Surely it is good to have backup, even remote backup, but do you check them on a frequent basis to ensure that they are valid backup ?
What is your backup startegy and how do you verify your backups to ensure they are not corrupt and ok ?
Im interested in cpanel backup strategies.
I am asking myself what the best backup strategy for my dedicated server could be. I do not host any commercial website on it (just private ones), but we all know that even losing non-commercial data hurts.
What I already do:
More or less recent backups of the most important websites (just webspace, no email or database) on my local computer
Having hardware Raid-1 on the server and 2 HDs
Using R1Soft Backup Space provided by my server host
I would like to add some FTP space at an external (!) DC to do scheduled cPanel backups.
I think that a further dedicated server or VPS will not be necessary for this task.
Can you recommend a provider of pure FTP Backup Space which is reliable, at least on a 100 Mbps line and affordable?
I guess I need about 100-200 GB of space to keep daily, weekly and monthly backups.
I am writing a website in PHP and just about make the first version live.
I'm a bit concerned with backups at the moment. I don't want to lose all the data, as a lot of effort will be put into adding content to the site. It uses a MySQL database as well as the file system to store data.
I was just going to do MySQL dumps nightly, but I realized that I know nothing about the topic and therefor should ask advice before writing code in PHP ( which only run for 30seconds max? Is that long enough to backup?)
What is the common practices to do backups on a CMS type site? How often? How do you manage backups? Where do you store them too? Does doing backups effect performance? Do you do full backups or just changes? If I write a backup script, should I try do it in perl/python/bash or stick with PHP?
Or any other information which will fill me with confidence.
I'm gonna order my first dedi box. So one question comes up: How should i partition the HD ? It's a low end box with 120gb HD containing CentOS + Plesk, hosting 4-5 websites, nothing special.
Here is my plan:
Quote:
/ - 5gb
/boot - 1gb
/swap - 1gb
/home - 3gb
/tmp - 5gb
/var - 40gb
/usr - 5gb
/backup - 60gb
We are going to host an application for 20 customers. Our application is related to online order system. We will create 20 virtual host on Windows machine. Application developed in dot Net and database is MS SQL 2005. each client have its own database. I Just want to get an Idea from you people about CPU, RAM, Hard Disk, and Bandwidth.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am working towards launching a site that, among other things, will be a repository for sensitive data on war crimes. As these crimes are ongoing, and occur in a location where assassinations are endemic, I need to develop a comprehensive security strategy that takes into account all levels of the interface between end user / witness and the site / database itself.
I have considered, but am open to insight and advice on, the following:
1. Data security laws in given countries, in order to ensure the privacy and integrity, as much as possible and away from political / state interference, of data communications. Concerns include the interception of data in transfer and the security of stored data (the United States and the UK are almost certainly cancelled out in this regard. Canada appears significantly better, though Greece, it appears, has the greatest level of legislative protection).
2. Encryption as a technique to ensure the security of transfered and stored data. I am particularly interested in best practice advice on encryption.
3. Javascript as a means to establish a more secure interface between the end user (i.e., the browser interface) and the secured database into which sensitive data will be inputed. Has anyone used this, or other techniques of overcoming the inherent insecurity of the browser interface?
4. Various best practices concerning php, MySQL and Apache security. Any and all advice, or guidelines, welcome.
5. Considerations relative to dedicated hosting, and also colocation hosting as an option.
In general, my problem is to ensure that the identities of witnesses, so much as is technically conceivable, can be protected from extra-judicial interference or surveillance. Nothing about this site will be illegal in any way. The problem is that the witness testimony will be about the actions of a powerful state that has demonstrated its disrespect for law.
Ideally I'd find in these forums a few individuals with whom I could discuss these technical matters off-forum. At the same time, general responses would be values.
The site that I'm building is non-profit (indeed zero budget) and does not represent any political party. It's a people's initiative, against aggressive violence and in support of international law.
when I do "yum update" at my centos 5 box, I saw over 40 packages needed to be updated.
For example, there's minor version update for MySQL 5.
so I am wondering how to determine which packages are absolutely needed.
My box is used to serve web applications. I just want to make sure that it's secure.
unable to send mail prabhu.miracle@itemaindia.com to miracle@itemaspinningindia.com
itemaindiaspinningindia.com rejecting mails from itemaindia.com, how to solve this, pls help me friends
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----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<miracle@itemaspinningindia.com>
(reason: 550-Verification failed for <prabhu.miracle@itemaindia.com>)
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to itemaspinningindia.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550-Verification failed for <prabhu.miracle@itemaindia.com>
<<< 550-No Such User Here
<<< 550 Sender verify failed
550 5.1.1 <miracle@itemaspinningindia.com>... User unknown
<<< 503-All RCPT commands were rejected with this error:
<<< 503-Sender verify failed
<<< 503 Valid RCPT command must precede DATA
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I bought a hosting service from hostgator and received an email from them that I need to verify my account by calling them. I called them 7 times and they just kept saying "hello" and said they cannot hear me and hang up whereas I was able to hear them clearly. I have checked my phone by calling some friends in US and they are able to hear me clearly.
When I searched on google, I came to this forum where somebody has made a similar thread and wrote beware of hostgator. I am really confused after reading that thread. He said his website was available for 10 minutes whereas I didn't even receive my account details from them. I mean the server wasn't setup. I received a welcome email that said the server would be setup in 48 hours & within 7-8 hours, i received an email asking me to verify my account.
What should I do now? I don't even know if they have charged my CC as I can't check my CC statement till 20th.
I have used a tool called Net Tools to scan ports on my various servers to determine ports are open in the firewall through my host.
For around a decade, this tool has been accurate to determine what ports are open/closed.
I have used this tool to accurately find issues with the firewall with current host (dedicated server). The network admin says that net tools should not be trusted and even though the software claims the ports are open, they are not open.
I explained that less than a month ago, this software reflected that these ports should closed were reflected accurately as closed by scanning the ports.
Partial results:
Code:
Address Scanned: xx.xx.xx.xx
Scan Started at 10/27/2007 2:08:00 PM
Scan Finished at 10/27/2007 2:18:03 PM
Ports Scanned: 1 To 4000
Total Ports Found Open: 3794
Current Ports Found Open:
Port: 00004
Port: 00005
Port: 00009
Port: 00026
Port: 00044
Port: 00076
Port: 00083
Port: 00088
...
What are the ABSOLUTE best tools/ways that I can confirm that the ports are truly not accessible?
Can I ask what is the website where I can check if a server IP has been blacklisted?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy company ordered server on 23/10/2009 from LimeStone, and they asked for verification hence i given them all the ID that they need. After that, they told me they couldn't accept AMEX and have to pay through PayPal, i have paid since and NOW again they asked for ID again.
Why i have to verify for second time since i have posted all my ID and utility bill for first time? I don't think i need to give so much verification since PayPal has already verified my account as i owned PayPal Verified Business Account, this kind of "repeating" or double verification never happen when i order from ThePlanet/EV1 where i am looking to migrate to Limestone Networks.
This is very unpleasant experience and I don't want to wait for more than a week to get a server.
Can we disable sender verificaiton for a specific domain in exim? If so, can you tell me the steps?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have multiple backups stored under server repository (subscriptions --> <domainname> --> website and domains --> backup manager).
The physical files are located at: /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/904279/domains/<domainname>/
When I click the green arrow to download these files to a local computer (see attached image) I get a new page with title "Download the backup file". On this page I have the option to set a password on the downloaded file, but no matter what I do (password or no password) the file is not downloaded to my local PC. I don't get a pop-up box with the option to save the file. Just nothing happens ...
I have 2 problems:
Firstly I wonder if there is any possibility to limit the number of cores the plesk backup zipping tool uses? This pigz takes up all my CPU. Is there any way I can reduce the amount of cores it uses because all my websites are down every time a backup takes place for around 3 minutes.
Secondly I get the following in my syslog:
1 baby plesk sendmail[20189]: Error during 'check-quota' handler
I don't know what is wrong. I think it's since the upgrade to Plesk 12. I now have 12.0.18 Update #13.
I have a 6GB backup file created with another Plesk Backup Manager, now I trying to upload this backup file to my Plesk Backup Manager but after upload 3% I am getting "413 Request Entity Too Large" error, I tried with disable NGINX but still getting this error.
how can I resolve this error or is their any other way to upload my file on backup manager?
I see that Backup Manager have a file size restriction of 2GB how can I increase this?
