I have a few questions about tektonic, I talked to their costumer service but maybe you guys out of experience can tell me a bit more.
Also if anyone knows of a XEM server that is located near Atlanta, that provides the same as TekTonic I would appreciate the info. and if anyone has one of those lifetime promo codes, that would be apprecialoved.
ok I plan to get 2 VPS from tektonic ( this is my top choice so far ) I want to have one 100% dedicated on the intranet for MYSQL, the other for apache and all the other stuff you know.
I also Need cpanel to move things around, so I need that one ( however someone told me I can buy a cpanel license separately )
ok I am going for the 294MB one for the Mysql and the 1178MB one for the apache and all that.
they say that they warantee the CPU 2.6GHZ on the 294MB one and 7.x GHZ on the 1178MB one, is this for real they really guarantee this CPU, or that's what you can burst.
the costumer service guy told me that CPU is guaranteed, and you can't burst, however they work on virtuosso and all virtuosso VPS I have worked do allow bursts, I would like to know from experience how fast are those servers processing, I mean for real.
because if I get 300MHZ of CPU and I can burst to 2.6GHZ, that would suck because I already have CPU intensive apps on my other VPS, and I plan to move.
Tektonic: Support Go Above giving my VPS a quick once-over to check for rootkits, and then pointing me to the place of infection.
If anyone's looking for a VPS, I'd definately recommend Tektonic for their prompt support, and willingness to go out of their way to help. It was well out of the scope of the support package that I have with them.Thanks Rocky, and thanks Tektonic!
I have been a happy customer of Tektonic for 2 years now. If you search my posts on WHT you will see that I have recommended them many times. That's all different now.
I use my VPS just for my personal email and a few *very* low traffic web sites that get only a few dozen hits a day at most. I am very experienced with Linux, and I know that for a barely used server w/o any control panel you really don't need much hardware: I have a 128MB plan and usually my memory usage was around 50-60MB. I never had any alerts in Virtuozzo about resources, and I was happy.
Earlier this week Tektonic sent me an email saying that my VPS would be migrated to a new server, and this would switch my virtualization method from Virtuozzo to OpenVZ. I have had OpenVZ VPSs before, and was not happy with their performance for small systems such as mine (which is one of the reasons I chose Tektonic). A few hours later my migration was complete and then the problems started.
My webmail kept giving me IMAP server errors. I logged in with SSH and couldn't even execute a single command because my VPS had reached its maximum process limit. I rebooted via the HyperVM control panel, and logged in again. My /proc/user_beancounters file lists the maximum number of processes as 50, which obviously isn't enough. So I disabled my Apache and MySQL servers, and now I can only use the VPS for email by logging in and using Pine.
I sent an email to support. In the past their support has responded within an hour, maybe 2. But this response took maybe 8 hours or more. They responded that I am trying to do too much with my plan, and I needed an upgrade...even though I have been using the same plan for 2 years with no problems! The problem is not me trying to do too much, it is them imposing artificial limits on my number of processes.
I replied and said I wanted to be moved back to a Virtuozzo server, since I never had any problems with it in 2 years, plus I NEVER ASKED TO BE MOVED TO OPENVZ ANYWAYS! It's been 36 hours since that email to support, and there has been no response. I sent a follow up about 18 hours ago, and no response to that either.
Sad to say that I will probably be leaving Tektonic. I have always had good things to say about them, but right now my VPS is practically unusable and they really don't seem to care one bit.
I feel like i made the mistake of signing up for a VPS host way too quickly and without good judgement.
I took the plunge and signed up for westhosts Summertime special deal which gave me this: $16.95 (x12 months) -free domain name - 25gig, 500gig transfer, pls all the goodies you can expect from a good plan but not. westhost.com/package-compare.html
They use a special control panel custom made as you may know called Site Manager. Its sorta limited really to install software they tailored for you.
The "root like access" is pure crap. but then again what would you expect? you can even run the top command. It would have been better to go with shared with shell access!
I wont go deep into the issue; you can find my post on their forums:: forums.westhost.com/showthread.php?p=36727
What i want to know about today is this:
I found a company called TekTonic.net and they seem to have some good prices. What i am confused about however is their UM1 (unmetered) vs their Linux-1 (Unmanaged) plans.
for example; in the Unmetered UM1 plan it says: 1.0 Mbit Unmetered (equiv. 320GB) while for Unmanaged Linux-1 it says: Transfer Fully Burstable to 100Mbit
My question here is: for UM1. Is it really unmeterd and if so why does it say equiv to 320gb? .. then what does the "Transfer Fully Burstable to 100Mbit" mean?
also, what OS choice should i go with if i pick these guys? CentOS or Debian, Ubuntu? I know Ubuntu IS debian with crandy on top.
My budget isnt really high. I am trying not to go beyond $25 to a max of $28 per month).. and yes i do have my own domain!
Because my current VPS is so crappy, I'm considering changing to a new VPS and move my sites there. My sites are pretty low traffic, but they're in PHP and my MySQL DB is around 30 MB I think. I have two candidates:
www.turbovps.com (Unmetered or unmanaged $15 plan) www.tektonic.com ($15.99 plan)
I've been with Tektonic now for 7 months - and they have to be the best VPS provider
I've used for higher end un-managed VPS'es.
Their support is very quick, and if I need quick questions answering, I know I can nip onto their live help pretty much any time of the day... I've never had a time where live help hasn't been available.
As I'm leaving TekTonic after having service with them for over a year (almost a year and a half), I figured I'd post a detailed review about that time spent with them.
At the beginning of last year, I decided that I wanted to move to a VPS instead of the shared reseller hosting I had with Dathorn at the time (had been with them for 4 years... excellent service by the way) as I wanted to try out some stuff that Dathorn didn't offer (e.g. Ruby on Rails, plus run a small Ventrilo server).
So, I began looking around and found TekTonic. Wasn't a big fan of the idea of unmetered bandwidth, but after inquiring about when they would begin to offer metered plans, I decided I would sign up for their "UM2" plan. When they did finally begin to offer the metered plans, I asked their support about switching my account over to a "LINUX-2" plan (basically equivalent to the "UM2" but metered instead of unmetered), they informed me that in order to switch, I would have to make a new account, order a metered plan, and then close my old unmetered plan account... not exactly my definition of "easy" as when I had initially asked about it on their forums, but not too big of a deal in the end.
Anyway, my new metered plan account went live on May 16, 2007.
Setup time was very quick for both the initial unmetered account and the new metered account. However, not even a few hours after receiving the "welcome" email for the metered account, I had to submit a ticket as my VPS became completely inaccessible. The support team responded 4 hours later and had to issue my VPS a new IP. Problem solved.
VPS plans with TekTonic come with the HPSComplete control panel, which offers a lot of functionality. I was pretty satisfied, even though I knew I wasn't going to touch the control panel much, as this was also partly an educational process for me (teaching myself how to set up a Linux server... I wanted to do mostly everything from scratch).
One feature I did know I was going to use was the "Server-Side Backing up and Restoring" feature in HSPC. If I screwed something up as part of the learning process, I could just restore a previous snapshot. Nice and easy.
So as the months went on, I had set up e-mail, DNS, HTTP, MySQL, PHP, Ruby, the free version of Ventrilo server, etc.
Around September or so, a couple friends who used the Ventrilo server had been complaining that quite often, it was unusable due to lag. Sometimes it would even completely die and they would be unable to reconnect. I was also getting a few people telling me that they had been unable to send me e-mails (only 1 or 2, but even still....). This wasn't a constant thing however... it would come and go, but usually once every 1-2 days anyway. I probably wouldn't have really noticed if it hadn't been for the Ventrilo server which people would use for some prolonged periods of time.
Anyway this continued on for quite a while, until I finally decided that this was getting ridiculous, and that I would ask support about it. The response was basically that they had suffered a DDoS attack recently... well that must have been a pretty long DDoS attack... anyway, the problem did seem to go away until a little while after the new year (2008). Same deal again, slow network speeds and occasionally completely losing connections. After a little more thorough investigation, it seemed I was getting about a 30% packet loss. Asked support again about it, and same deal yet again... DDoS attack.
In both cases however, I had to give credit to their support team, as tickets were answered very quickly, and the resolutions they implemented were done pretty quickly.
Not impressed that the problems happened in the first place... but well, **** happens I guess.
No other issues until April 26, 2008, when I receive an e-mail in my inbox detailing this little problem. This was basically "the end" for me. Not because their hardware crashed (as I said in the preceding paragraph... **** happens), but because of how it was handled on the support team end, and how it opened my eyes to the fact that the server-side backup feature in HSPC is not really that safe (though I was never told this, and there is no warning of any kind).
How was it handled by the support team and why would I have an issue with it? Well let's analyze the aftermath from my end:
I had been following the thread on the TekTonic forums where Matt was posting updates as they worked on the issue, and the day after he had posted a message saying that the VPS's on the server were starting back up, I noticed that mine had still not started back up. I figured that given that there was a serious issue with hardware crashing that they probably should have contacted everyone who's VPS was not booting back up. Guess they didn't agree. Anyway, I contacted support, and was told that some of the data in my VPS was corrupt. Specifically, the error my VPS was throwing was "Error: Unable to execute bash: No such file or directory. Container is unmounted. Container start failed". I was given the option to either merge an OS template into my VPS so it would boot, or just copy all the uncorrupted files from my VPS to a /old directory on a few OS template install. I chose the /old option. The following day, the reinstall and copy to /old was done, I looked at what files I was left with, and to my dismay, found an empty directory.
I will take this opportunity that at this point I realize this is my own fault for losing my data in the end, as I was not taking regular backups... in fact the only backups I had been taking were with the aforementioned server-side backup feature in HSPC.
However, I couldn't even login to HSPC as there was something wrong with my account yet again and had to contact support to fix the problem. Luckily it only took an hour. When it was finally fixed I started to feel in a much better mood when I looked in HSPC and still saw my last server-side backup still listed! Went to restore it, and nothing happened... no error message, nothing.
So... I sent in a support ticket! The response: .....
Does anyone have input on either of these VPS hosts? Their plans are similar and prices are nearly identical, and I'm trying to figure out whether I should just flip a coin, or whether one edges the other out.
I am aiming to offer VPS based on OpenVZ. Have some questions, please help to answer
- in OpenVZ, is there any monitor script, that will release an email to say one VPS is down? Or will I need to use external monitoring?
- can I do the backup / restore of full VPS within OpenVZ? Can customers do it themselves?
- how hard to change the VPS configuration? For example, upgrading from 256MB RAM to 512MB RAM, or adding more CPU, space...?
- how about the IP control in OpenVZ? Let's say each VPS will have 2 IPs, so to prevent customers adding more IPs, I will need to setup VLAN, is that correct? How hard is it in OpenVZ?
- how about the ideal hardware for running OpenVZ? Saying SATA, or SCSI disks, how many RAM... for example
Tektonic.net - This is a great host. They have excellent service and awesome uptime. The speeds are fast and you never need to worry. Also very cheap. They've only gone down once for me, and that was due to a DDoS attack. Domain: txitcs.com
VPSLand.com - Another good host. Excellent service, good uptime, very fast speeds, and very cheap. They were a little bit of a pain when I first registered with them, saying that it _could_ take 24-48 hours to create the VPS (which I know is BS) but it was done within a couple of hours so I didn't complain too much. Best bet for a good, cheap windows VPS host. IP Address: 65.75.252.33
joesdatacenter.com - Great webhost. Very awesome prices on dedicated servers. He doesn't have live chat, but he usually responds to emails within 10-15 minutes. Servers are fast, and so is the speed. Domain: thetestingdomain.com
godaddy.com - Overall they're not a bad web host. Customer service is definitely pretty good. Server speeds are a little slow at times. IP Address: 97.74.65.198
I need another server upgrade, hosting package upgrade.
I'm looking into cloud hosting because of the scalability.
What's the best
#1 Reliable #2 Great Support #3 Affordable
cloud hosting company.
Rackspace seems to be great on #1 and #2 i guess but #3 they are a bit more expensive. I know someone is going to say "you get what you pay for", but thats why i put Affordable at #3.
I want to setup static routes on my servers so that my colo provider won't bill me for traffic among my servers.
I use FreeBSD 6 on my servers. I read the FreeBSD handbook on this and it looks like i should do this:
route add -net 0.0.0/24 0.0.0.3
where 0.0.0/24 is the C class I have from my provider and 0.0.0.3 is the IP address of my server (one of them/any of them).
However, this route appears to already exist as i get this error when running that route command:
route: writing to routing socket: File exists add net 0.0.0: gateway 0.0.0.3: route already in table
Do I need to use a non-routeable ip block (eg 192.168.x.x) for this? Can I use "real"/routeable ips? Does FreeBSD take care of this for me automatically?
Hi I've never worked with a dedicated host, and I was considering going with hostgator, because they provide managed hosting and cPanel, which I'm fond of.
This is not for my own sites, but for someone I work for as a programmer/webmaster. He has asked that I make the decision on this, even though I've basically advised against it, due to my lack of experience with dedicated hosting.
I've also looked at lunarpages, doesn't seem to be much different than hostgator. Here are links to their pages...
http://www.hostgator.com/dedicated.shtml
http://www.lunarpages.com/dedicated-hosting/
Does anyone have experience from either of these? I don't think the sites hosted on the server are going to be particularly high bandwidth sites (I don't really think they even need a dedicated host) ... do you think we'll be okay with a single 2.8 Ghz processor?
Also, does anyone have any advice as far as the number of sites hosted on the server? He wants to move ALL of them to the same server. Any thoughts on whether or not this is a good idea?
I know I've asked a lot here but I'm really getting into new territory. If you can provide any input on ANY of the above items, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I had a few specific questions about ADULT hosting. I've been refining an idea I had for an adult website after getting some good feedback from this site, but I had a few specific questions I still need addressed. If you think this forum is the wrong place to be asking about this, do you happen to know of any other forums that specialize in discussing adult web hosting?
My general plan is to set up a video-based adult site that charges people money (a monthly fee) to see the premium content. I have a general idea about my start-up investments, but not necessary how much each would cost, and I'm trying to put together a budget. If anyone could help me fill in some of these blanks I would really appreciate it!!
I'll need a lawyer to set up site disclaimers, contracts, etc. - I assume this will be a few hundred dollars - does this sound correct?
I need to build the site- this is where I'm not sure about costs. The general specifications are like any other adult website - users pay to register - so I would go with one of the established companies that deals with secure online credit card transactions - any ideas which ones are good? How much do they normally take?
Users then can watch the videos, rate and give feedback. Since I don't really know any programming besides HTML, I'm assuming I need to hire someone to build the site and make sure it is secure. I'm also assuming this will be the most expensive part of the investment. Can someone give me some estimates about this? Are there general templates online that I can use that will save money? Is guru.com a trusted place to hire programmers? Is this something I could do myself without spending years learning a new programming language? How DO I make the site secure, and how can I keep people from stealing my premium content and posting it on other sites? I'm obviously trying to make this as cheap as possible without sacrificing all the quality - but unfortunately I have thousands to invest and not tens of thousands (i don't know if this will be a problem or not). Also - hosting. I was told that a popular adult video site will cost a fortune in bandwidth. If I'm charging a monthly membership fee I'm hoping that can offset the costs. Can someone recommend good, scalable adult video hosting - and give me a general idea about what kind of server I need, how much bandwidth etc. I figure since this is membership driven I can start small and then increase bandwidth depending on how many members join, so I'm always making a profit. Does that sound realistic?
Finally, can adult pay sites still make money today? Not just a couple bucks here and there, but enough so I can eventually quit my day job?
The wonderful feedback I got here before helped me to reshape my ideas, and now I'd like to begin the next steps. Thank you all very much again for ANY help you can give me - I sincerely appreciate all the generous, knowledgeable people that make this forum a pleasure to visit!
I'm rather new to hosting so I still don't get everything, but maybe you can help me. I am hosting a web page on a computer that is hooked into the same network as my personal computer. They are both hooked into an openBSD router, which has the connection to the internet. My recently purchased domain name is set to forward all requests directly to the computer with the website on it (named 'b2.') When you visit the domain from an outside computer it does this just fine, but when you try to access it from one of the computers on my network it does not work. From my computer you can not access the website from the domain, but you can still access it just straight through the local network (i.e. typing 'b2' directly into the address bar ) From the computer which is actually the host to the website, it is accessible neither way, though the local network option was working before. Does anyone know what the problem is and how I can fix it? Keep in mind that I really only understand the basics of web hosting, and terminology and stuff.
vbulletin.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-6868.html but that was quite some time back.
If any user has current experience of using Zeus w.r.t
- running of standard vbb, photopost etc - zend and / or ioncube - some php scripts need url rewrite, is it possible - creating subdomains when the host does not provide it
I recently contacted 'theprimehost' with some pre-sales questions about their service.
However I received no replies, so posted on their forums in hope to get a reply from Darrell. However I found that the thread was removed. The questions I asked were as below:
1. Can I host MODx/Textpattern on Primehost space? 2. Do I get access to mod_rewrite / SSH with your account? (As an individual and as reseller) 3. How much do you charge for a dedicated IP? 4. Do you oversell or allow overselling with reseller accounts? How is the bandwidth calculated? 5. How can I monitor the uptime of your servers? 6. Is domain alias enabled? 7. Does mail enable me to set vacation auto-replies? 8. How frequently do you backup data? 9. Do you accept payments for 2 years at a time? 10. I didn't find information about your datacenter on the site. Can you please tell me more about it? 11. Can I avail of the 20% discount in addition to the 2 for 1 offer? Till when are these two offers valid?
I wonder why nobody at 'theprimehost' bothered to reply to my queries and deleted the thread so promptly. Anybody knows whats up with the guys? I have seen great reviews about them on the forum so this was unexpected.
I know Darrell is active on this forum - maybe he can clarify...
I will be moving my vBulletin forums to a new dedicated server soon. I have been looking around for a suitable server specs, and I would like to ask you the following questions:
1- If I have the option to maximize one of the following only: the Processor, The Memory, or The Hard Disk. Which one should I go for?
2- Are there any certain settings that I can change in my server environment to get maximum performance for my forums?
3- Do you recommend a certain provider for dedicated servers? Which? And Why?
The goal is to maximize the performance of my 500 Online users vBulletin forums.
I'm in a quandary over which host to choose. I've narrowed my choices between the above three. While this can be a subjective decision, I am looking for insight, any opinions and also advice on what to watch out for in deciding the best host for my needs.
Speaking of my needs, its fairly simple I have one site that runs my blog (on movabletype), another site that holds images and such, and a couple of others that I use for hobby/development purposes. All are generally low bandwidth.
I used dreamhost past and got burned by their latency and downtime. So while my needs are meager compared to many others I don't want to sacrifice performance/uptime in the name of saving a dollar.
They all offer money back guarantees so that gives me a chance to play with them but I'd like some advice on what to look out for, advice or other member's experience with them
Littleoak hosting, a small newish hosting company with nearly a rabid following over on the realmacsoftware.com's forums. This is a support forums for rapidweaver which I also use. I cannot install movabletype on this host - tried for 2 days with the help of their support. Finally gave up. If I go with them, I need to convert to wordpress. I do not want to do that just so I can use a new host. They have two packages that could work for me one at 25 dollars a year and another at 80 dollars. Bandwidth and storage are the differences.
Medialayer customer support seems very good, I can run movabletype. Pricing seems a tad high especially given my needs but they offer lots of flexibility and up to 6 domains for one package at 20/mth or 3 domains for 10/mth
ICDSoft top notch support, has a great webmail client (I hate squirrelmail) Little inflexible but nothing that would be a show stopper. I was able to install movabletype, I have yet to fully try it out though. A single domain per account at 6/mth If I have multiple domains it could get pricey.
I'm not sure if it matters but I ping all three sites and medialayer came out on top with 6ms, icdsoft with 13ms and littleoaks with 30ms.
Any thoughts opinions and/or advice regarding these three hosts. I've done enough research and while there may be other fine hosting companies these three are on my short list.
I don't resell, I am using the VPS for personal use to run a small vBulletin board (30-60 members on at a time), a Mambo site that is used to aggregate news (12,000 or so news items), and then a couple small personal static sites, and about 25 email addresses.
My VPS has the following versions listed in WHM:
WHM 11.11.0 cPanel 11.15.0-R17853 CENTOS Enterprise 4.5 i686 on virtuozzo - WHM X v3.1
It is currently setup with the default update settings that came when Zone.net set it up, which are:
Question 1: So, for the type of site I am running, is the stable tree the best? While it is a small vBulletin community, lack of down time is my main goal, so I need to balance getting updates fast enough to keep it secure, but not getting 'bleeding edge' bugs introduced. Which tree is the best balance?
Question 2: Should I be running automatic updats on cPanel/WHM or keep it manual and check here and other forums for important updates?
Question 3: I recently had a problem where Horde stopped working. Zone.net's support staff helped me, and suggested two things to attempt to fix it, and this "/scripts/fullhordereset" fixed it. So, since I am new to VPS's and more specifically, working with Linux, how to I learn/research things like this in the future. Should I be checking out forums/communities for each individual app (like Horde), or is there a better option?
Question 4: Unfortunately, I don't know what I don't know. Such as what tree to run, when to do cPanel updates, when to do Apache updates, how to make sure all my configs are right. Any suggestions on how to both make sure my WHM is configured the best way for my purposes, and more importantly, what is the best way of moving from WHM
Just have some questions regarding server settings and security
1) What will happen if Open_basedir in php.ini is changed to Open_basedir = /home:/tmp ?
2) What will happen if all hosted users in passwd file are set to /sbin/nologin ??? Dose it effect running the web site?
What are the effects if Sync if set to /sbin/nologin default is /bin/sync shutdown if set to /sbin/nologin default is /sbin/shutdown halt if set to /sbin/nologin default is /sbin/halt news if set to /sbin/nologin default is empty netdump if set to /sbin/nologin default is /bin/bash Mysql if set to /sbin/nologin default is /bin/bash mailman if set to /sbin/nologin default is /bin/bash cpanel if set to /sbin/nologin default is /bin/bash
3) How to make /bin/bash in passwd file is the default path for each new user added (automatically) in cpanel/whm server
4) What is the effect if base64_encode and base64_decode if been added in disable functions?
5) How to secure host.conf and nsswitch.conf to prevent DNS lookup poisoning and also provide protection against spoofs?
6) How to secure the system configuration file sysctl.conf to prevent the TCP/IP stack from syn-flood attacks?
