I have a VPS and I host 3 sites on it.
2 sites load perfectly fast, and 1 site loads.. 7 seconds slower.. ( estimate time ). When I asked some other ppl to load the site, 95% said it loads fast and 5% said it loads slow.
And no it's not the isp, the one person who has the same isp as me said it loaded fast no problem.
This is really strange.. anyone have a possible resolution?
Server CPU is at 0.10, and running smoothly.
I registered with www DOT supergreenhosting DOT com
The website I am hosting is for a business we just started, that is an Organic Orchard and we will ship produce to people. I chose Super Green for various reasons:
Good, cheap hosting plan.
Good reviews, from what I found online.
"Green" (although not really too green, but it would help our business image to claim we're hosted on "Green servers")
Free domain name.
So, I thought to myself, "Ok, this is who I want to go with"
I wanted to use the 36 month plan, which is $3.95 a month.
First off, I decided to test their customer service, so I began a live chat with a representative. There will always be, "1 person ahead of you, a representative will be with you shortly" bot auto response. Then, an autoresponse saying something like, "Hello, bla bla bla, how can I help you?" (Then normally a real person will say something after that)
My first question was how the billing worked. If I chose the $3.95 a month plan, will the first initial payment be just that? Just $3.95, and will I be charged $3.95 a month for every month after that for 36 months?
I was told, "Yes", that was how it worked.
So I go to register, I fill out the information, put in the card info and hit "Continue".
I was charged $142.20 or something, the entire amount! Not what I was told just moments before. I go back to live chat, and of course it is someone new now. I explain to them that the person before had given me mis information about the billing, and he just said, "You have to pay for it all up front", which was NOT at all what I was previously told.
So we're off to a bad start here.
The account activation is supposed to be "Instant". Here I am, two days later and I have yet to receive any more information about the account. Yesterday I got on their "Live Chat" again, and explained the situation. I was told that billing does not work 24/7 and the status of the account was "pending". Billing? the money is already gone! I've been "billed".
So, my question is this: Does anyone here have any experience with this host? www DOT supergreenhosting DOT com
Good, bad, what? I'm pretty bummed out about all of this. My employer is paying for all of this, and i'm doing the work for him. I feel like i'm getting the run around, and I don't know what to tell him other than try to insure him that its a legitimate company and we should receive the hosting details soon.
Sorry for such the long, rambling post. New member so I can't link you with URLS.
for a server to run a lightweight game server. It will require about 15-20KB/sec bandwidth. Fairly low ram requirements, and very little disk requirements.
My issue is, i need it to have VERY VERY low ping rates. Users will be connecting from Europe and US. Where can i go for something that would fill these needs? I've tried Amazon EC2, but its flaky sometimes..
[Review] Super Special Servers
Well, this isn't so much of a review as me saying what's happened in the last week since I ordered a server from them.
November 29th- Ordered a server, expected 2-3 days till my server was up. It turned out to be 2-3 business days (M-F). This, I admit is my fault for not reading carefully. A few more days, I did not mind.
I also submitted a ticket requesting more information on delivery dates and they said that my server would be up in 1-2 days.
December 2nd- I submit a ticket (Tuesday) just checking that they still remember by server. It's fine, they give me information on how their process works and why it may take up to three days.
December 3rd- It's now been 3 days, so I submit a ticket. I get a reply saying that it will be up tomorrow.
December 4th- Still no server.
December 5th- Still no server.
So basically, now I'm just hoping that I will get this server within the next little while before all of my players (I'm using this to run a web based game) disappear from the 2 day downtime so far.
This is an important project so I need 100% uptime, high quality host, with very good support.
Which host is the leader in highest-quality dedicated servers and support?
I thought I would write a quick review of Corenetworks.net!
I've had a server at Core networks for about a year now, and have worked with support as well as billing.
Support
Lets start off with the most important thing, support. I am not one to need hand-holding from support, but every once and a while I need things like IP-KVM access, hardware upgrades, hardware replacements, etc. I've put in four requests for IP-KVM access via their ticketing system since I started hosting there, and each request was fulfilled within 30 minutes. I have to admit that 30 minutes is impressive for a dedicated hosting company. It must be remembered that they are unmanaged hosting, and managed hosting services cost extra. I find this scenario fits most technical people well because more resources are put into *real* requests such as hardware, kvm, etc instead of resources being used for hand-holding (i lost my root password, my apache process is not starting, etc)
Hardware
The price compared to the hardware you get is exceptional. A lot of hosting company's out there will push overused hardware on you. (some larger companies reuse hard drives over and over, check the smart drive lifetime with smartctl) The hard drive I was provided had a usage time of 3 months. That is VERY good compared to the average active drive life time at other hosting providers of 2-4 years. The hardware has been reliable and fault free (i have 2 machines now with no problems)
Uptime
This is the greatest part, every other budge dedicated hosting provider i've been with has had horrible power (sometimes reboots every few days, and the occasional downtime of a few hours) I have not had a single power outage or reboot since I first started at core networks! One of my severs has an uptime of 355 Days.
Network
The network is not blazing fast... with the package I got. I decided on the metered 3Mb connection (no extra cost) There is also an unmetered connection with a bandwidth limit, if anyone can chime in on this it would be great . I do know that I have always had a 3Mb full pipe on this plan (up and down) which is more then enough for my hosting purposes.
Features
Core networks has all of the features of the big-boys: Remote power management, bandwidth mrtg graphs, network status page, Free IP-KVM, etc.
Cost
The company does utilize it's cheaper servers as a bargaining tool for sales. It seems they unleash their $24/mo servers for a week or two to drive sales and then mark them as sold out. Currently I have the $49/mo servers (with a bit extra oomph) and I am ecstatic with the price. If you can catch the $24/mo servers, get them when you see'em!
Overall
Overall I would recommend corenetworks.net to anyone who is seeking a quality server for personal use or small business use. I am not sure how the service would meet enterprise level businesses, but they do have more expensive plans and I see no reason those would suck.
"Offical, im a reviewr score": 9 out of 10'
I've been trying to configure Plesk as a hidden (super) master for a domain and I've run into some problems.
First off, for those who don't know, a hidden master is a nameserver that is actually the master server, yet does not list in the NS records of the domain.
The servers listed as NS in the zone have accepted the server as their master, but the rest of the world does not know it exists. Hence the term hidden master. The slaves consist of two PowerDNS servers that acknowledge the Plesk server as a supermaster, thus enabling automatic zone configuration and the like upon receiving a notify from the Plesk server.
However, the Plesk server refuses to send automatic notify messages to the slaves (listed in the NS records, also added to the ACL / transfer restrictions template). When requesting an AXFR by hand the Plesk server happily transfers the requested zone to the PowerDNS slaves, but upon changing the zone files through the Plesk panel's DNS management system, no notify goes out to the slaves, which thus don't know anything has changed. I've tried adding an also-notify clause to named.conf (which was suggested elsewhere), but it appears Plesk overwrites the entire named.conf upon zone changes, thus erasing the also-notify clause, subsequently refusing to send out a notify.
Further research into the workings of Bind (the nameserver used by Plesk in this setup) suggests that, by default, it should send notify messages to all servers listed in the NS records part of a given zone. This is clearly not the case in this particular setup, but I can't seem to find where exactly notify messages have been disabled (there is no mention of notify in named.conf).
My questions therefore are:
1) Why doesn't Plesk / Bind send automatic notify messages to its slaves, which is the default behavior of Bind? Where and how has this been disabled?
2) Should 1 turn out to be impossible to fix, how do I override named.conf on a per-domain basis?
I just heard this story on NPR yesterday discussing cloud computing, how you can use external computers to do super-computer sized tasks without having the hardware in house yourself.
If we host colocated servers, how feasible is it to get our servers into that game?
I am running ubuntu 8.10 installed mysql 5.1.30 from source. i am trying to change passwords for some of the users but I keep getting the error listed in the title. Does anyone know whats going wrong ?
Code:
.mysqladmin: Can't turn off logging; error: 'Access denied; you need the SUPER privilege for this operation'
I have ftp server (pure-ftp). with firewall.
i allowed 20 and 21 port in "CSF" firewall
now when i or our client connect to the server connection done.
and the they fire dir or ls command they will receive error
"425 Could not open data connection to port 2535: Connection timed out"
what is the problem.i have already allowed passive port 2500:3500 then why i received this types of error
I've got a vB site which has a RSS Poster Bot (fetches RSS Feeds then posts them). However, for some strange reason, it stopped working. Theres no errors in the error_log and when I do a manual run, it just times out after a minute or so.
The only thing I can think of is that one of the RSS Feeds is down or one of the sites is blocking the server IP for some reason.
i have this really annoying issue i'm hoping you can help with.
it seems the spamd child process gets stuck and causes 100% cpu usage. but this doens't just happen randomly, its only for this single user account. e.g. take a look at top output:
4581 <username> 93 40:58.87 1.3 82624 52m 2280 R spamd child
the 93 is 93% cpu usage. 40:58 is how long the process has been running, 40 minutes and counting (i just killed it though). and all it tells me its running spamd child. it usually dies after a few hours but only after causing 200% cpu usage (100% on both cpus) and making my server load skyrocket. This happens at least twice daily at no set times.
this user isn't a spammer. no scripts, no mail queue generation, no email accounts even.
running cpanel 11, centos 4.
I have a weird problem since the movement of our ip range with one of our servers. Bind doesn`t seem to react on any changes we make.
For example, the server still resolves to the old ip adress while we changed all of those with ipswap.sh (directadmin)
The weird thing is that all zone files are 100% Correct. Ip`s are all changed and no sign of the old ip whatsoever.
Again, the nameserver still resolves to the old ip`s.
Also when i create a new domain, named.conf is changed and the zone file is created sucessfully. Still the nameserver doesn`t seem to add the domain name.
Restarting, reloading and even reinstalling named doesn`t help
I'm seeing weird characters on my support home page:
That's found right below "Home > Support"
The source code shows the following...
Quote:
<tr>
<td style="padding:0px"><p>Welcome to our Support Area.</p>
I've checked the two template files (header.tpl and homepage.tpl) but did not find such characters. Its boggling me. Not even whitespace.
Got a couple of questions on my Centos server.
It is my only (at present), and main production web server located in a datacentre in the Uk.
I am running Centos 4-4.2 since a hardware failure earlier this year neccesitated a stressful overnight ssh reinstall.
I have it setup pretty well now (I think!) but I cant work out how I am able to sftp into the server!
Reason being, I have installed VSFTPD (made sure there were no ftpd daemons installed or running), and when I stop this service via sshd, it does not affect the fact that I can then sftp in to the server using an ftp client such as wsftp pro...
Also, even when I change the vsftpd.conf to jail certain ftp users to a directory, it seems to have no effect and ftp works exactly as it did before without imposing the restrictions?
There is no other ftp daemon showing up in the process list.
I have tripwire installed, rootkit hunter, and cisco hardware firewall in conjunciton with ip tables.
I dont 'think' its hacked!
Also, the last time I upgraded centos was from an early v4 to 4.4.2 due to major hardware failure on the server and the fact I didnt have a mirrored OS/server backup (due to cost) *but I did of course have all my sites and databases etc)
I am rather scared to upgrade Centos kernel to the latest version in part due to horror stories I have heard from others (NOT regarding Centos specifically) from kernel upgrades going wrong or compatibility issues etc that mean that I am very very reluctant to do it on our main production server..
I am imminently buying another server to act as a failover and backup for the existing one,but is keeping my current Centos install as it is and holding out to wait for a test server the best thing to do? (are there any serious security issues in 4.4.2? bugs etc?)
Or should I have confidence and get Yum to do its business!
This is a very weird network issue that we are currently facing.
There are 2 servers, 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2;
I can ping both IPs from my computer at the office or from anywhere else.
BUT, I cannot ping each other. For example, I log into 1.1.1.1 and cannot ping 2.2.2.2 and vice-versa.
This is very weird and I am thinking this is not OS related and something beyond that.
I was wondering if anyone of you came across this type of issue and possible direct us in the right direction.
It seems that i am facing some weird Apache issue.
I cant access my forum.domain.com but can access forum.domain.com/admin
I didnt found anything in Apache error logs,but found this in access logs
IP HERE - - [26/Dec/2007:03:13:44 +0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 22435 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
Is there anything strange in that info and what does 22435 represent?
On one of my Web sites I have it set to e-mail me whenever someone tries a SQL Injection attempt through the GET.
(I find some of the results interesting and/or funny.)
I also have it e-mail me the visitor's IP address and browser client.
I recently got one with a result for the IP address that certainly got my interest.
It read:
Quote:
<?php phpinfo(); echo "LOOOOL, X-FORWERD BUG"; ?>
The PHP scripting I use to get the IP address is:
Code:
$visIP = isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] : $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
I guess I'm wondering how they may have done it, and if this indicates an issues where people can hack my site (for control or at least info) through this method?
I keep getting weird characters such as .... in MySQL.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe have a license application client(IBM/LUM) that connects to a license server outside our network.
The clients works this way... it binds a random port and tries to connect to the remote IP with UDP port 1515.
Through wireshark I could see that it reaches the destionation, although the way back is unreachable.
If I add this random port to our router Port Forward rule, it works perfectly. Although this is not a solution cause the port is changing every time.
Isnt this strange? Other applications open random ports as well and comunication is two-way reachable.
If I connect directly to the internet, it works perfectly as well.
What can I try to do with our ZyWall USG300 Router to fix this situation?
I've a few similar video sites and haven't noticed much difference over the years with their stats. They usually average anywhere from 50-100mb downloaded per day.
Suddenly this month, one site is practically going off the scale...600-700mb...up to 1gb downloaded per day...I'm like...wtf?! The other site is reporting normal BW.
I'm using awstats with hotlink protection enabled.
Is something or someone draining my bandwidth?
I have compiled a RT kernel using 2.6.24 and it has been working great. All of our machines are runnin Centos 5. No issues like the previous configurations on Dual Quad Xeons 5335's and 8GB of RAM. As well as one box with Dual Core Xeon 5140's with 4GB of RAM. They have identical motherboards. My issue is that when you do a soft reboot, it doesn't "technically" reboot. It does, but it doesn't. Let me explain. It kills my ssh connection and you can't ping it for maybe say a minute or 2. When it comes back up, you get a new SSH key to login. You hit ok, and you try logging in. It doesn't accept any passwords. The server basically becomes inoperable.
The only way to solve this is to do a hard reboot. Phsyically rebooting the server.
What could be causing this? This only started to happened when using the RT kernel. Is there an option that may be conflicting with it, however our 3rd and 4th box, with the same configuration has no issues like this. Soft reboots work great.
Here is the message log.
Feb 19 04:00:02 server530 shutdown[25342]: shutting down for system reboot
Feb 19 04:00:02 server530 init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Feb 19 04:00:03 server530 smartd[3037]: smartd received signal 15: Terminated
Feb 19 04:00:03 server530 smartd[3037]: smartd is exiting (exit status 0)
Feb 19 04:00:09 server530 ntpd[20917]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Feb 19 04:00:09 server530 rpc.statd[2570]: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting.
Feb 19 04:00:09 server530 portmap[25711]: connect from 127.0.0.1 to unset(status): request from unprivileged port
Feb 19 04:00:10 server530 auditd[2469]: The audit daemon is exiting.
Feb 19 04:00:10 server530 kernel: audit(1203415210.158:8204): audit_pid=0 old=2469 by auid=4294967295
Feb 19 04:00:10 server530 pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:529ignal_trap() Preparing for suicide
Feb 19 04:00:10 server530 pcscd: hotplug_libusb.c:361:HPEstablishUSBNotifications() Hotplug stopped
Feb 19 04:00:11 server530 pcscd: readerfactory.c:1350:RFCleanupReaders() entering cleaning function
Feb 19 04:00:11 server530 pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:489:at_exit() cleaning /var/run
Feb 19 04:00:11 server530 kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Feb 19 04:00:11 server530 kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Feb 19 04:00:12 server530 exiting on signal 15
Oh and this is to reboot the server nightly at 4am, when this issue occurs.
0 4 * * * /usr/bin/reboot > /dev/null 2>&1
if you type in the browser
Code:
neomagician.com
it redirects to
Code:
[url]
ok no problem there. but when you type
Code:
neomagician.com/forum
OR
[url]
it redirects to the hostname
Code:
[url]
where you promptly receive a 404 error.
BUT, if you type
Code:
[url]
(note the forward slash on the end)
it works just fine.
If you type a nonexistent file or folder it only 404s on the domain name and no redirection occurs.
I have a client who was sending email to another server with Cpanel, all of a sudden all emails are in the queue for a few days and we checked everything was ok on our side even the logs are able to find the domain name, just that it drops from there.
Took me a while I finally telnet their port 25 and found it block, but somehow a few minutes later it was unblocked. Is there any mechanism in Cpanel that auto block port 25? I know the client uses a catchall so all rubbish went there, I cleared the catchall for him.
I added a USB nic to my main server which also acts as VM server so I can bridge some VMs on a separate network then that actual server, for security purposes. This nic has no IP and is connected to another router. My private LAN router (router1) is connected to that router. (router2)
In vmware server I made a new bridged network to eth1 which is the USB nic.
now for whatever reason, there does not seem to be communication on that new nic. if I set a static IP on a VM sometimes I can ping the gateway, sometimes not. It's on and off. Also, DHCP won't work at all, but I know DHCP works on that network as if I plug a PC into that router I get an IP right away.
that this is a home setup, not an internet setup, so I have full physical access.
I recently switched my site tdnforums.com over to a new server about a week ago. Some folks are still complaining that they are viewing the forums on the OLD SERVER. Perhaps DNS is taking a long time to switch over but get this... for many people tdnforums.com is switching BACK and FORTH between the old server and the new server. So, on some visits it'll resolve to the new server... on other page refreshes you'll be viewing the forums on the old server. What the heck? This has actually happened to me a few times myself so I know that they aren't crazy.
Why is DNS doing this? Sometimes the site resolves on the old server and then the new?
What's going on here? Why isn't it flipping over 100%? Are there any things I can check as troubleshooting, or is this normal? I've had some long DNS switches before but never this "back and forth" stuff...
I'm using CP+ panel.
Here's the weird thing, when I look inside my domain name and to the A record to add a subdomain, it shows me another domain name (which is also mine). When I add a subdomain to that anyway, I get a subdomain.realdomain.anotherdomain.com entry instead of subdomain.realdomain.com Also in the list some domains are correct while most of them are pointing to each others.
I've checked the named conf and also apache conf and I don't see anything wrong at all. They're all linked to their correct location. Anyone here have any inklings on what it might be? Never seen anything like it before.
For the last week, my vps (directadmin on centos on xen) has become unresponsive every three days at approximately 5 AM, and I'm baffled about why. It doesn't crash, but it stops accepting incoming connections until it's rebooted.
I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this. /var/log/messages gives no useful information. There are no unusual cronjobs running at that time.
Anyone heard of anything like this before or have any advice about how to troubleshoot?
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If you look at the image there are 14 connections from a blank ip what is that and how do i stop it?
I just installed the latest PHP 5.5.2 on Windows 2003 IIS 6. The Web extension for php in cgi mode is automatically allowed, but all php scripts shows file not found, only when I enabled allowed all cgi extensions, does the php pages showed up ok.
View 0 Replies View RelatedHas anyone else noticed some weird Savvis routing in the NY/NJ area since their maintenance on Friday night?
I'm in NY and a trace to the NJ1 datacenter in Jersey City NJ shows:
Code:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.3
2 24 ms 23 ms 23 ms 10.32.37.1
3 26 ms 24 ms 23 ms at-3-1-1-1732.CORE-RTR1.NY325.verizon-gni.net [1
30.81.11.173]
4 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms 130.81.20.176
5 * 30 ms 30 ms 0.so-3-1-0.XT1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.10.37]
6 32 ms 75 ms 34 ms 0.so-4-2-0.XL3.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.213]
7 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 0.so-6-2-0.BR1.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.3.149]
8 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms bcs1-so-5-1-0.NewYork.savvis.net [204.70.1.5]
9 34 ms 32 ms 32 ms cr1-pos-0-0-5-2.Washington.savvis.net [204.70.195.1]
10 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms 204.70.197.5
11 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 204.70.197.14
12 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms hr2-tenge-13-2.Weehawkennj2.savvis.net [216.35.78.6]
13 32 ms 33 ms 32 ms 204.70.196.74
14 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms 204.70.196.78
15 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms bhr2-ge-5-0.JerseyCitynj1.savvis.net [204.70.196.86]
16 33 ms 32 ms 32 ms csr22-ve241.Jerseycitynj1.savvis.net [216.32.223.51]
Why are the packets going from NewYork to Washington to Weehawken and then to Jersey City? Also, what are those 4 unnamed nodes at 10,11, 13 and 14?
I'm also getting 200ms+ ping times and 13% loss to/from our offsite VPSs
Code:
640 packets transmitted, 554 received, 13% packet loss, time 639988ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 192.275/198.945/227.685/3.173 ms, pipe 2
[root@offsite ~]# traceroute 216.32.223.51
1 eqash79.keepitsecure.net (69.65.111.117) 0.173 ms 0.125 ms 0.063 ms
2 r02.iad.defenderhosting.com (69.65.112.2) 3.440 ms 0.345 ms 0.290 ms
3 ge2-10.as.eqxashva.aleron.net (205.198.14.245) 0.473 ms 0.554 ms 0.482 ms
4 ber1-ge-8-10.virginiaequinix.savvis.net (208.173.52.105) 0.591 ms 0.567 ms 0.438 ms
5 cpr2-ge-5-0.virginiaequinix.savvis.net (204.70.193.101) 0.588 ms 0.606 ms *
6 bcs2-so-2-0-0.washington.savvis.net (204.70.193.153) 119.863 ms 3.639 ms 3.378 ms
7 cr1-tengig-0-7-0-0.Washington.savvis.net (204.70.196.105) 198.659 ms 201.783 ms *
8 bcs2-so-2-0-0.NewYork.savvis.net (204.70.192.2) 202.751 ms 195.501 ms *
9 * dcr3-ge-0-2-1.newyork.savvis.net (204.70.193.98) 201.978 ms 198.180 ms
10 204.70.197.5 (204.70.197.5) 7.627 ms 6.984 ms 6.196 ms
11 204.70.197.14 (204.70.197.14) 6.822 ms 6.534 ms 6.460 ms
MPLS Label=1640 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
12 hr2-tenge-13-2.Weehawkennj2.savvis.net (216.35.78.6) 6.752 ms 6.634 ms 6.509 ms
MPLS Label=66 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
13 204.70.196.74 (204.70.196.74) 7.550 ms 6.600 ms 6.479 ms
MPLS Label=339 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
14 204.70.196.78 (204.70.196.78) 6.607 ms 6.633 ms 6.482 ms
MPLS Label=339 CoS=5 TTL=1 S=0
15 bhr2-ge-5-0.JerseyCitynj1.savvis.net (204.70.196.86) 198.841 ms * 201.303 ms
16 csr22-ve241.Jerseycitynj1.savvis.net (216.32.223.51) 196.147 ms * 199.857 ms
The second trace shows that there is a path between New York and Weehawken without going through Washington, even though the first route went through Washington between NY and NJ. The only reason that I can think of is that someone in Washington wants to see the traffic (wink wink)?
I've contacted Savvis, but got the stock response "Savvis’ backbone routers forward traffic through the optimal logical path within our network. Although the physical path may seem odd occasionally, it is actually the optimal path."
