Anyone know where to find preconfigured virtual machines? I'm looking for Cent OS 5 preconfigured with all the normal stuff (http, php, mysql, bind). I could set this all up myself but surely someone is in the business of creating preconfigured VMs?
I don't know all the precautions to take as far as securing a linux box, so a VM that is fairly secure like this would be very nice. I'm sure someone is already doing this, I just have yet to find them.
I think I'm going to use VMWare, but if the preconfigured VMs is for another virtual software, I'll reconsider.
How do you go about setting up virtual machines so that they can see sites hosted on the host machine?
I've got Virtual PC 2007 and the disk image that MS supply for testing IE6 on Vista machines and I'm having trouble accessing my local Apache server (set up with XAMPP). Until recently I was able to set the XP VM's LAN settings to use a proxy server with the IP address of the host machine, but I got migrated to ADSL2+ yesterday by my ISP and now that's no longer working.
To access my sites locally, I set up httpd.conf like this:
PHP Code: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot "C:PathToFolder" ServerName siteName.local</VirtualHost><Directory "C:PathToFolder"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all</Directory>
and then in Windows hosts file I add 127.0.0.1 siteName.local.
So what's the best way of getting the host and VMs to talk to each other?
How do I configure dedicated IP's on Virtual Machines running on a CentOS5 Host?
I installed VMWare Server 2 almost without a problem using no GUI, I now have the web interface for the VMWS2 and any machine I create and run on it seems to do so without a problem.
The thing is, I can't connect or know how to configure this virtual network so I end up using 2 dedicated IPs on the Virtual Machine.
Could anyone tell me if they heard of this hosting company is OK? I checked they speed and it's ok, the prices are great as well,but i haven't seen much reviews
I've been trying to get hold of Nick at Peerless Machines for some weeks regarding a service I have purchased being significantly different than what was advertised. I have received some replies, each after several days, but they have been unsatisfactory in my opinion and nothing has picked up.
About a week ago I was asked for my Live Messenger address so that we could discuss the matter there, but after forwarding it to Nick and waiting several days I have received nothing. Their website also does not publish any significant contact details, and their billing system is disfunctional.
Does anyone have functional, direct contact details for Nick at Peerless Machines? A telephone number or Live Messenger address would be great.
In your environment, have you ever used diskless machines (e.g. booted with BOOTP/DHCP/TFTP) for any reason? Where in your environment are you making use of them (e.g. what types of servers - web, application, database, DNS, etc...), and how has it turned out for you?
Has it actually yielded any of the promised benefits that the literature on them says, or was it a pain to set up and maintain?
Any interesting use cases on what you use them for and, as importantly, what are your criteria for determining whether a particular type of server should be diskless or not?
As this forum is filled with people with lots of experience running hosting businesses or their own web applications and therefore have managed thousands of machines between yourselves, I figured this is an appropriate and interesting question to ask. I'm hoping to get insights from here that I can't get from reading any old web article.
In recent weeks Peerless Machines was sold by a competent owner to PC-Core.net. Since that time, the server performance has been HORRIBLE, responses have been UNACCEPTABLY delayed, and none of their systems work.
They moved all shared and reseller clients over to a PC-Core sever. They had MySQL settings so tight that their own Kayako support desk didn't even function. Each time I tried to submit a ticket, their SQL server had "gone away."
When I contacted support (finally...manually through e-mail), the support responses were incoherent and ignorant.
I decided to cancel... but apparently that was too difficult of a task for them to complete. I cancelled my account on July 14th. I received multiple e-mails from them saying that my invoice (due on the 20th) was overdue. When I replied to the bill, they said that the had no record of my account and that no invoice had been generated. Hmm.
So, I got two other e-mails informing me that my bill STILL had not been paid.
Please beware. Peerless Machines is no longer peerless..... It's now owned by PC-Crap . net!
I would like to reassure two DNS machines (a primary and a secondary) with iptables
By default I block everything, but even with rules for the port 53, it blocks the queries needing to resolve via the primary, and the secondary does not manage to transfer the zones of the primary …
DNS are on public ip, but to simplify, we are going to say that:
The primary DNS is: 192.168.0.10 The secondary DNS is: 192.168.0.20
Here are iptables rules(sliders) which I have at present:
iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i lo --source 127.0.0.1 --destination 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
Thus with these rules, I have quite a lot of problems (resolutions, transfersof zones) I found these rules on a forum, that seems to be interesting but as I do not know there not iptable, I ignore if it is what I miss or not.
For information here is all the same what I found (not tested):
#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.0.20/255.255.255.255 --sport 1024:65535 -d 192.168.0.10 -dport 53 -m state state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT #iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.0.10/255.255.255.255 --sport 53:65535 -d 192.168.0.20 -dport 1024:65535 -m state state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
to the httpd-manual.conf to enable access by other machines on my network but it seems to be hard coded to localhost only.
Is there something else I can add to httpd-manual.conf to enable it or do I need to copy manual folder to the htdocs folder and then restrict that <Directory> ?
I would like to understand what is the difference between VPS and a VDS. I understand they sound the same, however from a cost stand point VPS is way cheaper than VDS, and I am not very sure of the reason.
I have a few hundred domains that I would like to set as "parked" domains on my server, so basically all domains will point to the same http folder (or the same index.php file). I'm using apache, would this be a matter of setting up virtual hosts?
I'm installing a script that's suppose to act as a payment gateway/store. The script requires the virtual path to the secured directory holding the products and everything I've tried doesn't work! It should be something like /home/username/public_html/secured where username is replaced with my username. I'm hosting with godaddy and have tried just about everything on this page: help.godaddyDOTCOM/article.php?article_id=1360 without any luck. Any ideas or experience with this? I'm on the economy plan with godaddy.
I have a .htaccess file that redirects all requests to index.php allowing me to make virtual directories (URI looks like www.domain.com/foo/bar):
Code: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule .* index.php but I cannot think of a way, how to make subdomain like wap.domain.com/foo/bar/ to show the same as www.domain.com/foo/bar/ . If it's possible I would tike that the URI would be shown with the subdomain that entered user (e.g. wap) but it would show the same info. I've tried to put this .htaccess file to wap subdomain:
Code: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule wap.domain.com/(.*) www.comain.com/index.php but it works only for wap.domain.com ant for wap.domain.com/whatever/
We are looking of going with a VPS hosting for a secure dealer site. We won't need massive amounts of space, but bandwidth is more a concern, as we may need to serve video files for demos and such.
These are the 4 companies we are considering going with:
EV1Servers
ServerPowered
SteadFastNnetworks
PowerVPS
Has anybody here used any of these hosts? What have been your experiences with them?
I use Virtuozzo with layeredtech, and since I'm on the move anyway, thought I'd like to try out some different Virtualization products before the migration.
Allot of these products like bare-metal installs though... which is why I'm particularly looking for "virtual media" on the KVM.
Someone had mentioned a way to use virtual apache configs, this way you wouldn't have to reboot apache each time you add a new domain to your box. Can you tell me what dso I need to use?
Also is there a conversion tool to grab the configs you have now, and migrate them to the external files?
I just have a question about an Apache 2.0 error. I am running a web host and I am using VHCS for my web hosting control panel which creates virtual hosts in Apache's config files. Whenever I have a certain number of virtual hosts (200 or more roughly) Apache will start giving me problems with no messages about what went wrong. Some examples of what Apache does is that it will crash when I run "apache2ctl restart" or it just won't run when I start it sometimes. It really annoys me since I'm wondering if it's an Apache memory issue. Any ideas on what to do or how to solve this dilemma?
When you set up a new domain you have to write a new virtual host to httpd.conf... then you have to restart the Apache... Is their a way to do this without the restart. Surely a big ISP doesn't restart Apache every time a new domain is added.
What is the difference between virtual dedicated server and a dedicated server?
I know that a dedicated server means you have the physical computer as your server whileas virtual dedicated server means that they separate the physical computer into various parts and you have control over one of those separated parts.
But my question is mainly on the functionality of a virtual dedicated server and a dedicated server.
What can you do on a dedicated server that you can't do on a virtual dedicated server?
I have been with Blue Virtual (bluevirtual.com) for many years, since the Communitech days. However, the service these past few weeks has gone downhill big time.
The BV forums are dead, the webhosting is up and down like a yoyo, mail is intermittent.
Not just me but fellow users are experiencing the same.
Support tickets are going unanswered (accounts & tech. support).
