I have about 200 accounts an a RHEL 5.x cPanel server, the problem is that one of the resellers and all his accounts from time to time are dissapearing from /etc/localdomains, and that obviously is causing him email problems, and we had to add the domains again to the list so the mail can work again.
this is happening almost every 20-30 days.
I discovered this forum googling and i think is a very good community, so i registered and well... as any noob, started to ask questions U.U im new in this stuff of web hosting... though i know some things... i dont have experience, its my first job in a small web hosting company, and we have a strange problem, we loss entries on /etc/localdomains when we migrate domains from one server to another and nobody knows why... we can fix it trough deleting the dns entry and creating it again on the target server. I know its kinda messy (for me at least) i hope u can give me at least an insight of where the problem might be.
We do the migration trough the migration tool of WHM
Here is some data about the target migration server, if u need something else... please tell me.
CENTOS Enterprise 5 i686 on standard - WHM X v3.1.0
uname -r
2.6.18-8.el5
vmstat 5 5 ......
I have a client that routes their mail through a spam service and then back to my server. in order for this to work, their domain needs to be listed in both the /etc/localdomains file and the /etc/remotedomains file
it seems now since the last WHM/Cpanel upgrade that every morning i have to go in and manually re-add their domain into the localdomains file in order for their email to work
is there someway i can make it so it doesn't get removed?
I've looked through my exim logs a number of times and I see emails being sent out with "from:" fields with email addresses of other domains. Usually they are spam related and fraudulent.
How can exim be setup to only send out emails that have localdomains in their from fields?
E.g. if I have account bob.com on my server then the owner of bob.com can only send out emails "xxxx@bob.com" no matter what else he tries to do that's all exim will send out.
How can you get exim to do this? I have been using filtering to block commonly spammed domains like aol.com hotmail.com etc - any emails sent out with these in their from fields are filtered and blocked - but rather building up a larger and larger filter of commonly abused domains - why not just block everything except domains on your server.
I can get emails to admin@mydomain.com, but i really wanted to alias it so emails to admin@www.mydomain.com go to the same account. MX records for www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com both go to mail.domain.com. .
This is on a dedicated server, centos, with exim doing the email handling.
I was thinking maybe it would be like an alias of some sort, or somewhere to put a list of combinations i can accept email for.
i'm facing a weird issue in whm. i've removed clamav and munin, but these still show up in the navigation bar of WHM.
any idea why they're still there, and how i can remove them properly? (i've refreshed the page, its not cached).
I have some server with OS: CentOS 5.x
one day, I have to replicate 2 servers together. so, I have to stop webserver and use MySQL Administrator GUI Tool to backup it. My steps follow: (i work directly on Server 2 and i wantna to use mysql administrator gui to monitor and config replication).
1. Server 2: ssh to server 1-> connect mySQL -> add any host to root access
2. Server 2: use mySQL Administrator connect to server 1 with root
3. Server 2: backup from server 1 on Desktop location
4. Server 2: Restore it use mysql administrator tool.
It works well but when i click Restore button, MySQL Administrator GUI Tool disappear!
What's problem with this tools or server 2?
This question gets asked a lot in our Helpdesk and I figured I would post our knowledgebase article here to help anyone else wondering the Pros and Cons of Unlimited Domain Shared Hosting vs. Reseller Hosting. If anyone has anything else to add, I appreciate any feedback on how we can improve our KB article.
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Given the present state of shared hosting, many clients may ask "Why would I need a Reseller account if I can host unlimited Addon and Parked domains within a single shared hosting account?". There is certainly enough Disk Space and Bandwidth provided in many of today's hosting packages, so why bother to purchase a Reseller account?
Many don't realize the drawbacks of hosting large numbers of domains within a single hosting account until they've already packed tens of them onto a single package.
So how do you know whether a Reseller account or Shared Hosting account is right for you? The answer is in how you plan to provide access to others and how "mission-critical" the sites are. You should consider the following factors when deciding on hosting a large number of domains:
1. Who will be managing these sites?
2. How important is site security between sites?
3. Will these domains need dedicated SSLs?
4. How resource intensive will these sites be (RAM, CPU, MySQL)?
In a nutshell, Reseller plans are for those who wish to host websites for other sub-clients and a shared hosting package is for a single individual managing multiple personal domains. We'll go over the 4 points above in greater detail.
1. Who will be managing these site?
If you personally own multiple domains and wish to host them within the same hosting space, you can easily do so with an Addon or Parked domain. An addon domain will allow you to host a new domain within a subdirectory of your hosting space. A parked domain will allow you to have multiple domain names point to the same content. Since addon domains reside within the same user space as your main domain, you can manage all of your domains with a single login. You can see the problem if you want to provide another user with access. Since all accounts are managed with a single set of login credentials, if you give another user access to their addon domain you are also giving them access to your main domain. If you have vital information stored on your main domain and you are hosting another domain as an addon domain for someone else, you cannot provide them access to their hosting without compromising the integrity of your main domain.
When hosting sites as a Reseller, your clients in turn will want access to their account and will want exclusive rights to their disk space and server resources. With a Reseller account, each sub-account you create gets its own username, password, and isolated user space on the server. Individual clients of yours have access to their user space and their user space alone. In addition to the isolation with regards to access concerns, each account also gets their own cPanel access. All of the same great features that you use to manage your sites can also be given to your clients. Next time client Y wants to add an email account, you don't have to do it for them for fear of giving them access to your cPanel, you can simply give them their login details and they can manage their own email accounts.
2. How important is site security between sites?
This is along the same lines as point 1. This is not necessarily related to who you are hosting for, but what content you are hosting. Imagine that you are a webmaster and you are hosting your own personal site-in-a-box community forums (such as PHPBB or vBulliten) on your main domain and a company website for a paying client on an addon domain. It is not uncommon for popular scripts to have security flaws in older versions. Script authors will often update security flaws in later versions of their software. For this reason, it is very important to keep scripts up to date on your site. But let's assume you forget to update your scripts for a couple of months and an unscrupulous individual takes advantage of a well known security hole. Using this exploit, they gain access to your forums and any subdirectories. Since you are hosting another domain as an addon, they now have access to this domain's content as well. A site defacement on this company's site may not bode well for you when they are considering you for web master services in the future.
If these two domains had been separate into two individual users (i.e. two subaccounts created through a Reseller), their content would've been inherently isolated server side by Linux's user management. Sure, your forums still would've been affected by the security hole, but the break-in would've been isolated to your site alone.
Going back to our example, let's say that instead of a corporate website as an addon domain you are hosting an image gallery site for all of your cats. In this case, it may not be a big deal if a compromise in your main domain spreads to your addon domain. After all, they are both owned by you and you're only losing some time and effort to restore these sites from your local backups (which I'm sure you've actively maintained ). But then again, you are losing time and time is money. If these sites had been separated into individual users, again, you'd only have to restore one site's content.
The idea here is isolation. Reseller plans provide you with the peace of mind to know that if one of your users doesn't keep up with their site's content as actively as they should, their actions won't negatively impact the content hosted on other domains. If you and those you host in your addons are diligent webmasters, maybe this point won't have much bearing on your decision. Only you can say for sure.
3. Will these domains need SSLs?
As of this writing, SSL certificates must have a dedicated IP address to be installed. If you are hosting multiple domains on the same shared hosting package, you can still install an SSL (or purchase a dedicated IP address and install one) but you are limited to exactly one SSL on your account. If you are hosting multiple domains on the same package (and consequently the same IP), you must choose which domains gets to have the dedicated SSL.
Sub accounts of Resellers can each be placed onto separate IP addresses and, as a result, can each have their own dedicated SSL installed.
Of course, both shared accounts and Resellers' sub accounts can use the server's shared SSL free of charge. However, some clients prefer to see their domain in the URL bar when they visit https.
4. How resource intensive will these sites be (RAM, CPU, MySQL)?
We've already established that disk space and bandwidth will be no problem. But what about CPU, RAM, and MySQL resources?
It's important to be aware of the resource needs of your website. As administrators, we have to make sure all users "play nice" on the server. We can't have user X eating all of the CPU cycles computing pi to the trillionth decimal place while you are trying to serve web pages to your loyal visitors. We have to monitor the actions of all of our users and in the event someone is stepping beyond the bounds of acceptable resource consumption, we have to take action. In most cases, this entails disabling the abusive script, but in extreme cases we have to suspend the abusive user account to prevent other domains from encountering performance degradation on their sites.
If you are hosting 100 domains as addon domains, all serving nothing but static HTML pages, maybe you will stay off the radar.
But considering most sites are more complicated than static HTML, you may want to be aware of how many sites you host as addons and what content they serve. If you're hosting the latest and greatest Joomla modules, with up to date news feeds, integrated forums modules, polls, blog posts, etc your site can certainly require a degree of CPU to serve your pages. Now imagine you have 5 or 10 of these sites all hosted as addon domains. The resources these sites need to generate their content can quickly add up and before you know it you've got a friendly email from Acenet, Inc. in your inbox wondering why your user is consuming 2 of the 8 CPU cores on the server. That may be an exaggeration, but you get the idea. In the event your resource usage becomes so excessive that we have to suspend your user, now all of your sites are down instead of whichever one may be the direct cause of the spike in CPU, RAM, or MySQL consumption.
If each of these had been separate Reseller accounts, the offending account could've been suspended temporarily while we work through the cause, leaving the rest of your domains live and kicking.
The conclusion here is that you need to be aware of the needs of your sites in a general sense. Hosting unlimited domains within a shared hosting space is certainly a nice feature. For those webmasters who have multiple presences on the web, it's very convenient to be able to manage all of their personal domains from a single control panel. For those entrepreneurs who are hosting multiple domains for other individuals, the features and security associated with a Reseller plan and the inherent isolation of Linux users is a must have.
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I have 2 wordpress blogs, and I'd like a few different domains to be shared on each of them.
Using some exemples, suppose I have domains from domainA.com to domainE.com. domainA.com is my main domain and the others are addon domains.
Today Blog1 is using blog.domainA.com, and domainB.com and domainC.com use WebRedirect to blog.domainA.com. And Blog2 uses domainD.com with WebRedirect on domainE.com too.
To access a post like /2008/02/02/this-is-a-nice-post, it is available only at blog.domainA.com, and not by domains B and C. I'd like they 3 to be able to access all posts directly, without redirecting to domain A.
To do that, I suppose I'd need to do some config on cPanel. And also on wordpress, even if I replicate it over other domains it insists to redirect to its configured domain.
I was thinking on the possibility of using symbolic link (ln -s) on their folders to blog.domainA.com folder, but I don't have access to shell on SSH so I'd like to know if it would work before trying.
In a real exemple of what I want, these domains all share the same phpBB forum: forumpcs.com.br, extremepc.com.br, forumdohardware.com.br.
Do u know if symbolic link would work to share the same wordpress? And how to make wordpress stop redirecting to blog.domainA.com?
We have about 3 resellers on one server and all of a sudden, when I log in to whm and click "Show Reseller Accounts", all accounts show under root.. What's even strager, is that under package colum, it says "undefined"
However, when I click "list accounts", all accounts show and they are properly setup up with the correct package and owner (not all root.. They also show to which reseller they belong).
how to fix the problem when I click "Show Reseller Accounts"?
Does anyone know of a reputable resller of VPS accounts?
That is, I want to sell VPS accounts to end-users and buy the VPS accounts wholesale from a supplier.
Does any web host currently offer this?
I'm not sure if I posting in the right section, but I have two questions.
1. I'm actually not sure if I should purchase a reseller account. I don't know if it's what I need. I would like to able to provide *free hosting* for fan-sites, blogs, fanlistings, etc. I am not interested in making money off of hosting. This is something I've wanted to for awhile. Are there any suggestions for this?
2. Once thing that popped into my head is that I would like give my hostees more than FTP access. Can I give them their own cPanel access with their FTP account? I've been hosted on starszz.com before as sub-domain (or ftp account), and had cPanel access. I didn't have a domain either. I've browsed hosting sites, and I just don't recall seeing information about giving ftp accounts cPanel access.
I am wondering how do you set up vps with virtuozzo to have resellers? Like is there a free panel out there for that?
View 6 Replies View Relatedhi..anyone knows who is ovh reseller since i cant buy directly from the sites and looking for reseller for those accept paypal..thanks
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am currently on the Bronze Shared plan at Downtownhost. I love 'em, and have referred people to them before. I currently help out have a few clients that I help out with some Wordpress blogs (the technical side of things), and I have recently been asked a couple of times if I know of a good host. Of course, I send them to DTH, but I recently asked myself if maybe it was time to go reseller with them and sell space to these clients? Or should I just sell them some space out of my own shared plan? Mind you, they are not technical at all, so they won't be logging into any Cpanel control panels or anything. At what point does it make sense to go reseller? My question is regards to all aspects: financial (for me!), technical, support, etc.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am designing websites for diffrent folks for some years now from time to time and it's time for me to move on. Get more clients and so on and monetize everything or as much as i can. Well, providing for them full services witch consists in Hosting + domain registration + all there is. Since most of them have no idea about anything when they come to me, most don't even after hard explaining, i wanna cut down to 1 fee that includes everything...designing, updating,
In the past few days i've seen tones of reviews and offers and re re reviews, i can say by know that it's a dirty game going on played by some managers, lol...the idea is that i can't trust what they say nor the reviews that i have seen cause in one place it's all milk and honey and in another place it's sucky to say the least.
So my buget to start with would be from 10$ to 20$/month. I prefer a host that owns it's stuff and it's the first hand and not a re re re seller.
I want cPanel/WHM - unlimited accounts (domains, sub-domains, bla bla bla...basic stuff)
No tax for transferring domains
No hidden taxes - no scammers pls cause i have enough already in my life
MONTHLY PAYMENT
To be able to get ip's for a fair price from diffrent classes. I'm planning to make an extra income from blogg farming (no spam from servers. got my own stuff)
I see that reseller and VPS are kind of the same price so what would be better. I have limited knowledge of unix (i used to work some years ago but my skills were crapy and surley i forgot everything) but i can update/upgrade them to some point...hope it won't be required, don't have so much time nor the brains
I'm currently on a reseller, and as I gain clients I'll be moving to a VPS in the very near future from the looks of it.
Coming from a reseller where I haven't had any performance spikes, and everything has been working great....what sort of specs should I look for in a VPS in terms of RAM?
I like using cPanel/WHM.
As far as shared hosting, and reseller hosting the main aspects are simply space and bandwidth. Then of course the company ethics and support reliablility and whatnot. From a server aspect, it's just space and bandwidth provided.
I'm assuming a VPS adds a few new dimensions including RAM.
Is there any way to find out if the hosting company I am dealing with is a reseller?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI had setup and account for the new free host i was making.I setup the domain then made the site and last i want to do a test:to create a sub domain user with cpanel access.
But couldn't access it.As it seems I didnt make it a reseller account!
So,I looked like an hours and cant find a function to make it into one without deleting it first! Is there any other way?
We have set up a VPS reseller option that gives the customer a set amount of ram/disk space/bandwidth transfer rate etc. and allows them through HyperVM to set up their own VPS's and sell them on, they are even able to spread them over multiple servers, albeit we only have 2 VPS servers at present.
Its a pretty nice offer and seems pretty decent but i cant help but wonder why other hosts are not doing this? I only looked into it because a sales associate had mentioned it was possible.
Is there a potential for abuse that im not seeing?
The plans i was thinking of offering was roughly:
1GB ram
30-40 GB disk space
Fair share bandwidth
for about $100
The servers we have are 8GB quad core Xeon E7300.
i am thinking i am overlooking some kind of abuse issue that is why no other hosts are providing this,
suppose that my reseller is webhostingtalk.com and my costumer sites are following
(SSH account only for reseller)
-webhostingtalk.com
----zode.com
----hala.com
----vbulletin.com
my costumer upload his db to his host (/home/zode/backup/db.sql) when i try to restore db following error occured
Code:
-jailshell: /home/zode/backup/db.sql: No such file or directory
why ?
how can i restore db which is in my costumer host?
After having shared hosting for years I am thinking of moving on to something a little more reliable/advanced. I need it to be basic and cheap at first but with room to grow.
So, my questions:
1. Am I likely to see a significant speed/reliability benefit with VPS over reseller space?
2. Am I likely to encounter any big headaches with a VPS as a total beginner?
3. Are there any big advantages to a VPS besides moving out of a shared environment?
4. Is it realistic to run a VPS when I know nothing about Linux admin (yet)?
5. How is Plesk vs Cpanel?
Right now, my needs are basic. I could probably go with a cheap VPS but my lack of knowledge would mean I would need some kind of management on top. I'm tempted to get a reseller account but I wouldn't want outgrow it and move again anytime soon.
I need a windows reseller with an easy to use control panel.. Hsphere is too tough for me, hehe.
Im thinking of resellerzoom's windows server.. are they good. Please share me your experiences, or suggest me a good provider.
I was wondering where I could find some cheap dedicated servers for webhsoting and some cheap reseller web hosting packages?
Over 40 gigs!
As far as the control panel being so easy, managing clients, billing, registering/transfering domain names. Is there anything comparable?
Im wondering if the $100 per month is worth it?
So I've got a reseller account set up with about 71 individual accounts created under it. What's the easiest way to create a backup of the reseller account (including all accounts created under it) and send it to my new VPS? I have SSH enabled on the reseller and root access on the VPS.
Rsync seems somewhat intimidating but maybe I'm looking at it all wrong. I have limited command line experience. Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me? I'd like to have a method that I can get familiar with and re-use.
How do you know if a host is a reseller?
I am looking for a web host. I'd like to stay away from resellers, but I'm not sure how to tell if a company is a reseller or the 'original'. How do you find out?
Quite simple - does anybody know of any Directadmin resellers?
Me (and my customers) are used to directadmin so that is the control panel I would like to use on my servers. However not all hosts offer directadmin, and that means I would have to get it from directadmin.com myself.
The main 'issue' with this is pricing. Single licenses cost $29 per month. While a reseller can get the same license for a one-time fee of $49. That means turning a profit in 1.5 months when going that way instead of single licenses.
Does anybody know of a way to buy these one-time licenses? I am aware of the fact that they do not include support, that is fine.
