There's a new Wordpress out, so it's a good time to make sure you have any/all wordpress installs updated.
Running this will find versions for every one installed in /home/
Code:
find /home/ -type d -name wp-includes -exec grep -H wp_version {}/version.php ;
The latest version is now 2.0.6
Godaddy provides some quick-install apps on Hosting manage page, I got WordPress installed and found the robots.txt file disallows any search engines, it reads:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
you need to modify the file manually, does anyone have the problem? see more at http://rhineblog.com/2009/02/wordpress-installed-by-godaddy-disallows-search-engine-robots.html
We have been looking at utilizing something like nocmonkey or similar to make OS reinstalls easier on our servers. My real need is to be able to do this remotely if and when I can't have someone onsite do this to help speed up turning up a server where a client has cancelled, and we are reinstalling CentOS to turn up to new client.
I'm almost certain there is no quick and easy way to do a OS reinstall remotely without utilizing something like NOCmonkey, correct?
I do have KVM/IP so I was curious if there is a way remotely to do this that is possible because of the KVM/IP?
Is there any VPS Provider that does Managed Hosting but also as part of that managed service, installs 3rd party scripts whenever needed?
I have been using Future Hosting and they were providing this for me but have been told today that they have changed their policy and will no longer install 3rd Party scripts.
I specifically need CentOS 4.x MINIMAL. I do not require any additional extras such as cpanel and other crap.
View 4 Replies View RelatedA company i am working with is looking to install a VMWare setup comprising of something like this :
6x Dual Proc Quad Core Nodes with 16GB RAM
2x Clustered iSCSN SAN Nodes
I am intending on purchasing the full suite including DRS/HA/VMotion.
Now this is all well and good but the software pricing is absolutely horrendous! So my question to you chaps is :
Is anyone using the latest Virtual Iron or Xen Enterprise in a high end environment?
Obviously VMWare is the market leader, the big boys are using it and its something you can bank on. (literally! HSBC use it ALOT!)
Is it even worth looking at VI/Xen for something like this? The cost would be like a quarter of the total cost of a VMWare license.
Is it possible to use a remote database server on two or more Plesk installations without issue?
Plesk A (192.168.1.1):
Local MySQL (default)
Remote A MySQL (192.168.1.5)
Plesk B (192.168.1.2):
Local MySQL (default)
Remote A MySQL (192.168.1.5)
... etc etc. Is that possible? It'll allow me to create databases on the remote server from both/all the Plesk servers without conflict?
I`ve read this about allowing certain IPs access to the server
Quote:
More advanced: /etc/apf/allow_hosts.rules
10. As a safety precaution, you might want to add your ip to the '/etc/apf/allow_hosts.rules' file.
Open the file in your favorite editor.
11. Add the ip of your computer to the end of the file. This will cause all traffic to and from that ip not to be filtered. You can also add the ip's of other servers.
If you want to specify what kind of traffic to allow from those ips that is not covered with the current firewall rules (ie. you blocked all traffic to SSH and only want a few ips to be able to access the SSH port), then this is the format you would use:
Protocol : direction/flow : source/destination port : s/d ip
[tcp/udp] : [in/out] : [s=/d=]PORT : [s=/d=]IP
Ex (let the ip 192.168.0.100 access to port 22):
tcp:in:d=22: s=192.168.0.100
What I`d like to know is if its possible to put an IP range in there instead of just one ip address
such as you specify a range in the conf.apf file upon setup
eg:
tcp:in:d=99_123: s=192.168.0.100
where 99_123 is the port range
I am building a server using two Clovertown E5320 processors for a project. I need some suggestions for a motherboard and memory. I have looked at some boards on Newegg, but I'm still unsure. I do not have a large budget for the motherboard, so the cheaper, the better.
If anyone has other processors they would go with alternatively I'm open to suggestions there as well. It was either going to be a single Clovertown (later to be two) or two AMD Opteron 2212's....
I find it worrying when new or relatively new users post "[XYZ]VPS PROVIDER IS A SCAM" or "[XYZ]VPS ROBBED ME" in a topic because they didn't get the instant ticket response or fast enough setup time on their $10 VPS..
I'm planning on setting up a budget UK based VPS service myself some time soon, and users would do well to remember that a lot of hard work goes in to the management and set up of such providers. This kind of negative publicity can not be taken back once posted. A quick google search will throw this kind of a post up and cause irrepairable and often, completely unnecessary harm to a business..
Quick IPTables Commands
List: iptables -L -n | grep <IP Address>
Remove: iptables -D INPUT -s <IP 1> -d <IP 2> -j DROP
Insert: iptables -I INPUT -s <IP> -j DROP
Flush: iptables -F
Remove: iptables -D OUTPUT -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 66.93.33.185 -j DROP
netstat -nap | grep :80 | wc –l (shows # of connections to HTTP)
netstat -ntu | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort –n (shows total connections per IP, if more than 100 block)
I currently switched from XXX to infinitie.net vps service. I was tired of foreign help dealing with people with poor english. Tech support has been very good, and good response times. Servers themselves have good performance. Not the fastest, but the mysql performance has been very good. It's also nice to have a VPS but setup and stuff can be somewhat intimidating. They were very helpful, but I did opt to pay them a small fee to do it for me. The hourly rates aren't a bargain, but when you factor in the time you would need to do it right, if you are just so-so at it, then it was probably worth it.
So far it's only a week, but it's been a happy week. No downtime at all so far. I'll report to you in a month and tell you how things are going.
During the past 24 hours, two things have happened with iMountain.com that I wanted to let you all know about.
1. I uncovered a bug in the Webshell application that they use (bundled with Hsphere) which was preventing me from gzipping up my and my buddy's owsweather.com site for weekly backups. Reported it in an email, and in 2 minutes I had a reply back saying that they would notify Hsphere of the issue since it's a bug in the software. Good job there.
2. The big one is that the same owsweather.com site is getting clobbered by HUGE amounts of traffic - more than we ever have in our 8 year history. We have received over 2500 unique IP visits since midnight (it is now 5 minutes until 6:00 am PDT in California).
I must give major props to iMountain for building rock solid servers which don't bog down under high traffic load, and also for allowing us to "use" their servers for what they are INTENDED to be used for! If it wasn't for them and allowing our site to have bursts of traffic like this *see Dreamhost, Bluehost, and other similar reviews*, we would be in a very tight spot indeed. So thanks Brandon and crew. You have done us well.
I recently changed providers after a short search, including input from this thread [url].
I opted to go with a semi-dedicated package from Iron Mountain ( www.imountain.com ). I was mostly impressed with their clustered solution and dedicated mySQL servers to host our increasingly busy Vbulletin forums. They also answered email inquires very quickly; another good sign, given the few comments I could find about them at WHT.
While I was intrigued about the solar-powered claim, I knew that many in our community would appreciate that aspect as well.
Ultimately, I wasn't quite convinced our forum issues were mainly related to CPU/memory resource use. So, I narrowed my search to providers that also claimed to have a good setup for SQL. These included Cartika Hosting and MediaLayer, among others (Thank you to all who responded with input and offers!). At that point, it came down to lowest price and iMountain's offer was also in the upper end of the price range supported by recent member donations. In case I was wrong about the CPU resources, at least this would at least allow some time to save for the dedicated solution that many recommended.
As it turns out, the CPU/memory resources were not the issue at all. It seems that our forum issues at the previous provider were primarily due to their SQL implementation.
In fact, they were going to generously allow us to continue on our $50/year plan for a while given that we weren't yet hogging resources. Nonetheless, the slowdowns and SQL errors continued until the last day. In any case, I can still recommend AddAction.net for anyone looking for a competitively priced basic hosting package if you don't have major SQL requirements. It was inexpensive, but I believe I got a lot more than I paid for.
Since the switch, the forums have been running great. No slowdowns, no freezes, no infinite waits to read/make a post, no flood of SQL error email messages. Most importantly, no user complaints so far. In addition, I've been told that we aren't even putting a scratch in our resource allocations in any area and there should be plenty of room for growth that has been doubling about every 6 months for the last few years.
The transfer was quick and the switchover had minimal downtime given that the new plan included a dedicated IP address for me to direct users of the forums during the DNS propagation. There were a couple minor issues during the switch, but their tech support team responded very quickly. They also helped setup a memcache for the forums and suggested some other tweaks to further improve performance.
Overall, I am very satisfied so far. I'll report again in a couple months when I have a better feel for downtime and more time for users to comment.
We've recently decided to move a sizable web project to a VPS located at bigvps.com (colo4jax). Although I had some initial concerns about them being single homed to Cogent, I have actually been pleasantly surprised at the speeds of the network. I have seen some very good speeds to some of my key servers located on the West Coast and even better on the East Coast (expected). For grins, we even tested a proprietary voip software between the datacenter (It's in Jacksonville) to one of our offices in San Francisco. It was perfect!
The hardware seems solid and support has been quick to respond to any inquiries.
Although we havent moved over the web project yet, the work we have done on the server has been no problem at all. We expect that when we move over the web project, the VPS will continue to hum along.
As with all providers, it's been a short life with them thus far - I'll post back in a few months and let you know how things progress.
I'm a non-techie trying to choose a dedicated hoster. From searching through reviews and prices, I've come down to Lunar Pages or Liquid Web. Would you please give me your opinions of these two, and if there are others that you feel strongly about instead, mention those as well? I would really appreciate it -- I'm very anxious about choosing a reliable company with good service, b/c I'll pretty much be at their mercy! (Life is hard for the non-technical
My programmer gave me these requirements: managed hosting, windows server 2003 or 2008, web edition, 2 GB ram, ms sql server 2005 or above, quad core processor from 1.8 - 2.4 ghz, firewall, automatic backup -- 10 GB, remote desktop connection.
I've been a long time reader but I figured I would finally sign up for an account and post a review of my current VPS host, WingSix.com.
Ratings range: 0-10
0 being the worse and 10 being the best
Uptime: 7/10
The uptime has been pretty good. Over the course of six months I had about 1 hour of downtime due to a hardware failure but over the last month I have had nearly 20 hours of downtime due to unexplained outages and migration issues.
Support: 4/10
The support has been horrendous. My average response to tickets is measured in days, if they respond at all, and I still have tickets opened from when I initially ordered the account relating to creeping file corruption which support just dances around. I have also had my IPs changed and server moved twice in the last month with little to no advance notice. Usually nothing actually gets done until I call them and even then it's a crapshoot.
Performance: 9/10
The performance on the server is excellent. The server is primarily a DNS and Mail host for my domains and, so far, I have had no problems with the speed or responsiveness of the service. Take this rating with a grain of salt, however, because I have never done much that would put an incredible load on the server.
Price: 8/10
Their pricing is fairly competitive with other hosts I have looked at. I am currently on their VPS Hawk plan ($25/mo) which offers:
2 dedicated IPs
15 GB storage
400k inodes
100 GB bandwidth
256 MB RAM / 1GB burstable
CPanel
Conclusion
While the uptime, price and performance are good I am hesitant on recommending them to anyone based on my experience thus far with their support
My domain has been reported to the mods.
server intrusion: quick fixes
View 12 Replies View RelatedI another thread recently I done a 5 year review for another provider hover circumstance changed and I took on a couple of Gigenet servers ( relatively high end)
Sales were extremely efficient working with me to achieve what I needed at a price I was comfortable with, replies were fast and concise so I ended up with 2 new machines and backup service.
Normally I don't need a lot of support and for the first few weeks nothing bar rDNS set ups - However I ran into some serious post migration issues over the past few days that had me stumped, support has been some of the best I have ever received both in speed and efficiency -
Anyway I sincerely hope I will be coming back to this thread in 5 years time to update it.
I need a quicker way to find spammers. I've found a decent way to find the scripts, but I want to find heavy offenders by a simple command line or something to identify all scripts sending e-mail in let's say a text document or something.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm about to purchase a 2nd server to be used as a database/app server alongside my current server (of which will be the web server).
I wish to use 2 x 146GB 10K SCSI hard disks (in RAID 1) on the database server, but will be keeping 2 x 320GB SATAII 16M in RAID 1 on the web server. Will the SATA hard disks affect the performance / effectiveness of the SCSI disks or will I benefit from SCSI even though they're only in the database server?
Also, I'm going for 10K hard disks over 15K because they $20 per month cheaper and it's already expensive ($150 p/m for the two 10K or $170 p/m for 2 x 15k). Taking into account the already hefty price, is it worth the extra for 15K?
We've been experiencing a lot of trouble with novice customers that want to install an Application Vault package that has sub-optimal default settings, e.g.
customer wants to install wordpress, clicks on Application Vault -> wordpress -> "INSTALL"
This will install, without any questions for settings, wordpress into domain.com/wordpress - which is not what people want. I know that there is a button with teh drop down menu that shows "custom", however, people don't see/know about it and click "install".
Is there a way to remove / replace the "quick install" button and have the "install custom" as default.
This can be adapted to other operating systems, for the scope of this tutorial it will be designed for Redhat enterprise / Centos ....
View 0 Replies View RelatedI would like to know how to check load via ssh and check files causing load?
I want the ssh codes for 2 different set of control panels, one with cpanel+whm and other with kloxo+hypervm
and I would also know how to check the files causing the load, such as some files could have been interrupted while processing, so they could be causing load some times, so I want to stop such processes if any are running on the vps on my friends accounts
i recently purchased a VPS from internetvps.com, but im not sure what OS of linux it is. How can you check the OS of the server?
View 10 Replies View RelatedLet's say I have a VPS with 512 MBs of RAM.
How do I check in shell that this is indeed the case?
I read in some places that "top" and "free -m" and such can help.
But these gave me way more than 512.
Here is the output from my "free -m". Total shows here 3886 MBs of MEM??? That is almost 4 Gigs. Please someone explain this.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3886 3721 164 0 17 542
-/+ buffers/cache: 3161 724
Swap: 6142 2020 4121
Quote:
Nobody Check 1.0.3 Current on cPanel
Tue Mar 20 16:00:02 SGT 2007 on blue.mydomain.com
Server Load: 16:00:02 up 21 days, 14:02, 0 users, load average: 2.73, 2.20, 2.08
Warning: Malicious Nobody Process Found
=========================================
Options: kill bad proc=1 logging lvl=1
SCAN SUMMARY
========================================
Clean Processes: 57
DETECTED Malicious Processes: 1
DETECTION DETAILS
========================================
DETECTION: Process 4221 with name php and path /usr/bin/php
Process ID: 4221 has been killed
Restuls for PID: 4221
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 .
dr-xr-xr-x 291 root root 0 Feb 27 10:01 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 2 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 attr
-r-------- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 auxv
-r--r--r-- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 cmdline
lrwxrwxrwx 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 cwd -> /home/easyzz/public_html
-r-------- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 environ
lrwxrwxrwx 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 exe -> /usr/bin/php
dr-x------ 2 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 loginuid
-r-------- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 maps
-rw------- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 mem
-r--r--r-- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 mounts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 root -> /
-r--r--r-- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 stat
-r--r--r-- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 statm
-r--r--r-- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 status
dr-xr-xr-x 3 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 task
-r--r--r-- 1 easyzz easyzz 0 Mar 20 16:00 wchan
Netstat:
Environ:
Hello, I got this notification from the 'Nobody Check'.
Is there anything I need to be aware of? ..
confirm this is only 1gig of ram?
Mem: 1034096 985128 48968 0 157944 559136
-/+ buffers/cache: 268048 766048
Swap: 2040212 160 2040052
Total: 3074308 985288 2089020
I'm running CSF on a Cpanel server and have questions about new features in CSF
Apache Check
Check Apache weak SSL/TLS Ciphers (SSLCipherSuite)
Results
Cipher list []. Due to weaknesses in the SSLv2 cipher you should disable SSLv2 in WHM > Apache Configuration > Global Configuration > SSLCipherSuite > Add -SSLv2 to SSLCipherSuite and/or remove +SSLv2. Do not forget to Save AND then Rebuild Configuration and Restart Apache, otherwise the changes will not take effect in httpd.conf
Can someone explain this in laymen terms? I know this is new in Cpanel. I'm already running Apache 2.2, PHP 5.2.9 with suPHP enabled and mod_security as well (these rules: [url]
Also, what exactly are these CSF checks?
Check csf PT_SKIP_HTTP option
This option disables checking of processes running under apache and can limit false-positives but may then miss running exploits
Check csf SAFECHAINUPDATE option
This option closes a window of opportunity that opens when dynamic chain updates occur