I got a new server from Nocster today with a 80GB drive. Went to look at my fee disk space and I notice the largest partition is only 48GB... yuck. Then I noticed the way they partitioned the drive:
This is definately something I'm not used to. Putting all these things on seperate partitions like that is really going to make it difficult for me to utilize all my disk space. On every other server I've had, all the free space was under / with partitions just for /boot and /dev/shm. Is there anyway to fix this without reinstalling the OS?
It had an Abuse Incident over the last 24 hours and missed the deadline they gave to clean it up. Being in Australia the time differences can make it difficult to always catch an Abuse Incident. Anyway so the server is disconnected and we have to pay a reconnection fee, ok fair enough.
As soon as the server went offline I became aware of the issue and contacted their support.
They said I need to pay the Abuse Invoice, so I said ok and went to my Client Area and there was no Abuse Invoice. So I tell the technician that there is no invoice in my account, he says, oh ok there must be a billing problem and passes it over to "Customer Service".
Hours later there is still no response from customer service and my server is still offline.
I shouldn't have my server OFFLINE while waiting for them to sort out their billing problem. Them getting their Abuse Invoice paid is NOT A TIME CRITICAL matter.
A server outage is a TIME CRITICAL MATTER.
Here I am still waiting and nothing is being done, my server is still OFFLINE. I have no problem paying the Abuse Invoice, but the server outage just goes on and on because they can't seem to generate the Abuse Invoice that they require me to pay.
I would like information on who the customer is burstnet / nocster on dedicated servers, as is the quality of service and especially the time to support the cradle.
I can wait 3 days for activation or more what interests me is the quality of service.
Well I ordered a nocster server about 12 hours ago, received the billing authorisation form (im a new client) and completed that scanned it along with id and utility statement and emailed it back to the auth address etc.
I'm yet to receive an email or anything accepting it and im just a little concerned that it didnt get through due to being a large email with attachements etc.
So my question is...how long does it usually take for billing to approve you and do they send you an email stating as such?? Also how long till server delivery on average?
I know that actual server delivery can take up to 5 days etc, im just interested on the average.
First of all I have to admit that I saw all the negative reviews for this provider and yet due to responses where they claim to have new management and that these were isolated incidents I decided to try their service. HUGE MISTAKE.
I ordered a Windows VPS with Plesk.
Let's start with the initial setup/billing process. After signing up on the site and picking all my options I'm directed to make a payment; however, at no time did I receive a running total from the site itself. This strikes me as an incredibly simple thing to provide the customer and is just one of the many examples where you could claim that these individuals are not detail oriented. Regardless, I'm not incapable of adding together the cost myself.
One of the first things I noticed was that any of the Plesk interfaces were not available remotely. So I submitted a ticket to get this issue resolved.
>>Since receiving the VPS I have been unable to access the >>control panel remotely. This includes the url provided with my >>initial email [url] and the plesk >>control panel found at ([url]. Windows >>firewall was initially disabled and has remained so at this >>time.
>>Any assistance you could render in this matter would be >>appreciated.
>>Thank you, >>ZenDraL
My first response was just that my ticket was reassigned to a "Senior Windows Support representative to better assist you".
I shudder to think of the assistance I would have received otherwise, since I consider the assistance that I received to be seriously under par.
Two days later I receive the following response from the "Senior Representative":
>>Hello,
>>You should be connecting to your VPS with remote desktop.
>>The VZPP and VZCP only provide limited features, and are unstable at this time.
>>Please use remote desktop instead to configure your server.
>>If you are having problems accessing it with remote desktop, please let me know.
>>David M. Stein
I have no idea how he received the impression that I was attempting to use RDP via the Plesk CP.
After finally getting the representative to understand what is plainly stated in the original email I am told that I have not purchased Plesk and asked if I would like to purchase it again. Personally I'm appalled at the fact that this individual would be unable to correctly ascertain what I had in fact purchased. After sending in another reply including the contents of my bill the technician is finally willing to concede that indeed I had paid for Plesk.
So we're now 6 days into this ticket when I'm told that this is an issue with the latest version of Virtuozzo.
After 15 days of silence from them, I request an update as to the status only to be told: "Evidently this is some sort of new bug with the latest version of Virtuozzo 4.0, and Parallels/Swsoft is still investigating the issue. "
Then 8 more days of silence from them before I decide to cancel my service and try out somebody new.
On top of this my site loaded incredibly slowly from every connection that I and others tested it from. Performing speed tests I saw that my server was only uploading at 50 KB/s.
If you are considering purchasing services from Burst.NET or Nocster the only thing I could recommend is to avoid them like the plague.
I've attached a full copy of the transcript should anyone want to see it for themselves.
I've got another server comming online shortly which will be used for shared hosting. A Q9550, 8 GB DDRs, 2 1 TB SATA drives in RAID 1. I know everyone has different opinions and reasons for their partitioning decisions, so I wanted to get a feel on how you would partition the drives durring setup, and why you would do it the way you do.
I just completed building a server and before sending to the co-lo company I realized that I have to advise them on HD partitioning and I am clueless concerning that.
Would you please share your suggestions on setup?
Hardware:
TYAN S7010 Dual processor Nehalem 5520 12 GB RAM Kingston ECC 4 X 1 TB WD RE3 Hard Drives Seasonic 520 Watt PS Chenbro RM 11704 1U Case
Control Pancel - CPanel
Applications - Mostly Blog Type Membership Sites (Joomla & Wordpress). I dont allow upload of photos or video, so its the MYSQL database that will continue to grow because of the article volume.
I'm gonna order my first dedi box. So one question comes up: How should i partition the HD ? It's a low end box with 120gb HD containing CentOS + Plesk, hosting 4-5 websites, nothing special.
I have just purchased a "clean" server and I figured I was going to install cpanel on it. My question is; it it possible to successfully re-partition the server after CentOS has been installed on it during setup or does the ISP have to configure the different partitions (I'm guess the last option is the answer, as this would be the most logical way)
How much Notice do I need to give nocster/burst before cancelling?
Not ready to cancell just yet but probably will be at the end of next month. (Moving to co-lo and as i'm in the UK burstnet's datacenter would be a bit far to travel so Won't be using them for Co-lo)
Couldn't find mention of the minimum notice period on their site.
and the installation can't be completed , it stops at different steps , one time it stops when installing Perl Modules , one time when installing Apache , one time it declares mirror list errors , ...
I have followed a normal installation procedure and before have had successful installations on XEN VPS machines without partitioning the HDD.
I didn't created the partitions as is suggested in cPanel.net guide.
Is it necessary to have different partitions? Can it be the reason of random stop?
We are puting together a Linux Storage server which will have 4 x 1TB SATA Hard Drives connected to Hardware raid configured at level 10.
We plan to use this box initially for NFS services but in the near future iSCSI targets so would like to make a setup optimal the first time.
What is the best way to layout the drive partition’s for this setup? My thought is
-100MB /boot ext3 -Rest in LVM --LVM Group ---LVM001 2048MB SWAP ---LVM002 10GB / ---LVM003 500GB /nfs ---LVM004 500GB /iscsi
Is this an efficient setup and provide a great deal of flexibility down the road? We will end up having more than one iscsi target running on this box in the end. Also does LVM experience a performance hit ?
1) I have one 80Gb HDD and one 250Gb HDD ( all are s-ata ). In which practical way they should be partitioned? I thought to setup OS on 80Gb HDD and /home on 250Gb HDD.
2) Which version of CentOS is currently the most stable for cPanel? I had an experince with CentOS 5, there were various problems with mail and mysql.. And now I want to install CentOS 4.6.
can a Xen disk image be converted to a diskpartition?
Someone is asking whether I can host his disk image at his current host, which he is leaving for poor I/O (wonder why that would be ). I can host a diskimage, but I don't like diskimages (slow, and 100GB isn't very 'comfortable' either). Is there any way out there to convert a disk image into a normal partition?
I used Burstnet dedicated service for more than 2 months & would like to post a review here:
Initially I ordered a server before two months from Burstnet, Burstnet (Nocster) took more than a week to setup. After waiting for a week I got the server. Never received remote reboot port , though they billed me for it every month.
Initially it was working fine. After 7 days approx , my server was inaccessible , I added a support ticket to reboots & got reply that my server was suspended due to lack of reply of the abuse warnings they sent me , while I had got an abuse alert before a day informing me about spam mails somebody sent from a vps, I had already replied to the alert that I suspended the vps of spam mail user & had also got email from Burst saying: " Thank you for taking the time to contact the BurstNET Abuse Dept. BurstNET in no way condones any spam related........"
it was confirmed that they had received my reply for abuse alert. I informed them this in ticket, they replied they did not receive any reply from me. I provided them email headers & it was clearly showing that the mail was delivered to burst, later they said that the mail was delivered but was not reached to their support desk & they reactivated my server. There was 5 - 6 hrs down time , while there was no fault from me.
I use apache with CentOS VPS hosting for my blog. I only host one blog in this VPS account. I have 1.5GB RAM and I have 7, 500 page preview per day. My page loading time is 2-3 seconds (according to the pingdom tool).
I want to know what is the best performance (faster web page loading) W3 Total cache option for VPS hosting blog. Currently I use Disk to enhance for page cache and database cache for disk.
