• Located in the USA
• Linux Ubuntu 7.1/8.04 VPS
• HyperVM Control Panel
• IP Address – 32 (must be u.s ips)
• 128Meg – 256Meg Dedicated RAM (minimum)
• 100 – 150Gig Bandwidth (minimum)
I am just wondering what specs on a server is needed to run a website like Craigslist, where there will be thousandsd of users posting data into a database and at the same time retrieving information from MySQL database.
We will not be streaming videos or anything of that sort.
Have ipb forum and im in need for a new server spec.
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My budget is 5000 usd per month
I'm considering building the following 1U rack server for colocation. I'm completely new to rack servers and colocation so I would be very grateful to hear your opinions:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU
ASUS P5B-VM SE Motherboard
8GB PC5300 667MHz Non-ECC RAM
500GB HDD
345W Power Supply
I also have a few specific questions:Are there any differences between the Q6600 and it's Xeon equivalent? (especially power wise?)
Are there any disadvantages using a desktop motherboard in a (1U) server? (again, especially power wise?)
I've read that non-ECC memory is a lot more acceptable for servers now than it was a few years ago, is this true?
Does a 500GB drive use much more power than a 160GB drive?
How many watts of power can I expect the server to use?
Does a 1U chassis usually come with uATX mounting points?
I'm not a direct client of Leaseweb, but it's not a secret that my domain is pointing at their servers.
I purchased a shared hosting plan from a reseller and since more than 43 hours my domain is down! My provider (the reseller) said he's waiting for Leaseweb support... according to my informations, in more than 24 hours they just made a reboot of the server!
I'm really bored of waiting with no chance of intervention! My provider says he can't do anything from his side, i can't contact Leaseweb cause i'm not a client... please, help, what can i do?
I need my site back online!
anyway to auto reboot server every 6 hours?
will this effect on the server?
i'm running on CentOS 5 and whm
Somebody posted a video in my website which got viral. Many big websites (like gizmodo) embeded it and I've maxed out my 100mbit/s connection. Traffic is increasing and my website started crashing.
I want to move that video to other server ASAP so my website would stop crashing.
Do you know any host which would set up server or VPS fast (up to 1-2 hours)?
My host is experiencing "issues" with my WordPress. It keeps going above their upper limit of open MySQL connections. So, while I am diagnosing it, I need to restart the server every few hours to avoid it going down.
How do I write a cron to restart Apache every 3 hours?
where to search. It appear thaht my free memory decrease each minute after reboot.When i restart it's ok but i see minute after minute the free memory is decreasing...
The command top don't show special process which explain my problem. I don't understand how a process can kill my memory but not immediatly but from reboot to after 4 or 5 hours uptime.
On a rhel 5.3 + cpanel server, i have a time problem.
Web apps, as joomla show articles with a -2 hours time difference, or even webmail clients like roundcube are showing a wrong time when an email arrives. It seems this apps are not picking up the server time.
Both things (joomla and webmail) should use the configured server time.
I know Joomla can be fixed using the time zone option, and webmail too.. but in a server with over 300 websites, there are many joomlas installations and even more mailboxes...
/etc/sysconfig/clock have the right time zone.
What kind of spec would I need for serving direct/hotlinking 100mb+ files? I've looked all over the place but couldn't find anything.
And let say a sudden spike of 400+ people and they are downloading a file [url]simultaneously that is 100mb+ in size.
How much ram would I require?
What vps you can get for 50$-100$ max. I need to find some offers for a friend.
What is needed for this vps, much ram, unmetered bandwith (10mbps), as much HD space as possible. Lxadmin is fine for cp.
Host will only update DNS in batches, takes several hours for a DNS change, is that normal?
Well today my mail stopped working and it turns out the A record for mail was deleted. How it got deleted I don't know.
I called my host and after speaking to 2 techs, they said that have added my request to a batch, and that would update in a few hours.
I said to him, batch? What can't you do it instantly?
He said thats not the way their DNS works and any DNS change would affect thousands of other sites they are hosting.
Does anyone know what kind of dns system these people could possibly have where they can not reload a single zone?
And by affected, I think he means the sites will go down for a minute or so, while it relaods every zone. Is this really the case, or are these people just idiots?
Just looking at getting a 1u box with a local provider. They provide .75amps per box.
Previously we have gone a bit crazy and gone with dell 1950s with dual quad cores and a few disks. As you can imagine these specs go well over the .75 amps.
What type of spec server would you recommend for that power? Looking at something for small scale web hosting, duall HDs and about 2gb of ram.
i want to use centos and cpanel to build a server, i will create hundreds account on it, all the accounts will put only pictures or little html files, no php or mysql or mail service on it. the bandwidth of the server may be about 20M ~ 30M all the time, how could i build a economical and stable server to run this? about the hardware, intel e2160 with 8G ram and sata hd, is it enough? or should i need to add which part to get better?
View 11 Replies View Relatedi dont know the device name so how is it possible for me to check the hdd spec and devices... got centos5
View 6 Replies View Relatedi find some company rent dedicated server to offer download server,
the package of month bandwidth is 1TB,and month fee is about $8,
for a stand server with $120 permonth,
it can only run 15 accounts,
and it will need 15TB per month to use,
i wonder where to buy so cheaper dedicated server can offer 15TB with $120 month fee,
and what hardware to run 15TB but only $120 per month?
I run a large service on 2 machines (we're talking 8x2.66Ghz processing power, 4-6GB ram, etc), however we are thinking about creating a node/clustered setup to help spread the load, bandwidth, mysql (having one server for hundreds of thousands of databases is not wise it seems :p), diskspace etc. Lots of machines just seems to be a cheaper and more powerful option.
Would you advise going with lots of lower end machines, or just a few mid-range machines.
Here is what I propose:
3 of these
Dual Xeon 3GHZ Dual-Core (4x3GHz)
3GB RAM
500GB Sata Drive
4000 GB Bandwidth
100mbit
or
4 of these
XEON X3220 QUAD CORE 2.4GHZ 1066FSB
2GB DDR2 RAM (Upgradeable)
250GB HDD
2000GB Bandwidth
100mbit
or
7 of these
Dual Xeon 3.06 Ghz
2GB DDR2 RAM
250GB SATA
2000GB BW/MONTH
100mbit
All of the above are roughly similar prices in total.
i have a serious problems with my shoutcast accounts the last 2 months...i create in my ports 8002,8004,8006,8008,8010,8012 some shoutcast accounts via cast control...every 3-4 hours some of my accounts is crashing....i can't understand why....so every 3 hours i am going to cast control panel to start again the shoutcast server of the account which which crashed....i don 't know what to do any more...my hands up...
i found these script which i can use via cron job to check if each shoutcast server is up
#!/bin/bash
dte=`date +%d%b%Y`
cd /where/ever/you/run/stuff/
##-->> Check to see if sc_serv is running <<--##
ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep sc_serv >sc_serv_ok
if [ -s sc_serv_ok ]
then
##-->> Everything looks good, remove the file and exit <<--##
rm -f sc_serv_ok
exit 0
else
##-->> Log the error <<--##
echo "Possible abend of sc_serv" > sc_serv_prob_log.$dte
##-->> Email the log <<--##
mail -s "sc_trans" your-email@domain-name.com <sc_serv_prob_log.$dte
##-->> Restart sc_serv <<--##
cd /path/to/shoutcast/
./sc_serv
the problem is that i can't found the conf file for each account...where exactly CAST CONTROL creates it..i have the free version of cast sontrol 1.4...
I am currently running DA on my VPS and have about 15-20 accounts on it. We are upgrading to a dedicated running plesk while we need it, but I have not found a tool or an easy way to transfer DA accounts to plesk without problems. Because of this, I feel it would be easiest to transfer the accounts to a cPanel VPS, then to plesk. I know hosts are not supposed to PM here, but if you can offer me a cPanel VPS sometime within the next week for 24-48 hours for under $5-7, that would be great. This may seem like a little amount of money, but realistically it is a good amount in comparison to the pricing for a whole month of service.
It can be OpenVZ, virtuozzo, or Xen.
Is it normal ? What can I do?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI had a 12 hours outage in one of my VPS. According to the report of my provider, a maintenance task reported an error on the fsck Linux command.
Now I wonder if this error can occur on any RAID hard disk subsystem? Should I stay with this company?
I am wanting to get access to 'top -c' for a period of 48/72 hours.
Now I have found the following
Code:
top -c -b -d 15 > top.txt
What this does is every 15 seconds add reply 'top -c' to top.txt
Now I can make this into a shell script then put it into the background and exit SSH while leaving it running.
Now the question is will this use much usage/server load over the 48/72hrs, it will be checking 4 times every minute.
I attached new backup harddrive with system and enable increment backup so that it can generate server backup on backup harddrive which was new,
I notice it takes 20 hours upto now and still working becoz i seen some command like rsync running on top and using alot of resources of server but when i checked backup harddrive then it almost copy all data into it but what about this rsync which running on system from 3 hours and still going .?
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28045 root 35 19 42788 38m 168 S 63.8 1.0 42:59.51 rsync
28023 root 34 19 42680 39m 552 R 26.6 1.0 23:47.98 rsync
28024 root 34 19 42528 38m 312 S 19.9 1.0 10:25.91 rsync
944 nobody 15 0 167m 142m 10m S 5.0 3.5 0:09.26 httpd
1579 nobody 15 0 167m 143m 11m S 5.0 3.5 0:09.34 httpd
2471 nobody 15 0 167m 138m 7032 S 4.0 3.4 0:01.12 httpd
1528 nobody 16 0 167m 139m 7436 S 1.7 3.4 0:10.20 httpd
76 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 14:14.62 kswapd0
2194 nobody 15 0 167m 138m 7188 S 1.3 3.4 0:03.47 httpd
2386 nobody 15 0 167m 139m 7608 S 1.3 3.4 0:03.02 httpd
2452 nobody 15 0 167m 138m 7184 S 1.3 3.4 0:02.01 httpd
3054 mysql 16 0 747m 294m 2892 S 1.0 7.3 431:01.86 mysqld
18358 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 1.0 0.0 0:27.59 pdflush
665 nobody 15 0 167m 139m 7656 S 1.0 3.4 0:18.77 httpd
1917 nobody 15 0 167m 139m 7816 S 1.0 3.4 0:08.64 httpd
Recently a drive in one of my main box's has failed.
Ive contacted my provider, however there SLA states - 4 Hours for hardware replacement.
It takes 4 hours to replace a harddrive? What are they, sloths?
Anyone else had similar experiences when attempting to get drives replaced?
like to clarify this is not a post to bash liquidweb.
I have been a loyal customer of LW for the past 2 years (almost)
My websites have been down since Thursday 3:00 a.m due to "DDos Attack"
on Friday night, the network engineer told me the "DDos Attack" has stopped and problem should have been resolved. However, no websites were accessible.
On Saturday, I ensure you I have made many phone calls to Liquidweb dedicated server support and try to resolve this issue. (Never once did I raise my voice and they were being very polite.)
I believe the server admins that were helping was at the end of their shifts and every time I try to make a phone call to the person that was assisting me to get an update, liquidweb would tell me that he has gone home. Every time the server admin finishes his shift, the support ticket is not assigned to anyone else that is working until I make a phone call to them stating my problem.
I own quite a few large sites that generate over 3 millions hits per day and every hour of downtime means I will be losing valuable clients and revenue. That is why I am extremely frustrated with the 63 hours downtime as it seems like the results of working hard for the past 2 years is slipping away from me as the clock keeps ticking.
I am sorry, I am just trying to share this with fellow webmasters as I really need a place to express my feeling. (None of my friends will understand online business.)
Again, I am not bashing liquidweb...I must have really bad luck myself.
I'm extremely worry about my VPS as it hosts 3 important websites to me. I can't let it down like this.
I submitted ticket, email, tried to call the number on your website but it is just an automatic answer.
So please at least let me know what happening? Your website says support 24/7 so where are you in the last 6 hours?
To start please take this in mind I have servers colo'd at FDC and have 0 problems, so i'm still all for fdc servers.
Here is my 24 hours review on my new vps server from FDC setup was quick less than 5hours after paying my invoice.
Now down to my problems. Off peak hours last night my VPS server was great 10 / 20mbits solid speed on sending data from the box today I am unable to get over 150kb/sec.
This doesn't help me since the nature of my business I need to transfer files fast between servers. The VPS speeds of 150kb/sec will be no use for my business if anything make our job harder.
These tests were taken using the internal fdc network transferring from the new vps to one of my 1gig fdc colos and other various servers I have on the FDC network.
After contacting fdc support about this speed issue they logged in and checked the speeds they did a download of the speedtest file from the fdc website around 30 - 40mbits. But they didn't test the outgoing from the server.
I received the response that I am sharing bandwidth on the node so speeds could vary so on there 100mbit unmetered vds package they are saying 150kb/sec is acceptable.
So basically after that my last response is if 150kb/sec are the speeds i can expect from a VDS then please cancel my server at the end of the billing period as the VDS will be no use to me.
So now I have been transferred to billing to cancel the vps at the end of the billing period.
So to sum it up, vps setup was fast and the vps runs great but don't expect the speeds you can get from one of there dedicated servers.
Is Nick Laws here? Someone knows where to call him or managemybox.com?
I have 3 servers with them. One of them is down for almost 16 hours now, and it has been 4 hours without notice. Tech replied saying is a harddrive crash and they will replace it, I have lost a lot of dollars because all important clients on this server are running out.
Now, can someone help me contact Nick? I sent him a message a minutes ago, but his techs are nto replying and one of my clients is really in a bad mood saying he will take legal actions against me.
Anyone can say a word? This is really bad and I dont get even a reply, just a word last night saying a few hours.
This is the ticket:
Dear Felipe,
ssh down too, will have a tech reboot and clear firewall, will take about 15 minutes
Thank you for choosing ManageMyServices, we appreciate your business!
Administrator: managedservices
Ticket Department: Sysadmin
Ticket Category: ALL
Assigned Administrator: ALL
Importance: Urgent
Company Area: ManageMyBox-Dedicated
Ticket Status: closed
Reply By felweb - 26-06-2008 01:57
Any news from your end on this ticket, or at least on the other 2?
This is taking way too long and it is affecting this a lot ....
It's been a while I'm into web hosting and I know I have to wait up to 72 hours for DNS to propagate.
I've got that weird problem since I changed host, my DNS stays the same as before, even if I migrated since over a week.
I did the ipflush thing and it did not work. It seems like my computer WON'T update the DNS on this single domain.
I've got 2 computers at home and my other computer has updated, but my other won't update.
Im running MySQL 5.0.32 on a Debian Etch server. I recently moved a couple sites from a Debian Sarge (with MySQL 4.1) server over, and now MySQL has become very unstable.
Every few hours mysql just hangs on a query. All the following queries are queued and never get executed. The only way to get things running again is forcefully killing and restarting the mysql process. After that things work again...for a few hours.
The logs (error and query log) show nothing exceptional. When it hangs and I do a 'show processlist;' I noticed that everytime a SELECT....IN (a,b,c) query is holding up everything. Could the 'IN ()' be the reason for mysql not completing the query and holding up the rest?
Another option might be to temp. go back to MySQL 4.1...but that is going to be a real problem on Debian Etch