Just wanted to drop a line and let everybody know that I had a good experience with RootBSD.net's Xen-Based FreeBSD VPS.
Setup time came in right at 3 hours (order was at 4pm MST), and everything works exactly as expected. We ordered one as a test for turning up additional off-site monitoring for our datacenter.
Thought I'd just drop some praise where it's due in case someone else wants some BSD hosting.
I wanted to share that I've had a good experience with Dathorn for a number of years.
Fast support ever experienced (and rarely needed thankfully).
Recently our local connectivity got upgraded to 20/20 (fios). Dathorn gets me near full speed all the time, which I can't say about another host I also use (other servers seem to be in the 8-10 meg range).
While the packages don't include huge amounts of space as the oversellers, if you need 6-8 gig of space, you should be very happy with their offerings. Cpanel, Fantastico, etc.www.dathorn.com
i open this thread first to thank futurehosting for all the effort and the help that I receive always.
Sincerely I had problems at first with the high load of the server but has been another VPS on the same node and not mine, but now all itīs ok and work very fast and with all the services updated and optimized.
I got upgrade, credit and many great service offered and this is not the only reason that left me to stay with them a long time.
The important thing for me is the support(maybe not fast like others)but sure you get a profesional solution and a friendly conversation ,no the fast and copied reply and this make you to feel like inside one family.
I will start by stressing that I have only been with them for 2 months. I will be back throughout my time with them to drop more information.
I started with Tiny-Sites when they were first beginning business and got a pretty good hosting deal. 250 mb of storage and 5 gb (4.88 actual) bandwith and a domain for what amounted to $12 and some odd change after discount. They answered several questions up-front, in addition to agreeing to instal an SSL for me, as well as switching me from the free domain to one I had already purchased, setting the free domain as a redirect.
The DirectAdmin control panel is simple, but powerful. Using the installatron I was able to easily install Wordpress. It did take me a while to discover the magic of what an FTP normally does, otherwise I might never have gotten ComicPress properly installed.
I have had one instance of downtime in the two months. I placed a support ticket and was answered within 27 minutes. I'm not sure where they are located, but around my area (Nebraska), it was 8 o'clock in the evening and definitely after hours. The problem was related to another user uploading a BOT. They maintain a backup and had us back online within an hour.
When they upgraded to better plans with unlimited databases and email accounts, I requested information or billing to upgrade to those from a 5 limit plan and was upgraded at no fee, which I certainly appreciated.
I know it is still early and I am not making much use of resources yet, but I am extremely pleased thus far and would recommend them to others.
I'd like to start an ongoing thread here listing the 'Good Hosters with Good TELEPHONE tech support'. In other words, out of the 1,000s of host companies, this may cut it down to less than a dozen.
( And for all you Hosters out there who really want your company to grow, and want to know how, - it's easy: just read here.)
Good telephone support is the #1 ultimate requirement, because:
-It's a lot faster and easier for both the user and the host company, because you can state and answer all questions and clarifications on the spot, you don't need to continually pass new emails with new questions and clarifications, back and forth for days on end, until the issue is solved. It saves tech time and user's time. And saves a lot of nerves.
- It's the best way to sort the good guys from the bad. A bad company isn't going to bother to answer the phone, - or will make you wait way too long, - because they are likely getting endless complaints. The good guys are always ready to answer the phones, with a friendly voice, - because they really WANT to please the customer.
- If a company can't be bothered to pick up the phone, we can't be bothered to even consider them. They're a joke, and so won't be listed here on this thread. (So, before adding or listing any Hosters here, please verfify that they do have Good, quick, friendly, telephone support,; ideally 24/7, but 9am to 10pm might be acceptable, if it was supplemented by some emergency contact.
AND:
- Hoster ALSO needs good EMAIL support (and preferably, Chat online, extended hour availability). (I spend a lot of time overseas). It sems all emails should get a non-automated response within about an hour, - and then support should jump on fixing any problem.
I only need support a few times a year. To answer some questions, or fix a problem, or do an install. That's lesss than 1 hour total, so any company paying maybe $18/hour tech support should be able to handle this. It IS reasonable to charge a custm for extended calls, beyond say, 90minutes a year, IF you don't count the 80%? Of times an issue is the Hoster;s fault of stmg gone wrong, and don't count the 'hold' times.
ALSO IMPORTANT:
- Uptime
- site Speeds
- Monthly plans, no contract (Only a dishonest host will try to force you into a contract, where they can then ignore you.)
- Reasonable price. (? Maybe $12 to $18/month for a basic business site. We don't need massive bandwitdths, - we all know that's an overselling scam, and can't ever be delivered.)
- a good upgrade plan of bigger options. Maybe even VPS.
- Dedicated IP, and availbility of SSL
-PHP 5, mysql, phpMyAdmin, etc
- cPanel ( Some Hosts are using problematic panels, like Hsphere, which are slow to load, slow in operation, require many more clicks, have too many options, spread apart on many separate pages. Time is money, and this really slows down the ability of a small business to manage his own site in effective time. For example, one WHT user wrote somewhere: "I don't feel that HSphere's interface is nice at all, although I have worked with cPanel and DA all my life... I just found it to include un-necessary features or split features up in to different hard to find pages, such as backups - mysql backups you had to find on a completely different page than file backups, and then there were options to have it in the home directory or server-end backup, in which then you had to wait a good 10 minutes before it was ready. cPanel, just hit backup and hit download and instantly it does everything you need...".
I have used several hosters. Currently on Aplus.net and Godad, which have phone support, and mediocre service.
My LIST So Far:
- Liquidweb: a very impressive company with good, 24 hour support. But to get dedicated IP, you need to go with their $25/month plan. Yikes!
- NewIdeaHosting.com. A very small company. My call was returned, and the owner chatted with me for an hour on the phone! Plans have small bandwidth, but promises No overselling, and personalized attention. Extra $5 for dedi IP. He specializes in Small business sites, and small eCommerce sites. He has only 250 accounts, on 3 servers. He rents servers from the Equinox data center of Chicago. Seems exceptionaly honest.
- MegaHosters. Excellent phone support and WHT reviews. But company was taken over by another company, and so may well go downhill in future. Another problem: uses Hsphere.
- Steadfast. Has a good rep on WHT, and seems impressive. Tech answered the phone immediately, but they say they prefer emails. Sales phone has limited hours. Good price on $20 SSL. But, uses Hshhere.
- JodoHost 24 hour phone. But, uses Hsphere. An Indian company with office in Florida, and good rep. I like the idea of outsourcing phone support, if it makes it more available and affordable. But, the accent on the phone was very hard for me to understand, so maybe this might not work.....
- Hostgator. Yes, it's a big overseller, but seems to get good reviews/results anyway, and good phone support.
- ? ThePrimeHost ?? Mostly good WHT reviews; some dissenters. Site says 24hour phone, but when I called on several nights, no one ever answered...
- Can anyone add to this list? Please list only hosts that meet the above minimum requirements of phone support, etc. Especially useful is hosters you've tried.
TO AVOID:
- Avoid Arvixe. I had a horrid experience with them, here: [WHT forum]:/showthread.php?p=5097822#post5097822
- Avoid WebHostingBuzz. This company never returned my phone msessage inquiries.
whether if i will an increase in performance or security if I upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0?
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Can anyone recommend a good VPS provider that meets the above requirements?
Can anyone please suggest a good FreeBSD VPS hoster?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI haven't really messed with FreeBSD very much, but I'm picking up a FreeBSD server and needed to know of a good free firewall for it.
On my CentOS/Debian servers I use CSF and have had good luck with it, so I would like something like that if there is one out there.
I installed FreeBSD 6.3 with minimum packedges. (pkg.txt on attach)
Install Apache+PHP+MySQL
But then I load Drupal or Magento (CMS) browser say that:
Warning: include_once(includes/install.inc) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /ftp/drupal.web/includes/database.inc on line 129
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/install.inc' for inclusion (include_path='/usr/local/share/phpmailer') in /ftp/drupal.web/includes/database.inc on line 129
Fatal error: Call to undefined function install_goto() in /ftp/drupal.web/includes/database.inc on line 130
I didn't udestand WHY?
In joomla and wordpress all work normla.
In attacment I send apache and php configs.
I am using FreeBSD with Cpanel.
df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/twed0s1a 496M 491M -35M 108% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/twed0s1h 86G 67G 12G 85% /home
/dev/twed0s1d 248M 21M 207M 9% /tmp
/dev/twed0s1g 15G 6.9G 6.5G 51% /usr
/dev/twed0s1f 4.8G 3.6G 827M 82% /var
procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
This is creating Problem at Cpanel,How can i recover space from /dev/twed0s1a.
My system is affected with something named __sbmaskrune
I can't connect to FTP at this moment..
I am running FreeBSD
/scripts/ftpup
Ftp Setup Script Version 6.1
This is the proftpd installer
Searching ports for proftpd .....................................found proftpd in /usr/ports/ftp/proftpd....Done
proftpd (1.3.1-1) is already installed.
dedi01# /scripts/ftpup --force
Ftp Setup Script Version 6.1
This is the proftpd installer
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libruby18.so.18: Undefined symbol "__sbmaskrune"
Removing old ftp server (pure-ftpd)
pkg_delete: no packages match pattern(s)
The ProFTPd configuration file /usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf appears to be ok!
No matching processes were found
Waiting for ftpserver to restart..............finished.
ftpserver has failed,
gAs per MySQL official page [url]
there is no MySQL 5.0.51 available for FreeBSD.
The latest available version is 5.0.45
5.0.51 was officially released more than a month ago.
We are basically looking for advice on which OS to choose. CentOS appeals as it is basically RHEL - and since people are paying for that they must be doing something right. It is apparently uber stable because the versions have been tested to death... but because the packages are so out of date, or just not there, we will need to install many things from source, which defeats the point to using it for its stability.
FreeBSD seems to have an awful lot of up to date packages, took a look at it on Distrowatch and was very impressed by many are the latest versions. This would make life so much easier because the package manager can handle installs and updates, really can't be bothered with messing around compiling software for install/updates.
In my mind, if an open source project as mature as the likes of Apache, PHP or MySQL, I am pretty sure you are very unlikely to experience problems by using the latest stable version. Surely by using older versions you are more likely to experience problems as of the result of bugs/security exploits that have only been fixed in the more recent releases.
Would you use FreeBSD or CentOS/RHEL? Or are both equally as good?
i having an issue with FreeBSD...
I have a Raid5 setup and working fine, I just put 2 new 18gig drives for raid1.
Now i see in dmesg this.
amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
amrd0: 104193MB (213387264 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
amrd1: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
amrd1: 17365MB (35563520 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
In bold is the 'new' array.
in fdisk i get....
fdisk /dev/amrd1
******* Working on device /dev/amrd1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 35551782 (17359 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 164/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
I get write errors when i use sysinstall. As for the raid status. Its fine.
Logical Drive : 1( Adapter: 0 ): Status: OPTIMAL
---------------------------------------------------
SpanDepth :01 RaidLevel: 1 RdAhead : Adaptive Cache: CachedIo
StripSz :064KB Stripes : 2 WrPolicy: WriteThru
Logical Drive 1 : SpanLevel_0 Disks
Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status
---- ------ ---------- ------ ----------------------
0 00 0x00000000 0x021ea800 ONLINE
0 03 0x00000000 0x021ea800 ONLINE
I've been using FreeBSD for a while now, but I still feel like a novice when looking at top because I don't understand or know what all of the STATES mean. I know that many of them represent different kernal states and certain programs have their own unique STATES, but what do the usuals mean? man top only has 2-3 listed with very vague descriptions.
Does anyone here understand many of them? If so it would be greatly appreciated if you could write up a few of the basic ones.
select
nanslp
kserel
RUN
pause
lockf
kqread
sbwait
pipered
Those are the ones I currently see in top. I know there are probably thosands of others, but those are the ones I usally look at.
after many painstaking hours, im at a loss as to where to go now (finally managed to get up to the point of running phpize in the ffmpeg directory)
...
Originally I thought i had compiled it in when compiling PHP,
Infact:
Code:
'./configure' '--disable-debug' '--disable-rpath' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with-gd' '--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-zlib' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mysql' '--with-pear' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--with-ffmpeg=yes' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/sbin/apxs'
But when i go to the tests/ffmpeg_test.php file I get:
Code:
Warning: dl() [function.dl]: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so' - Cannot open "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so" in /usr/local/www/apache22/data/tests/test_ffmpeg.php on line 17
Can't load extension /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ffmpeg.so
I used the ports tree to install FFMPEG and here is the version info:
Code:
bsd# ffmpeg -v
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4718, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
built on Mar 14 2007 20:42:22, gcc: 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
After finally getting to this point, i say the heck with it and just decide to try and use phpize and compile it in that way as an extension ( following: http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/ ).
However, after I got phpize to work ( had to cp autoconf259 and autoheader259 to autoconf and autoheader since it was complaining about it ), it gave me this set of errors:
Code:
/bin/sh /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/libtool --mode=compile gcc -I. -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/include -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/main -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/ffmpeg -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -c /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg-php.c -o ffmpeg-php.lo
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/include -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/main -I/usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0 -I/usr/local/include/php -I/usr/local/include/php/main -I/usr/local/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/local/include/php/Zend -I/usr/local/include/ffmpeg -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -c /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg-php.c -fPIC -DPIC -o ffmpeg-php.o
In file included from /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg-php.c:25:
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:14:27: ffmpeg/common.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h:15,
from /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg-php.c:25:
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/rational.h: In function `av_cmp_q':
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/rational.h:36: error: syntax error before "tmp"
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/rational.h:38: error: `tmp' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/rational.h:38: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/rational.h:38: error: for each function it appears in.)
In file included from /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0/ffmpeg-php.c:26:
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h: In function `av_init_packet':
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:48: warning: implicit declaration of function `int64_t_C'
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:48: warning: integer constant is too large for "long" type
/usr/local/include/ffmpeg/avformat.h:49: warning: integer constant is too large for "long" type
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/local/src/ffmpeg-php-0.5.0.
After I get all this working and install it on a another machine I plan on writing a guide for FreeBSD users inside the tutorials section - but this one part has stumped me.
The only thing I can think of is something along the lines of maybe i downloaded a 64 bit version of something along the way?
Should i continue along this route with phpize adding it as an extension, or does someone else have some information on that ffmpeg_test.php file?
I plan to install one server with RAID with that run on a dedicated card which support FreeBSD. As i have not much experience in this,
View 4 Replies View Relatedi created a new cron job with "crontab -e" command by using the "root" user.
* * * * * php -f /path/file.php
i tried it for php -q too. while i type this command on the shell the php file works. there is no problem with crontab rule too. the chmod of file.php is 777, user root group wheel..
but it cant work. i couldnt understand why it aint.
i created a shell file and changed the cron like:
* * * * * /path/file.sh
and in file.sh:
#!/bin/sh
php -q /path/file.php
mkdir /path/anydir
so, /path/anydir have been created but file.php not executed. so the problem is not about cron rule.
This is the current setup for the user (which is a normal setup)
ISP
|
switch
|WAN |LAN 10.10.10.0/24
servers
switch is a cisco 2924XL
So on the servers there's dual ports one serves for WAN traffic and the other serves Local traffic.
Ive added in the sysctl net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface = 0 still no affect.
error...
Quote:
arp: IP_ADDRESS is on fxp0 but got reply from HW_ADDRESS on fxp1
arp: IP_ADDRESS is on fxp0 but got reply from HW_ADDRESS on fxp1
arp: IP_ADDRESS is on fxp0 but got reply from HW_ADDRESS on fxp1
arp: IP_ADDRESS is on fxp0 but got reply from HW_ADDRESS on fxp1
arp: IP_ADDRESS is on fxp0 but got reply from HW_ADDRESS on fxp1
arp: IP_ADDRESS is on fxp0 but got reply from HW_ADDRESS on fxp1
whats the command to find out what file system do i use on my FreeBSD server?
Linux Cat didnt worked out.
I'm facing this issue with FreeBSD 6.2.
After FreeBSD 6.2 install completely with no errors, the server is rebooted, then it says "no boot loader" even though the boot loader was installed during the setup.
I have tried to reinstall several times by 3 different sources, but no lucks.
Any experience with Good Avocado and their reseller plan?
What about Thinkhost, good avocado is partnering with?
Wind and solar energy, it sounds all good, the reseller plan is awesome.
Any real life experience?
Does anybody has an experience with running nmap from FreeBSD Jail?
Nmap runs on main host OK, but when I try to run it from jail... NO CHANCE! Still has some problem...
I've been a web developer for some years now, and I've been working with PHP/MySQL in Linux quite a lot, but I've never worked with Linux. But now, I'm in a project where the last programmer was a FreeBSD-guru, but not so good in PHP/MySQL, so they hired me to take over. So the project is hosted on a dedicated FreeBSD-server, and I need to get all sftp-accounts and change them. How do I do that? I have root-access with PuTTY, and I know the basic commands, but I don't know where to start looking for account-settings. Is there anyone who knows how to do this?
I also need to reset the root-login to MySQL. I've only done this on Windows, and I'm not to comfortable testing without knowing. I found this guide: ...
I deleted my /var/log directory to clean up space, and now Exim won't work.
Can anyone please post the directory and subdirectory structure for /var/log on a FreeBSD system? I am hoping that with the right directories, the files will rewrite themselves...
I may soon be in the market for a VPS, and would like a fully managed FreeBSD VPS. Preferably with either DirectAdmin or Plesk.
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All working good and the server running from 1/2month..
Today when i visits my site i have see Nginx Gateway Error 502..
and from shell i run top command and all processor are using 0% of cpu but use the normal ram..
all is stopped..
but i don't know why and how happen..
Any people have the same error?
I think i do create a monitor script and when appen just reboot the server (i have solve this problem rebooting the server each 502 error)
which is better for cPanel and more quality?
centOS
freeBSD?
I am about to sign up for a dedicated server, and I have three options to choose from... actally, 6 options:
FEDORA C7 BASIC
FEDORA C7 PLESK 8.3
FREEBSD 6.3 BASIC
FREEBSD 6.3 PLESK 8.3
CENTOS 5.1 BASIC
CENTOS 5.1 PLESK 8.3
Which one should you pick and (most importantly) why?