves, but upon changing the zone files through the Plesk panel's DNS management system, no notify goes out to the slaves, which thus don't know anything has changed. I've tried adding an also-notify clause to named.conf (which was suggested elsewhere), but it appears Plesk overwrites the entire named.conf upon zone changes, thus erasing the also-notify clause, subsequently refusing to send out a notify.
Further research into the workings of Bind (the nameserver used by Plesk in this setup) suggests that, by default, it should send notify messages to all servers listed in the NS records part of a given zone. This is clearly not the case in this particular setup, but I can't seem to find where exactly notify messages have been disabled (there is no mention of notify in named.conf).
My questions therefore are:
1) Why doesn't Plesk / Bind send automatic notify messages to its slaves, which is the default behavior of Bind? Where and how has this been disabled?
2) Should 1 turn out to be impossible to fix, how do I override named.conf on a per-domain basis?
I just heard this story on NPR yesterday discussing cloud computing, how you can use external computers to do super-computer sized tasks without having the hardware in house yourself.
If we host colocated servers, how feasible is it to get our servers into that game?
I am running ubuntu 8.10 installed mysql 5.1.30 from source. i am trying to change passwords for some of the users but I keep getting the error listed in the title. Does anyone know whats going wrong ?
Code:
.mysqladmin: Can't turn off logging; error: 'Access denied; you need the SUPER privilege for this operation'
I have a Sonicwall NSA 3500. Does anyone know if you can use it to create bandwidth charts of Network Objects (e.g. IPs or Groups of IPs)?
I am thinking something like Cacti, but I don't know the code to pull that info or if it's even technically possible.
My server DC technician change the cable to another switch in another rack. all in sudden, my server went 'offline'.
the weird thing is,
I can ping the server IP
When I plug my KVM,
I can ping google.com from my server
But when I lynx google.com, it keep saying
HTTP requests sent; waiting for response._
When I open my putty and SSH, it keep waiting.
When I try to ssh from another server, it keep waiting
$ ssh school@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
[nothing happen]
$ ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xx) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=1.10 ms
64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.864 ms
64 bytes from xxx.xxx.xxx.xx: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=0.854 ms
- I can ping my server from MS DOS
- I can ping my server from Iptools.com
- I can ping my server from another server
But..
- I cannot ssh into my server
- I cannot ssh into my server from another server
Inside my server..
- I can ping google.com, yahoo.com, other servers
- But I cannot lynx and open all websites
When I restart network, it shows [refer attachment] captured from my KVM
PING
Whats that?
after my server down, i ask for reboot then the server up again.
but i cant access SSH via my main ip, but i can access SSH via second ip. when i ping main ip, all is request time, but my second ip can ping.
ok main ip cannot use, so i use second ip the main problem come i cant do yum update kernel, will show this error
Quote:
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update
when i try run socks5 proxy in my server, it running, but when i use it for my personal pc, the socks5 it not run....just show proxy is offline.
when i do wget some direct links
it always show, but never download
Quote:
[root@xxxx ~]# wget ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/centos/4.4...4E.12.i386.rpm
--11:39:24-- ftp://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/centos/4.4...4E.12.i386.rpm
=> `squid-2.5.STABLE6-3.4E.12.i386.rpm'
Resolving ftp.is.co.za...
so i try to go check resolv.conf, but don have problem, my other 2 same server also dont have problem with this dns server.
I just moved from PowerVPS to EuroVPS, being located in Europe myself, and was of course hoping for much better ping times. Also EuroVPS advertise themselves with a 30ms ping to most of Europe.
Anyway after my VPS was installed I compared the pings:EuroVPS (85.17.48.162) average ping: 335ms
PowerVPS (69.65.106.19) average ping: 129ms
335ms is of course ridiculously high, and after writing them a support ticket they told me it's probably a latency problem with my ISP
Can you please post the ping you get for 85.17.48.162 (preferably people located in Europe)?
I have configured Nagios on my network 10+ Servers (Linux+Windows) now when i check through http://localhost/nagios everything is ok but only ping command is giving following message :-
Unknown
bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 x.x.x.x
CRITICAL - Could not interpret output from ping command
and mail me "server down " message
So what is the issue ?
I am able to run this command through command line
./check_ping -H {server} -w 100.0,20% -c 500,50% -p 5
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%
./check_ping -H x.x.x.x -w 300.0,80% -c 500.0,100% -p 5
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%
I'm running my own OpenVZ server with a few VPS's running on it and have a small network issue.
I can't ping any VE from the HN. All the other networking is working ok (strangely I can ping the HN from the VE) apart from this. It's a simple setup with one network card connected to the internet.
OpenVZ the latest stable version running on CentOS 5.2
I'm pretty sure it's not a firewall problem but is something to do with arp or routing and one of the settings in sysctl.conf
Has anyone else seen this?
Does it matter?
I did a few tests
Pinging lunarpages.com [74.50.4.210] with 32 bytes of data:
Average = 191ms
Pinging hostmonster.com [74.220.195.150] with 32 bytes of data:
Average = 191ms
Pinging godaddy.com [97.74.104.201] with 32 bytes of data:
Average = 175ms
Pinging rackspace.com [72.32.191.88] with 32 bytes of data:
Average = 150ms
Pinging siteground.com [209.85.102.36] with 32 bytes of data:
Average = 148ms
Pinging hostgator.com [74.54.219.185] with 32 bytes of data:
Average = 147ms
Pinging ipowerweb.com [66.96.130.200] with 32 bytes of data:
Average = 113ms
The pages load really fast @ ipowerweb
i've only ever used pings to test if a host is up or down.
But what other information am i looking for in ping tests. For e.g., the time in ms the TTL etc etc?
How can i test pinging my server from different locations around the world?
i install one xen guest ( centos5)
i run yum update and result is :
-bash-3.1# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?releas...86&repo=extras error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras
i use of middle config :
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
IPADDR=192.168.0.13
IPV6ADDR=
IPV6PREFIX=
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
ONBOOT=yes /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=myhost.l3i.ca
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 /etc/resolv.conf (DNS resolver)
nameserver 4.2.2.1
nameserver 4.2.2.2
My sites are up when I go to http and there is no slowdown but my monitors (panopta and pingdom) say that there is an outage in ping (only in ping, http is up). I tried pinging the server and there are packet loss up to 100% but the site is still up. I also used other online pinging tools (all-nettools.com, dnsstuff.com, etc.) and host unreachable.
I tried contacting the provider but they say there are no network problem at this time. So I found this other site that's also hosted on the same provider and I can access their site but fails on ping.
My server ping keeps disconnecting
However my ssh & website is smooth running!
When i type "service iptables stop", the ping runs just smoothly.
I have CSF installed in the server, like any other server using default configurations. I believe it has something to do with selinux? (or not?)
i think 216.245.208.x and 216.245.215.x DOWN, but limestonenetworks tell me :"problems well outside of our network, and I would highly suggest contacting your ISP for support on this matter" ....
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I have 2 CPanel servers. I wanted to transfer multiple accounts via WHM but it gives me error that I cannot SSH into the other server.
I tried to ping the 2nd server from 1st server and it gives me:
root@s [~]# ping xxx.xxx.xxx.7
PING xxx.xxx.xxx.7 (xxx.xxx.xxx.7) 56(84) bytes of data.
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
cping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted
I added both server IP into allowed list inside my APF firewall on each server as well.
I rebooted both server earlier before, but it is still not solving my problem.
Can I have some of you ping 24fans.net and let me know what your results are? Also where you're located would be good.
My ISP is being crappy and my dsl line is basically down ever few minutes. They're supposed to fix it tomorrow.
My current results are:
Reply from 70.84.145.91: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=51
Reply from 70.84.145.91: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=51
Reply from 70.84.145.91: bytes=32 time=65ms TTL=51
Reply from 70.84.145.91: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=51
This doesn't really have anything to do with my dsl being crappy, but rather I'm just curious as to what kind of responses people are getting around the world.
I have a problem with my server, that i can't not ping
Quote:
[root@server apf-0.9.6-2]# ping yahoo.com
ping: unknown host yahoo.com
But i can log in the ssh. i just installed apf, i check conf.apf to made sure there are port 80, but it still can't ping.
So I'm wondering what if anything I can do to get a better ping from my 1and1 server.
It's located in Wayne, PA and my ping floats around 70ms and I'm in South Lake Tahoe, CA. I only ask because there are servers with Peer1 hosted in New York, NY that give me a ping around 20ms.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Its a Windows Server 2008 Web Box.
A website,which i can't access,but i used the ping and tracert instruct. the result tell me the IP and route is right.later,a use a Proxy site to access that site,it can. who knows the reason?
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What is the location of those executables?
I have two servers both in a same vlan. Both may access Internet and be acceessed from Internet I setup db server and web server internal IP each as follows:
step 1: on web server:
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
add following:
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
IPADDR=192.168.1.5
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
NETWORK=192.168.1.0/24
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
save and /etc/init.d/network restart
step 2: on db server:
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0
add following:
DEVICE=eth0:0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
IPADDR=192.168.1.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.248
NETWORK=192.168.1.0/24
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
save and /etc/init.d/network restart
I used ifconfig to check both status, both of them are up. both of them may ping google, but when I try to ping their each other through internal IP, nothing returns.
I used command tracert to follow, found all packages were sent to Internet rather than an internal IP.
My host tells me to do it by making NAT, I have no idea on it. Anyone may help me out on how to do with NAT?