My current VPS has told me that sending 10000 emails using a newsletter system is not possible in a VPS environment, it seems i cant send over 200 at one time without numfile errors and exim bugging out, is this to be expected? They have told me i need a dedicated server that is highly tuned which to be honest sounds like overkill to me. Should i expect this from all VPS providers ?
(I wont mention my VPS provider as they have been very helpful in all other ways and it may be that they are completely right and i do not wish to affect their reputation here)
can any1 tell me if this is ok for 3 or 4 days i was having Black and yellow zone alerts for NUMFILE on my vps, vps has 256Ram,1024 burst, using centos, virtuozzo and cpanel
Now we want to send newsletters to each of our site members.
If we use the normal "mail" command in PHP, it will create a heavy load for the server so that after sending the email, because of the heavy traffic which gets created on the server, the email will either not be send or it can take up to one week till it gets send out.
Is there any better and easier procedure or method for sending these types of emails?
We're currently trying to create a HTML newsletter (weekly) for our vBulletin members.
We have roughly 120,000 members subscribed to the newsletter we want to send out.
What is the best solution for this many subscribers? PHPList is efficient but many issues with HTML, and poMMo does not handle a list that large very well (even though they advertise it does).
We have a large dedicated server, so resources are not a problem.
Got a few questions regarding sending out mass emails. First of all, I have a client that has a double opt-in newsletter that he sends out every other month. The newsletter has over 50,000k subscribers. I was wondering what precautions need to be taken when managing a newsletter of this size.
1) Does he need to send it from a different domain name? If his site is blah.com should he send the mass newsletter from blahnewsletter.com instead?
2) Should the newsletter be sent from a different IP address than the site is hosted on?
3) How do domains / ip addresses / email addresses end up on black lists, and if he does get blacklisted, what consequences would this have on his site, personal email address, server, etc.
Assuming you were given the task of managing a newsletter of this size, how would you set it up as to avoid unwanted consequences?
I wanted to know wich hardware parts/specs are most important when running a php newsletter script like Interspire Email Marketer [url] or Omnistar Mailer (www.omnistarmailer.com/).
So im looking for a server that as to be able to have between 50 to 200 diferent emails clients, each one sending 20.000 to 80.000 emails / moth.
Based on my needs wich will be the adequate choice?
Server 1: CPU: P4 2.8Ghz HT RAM: 1GB HDD: 2 x 80GB HDD SATA
Server 2: CPU: 1 x Intel XEON DUAL-CORE 3075 [2.66GHz/4MB/1333MHz FSB] RAM: 2GB HDD: 2 x 250GB SATAII HDD
Server 3: CPU: 2 x Dual Core Xeon 5110/4MB cache RAM: 4GB HDD: 2 x 73GB SAS - 10K RPM [RAID 10]
More Questions regarding hosting details:
a) In terms on CPU, do i need require P4, Xeon or 4Core Xeon?
b) In terms on RAM, will i need 1, 2, 4, or more Gb?
c) In terms on Hard Drive, i will be just fine using SATA or do i need faster, like SAS, 10k Raptor?
I'm noticed I was getting bounced email errors from a company I was sending email through and I further investigated this by running a dnsreport on my domain.
Turns out that it fails at Acceptance of NULL <> sender, Acceptance of postmaster address, and Acceptance of abuse address. The domain that I ran a test on is using a new IP that I had recently added to my Direct Admin server. None of the other domains on my server are having issues like this.
Is is possible that I need to do something to enable these new IP addresses in exim? I mean, exim obviously responds to that IP address, but it seems to be having some issues with it.
I am doing the Security Check provided by Config Server Firewall.
It is giving me 3 errors, and I want to fix them, so here they are.
Check /dev/shm is mounted noexec,nosuid /dev/shm is not mounted with the noexec,nosuid options (currently: none). You should modify the mountpoint in /etc/fstab for /dev/shm with those options and remount On this one I actually went and added the noexec,no suid options. Here is what i've got configured and what it looks like. (it's most likely not correct so help correct it.) [url]
Check /etc/named.conf for DNS recursion restrictions
You have a local DNS server running but do not have any recursion restrictions set in /etc/named.conf. If the named process is using this configuration file, then this is a security and performance risk and you should look at restricting recursive lookups to the local IP addresses only
Check dovecot weak SSL/TLS Ciphers (ssl_cipher_list) Cipher list []. Due to weaknesses in the SSLv2 cipher you should disable SSLv2 in WHM > MailSever Configuration > SSL Cipher List > Remove +SSLv2 or Add -SSLv2 Alright so this one I followed the instructions, and i've got everything set correctly but it still shows up on the thing. I don't think the ssl_cipher_list is even available in WHM
I don't know much of anything about server settings or errors, so I need your help. Recently one of my servers have been getting a lot of 500 error messages, and I can't pinpoint the reason or replicate the error on my end. I did some Google searching and although I found out in general what a 500 error is, I still am not clear on what exactly causes them or how to reduce them. Could it be caused by intense amounts of traffic? Is the server just being overloaded?
Also, I see that my server is throwing a lot of 404 errors for a variety of URLs on my site, however when I visit the URLs specified by the error log they work fine for me - seems like only sometimes for whatever reason the server can't find/access them and throws a 404. Again, I can't replicate it and have no clue how to fix it since the list of 404 URLs work fine when I type them in.
I have a VPS account with an hosting site. For the past 2 days i have done a lot of uploads. I have 25+ sites on this account. Today when i try to login into my sites via ftp, its showing ftp login failed for all sites.
The hosting company is still sleeping on my queries regarding this matter.
Interestingly logins for WHM & cpanel for all sites are working fine.
Any experienced members plz guide me on how to get the ftp working to upload files to my sites.
there is "Cannot Resolve Dns" for my site for one or 2 regions .. Everytime i check my site my site with a Website Monitoring site , i get Cannot Resolve Dns for one or two regions .. can anyone please tell me what the problem can be ..
When i go to dnsreport.com , i get Fail in Missing (stealth) nameservers
Quote:
FAIL: You have one or more missing (stealth) nameservers. The following nameserver(s) are listed (at your nameservers) as nameservers for your domain, but are not listed at the parent nameservers (therefore, they may or may not get used, depending on whether your DNS servers return them in the authority section for other requests, per RFC2181 5.4.1). You need to make sure that these stealth nameservers are working; if they are not responding, you may have serious problems! The DNS Report will not query these servers, so you need to be very careful that they are working properly.
ns1.mysite.ws. ns2.mysite.ws. This is listed as an ERROR because there are some cases where nasty problems can occur (if the TTLs vary from the NS records at the root servers and the NS records point to your own domain, for example).
Jun 29 12:35:48 server kernel: Firewall: *TCP_OUT Blocked* IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=(my server ip) DST=(another server IP of mine) LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=3858 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33891 DPT=2534 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jun 29 12:35:49 server kernel: Firewall: *TCP_OUT Blocked* IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=(my server ip) DST=(another server IP of mine) LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=17089 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33897 DPT=3306 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jun 29 12:35:52 server kernel: Firewall: *TCP_OUT Blocked* IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=(my server ip) DST=(another server IP of mine) LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=17091 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33897 DPT=3306 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jun 29 12:35:53 server kernel: Firewall: *TCP_OUT Blocked* IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=(my server ip) DST=(another server IP of mine) LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=39040 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33899 DPT=2534 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Jun 29 12:35:56 server kernel: Firewall: *TCP_OUT Blocked* IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=(my server ip) DST=(another server IP of mine) LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=39042 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33899 DPT=2534 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
Here's the strange thing. The part that says "another server IP of mine" are two different OTHER servers of mine, BUT do not have cpanel nor part of the cluster. What could it be?
Jan 31 04:39:22 servername kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE807 Jan 31 04:39:22 servername kernel: ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0xE007
I had made a page on my site earlier and when i went to it it gave me a 403 error so i tried fixing the .htacess then the site got messed up so i reset the .htacess to tis original settigns and now when i redirect to anything but the home directory it gives me a 403 error can anyone help?
Whenever am trying to post anything there server load increse upto 90 and Post takes so much time to publish.
and at that time sometime am getting this error
Error establishing the database connection
Here is the screenshot of the Cpanel stats:
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and am getting these error in my apache error logs
[Wed Oct 28 19:46:19 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/webadmin [Wed Oct 28 19:46:19 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/myadmin [Wed Oct 28 19:46:18 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mysql [Wed Oct 28 19:46:18 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mysqlmanager [Wed Oct 28 19:46:17 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/sqlmanager [Wed Oct 28 19:46:17 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/admin [Wed Oct 28 19:46:16 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/PMA [Wed Oct 28 19:46:16 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/web [Wed Oct 28 19:46:16 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/db [Wed Oct 28 19:46:15 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/phpMyAdmin [Wed Oct 28 19:46:15 2009] [error] [client 222.103.225.163] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/phpmyadmin
Below are my zone files and i receive the errors as specified. [url]
Code:
BIND data file for mysite.org ; $TTL 604800 @ IN SOA [url] ( 2007011501 ; Serial 7200 ; Refresh 120 ; Retry 2419200 ; Expire 604800) ; Default TTL ; @ IN NS [url] @ IN NS [url] [url] IN MX 10 [url] [url] IN A 200.19.227.135 www IN CNAME [url] mail IN A 200.19.227.135 ftp IN CNAME [url] [url] IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:200.19.227.135 a mx ~all" mail IN TXT "v=spf1 a -all" mysite:/etc/bind/zones/master#
Code:
; ;dns_rdata_fromtext: [url]:10: near eol: unexpected end of input zone [url]: loading master file [url]: unexpected end of input 200.19.227.rev
Code:
mysite:/etc/bind/zones/master# more 200.19.227.rev $TTL 1d ; $ORIGIN 227.19.200.IN-ADDR.ARPA. @ IN SOA [url] ( 2007011501 7200 120 2419200 604800 ) IN NS [url] IN NS [url] 1 IN PTR [url] 2 IN PTR [url] mysite:/etc/bind/zones/master#
Code: mysite:/etc/bind/zones/master# named-checkzone mysite.org 200.19.227.rev 200.19.227.rev:3: ignoring out-of-zone data (227.19.200.IN-ADDR.ARPA) dns_rdata_fromtext: 200.19.227.rev:8: near eol: unexpected end of input 200.19.227.rev:12: ignoring out-of-zone data (1.227.19.200.IN-ADDR.ARPA) 200.19.227.rev:13: ignoring out-of-zone data (2.227.19.200.IN-ADDR.ARPA) [url]/IN: loading master file 200.19.227.rev: unexpected end of input
We are facing with a strange issue about URLs. At any web site in our reseller account in php pages when we add http:// or http%3A%2F%2F to the URL as a query string server returns Internal Server Error 500.
For example when I try to access such page /index.php?q=http%3A%2F%2F[url] or /index.php?q=[url]I get this error. Is there any misconfiguration about PHP or Apache at server or what can we do to solve this problem?
Is there a way I can get more error messages with exim? I'm trying to log in using plaintext smtp authentication and all I get is this:
2009-06-21 06:51:23 Start queue run: pid=8021 2009-06-21 06:51:23 End queue run: pid=8021 2009-06-21 07:07:41 no host name found for IP address 220.80.173.17 2009-06-21 07:07:42 no host name found for IP address 220.80.173.17 2009-06-21 07:21:23 Start queue run: pid=8029 2009-06-21 07:21:23 End queue run: pid=8029 2009-06-21 07:41:18 no host name found for IP address 220.80.173.17 2009-06-21 07:51:23 Start queue run: pid=8074 2009-06-21 07:51:23 End queue run: pid=8074 2009-06-21 08:20:47 no host name found for IP address 220.80.173.17 2009-06-21 08:21:23 no host name found for IP address 220.80.173.17
I have performed chkrootkit and got the following results. It suggests that there are a lot of problems. how would i get rid of these?
Checking `lsof'... not infected Checking `mail'... not infected Checking `mingetty'... not infected Checking `netstat'... not infected Checking `named'... not infected Checking `passwd'... not infected Checking `pidof'... not infected Checking `pop2'... not found Checking `pop3'... not found Checking `ps'... not infected Checking `pstree'... not infected Checking `rpcinfo'... not infected Checking `rlogind'... not found Checking `rshd'... not found Checking `slogin'... not infected Checking `sendmail'... not infected Checking `sshd'... not infected Checking `syslogd'... not infected Checking `tar'... not infected Checking `tcpd'... not infected Checking `tcpdump'... not infected Checking `top'... not infected Checking `telnetd'... not infected Checking `timed'... not found Checking `traceroute'... not infected Checking `vdir'... not infected Checking `w'... not infected Checking `write'... not infected Checking `aliens'... no suspect files Searching for sniffer's logs, it may take a while... nothing found Searching for HiDrootkit's default dir... nothing found Searching for t0rn's default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... nothing found Searching for Lion Worm default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for RSHA's default files and dir... nothing found Searching for RH-Sharpe's default files... nothing found Searching for Ambient's rootkit (ark) default files and dirs... nothing found Searching for suspicious files and dirs, it may take a while...
568 Temporarily rejected RCPT: lowest numbered MX record points to local host 89 Temporarily rejected RCPT: Could not complete sender verify 12 Temporarily rejected RCPT: host lookup did not complete 9 Temporarily rejected RCPT: remote host address is the local host
