My POP services keep failed daily between 10am-4pm central time. Rather strange.
However, sometimes some people can't access pop services, while others still can.
I thought it was a SpamAssassin issue as it was overloading a little bit due to corrupt files. Fixed that, and problem persists.
CentOS 4.x
cPanel 11.x
SpamAssassin 3.2.x
Ive been having this issue on a box im messing around with. I run custom services that launch an exe file. Everything runs fine while the server is running. But on reboot random custom services fail. Terminal services also fails to start.
The number of services that need launched on restart seems to be random each time. Sometimes services start to fail, at around 70+ being setup. Other times you don't see it failing until 100+ services needs started on reboot.
The server load with all services running is 2-5% and physical memory is about 200 megs of 1gig, paged, is about 300-400 megs used.
It is normally 3-4 custom services that fail on reboot. The ones that fail have the following error in event viewer.
Event Type:Error
Event Source:Aprog
Event Category:None
Event ID:116
Date:5/10/2007
Time:7:08:40 PM
User:N/A
Computer:XXXXXXXXX
Description:
Subprocess monitoring failed due to subprocess is no longer active. The subprocess is probably dead. Restarting the process. Error detail: Overlapped I/O operation is in progress.
It will keep getting this error over and over again. However, if i stop all custom services and then start them, everything launches fine.
When this happens on reboot Terminal services also fails to start. It will not start, until I stop all the custom services. At which point it allows me to start TS without any errors.
Event Type:Error
Event Source:Service Control Manager
Event Category:None
Event ID:7023
Date:5/10/2007
Time:7:02:10 AM
User:N/A
Computer:XXXXXXX
Description:
The Terminal Services service terminated with the following error:
A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at [url]
What I am trying to accomplish is a way to automatically launch these EXE files, and have something that restarts them if they crash or fail. I haven't been able to find a specific reason this is happening or how to fix it. So I am open to any other suggestions on how to do this.
Is there any way to auto-delete all the messages in a specific mailbox on a specify domain on a daily basis? Using Postfix.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have question: How to redirect specific useragent on specific URLs to specific URLs in .htaccess [Question]
E.g.:
I want to redirect 301 with conditional:
Code:
useragent: Firefox
from my url1: domain[dot]com/old-url1/
from my url2: domain[dot]com/old-url2/
to
Code:
to new url1: in my url1: domain[dot]com/new-url1/
to new url2: in my url1: domain[dot]com/new-url2/
I create this in my .htaccess but not work
Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} googlebot [NC]
RewriteRule ^/?this-is-url/?$ domain[dot]com [L,R,NC]
i have a serious problems with my shoutcast accounts the last 2 months...i create in my ports 8002,8004,8006,8008,8010,8012 some shoutcast accounts via cast control...every 3-4 hours some of my accounts is crashing....i can't understand why....so every 3 hours i am going to cast control panel to start again the shoutcast server of the account which which crashed....i don 't know what to do any more...my hands up...
i found these script which i can use via cron job to check if each shoutcast server is up
#!/bin/bash
dte=`date +%d%b%Y`
cd /where/ever/you/run/stuff/
##-->> Check to see if sc_serv is running <<--##
ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep sc_serv >sc_serv_ok
if [ -s sc_serv_ok ]
then
##-->> Everything looks good, remove the file and exit <<--##
rm -f sc_serv_ok
exit 0
else
##-->> Log the error <<--##
echo "Possible abend of sc_serv" > sc_serv_prob_log.$dte
##-->> Email the log <<--##
mail -s "sc_trans" your-email@domain-name.com <sc_serv_prob_log.$dte
##-->> Restart sc_serv <<--##
cd /path/to/shoutcast/
./sc_serv
the problem is that i can't found the conf file for each account...where exactly CAST CONTROL creates it..i have the free version of cast sontrol 1.4...
I am currently running DA on my VPS and have about 15-20 accounts on it. We are upgrading to a dedicated running plesk while we need it, but I have not found a tool or an easy way to transfer DA accounts to plesk without problems. Because of this, I feel it would be easiest to transfer the accounts to a cPanel VPS, then to plesk. I know hosts are not supposed to PM here, but if you can offer me a cPanel VPS sometime within the next week for 24-48 hours for under $5-7, that would be great. This may seem like a little amount of money, but realistically it is a good amount in comparison to the pricing for a whole month of service.
It can be OpenVZ, virtuozzo, or Xen.
Is it normal ? What can I do?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI had a 12 hours outage in one of my VPS. According to the report of my provider, a maintenance task reported an error on the fsck Linux command.
Now I wonder if this error can occur on any RAID hard disk subsystem? Should I stay with this company?
I am wanting to get access to 'top -c' for a period of 48/72 hours.
Now I have found the following
Code:
top -c -b -d 15 > top.txt
What this does is every 15 seconds add reply 'top -c' to top.txt
Now I can make this into a shell script then put it into the background and exit SSH while leaving it running.
Now the question is will this use much usage/server load over the 48/72hrs, it will be checking 4 times every minute.
I attached new backup harddrive with system and enable increment backup so that it can generate server backup on backup harddrive which was new,
I notice it takes 20 hours upto now and still working becoz i seen some command like rsync running on top and using alot of resources of server but when i checked backup harddrive then it almost copy all data into it but what about this rsync which running on system from 3 hours and still going .?
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28045 root 35 19 42788 38m 168 S 63.8 1.0 42:59.51 rsync
28023 root 34 19 42680 39m 552 R 26.6 1.0 23:47.98 rsync
28024 root 34 19 42528 38m 312 S 19.9 1.0 10:25.91 rsync
944 nobody 15 0 167m 142m 10m S 5.0 3.5 0:09.26 httpd
1579 nobody 15 0 167m 143m 11m S 5.0 3.5 0:09.34 httpd
2471 nobody 15 0 167m 138m 7032 S 4.0 3.4 0:01.12 httpd
1528 nobody 16 0 167m 139m 7436 S 1.7 3.4 0:10.20 httpd
76 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 1.3 0.0 14:14.62 kswapd0
2194 nobody 15 0 167m 138m 7188 S 1.3 3.4 0:03.47 httpd
2386 nobody 15 0 167m 139m 7608 S 1.3 3.4 0:03.02 httpd
2452 nobody 15 0 167m 138m 7184 S 1.3 3.4 0:02.01 httpd
3054 mysql 16 0 747m 294m 2892 S 1.0 7.3 431:01.86 mysqld
18358 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 1.0 0.0 0:27.59 pdflush
665 nobody 15 0 167m 139m 7656 S 1.0 3.4 0:18.77 httpd
1917 nobody 15 0 167m 139m 7816 S 1.0 3.4 0:08.64 httpd
Recently a drive in one of my main box's has failed.
Ive contacted my provider, however there SLA states - 4 Hours for hardware replacement.
It takes 4 hours to replace a harddrive? What are they, sloths?
Anyone else had similar experiences when attempting to get drives replaced?
I'm not a direct client of Leaseweb, but it's not a secret that my domain is pointing at their servers.
I purchased a shared hosting plan from a reseller and since more than 43 hours my domain is down! My provider (the reseller) said he's waiting for Leaseweb support... according to my informations, in more than 24 hours they just made a reboot of the server!
I'm really bored of waiting with no chance of intervention! My provider says he can't do anything from his side, i can't contact Leaseweb cause i'm not a client... please, help, what can i do?
I need my site back online!
like to clarify this is not a post to bash liquidweb.
I have been a loyal customer of LW for the past 2 years (almost)
My websites have been down since Thursday 3:00 a.m due to "DDos Attack"
on Friday night, the network engineer told me the "DDos Attack" has stopped and problem should have been resolved. However, no websites were accessible.
On Saturday, I ensure you I have made many phone calls to Liquidweb dedicated server support and try to resolve this issue. (Never once did I raise my voice and they were being very polite.)
I believe the server admins that were helping was at the end of their shifts and every time I try to make a phone call to the person that was assisting me to get an update, liquidweb would tell me that he has gone home. Every time the server admin finishes his shift, the support ticket is not assigned to anyone else that is working until I make a phone call to them stating my problem.
I own quite a few large sites that generate over 3 millions hits per day and every hour of downtime means I will be losing valuable clients and revenue. That is why I am extremely frustrated with the 63 hours downtime as it seems like the results of working hard for the past 2 years is slipping away from me as the clock keeps ticking.
I am sorry, I am just trying to share this with fellow webmasters as I really need a place to express my feeling. (None of my friends will understand online business.)
Again, I am not bashing liquidweb...I must have really bad luck myself.
I'm extremely worry about my VPS as it hosts 3 important websites to me. I can't let it down like this.
I submitted ticket, email, tried to call the number on your website but it is just an automatic answer.
So please at least let me know what happening? Your website says support 24/7 so where are you in the last 6 hours?
To start please take this in mind I have servers colo'd at FDC and have 0 problems, so i'm still all for fdc servers.
Here is my 24 hours review on my new vps server from FDC setup was quick less than 5hours after paying my invoice.
Now down to my problems. Off peak hours last night my VPS server was great 10 / 20mbits solid speed on sending data from the box today I am unable to get over 150kb/sec.
This doesn't help me since the nature of my business I need to transfer files fast between servers. The VPS speeds of 150kb/sec will be no use for my business if anything make our job harder.
These tests were taken using the internal fdc network transferring from the new vps to one of my 1gig fdc colos and other various servers I have on the FDC network.
After contacting fdc support about this speed issue they logged in and checked the speeds they did a download of the speedtest file from the fdc website around 30 - 40mbits. But they didn't test the outgoing from the server.
I received the response that I am sharing bandwidth on the node so speeds could vary so on there 100mbit unmetered vds package they are saying 150kb/sec is acceptable.
So basically after that my last response is if 150kb/sec are the speeds i can expect from a VDS then please cancel my server at the end of the billing period as the VDS will be no use to me.
So now I have been transferred to billing to cancel the vps at the end of the billing period.
So to sum it up, vps setup was fast and the vps runs great but don't expect the speeds you can get from one of there dedicated servers.
Is Nick Laws here? Someone knows where to call him or managemybox.com?
I have 3 servers with them. One of them is down for almost 16 hours now, and it has been 4 hours without notice. Tech replied saying is a harddrive crash and they will replace it, I have lost a lot of dollars because all important clients on this server are running out.
Now, can someone help me contact Nick? I sent him a message a minutes ago, but his techs are nto replying and one of my clients is really in a bad mood saying he will take legal actions against me.
Anyone can say a word? This is really bad and I dont get even a reply, just a word last night saying a few hours.
This is the ticket:
Dear Felipe,
ssh down too, will have a tech reboot and clear firewall, will take about 15 minutes
Thank you for choosing ManageMyServices, we appreciate your business!
Administrator: managedservices
Ticket Department: Sysadmin
Ticket Category: ALL
Assigned Administrator: ALL
Importance: Urgent
Company Area: ManageMyBox-Dedicated
Ticket Status: closed
Reply By felweb - 26-06-2008 01:57
Any news from your end on this ticket, or at least on the other 2?
This is taking way too long and it is affecting this a lot ....
It's been a while I'm into web hosting and I know I have to wait up to 72 hours for DNS to propagate.
I've got that weird problem since I changed host, my DNS stays the same as before, even if I migrated since over a week.
I did the ipflush thing and it did not work. It seems like my computer WON'T update the DNS on this single domain.
I've got 2 computers at home and my other computer has updated, but my other won't update.
• Located in the USA
• Linux Ubuntu 7.1/8.04 VPS
• HyperVM Control Panel
• IP Address – 32 (must be u.s ips)
• 128Meg – 256Meg Dedicated RAM (minimum)
• 100 – 150Gig Bandwidth (minimum)
Im running MySQL 5.0.32 on a Debian Etch server. I recently moved a couple sites from a Debian Sarge (with MySQL 4.1) server over, and now MySQL has become very unstable.
Every few hours mysql just hangs on a query. All the following queries are queued and never get executed. The only way to get things running again is forcefully killing and restarting the mysql process. After that things work again...for a few hours.
The logs (error and query log) show nothing exceptional. When it hangs and I do a 'show processlist;' I noticed that everytime a SELECT....IN (a,b,c) query is holding up everything. Could the 'IN ()' be the reason for mysql not completing the query and holding up the rest?
Another option might be to temp. go back to MySQL 4.1...but that is going to be a real problem on Debian Etch
My messages log is full of such type of messages:
... smartd[2493]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
... smartd[2493]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
... smartd[2493]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
... smartd[2493]: Device: /dev/sda, 5 Offline uncorrectable sectors
I run: smartctl --all -d ata /dev/sda2
and got this table:
Code:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 118 093 006 Pre-fail Always - 195271338
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 094 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 48
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 084 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 259244139
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 9516
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 51
187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 13
189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 056 044 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 740163628
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 044 056 000 Old_age Always - 44 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/14)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 067 049 000 Old_age Always - 145805438
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 5
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
Machine freezes several times a day.
I have this machine with FDCservers. They kindly replaced power supply but I'm worrying that it's not caused by power supply but HDD.
take a look at table and let me know your opinion.. Is this HDD ok or will it fail soon ?
way to get a complete DNS Fail-Over solution for my website.
Currently I'm hosted at one Hosting Facility in NY, and I'm thinking on getting a backup location either in TX or CA but my biggest problem is visitors as even If I will get the secondary location and set the TTL to 10-20min some ISPs are caching the ip address for 24hrs, so even If I will change the IPs from the old range to the new, some ISP's around the world will still cache the old IP and the visitors will get nowhere in case the main location has an issue.
And I was wondering if there’s a way to send people to one direct IP let’s say 1.2.3.4 and from there to load the pages / db or mask there connection under the domain name to a different location without them noticing it so the SSL certificate wont produce error messages.
As I'm sure that Yahoo, CNN and other major websites don’t use one web server for accept connections all over the world to their websites.
My server getting huge number of anonymous user.
Even I had disabled anonymous login at the WHM.
When the max user reach it will make the ftp fail and restart.
It usually reach max user within a 5 to 10 minute.
How to block this?
anyway to auto reboot server every 6 hours?
will this effect on the server?
i'm running on CentOS 5 and whm
I thought I should share my feelings on FutureHosting even though we have only been on their server for 48 hours.
Background
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I started having my sites hosted back in 1990's and have had about a dozen hosts since then. (Started with Pair.net when they were like maybe 2 of the 3 hosts on the planet, LOL) 90% of the time, I have needed to find a host due to my former host being acquired or some other non-technical reason. So you could say that I tend to stick with a host for as long as possible. I have moved from shared hosting, to reseller hosting, to dedicated hosting, and now to VPS hosting. I started my VPS adventures with PowerVPS.
This was about 3 years ago if I recall. Like most here, I did a great deal of homework, read and lurked. PowerVPS was in my top 5 final list. I selected PowerVPS and was extremely happy to put the headaches of dedicated servers behind me. For two years the VPS was very stable. That changed about one year ago. I was told I was hitting resource max and asked to upgrade. Oddly, my sites' traffic was about 1/2 of what it was in the first two years. ie my VPS should have less resources needed. PowerVPS moved many of its legacy VPS users to new hardware. I don't recall they informed me, though they said they did. They did inform me that they would make a decision on the remaining legacy users in terms of billing promotions -- they never did. Downtime continued. I began to notice that their newer techs did not share the same ability of communication and skills as past/founding techs. Answers were curt and became more and more unhelpful. We have all seen this pattern before where a host starts out so well (2 or 3 guys/gals), and as it grows, they add remote staff that just don't have the same passion of the founders, or language skills. (Disclaimer: English isn't my native, so no excuse for lack of communications in business IMHO).
Thus, I began my search for a new VPS here. FutureHosting was in my top 5 along with KnownHost, SolarVPS, Jaguar. Actually, I rated them 3 or 4 in my final list. I tested all of these hosts' sales responses and went through the shopping process just before clicking 'sign-me up'. (I work in Ecommerce so I like to see that process). SolarVPS answered my questions the best. KnownHost a close second. I am sure there are a few other good VPS companies like ServInt, Lunar and HostNexus, but their prices just don't reflect the marketplace IMHO.
Due to my needs and budget though, I selected FutureHosting as they seem to offer the best balance -- competitiveness and support.
FutureHosting - 48 hours
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As my data was on PowerVPS with Plesk, selecting another provider with Plesk was important. Actually, I have always been a Plesk fan having used all the CPs (I just wish they would stop trying to offer 1,000 products and spin off a CP-only company like they were.)
FutureHosting (FH) started the migration on Saturday night. Sunday morning I notice that all sites hadn't been moved. I checked my inbox and read the many emails awaiting me. It seemed Plesk was having a hard time using its server migration tool (typical of Plesk that they introduce a feature that doesn't work 100% of the time.) FH informed me they would migrate my VPS (domains, etc) manually.
While this was going on, another tech worked on some requests I had related to SSH, root access, etc.
What I found in the last 48 hours was what I had hoped for... Techs that received my tickets, and replies that stated WHAT they were doing. I felt informed during the entire process. In some cases, CLEAR explanations were given. In some cases, SIMPLE answers were given -- where I couldn't grasp the why. The level of service was what I experienced in my first year with PowerVPS. And now, a really important point -- EVERY tech that worked on my tickets displayed the same level of competence. All too often, I have felt in the past that the level and ability of techs ranged so much. This became more apparent as of late on PowerVPS (are they contracting out support? No idea.) It was a real pleasure to deal with each tech. I think I counted 5 different names! What I REALLY appreciate was that it was obvious that each tech taking over a ticket READ the entire ticket thread. Too often when a tech takes over due to moving it a tier or shift change, I felt like I needed to explain everything from the start. Gah!! I don't have time or patience for that.
Hardware wise, I moved from (PowerVPS) AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 to Intel(R) Xeon(R)CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (Future Hosting). In the case of PowerVPS, my VPS was on an old legacy machine that a few of us unlucky ones were still on (We were asked to bump up $$ to go to the new machines, I refused.) I don't know which server is better, but thus far my sites feel much more snappy. I also notice that my former VPS used burst RAM approach vs. SLM. (See my other post http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=896249). I should also state that perhaps PowerVPS uses this in their new machines. No idea.
Overall, I am paying the same amount for my new VPS, the sites are loading much faster and most importantly, the service has been top rate. I was a little worried at first because I heard such great reviews of Knownhost and SolarVPS (I am sure they are warranted), but based on the past 48-hours, I must say my selection was right for me in many ways. I'm crossing my fingers that this level of service will continue 3, 5 or more years down the road. If they do, I won't hesitate to recommend FutureHosting to the MANY developers I come into contact with. (I have sent a great deal of leads/business to every host I have been at.) I will need to revisit this thread on my anniversary to see if things continue in such a great manner.
Leaseweb supporters
My dedi server have been down over 30 hours, I have create a ticket 30 hours back and also sent many messages to you via skype since 10 hours back, No supporter get back to me. Over 30 hours, NO one. I knew there some ones in this forum is Leaseweb staff and they visited this forum a short time back,
I want to setup a crontab to delete a file every 24 hours, I am not the best in crontab so was wondering if one of you could please give me the command I should use?
View 7 Replies View RelatedSomebody posted a video in my website which got viral. Many big websites (like gizmodo) embeded it and I've maxed out my 100mbit/s connection. Traffic is increasing and my website started crashing.
I want to move that video to other server ASAP so my website would stop crashing.
Do you know any host which would set up server or VPS fast (up to 1-2 hours)?
I found VPS at Virtuozzo logs that system turns locked and mounted and I believe the system becomes unresponsive at same time.
Here is the sequence of the status that can be found at VPS/status changes
RUNNING--->MOUNTED--->(LOCKED)-->(LOCKED, MOUNTED)-->
(LOCKED, RUNNING)-->(LOCKED)-RUNNING
Code:
VPS STATUS LOGS:
Aug 17, 2007 01:06:16 PM VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked) VPS is up and running now.running
Aug 17, 2007 01:06:10 PM VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked,mounted) VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked,running)
Aug 17, 2007 01:06:04 PM VPS is mounted now. It is not running and some operations are not available.mounted VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked)
Aug 17, 2007 01:05:49 PM VPS is up and running now.running VPS is mounted now. It is not running and some operations are not available.mounted
Aug 17, 2007 12:46:10 PM VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked) VPS is up and running now.running
Aug 17, 2007 12:46:04 PM VPS is mounted now. It is not running and some operations are not available.mounted VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked)
Aug 17, 2007 12:45:16 PM VPS is up and running now.running VPS is mounted now. It is not running and some operations are not available.mounted
Aug 17, 2007 09:37:13 AM VPS is starting up at the moment. It may take some time.(starting) VPS is up and running now.running
Aug 17, 2007 09:37:10 AM VPS is stopping now. It may take some time.(stopping) VPS is starting up at the moment. It may take some time.(starting)
Aug 17, 2007 09:36:52 AM VPS is up and running now.running VPS is stopping now. It may take some time.(stopping)
Aug 17, 2007 08:51:46 AM VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked) VPS is up and running now.running
Aug 17, 2007 08:51:25 AM VPS is up and running now.running VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked)
Aug 16, 2007 03:00:18 PM VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked) VPS is up and running now.running
Aug 16, 2007 03:00:03 PM VPS is mounted now. It is not running and some operations are not available.mounted VPS is locked at the moment. It may take some time.(locked)
Aug 16, 2007 02:59:39 PM VPS is up and running now.running VPS is mounted now. It is not running and some operations are not available.mounted
Also I'm receiving emails with ftpd, exim, cpsrvd failed
when that happens:
Code:
ftpd failed @ Fri Aug 17 09:37:26 2007. A restart was attempted
automagically.