VPS And Windows Updates
Jul 17, 2007
I have a Windows VPS account with a well-known hosting company. According to their knowledgebase, they "apply Microsoft security updates directly from the hardware node. For this reason, they are not able to be applied from within your VPS."
I discovered this after attempting to apply a Service Pack on my VPS, which messed up my VPS. Now that I've learned this the hard way, here's my question: Is this true with other Windows VPS hosting companies too?
While I understand that I'm responsible for what I update on my VPS, I'm frustrated that the hosting company doesn't take more steps to prevent this from happening...
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May 11, 2007
When you are hosting websites/game servers and then updates on your server pops up. What do you do? Restart the server and kick everyone off the server for 10min? Or leave it?
Whats the best course of action?
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Apr 9, 2014
My Plesk Panel fails to find updates for some reason. It keeps thinking that 11.5.30 Update #31 is the latest version, although the changelog (URL..) clearly shows 11.5.30 Update #40 is available.I tried to manually run the updater from command line:
Code:
C:ParallelsPleskadminin>ai.exe --select-product-id panel --select-release-current --reinstall-patch --install-component base
No success.
I tried to switch to the Early adopter releases No success. How can if fix Plesk Panel to update to the latest versions again?
My setup:
OS: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1
Panel version: 11.5.30 Update #31 , last updated at April 10, 2014 02:32 AM
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Jul 24, 2008
has anyone successfully updated from bind9.2.x to BIND 9.5.0-P1? Were there any problems regarding settings, zone files, etc etc? Can you explain the process in detail for the update? One of my customers wishing to have this done, is running CentOS, I assume yum would be the best course of actions?
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Dec 13, 2007
An important cPanel update was released a short while ago - [url]
Please be sure to upgrade.
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Nov 8, 2007
Lately we have been receiving a lot of complaints from our users who do not wish to update their scripts. I have been telling those users that they have to keep their scripts up to date if they want to avoid having that script exploited or used to send spam or other malicious intentions. The ramifications of a single user on a server not keeping their script up to date affects all of the users on the server.
I am just wondering how other hosting providers handle this. When a client threatens to leave because you don't allow them to run an outdated script, what actions do you take to try and keep the client?
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Nov 19, 2007
cPanel has released a very important update a short while ago. I don't normally post when updates are released, but this is one that should not be missed. More information can be found here:
[url]
and here:
[url](not sure when this will be updated).
Stay safe.
edit: the *second* I posted this, I found out there will be another tomorrow. Keep your eyes on layer1.cpanel.net.
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Jul 26, 2007
I've been trying to get any reviews on ahosting.biz services here on the forum, but the last thread where the poster was complaining about the limits of emails sent from their reseller accounts failed to find anything. Any updates?
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Aug 17, 2007
I have been with primaryvps since May and in last two months I was very busy... and then came back from vacation, it was working fine for a few days... indeed, I could access my server as late as last night. But then my server is down today, with empty page at primaryvps.com and there's nothing else.
So I got nervous and came here to check... and I realized that a lot of people had troubles with them, perhaps more than I did, but then are they really going out of business? As a customer I received no warning of any kind, though.
Any certain info on their current status would be appreciated. I wrote them (support and victor's email) but didn't get responses... In the past they replied very fast, so there's something strange going on for sure...
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Nov 6, 2009
I'm running Plesk 9.2.2 & using the supplied AWStats install. Where will I find the configuration that dictates when AWStats will be updated? It's currently updating at 3.36am daily, & I'd like to set it to hourly. Can't find anything in the root or psaadm crontabs & not sure where else to look.
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Oct 1, 2008
to install secuity patches for each VPS hosted on single host or appling it to host running multiple VPS is enough.
Does same applies to firewall related software..Use it for individual VPS on single host?
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Dec 27, 2007
this only shows up in Centos 5, it seems.
You do the good ole "yum update"
and...something very bad happens:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
>>
>>
>> Could not find any working storages.
Ok..this is one of the times google fails me..I guess because this is a fairly new problem.
If you are lucky:
Visit the rpm repo of your choice..manually download:
python-sqlite*
and
sqlite*
and force a re-install:
rpm -ivh python-sqlite* --force
rpm -ivh sqlite* --force
Sadly..I did find that..and it was tried..and did not work for me.
The fix? Ohhh...you gonna love this:
I completely removed python and everything that depends on it.
Drastic? Oh yeah. But after wasting two days with fixes that did not help...I figured this was the only way. Drastic measures were called for.
It was. It worked. You put everything back..and it is fine.
Oh..I noticed yum.3.2.1is available..and decided to give that a shot as well. It is fine.
Certainly not as much fun as the time I decided to attempt a upgrade of glib2 on a vps..but close.
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Nov 12, 2007
Basically I do all my updating now. I have a VPS with...*GASP*...godaddy and their policy is you do all the updating to your server yourself. They will not help you in any way unless you pay their "extra special services team" 80 bucks an hour.
Now, I'm not that much of a server genius, I can find my way around and do certain updates. I'm just tired of doing it and also have a huge fear that I'll screw something up.
Is there a company that will do a full switchover from godaddy to their service, does all the updates and installs programs for a small fee for you? I also need one that is comparable in price. I'm paying 52 bucks a month now.
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Jan 23, 2008
After obtaining a new allocation from ARIN, how long do you typically wait before your upstreams update their filters to allow the new announcement? Which providers are most proactive? Least?
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Feb 12, 2009
regarding LXAdmin updates. Do i have to update both LXAdmin and server software (such as apache, ftp e.t.c.) or i just update to last version of LX Admin.
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Nov 13, 2008
I was updating apache through easyapache and my server froze. I had to have my server rebooted.
Now I can't load apache. But the lucky thing is, I have litespeedtech and my websites load fine. But apache has definately failed.
I can't switch to apache from litespeed. I use WHM. I was wondering, can I udpate apache through whm with litespeed? Does anyone have experience with this?
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Aug 2, 2007
I believe there is a gap in my understanding of VPS with regards to just how much control you really have over the system. VPS gives you "root access" which typically means top-level access... but in reality, the true super user is a boot-up console user. Few VPS providers that I've investigated offer console access to your VPS while booting.
What, than, can be done about system upgrades or using advanced features like root filesystem encryption? Say, for instance, that my provider offers openSUSE 10.1 and I want 10.2. I would be loath to do such a thing if I can't reboot and watch things as it goes. What if the upgrade failed and you need to drop to a single-user mode to fix it?
Or maybe my real misunderstanding here is that you can't upgrade a system in a VPS if the provider doesn't offer the upgrade?
And what if I want my entire system (other than a boot partition) to be encrypted. This would include an encrypted root and swap. This also requires a password at bootup well before any services (like sshd) start.
Again, maybe the real answer is that I can't do that at all anyway and so it doesn't matter.
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Aug 31, 2014
Is there a way to receive notifications for Wordpress updates? (core, themes, and plugins).
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Jul 8, 2013
How are the records on slave DNS servers updated ? Does it use the settings in the SOA section of the zone files to determine how often slaves are updated ?
Code:
18 ; serial
14400 ; refresh (4 hours)
7200 ; retry (2 hours)
2419200 ; expire (4 weeks)
3600 ; minimum (1 hour)
Is there any way for master to push out notifications to slaves OR get slaves to update their DNS sooner.
The main reason for this is it seems adding an entry on the master (via the GUI) is taking ages to appear on the slave.
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Feb 26, 2015
So. Plesk has a button to enable or not enable automatic updates of WordPress installations it knows about. I toggled it and it didn't seem to effect the setting in my wp-config.php file:
//--- disable auto upgrade
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );
which remained like that whatever I did to the Plesk button.
Nor does it seem to set this setting either way:
define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );
So. Is it something independent of WordPress? I.e. Plesk goes and gets the updates and applies them? If so - what updates is it getting - major changes or just minor ones?
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Feb 6, 2009
I'm wondering if anything like directadmin, whm, etc can automate security updates to apache, mysql, php etc?
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Oct 29, 2009
We're managing a CMS script which we offer as a hosted solution / leased script. This means we have several accounts on our server, one pr. client/script user. They all run the same script software and occasionally we have to upgrade the script on these sites. Until now this is being done manually.
Connect with FTP -> upload new files -> Done.
This is very easy work but takes annoyingly much time due to FTP needing to set up connections, switching accounts, etc.. and if you have 100s or 1000s of accounts this becomes...yes...you know..
The question is now, how can this be done easier? I was hoping that it would be possible to do this automated somehow (we have root access to our server).
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Mar 7, 2008
a website/s that you can maybe subscribe to it's emails that will notify you on hacks that are out, and how to prevent them?
I'm already aware of the ways you can secure your server first hand, but I'm talking about notifications that will keep you updated on the newest release of hacks out and etc.
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Jul 9, 2014
Since upgrading to Plesk 12, I'm getting near daily "Application Updates" emails. The body copy simply reads "date.timezone = Europe/London"
How do I stop these? They're very annoying and clients receive them too.
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Jul 17, 2014
is there any way to disable automatic updates completely ? Because the lowest option in the panel is:
"Notify me about available updates but do not automatically install them" (Critical security updates will still be installed automatically.)
And while I can't figure out, which files are going to be updated even on this minmalistic setting, I have to disable it completely.
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Feb 26, 2008
to install mod_evasive module on our Apache2 that runs on Fedora server. However, for that we need Apache's apxs to compile it. We found out that we can do that by running the
yum install httpd-devel
However, when we run that, we get the following:
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
httpd-devel i386 2.2.8-1.fc7 updates 144 k
Updating:
httpd i386 2.2.8-1.fc7 updates 1.0 M
openldap i386 2.3.34-7.fc7 updates 291 k
Installing for dependencies:
apr-devel i386 1.2.8-6 fedora 170 k
apr-util-devel i386 1.2.10-1.fc7 updates 54 k
cyrus-sasl-devel i386 2.1.22-8.fc7 updates 351 k
db4-devel i386 4.5.20-5.fc7 fedora 2.3 M
expat-devel i386 1.95.8-9 fedora 129 k
openldap-devel i386 2.3.34-7.fc7 updates 1.5 M
Updating for dependencies:
httpd-manual i386 2.2.8-1.fc7 updates 821 k
mod_ssl i386 1:2.2.8-1.fc7 updates 85 k
openldap-clients i386 2.3.34-7.fc7 updates 179 k
Transaction Summary
==========================================
Install 7 Package(s)
Update 5 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 7.0 M
We're kind of cautios, because we have never updated Apache on our live server. We'd prefer if we could download and install just the httpd-devel module. Is this possible?
If not, would this mess up any of our existing configuration? Could we expect any problems? And do we need to shut Apache down, then run the updates and only then restart it?
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