Im having some trouble with my current host and feel im also being charged a bit too much.
Is there any hosts (other than Hostgator) that offer managed servers with Cpanel? I realy need a better host as im going mad with my current one.
I've always had hosting where everything is pretty much already setup. I am now considering getting my own dedicated server. I see most good packages are Self Managed Servers.
I'm not a system admin and never had any experience managing and setting up my own server. Is this a lot of work? Is this something that is also pretty easily learned or does this really take a lot of knowledge?
I own a pretty high traffic soccer blog. Nothing out of the ordinary!
It generates an average of 8k unique visitors/day - but can reach 30+ unique/day.
According to the guy who is currently hosting it - it does around 30-50gb bandwidth per day.
I'm not sure if I even need a Dedicated server for this. However, the old host said that the HUGE peaks of traffic in the middle of the day are causing him problems.
I'm not very technical - just the writer of the blog - do a couple of other web developments aswell, but I've never really needed a dedicated server before!
Thus, I need this fully managed - and want it to basically work as a reseller hosting account (if thats possible).
I need this quickly as the website is going to be deleted by the end of THIS month! He just told me today . He was taking the revenue from the site in exchange for the hosting. I'd now like to just cough up and pay for it!
If anyone can give me any advise, do I need a dedicated server? Would a VPS do? What prices am I looking at? Are there any companies which suit my needs?
Who has them and who's good at it?
I have a client asking about a managed Windows server.
I have a friend/client who needs TWO Dedicated Game Servers and he wants them from me.
I have never sold a Game Servers and told him so, yet he insists that he want's to buy them from me.
Well, anyone knows where I can buy All Managed Game Servers and Resell them to him?
I am a noob and absolutely no idea how game servers function.
I would like to hear about sites providing fully managed servers.
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For years the backup space usage counted from the max/highest backup space taken each day in 1 month.
but suddenly in the last few months the billing department start to sum all days backup for 1 month that make us exceed our backup usage crazily.
how the backup plan counted on your managed dedicated server.
how the hosting provider would back me up in setting up my vps, support in additional issues etc. with regards each of the above topics.
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Managed servers are very expensive for my needs.
Used Wiredtree for many years...excellent service.
Moved to VPSville...omg, much downtime headache.
Looking for another UK-based managed VPS provider using WHM and cPanel.
i am currently sharing a VPS with someone.
it is a VPS from ZONE.net
so far i have been very pleased but i am now looking to get my own VPS.
i am only able to afford 40-50$/mo right now so for ZONE.net that would be their cheapest enterprise server
i am also looking at liquidweb's VPS1 package, with the free upgrades and a start up fee i can get the package for 40/mo
so do you guys have any other suggestions or comments?
i have a bunch of php/mysql sites to put on this new VPS
Currently our site resides on a dedicated server that I manage. We are only using a fraction of the resources on the server and I have no interest in trying to sell accounts or resources, just too much headache. We made the move from HostGator to a dedicated server some time ago when it became apparent HostGator was overselling. Our server was seeing reboots way too often, ads and their company branded error pages (although I could have changed this part), and sluggish performance.
What I'm interested in is a hosting company that offers backup solutions and can make your backups available quickly in the event of a failure. Other companies I have dealt with offered this but their response time of 1-3 days is just unacceptable. I will also stay away from any overselling, built in ads of any kind, and companies without 24/7 phone support.
I would like to stay with cPanel so our user's email accounts will not be interrupted or changed when the site is transfered. Of course if there is a full import option to another control panel this isn't an issue.
So my question is this: Does this company/service exist, or are we stuck paying for a dedicated server that we don't need? I'm more than willing to pay, just looking to see if there is an option less expensive that my dedicated server.
When a colo vendor can consider themselves as a managed colocation provider? What make them different than *normal* colo service?
If you need a managed colo, why not go with managed server? With managed server, your vendor will take care about the server health, including software and hardware too
(I am mentioning to fully managed server vendors like Rackspace, don't tell me cheap managed servers)
I'm currently in the market for a new VPS that will be used for a single website. The client had it on a shared server, and ended up having it get suspended from too many httpd connections one day. Though the 2+ months it's been up, there haven't been any prior issues, so I think there was just something on that day that people found the website.
Anyway, according to WHM's bandwidth log, it hasn't used more then 46GB in a month, so I don't foresee this account needing to surpass 100GB of bandwidth.
The amount if disk space being used it currently at 1GB but up to 3-5GB would suffice.
I've tried out Direct Admin, but I'm much more knowledgable with WHM and cPanel that if at all possible, I'd want that on it. I'd prefer not to have to pay extra monthly for a license; I'd like for it to be included in the price.
I'm not looking for full management, but just basic management (and having support that actually reads your tickets as opposed to repeating the same bs every other ticket.. speaking from personal experience with another *cough* VPS host.)
I'm looking for the price range to be under $30 a month for the specs needed.
I realize cPanel needs a bit more memory, so.. hopefully this is justifiable:
Requirements:
OS - CentOS
CP - cPanel+WHM
RAM - 128-256MB dedicated, burstable to 512MB+ (though not a necessity)
DISK - 3-5GB of disk space (obviously more would be fine if it's available within PR)
Bandwidth - 100GB
Price Range - $30 or less
I've already tried out Primary VPS, so I don't want to go there. Spry's VPS is unmanaged, and I don't want to configure the VPS myself at all (I'm lazy and I really suck at SSH commands.)
If any of you guys can offer some ideas of VPS hosts to look into, that would fit the prereqs I listed, I would be forever in your debt (or not) but I'd really appreciate it.
I just don't want to deal with Primary VPS anymore, and have been stumped as to what other VPS hosts to look into. Obviously I'm still going to search around here, but sometimes I like hearing personal recommendations...
I have a lot of questions here so if you can't answer them all I understand. even pointing me somewhere where I could get the answers would be appreciated; hardware sites focusing on server hardware, forums focusing on such, etc.
we plan to have three different types of servers:
- db server (self explanatory. mysql. for forums, mysql driven sites.)
- file server (lots of files around ~2-10MB, consistant 70mbps right now, but we want more room for upgrades. needs a LOT of storage room.)
- web server (lots of php files, but also static things like plain html, images, etc. also includes all misc services for the setup-- dns, etc.)
could I be given a rundown for which hardware each of the three should have? I don't need specifics, even just knowing that more ram is important here while cpu doesn't matter as much, or that the fastest disks available are a must, etc would all be valuable info for me. despite that, I certainly wouldn't mind specific hypothetical hardware configs.
for the database server I'm assuming the more ram the better. not entirely sure about the cpu? also not positive on disks...
for the fileserver, how much ram would be practical or useful? disk io will be an issue I'm because plenty of people will be pulling files at once so the disk needs to read from multiple places. scsi (and even raptors) are not an option as we need 750GB+ of space on a reasonable budget. more ram will take some load of of the disks, but how much is neccessary / reasonable?
for the web server I'm assuming cpu first, then ram, but it'll likely need less ram than the db server?
I'm more lost on the disks than anything. scsi on the fileserver is not an option under any circumstances due to $/GB. for the db & web server I'm willing to pay for scsi if the performance increase really does warrant the extra money, but I'd like to be convinced before shelling it out. if you have benchmarks geared at server hardware when it comes to disks I'd really appreciate it.
also, what's the best way to network these together when colocated? each one with a dual gigabit ethernet port and then the communications go to and from the router?
Does anyone know a fast dedicated server with 160 or 200 gb with cPanel that cost around 50 dollars a month?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've just purchased a dedicated server from singlehop, very nice people, even sunday, reply ticket in 15 mins as promised, very happy, thanks Dan, Sam, Azi, I've been asking question all day, and eventually got my server set up.
I've got a question though, a few websites which hosted in a shared server, they don't use cPanel. How can I move files from there to my server? My server is linux system. Sam told me use FTP software, I tried FlashFTP, logged in 2 servers, but can't transfer files, don't know what reason.
Does anyone has a better idea to move all my website? I can ZIP them all. Just don't want to download and upload, can I move directly? In windows, we can use download software download directly by http links, can we do the same, how?
Does anyone run a setup where 2 or more cPanel servers (perhaps in a shared hosting environment) are dynamically mirrored for high availability?
How have you configured this? Does cPanel play nicely?
I recently found out the hard way that cPanel cannot run behind firewall using NAT, I got pretty far in configuring the server but I ran into major issues when it came to SSL and gave up!
Anyway, I current have one cPanel server with CSF and IFD which is working great (I guess), but what happens when I want to move all my server over to cPanel? Will I need CSF/IFD installed on the servers? This seems really impractical and a nightmare to administer. What firewall can I use so that all my cPanel servers can sit behind it?
Any input would be much appreciated as I cannot seem to find a solution, everything seems to have a catch!
pop failed @ Thu May 1 00:38:11 2008. A restart was attempted automagically.
Its been happening from around 00:00 GMT 30th April/1st May.
All my servers are spamming me with these, not just one. All are set to auto update on STABLE build.
Anyone else having these issues?
cPanel and their nasty bug releases I suppose. Even after paying them a premium price and recognizing them as a premium control panel provider!
I want to migrate my old server to a new more powerful one. There is only one board running on the server.
Both servers have WHM/CPanel and I've been told it would make things easier.
I have a few questions about server migration :
- Is it possible to avoid downtime ?
- If I leave my board on the old server active, is it possible not to lose data ?(posts and topics)
I have a couple cpanel servers and am interested in setting up new server (without cpanel) that I would use as a mail server for all the other cpanel servers. This server would also interface with my mailfoundry anti-spam solution. Can someone point me to any tutorials/how-tos for setting up a standalone mail server that still works with email account creation, etc, aspects of cpanel?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have 2 Cpanel VPS and a Cpanel reseller account, each of them with different providers.
What I would like to do is replicate my company's website, billing and support sites across the 3 locations, for achieving a fail over configuration.
I have 2 cPanel servers with root access and I want to move a reseller account (and about 100 very small domain accounts under it) to the other server. What is the best way to do this and how would be the process ? I guess there is an easier way to migrate it rather than by moving individual domain accounts.
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