I am a host reseller and the parent company is upgrading their servers to PHP5. This may break some of my clients' sites (OSCommerce, Zen). Should we fix those sites for free or should my clients pay for the upgrade?
View 24 Repliesive got a one of my personal sites - (a fairly mysql heavy chat community that works on mobile phones aswell) and its running on a cheap dedicated server
the specs of the server at the moment are -
celeron 2.0GHz
512mb ram
120gb ide disk
1500gb bandwidth
linux centos 4 no control panel
now i never come close to using my bandwidth so thats fine.
but ive noticed when i had around 30 members online last night the server load spiked at about 3.5 so im wondering if anyone can suggest what would be the best thing to upgrade to reduce load.
im currently running apache serving the dynamic files and lighttpd hosting images on a different port. using php 4.4.7 with eaccellerator. mod_gzip is enabled in apache due to a need to reduce the size of pages as much as possible.
the ram and disk usage is as below
Code:
Uptime:
09:03:35 up 39 days, 13:38, 0 users, load average: 0.47, 0.34, 0.24
Memory Usage (MB):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 495 487 8 0 70 176
-/+ buffers/cache: 241 254
Swap: 2055 63 1991
Disk Usage:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 7.7G 2.1G 5.3G 29% /
/dev/hda1 76M 20M 53M 28% /boot
none 248M 0 248M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 84G 22G 59G 27% /home
/dev/hda7 1012M 68M 893M 8% /tmp
/dev/hda6 7.7G 3.4G 4.0G 46% /usr
/dev/hda5 7.7G 5.4G 2.0G 73% /var
Just got the email:
BURSTNET Network Maintenance Advisory - Saturday, September 20th, 2008 - 2AM-4AM EST WINDOW
BurstNET™ Network Engineering will be performing maintenance in our Scranton facility during the hours of 2AM and 4AM EST on Saturday, September 20th, 2008. At this time, BurstNET™ Network Engineering will be performing a significant upgrade/replacement of our existing network infrastructure. This upgrade will involve removing/replacing our older/out-dated core Cisco™ GSR & Extreme Summit™ routing/switching equipment, with newer state-of-the-art Cisco™ 6500-series routing/switching equipment, and implementing a new network design---allowing for easier upgrade, higher fault-tolerance, additional capacity, and extra redundancy.
This maintenance will be service affecting, however, we expect the overall network downtime to be 30 minutes or less, during the 2-hour maintenance window, with the majority of that occurring at the start of the work...as equipment and cabling is changed. There will also be momentary periods of higher than normal latency while circuits are re-routed, BGP updated/reloaded, and cabling switched, throughout the 2-hour maintenance window. Proper planning, configuration, and testing has been completed in advance of this maintenance period, in order to minimize as much as possible the overall time that will be service affecting.
This maintenance is necessary in order for further growth of the BurstNET™ network, as well as to implement additional redundancy into the network. This should also help resolve any latency and packet loss issues our clientele may have been experiencing in recent weeks. BurstNET™ has recently hired new Network Engineering staff, and this is the first step in several upgrades/modifications they will be making to the BurstNET™ network over the next 60-90 days, to expand reliability, increase capacity, install further redundancy, and increase performance network-wide.
We thank you for your patience and understanding with this necessary maintenance, as well as for your continued business!
Sounds like a pretty major upgrade (they've been upgrading a lot recently). Here's to more uptime and redundancy at BurstNET!
Lastly, a quick point to the army of Burst-haters out there: go check outages, BurstNET has had two great months for us (99.9%+ uptime). Stop hating .
I need a server dedicated just to emailing prospected clients.
Can anyone turn me onto a decent provider who does not mind excessive mail?
I had been rebuild apache, change value MaxClients in httpd.conf to 1500 and restart the server, but problem still the same
Quote:
Originally Posted by httpd.conf
MaxClients 1500
Quote:
Originally Posted by ssh
# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl configtest
Syntax OK
Quote:
Originally Posted by email
httpd failed @ Fri Jul 6 21:35:08 2007. A restart was attempted automagicly.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Server Status
Server Load 1.23 (2 cpus)
Memory Used 7.8 %
What is a reasonable rate for ram upgrades?
I'm looking to upgrade the ram in my web server and was wondering what others have paid lately for the upgrade.
Going from 2 to 4GB.
On used equipment (for example, 6509s), is there any possibility of getting IOS upgrades from Cisco? Is there any sort of re-certification process? My only concern with used equipment is that often times the firmware is years old.
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2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 66.90.127.141 [66.90.127.141]
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms be-10-604-cr01.chicago.il.ibone.comcast.net [68.
6.89.49]
4 37 ms 40 ms 36 ms pos-1-14-0-0-cr01.newyork.ny.ibone.comcast.net [
8.86.85.105]
5 42 ms 42 ms 42 ms pos-1-15-0-0-cr01.mclean.va.ibone.comcast.net [6
.86.85.89]
6 30 ms 30 ms 31 ms xe-3-1-0.was11.ip.tiscali.net [213.200.84.117]
7 122 ms 115 ms 113 ms xe-2-1-0.par70.ip.tiscali.net [89.149.186.165]
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9 120 ms 120 ms 123 ms asd2-rou-1021.NL.eurorings.net [134.222.231.177]
10 119 ms 119 ms 167 ms obl-rou-1021.NL.eurorings.net [134.222.231.130]
I've decided to move from my current provider (which I have praised many times on this forum before) because I'm just not getting the service I expect.
I'm specifically interested in a provider who is able to upgrade a VPS quickly, efficiently and on time, with no excuses and without "forgetting" things.
If you have experienced more than one upgrade with a provider which has been handled exceptionally well, please point me in the right direction.
So my the other day one of my clients rented a Windows 2003 server. Has no idea on how to run DNS server on it and demanded us to do something about it. Since he had no management plan, we let him know that if he got himself a management plan we could help him out - but looks as though he was on a tight budget and couldn't opt in for it. Same thing happened last week and again one yesterday!
To help these customers out I was wondering if I could start a DNS service. Each client would get access to it for free regardless of their operating system or management plan. They could point their domains to the nameservers and use the DNS service to point the domain's A records to their servers.
From the start, I have been using EditDNS and still using it. But coming to think of it, its getting more unstable day by day even though they have 5 servers spread across the globe. I am planning on to move to EveryDNS. With this move, I'd like to use their services for my clients too. Rather than running my own DNS servers - I feel this could work out more efficient and reliable.
So what I am planning on doing here is more like creating private namesevers to mask EveryDNS's nameservers. Then have a custom script site built to interact with EveryDNS's APIs. Sounds like a good idea? Then my customer uses the script's interface to create/delete/edit records, etc.
Anyway I need some advice, suggestion or help in this matter. Has anyone tried this stunt out before? If so, how successful were they/you? How are your customer's reaction towards this (satisfied or not?). Does it stay efficient? (both in terms of money, time and energy spent).
Also, if anyone could suggest me any programmer who could do this for me (someone well versed with DNS/EveryDNS on PHP/MySQL) it would be nice.
Edit: I guess ServerBeach/Peer 1 already has implement this. If anyone really knows whats going on there - please share.
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Ioncube
GD
Imagemagiac
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I will soon be meeting a few people who plan on selling their clients to me that are currently hosting with them.
I have never bought/sold clients before and would like some guidance from the community here on WHT.
Correct me if im wrong.
I should consider purchasing those clients who's contracts are going to expire soon, preferably within the next 6 months atleast?
Should i or should i not purchase clients who they have recently taken a renewal fee from that will last for atleast another 6 months?
How will calculate on what prices they should be selling their clients to me for? Are they going to add up a years worth of hosting before they set a final sale price?
At the end of the day i dont want to take on clients who have already paid for their hosting and wont be expiring anytime soon. I think, if i take them on board now they will be using up my hosting resources at my expense which i will have to wait until their next renewal is due.
The guys i will be buying the clients from have their current hosting plans as follows:
Monthly prices range from £1.90 £5.00 £9.50 £15.50,
Yearly prices range from £19.00 £50.00 £95.00 £155.00
Depending on what packages their clients are on now, how much do you think on average 5 clients would be worth roughly?
Before i purchase what else do i need to look into?
What other questions do i need to ask other than the likelihood of how long they expect their clients to stay with them/(me).
i have issue with my vps, but i cant fix it.
in error log of apache2 it show
server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
my apache config
KeepAliveTimeout 5
MaxKeepAliveRequests 200
<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 3
MinSpareServers 3
MaxSpareServers 10
MaxClients 50
MaxRequestsPerChild 2000
</IfModule>
<IfModule mpm_worker_module>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 150
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>
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is there any other good ftp clients beside lftp and ncftp to transfer a whole directory for CentOS4?
I can't get lftp passive mode behind firewall working, it's stuck at [Making data connection...] and there is some problems with ncftp as well, and centos4 is no longer supported too..
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