I'm switching colocation facilities, but the new one requests that we have property insurance on our machines. I'm not quite sure what the reason for this is.I asked some sysadmins and it seems that this is normal practice.
I'm not a company, so getting it seems a little wasteful.
Has anyone had to buy insurance in order to use a colocation facility? Any companies anyone could recommend.
i came across DC where colocation required a $3 mn insurance. I was wondering what type of insurance is this. We were just looking for a rack.
DC owners experiences appreciated. Also do customers colocating in a DC require to have insurance ? or they are normally covered by default by DC and dont need to buy insurance?
1. Is it worth to insurance web hosting service?
2. Have you heard about this?
3. Any insurance company offer this?
4. Has any web host been sued so far for damage to data or loss to business?
One of our data centre has reported that it has lost each and everything in fire at its place - including all instruments, servers, machines and so on. We were having 100 domains with them on our server. Our clients are very much co-operating with us.
What shall we do in this case as far as our 4 questions are concerned?
I am not sure is it is realistic to take out insurance against losses caused by downtime. Or perhaps insurance would merely increase the costs to such an extent that it would be better to spend more on the hosting costs, and the improved service that would buy. Has anyone considered this as an issue, because I have read on other forums that people complain of lost income due to their sites being down for a day or two, and it sounds like they just suffer the losses without any recompense?
View 10 Replies View RelatedOver the next year we are working to migrate all of our shared servers from leased dedicated servers to our own collocated equipment. As you can imagine it is a slow process, but we are getting there.
By this next week we will have about ten servers and a couple of switches colo'd. I am thinking it is time we looked at insuring the equipment we have colo'd and get it taken care of before we build up the volume anymore.
Is anyone able to recommend someone we may be able to contact to obtain insurance on our equipment? All of our equipment is at Colo4Dallas, in Dallas, TX split between our rack there and their secure storage room (spare parts, switch, chassis etc.).
I tried contacting our insurance company here in the United Kingdom to see if we could add it on to our office insurance but they became very hesitant when I mentioned the hardware was in Dallas, despite the fact it is probably more secure in the Colo4Dallas data center than our office.
So I guess we would be looking for a US insurance company that specializes in this type of thing. We would be looking to protect against equipment being damaged due to things like power surges, being dropped by a technician etc.
Please give me the difference. Colo in carrier hotel, we can choose our preferred network provider, but should we do that if we cannot have our own tech in datacenter? How about the supporting service from carrier hotel? Just general question, cause I dont address exactly which facility.
And the second would be more expensive? Saying the same number of rack, amount of bandwidth... Who is providing IP addresses then?
I want to start a VPS service for our customers, I am looking for a managed server provider that can provide economical server for VPS any one has any idea?
View 13 Replies View RelatedAssuming that an account on my server is hacked into, is open_basedir enough to protect other users on the same server? I would assume so, since php would not have access to those other accounts? Why is suphp needed?
Ofcourse, I also disabled dynamic loading of modules (apache) and added some disable_functions list.
I have 2 dedicated servers and one VPS with liquidweb. Lately I am facing quite an issue with support and I think I am posting 2nd time about liquidweb support.
Its all about my VPS, which use to hold 45 clients consumming around 50 % disk space and around 30 % bandwidth.
On 3rd of April VPS started to shoot emails about services failure and continuously went for 2 days. Then on finally 5th April, it went down. So I reported this to liquidweb support by creating a ticket(I created the ticket by shooting an email to support@liquidweb.com not by logging into PIMS). I got an reply in around 1 hr 20 mins that server is up. So i checked it and yes it was up, but with lots of issues. Still were getting service failure emails as they are failing and above all my root password stopped working. So couldn't login into WHM that time.
I reported this back on 6th April. No reply on 6th of April. On 7th april, I sent a reminder about the issue. They repiled by asking for my last 4 digits of credit card for verification purpose (Designatation of that person was written Web Designer) . Now when I ordered this using paypal, there is no question of last 4 digits of credit card. So I politely replied them back within 4 hours that I have used paypal for ordering the VPS.
They didn't reply back on 7th, not on 8th. Finally on 9th, when I lost few customers because I can't login into WHM, I wrote a bit stringly worded post in that support ticket.
To quote myself.....
"OPPS!!!....This has been a tremendous lack of response from you guys. It seems
that you don't have support guys anymore. I have lost few customers
because I can't login into my WHM. And it seems that you have changed my
root password and now not letting me know about this.
Suddenly one web designer is replying my ticket.
Whats is happening there?
Let me know my root password immediately.
Thanks
Krish"
Now after posting this reply, I decided to call them. So within 30 mins of this post I called them. Jason, a system admin replied and we talked politely about the issue. He accepted over phone that it was big mess.
Why big mess?????...because when he restored my old password and I logged into WHM....I don't see any account left . All data lost...everything gone as it appeared there is nothing left.
So he took up the issue of restoring account. He claimed that server was rooted. Now how come after so many days and communications they discovered my server was rooted?
Then he started restoring accounts....all accounts came back but with a loss of around whopping 80% loss of data. Most of customers started complaining about loss of emails and data. On 10th again I reported them about such loss and mysql which was not working. They fixed the mysql issue, but no database was left.
Then I got busy on 11th, could not follow it up as I should have been doing. But still as I was waiting replies from my customer about how much is the loss (I was telling them that we should be able to get them back from backup).
So I reported back to support on 11th as follows...I quote myself...
"I am waiting for reply from them. I noticed one thing. That the content is not
restored properly...as there are only 13% of space used right..which should be
around 50%."
On 12th I got following reply...I quote...
Anyone having first hand review of Netfirms ....
They are offering 250GB storage , 2000GB transfer ( Sure, Overselling ) at :
netfirms.com/max
The above link will give me a whole year for $10,
Just want to inquire about "first hand review of Netfirms" and no criticizing on there price's and overselling plans.
I´m thinking about setting up a load balanced setup. I´ll start with load-balancing MySQL, and after, I´ll go with the webservers. MySQL is currently more important.
I have two different bandwidth providers, with two different networks, in the same datacenter. Pings between both are under 1ms.
I was think about buying 4 servers, two for a MySQL Cluster (NDB), and two for a UltraMonkey Load Balancer setup. The MySQL Cluster API would be installed in another server, currently in use.
So, what else would I need? My intention is to have two servers in one provider, and two servers in another provider. Would this kind of setup require large quantities of bandwidth? Both providers wouldn´t let me pass a diferent cable for this purpose, so I would have to use the uplink.
Also, for webservers, I would only need two more servers, right? Maybe rsync them, and have sessions stored in database would be the best choice?
Thank You
I would like to setup a load balancing pair of servers. Currently, I have about 7 servers, all of them working stand alone. I would like to use two of them to host some "power-hungry" websites, that require high availiability. What kind of hardware will I need to do it? I´ve already searched for some, and found load-balancers from F5 which seem to be very good, however they seem to be very expensive (9000 dolars maybe?). Is there any solution which might end cheaper? Will I need anything else?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI need 2 dedicated DNS servers.
I'd like one server on the east coast and one on the west or close to it.
They will be used for primary ans secondary dns only.
Simply running Bind and webmin.
I need cheap servers since they are pushing dns data around.
Not very bandwidth intensive or cpu resource intensive.
The most important thing is that the backbone redundancy is amazing.
You can get a good server at a lot of place these day, but who has the staff and backbone to make sure these servers are not bottlenecked and up and running.
If I wanted to install OpenVPN to create a personal VPN (low bandwith/CPU) what kind of minimum specs should I be looking into?
I contacted Panix.com to enquiry about their $10/month shell account I asked them about getting OpenVPN installed and they replied something like they do not allow it in the shell because it needs a server with a higher spec, which is odd to me.
I'm running a CPanel server and wondering which of these users are safe to remove and whats the best way to do that?
Code:
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/sbin/nologin
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/spool/mail:/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/sbin/nologin
operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/sbin/nologin
games:x:12:100:games:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin
gopher:x:13:30:gopher:/var/gopher:/sbin/nologin
ftp:x:14:50:FTP User:/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
avahi-autoipd:x:499:499:avahi-autoipd:/var/lib/avahi-autoipd:/sbin/nologin
vcsa:x:69:69:virtual console memory owner:/dev:/sbin/nologin
ntp:x:38:38::/etc/ntp:/sbin/nologin
dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/sbin/nologin
polkituser:x:87:87:PolicyKit:/:/sbin/nologin
nscd:x:28:28:NSCD Daemon:/:/sbin/nologin
rpcuser:x:29:29:RPC Service User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
nfsnobody:x:65534:498:Anonymous NFS User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
tcpdump:x:72:72::/:/sbin/nologin
avahi:x:498:497:avahi-daemon:/var/run/avahi-daemon:/sbin/nologin
mailnull:x:47:47::/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
smmsp:x:51:51::/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
sshd:x:74:74:Privilege-separated SSH:/var/empty/sshd:/sbin/nologin
torrent:x:497:496:BitTorrent Seed/Tracker:/var/lib/bittorrent:/sbin/nologin
haldaemon:x:68:68:HAL daemon:/:/sbin/nologin
rpc:x:32:32:Rpcbind Daemon:/var/lib/rpcbind:/sbin/nologin
When a registered memory is needed ?
I read that if you using more than 4GB you HAVE to use it, because it causes a huge overload into motherboard because it suck so much energy.
But is real life is this really true ? Is it really needed ?
What would the average person looking for a VPS look for? I know each customer is different but I am talking just the most common. I am looking for specs to look for if I do a review site. That way I will review the type of VPS's most people are looking for.
I am looking for sellers to perhaps post their best selling VPS plan.
Include your guesses/experience with the following
Hard Drive:
RAM:
Bandwidth:
IPs:
Can anyone recommend a confirmed solid dedicated host that offers reasonably priced 1000 Mbps ports (preferably flat rate shared) and will allow us to route a /24 to them?
View 14 Replies View Relatedi thought for moveing my apache 2.0 to 2.2 but iam in little bit confused for max client and keep alive setting in normal apache 2.0 we can see that in httpd.conf file but in apache 2.2 we can able to see that all,any one help me in finding these kind of setting and move my apache 2.2 without any issues
View 0 Replies View Relatedi run a linux server with the planet it comes with ensim installed.
as some of you probabley heard about the fire at the planet and they offered to move my server to another facility but they have to change the server ip address which i agreed to it
the server is back online but i'm unable to acces any websites
i asked them to point all domains to the new ip address but they are really busy and i assume it would take a day or 2
when i login to ensim and list all sites i still see the old ip address listed under each domain, do i need to change that if so how?
will everything work once the they modify dns records?
I've searched quite a bit for myself now, but I have yet to find a place that offers what I need. Most of the servers seem way too overpowered for my needs, but the lower-end server offerings I've found don't have the necessary space and/or bw.
What I'm looking for is something along these lines:
I basically only need to run Apache/Lighthttpd, PHP and MySQL, along with a custom program that would only use 1-2% cpu at its peak and not more than 1mb memory. The web server part would probably not serve more than 10-20 simultaneous visits at its peak.
CPU and memory requirements are therefore very small for me. However, I need 10gb space at the very least, along with ~200gb bw.
I would preferably like the server to be located in Europe, or have very good connectivity to Europe, as I need as low pings as possible.
Unmanaged and no control panel needed.
I'd like to go with 1and1, using ASP.net and MS SQL Server, and the ability to setup lots of databases, websites and URLs, but I'm not keen on maintaining the server, updates, backups etc.
I'd also like to access the web space and upload files, from any computer.
For the last 3 days i've been trying to select a VPS host, and it seems many of you have quite a few good things to say about SolarVPS...
- BUT -
For the last few days I've tried on numerous occaisions to have an online chat with them before creating an account, but no one is ever available to respond even though their "sales chat" and "emergency chat" shows as being available and online all the time! I've also trying phoning them, but no one answers the calls either.
This makes me question whether they're just trying to create the illusion support is readily available, but its not?
If you're being hosted by SolarVPS - Can you provide me with a "Real" review of their service and what I could expect in terms of support requests.
I've also been looking at GoDaddy's offerings and they seem pretty comparable, so if you presently have a windows VPS account with them, can you tell me if you're satisfied with their service? And how well do they handle support requests there?
Ipower have changed their Interface,the new Interface really looks snazzy. The Interface Is really smooth and easy on the eyes,I really thought Ipower needs a facelift desperately.
View 14 Replies View Relatedi have aclinet who asked about games servers.
so if he needs to order aserver , and setup awar games on the server.
it will be for any veistos can go and play ? or some only or what ?
also how much this servers costs. and where he can get the games from ?
Can some please suggest best and cheap dedicated server for live video streaming for 300-400 users.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI need a hosting with .net 3.5 support. Prefer 1G MS sql server space. traffic 10-20G is ok. need a stable hosting with good & capable technical support.
anyone can recommend one? I plan to use discountasp, but their sql is too small, 500M only.
I am using cpanel My server runs with centos 5 With version 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus
Does i need to keep updating kernal updates always for the server?
If so how i can update automatically?
I am Smith Lewis. I am here because I am looking for some information on web hosting services. I hope all you my friends help me in the same.
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have experience running a reseller service? Are you basically acting as another hosting company with customer support, etc?
My friend and I plan to do some freelance site design/coding on the site, and I was wondering whether it would be clever to do reseller hosting as well for any clients without hosting...