How many of you guys out there are running PE860 servers either for real popular sites or just as a general hosting server?
Im running 4. 3 are hosting servers for hosting clients and the other is hosting a popular site.
lately I have though about getting a game server.. but the question I found myself stuck with is:
Should I get my own dedicated server or get rentals off of other people.
I'm planning host multiple game servers on a single machine. I'm going to configure my own machine for this purpose. I'm uncertain on how powerful should I build my machine.
I'm going to host resource demanding games like Battlefield 2 and Armed Assault. Both of the mentioned games has a dedicated server application that requires roughly 2ghz of CPU power and 1GB to 2GB of RAM (depending on connected users) to run on.
Base on the above requirements, I'm going to put together a machine with 2 dual core Opteron or Xeon running at 2ghz and 8GB of RAM. The machine is going run 4 virtual servers with the game server application running on them. My configuration uses basic division to calculated the required CPU and RAM on my custom configured machine. Is this a practical approach?
Has anyone tried anything similar with xen? I'm worry about any performance impact that might happen due to overhead or shared cpu & ram cycle latency as game server demands real time performance.
I'm though about doing this because it's cheaper to rent a 1U rack space running 4 game servers than renting 4Us for the same purpose. Care to share experience or thoughts on this subject?
im looking to add failover protection at my main server, in order that if it goes offline, all the traffic can be in a automatic way redirect to a failover / backup server.
For the failover server i was looking to buy a low-cost dedicated server located in other datacenter and have my dns be run at this failover server, but now i have been looking at Cloud Hosting, like Amazon or Mosso CloudServers and as it seems a very stable network, im thinking if it will be best to have setup/running my DNS at a Cloud Host...
So what do you think it would be best:
Option A:
1 main server
1 failover dedicated server
1 cloud (amazon/mosso) virtual server to run DNS
or
Option B:
1 main server
1 failover dedicated server (running the DNS)
Over ethernet, maybe using iSCSI? Couldn't one machine have all the other machines mounted on it as another device via iSCSI and then add them to its local zpool? Is there a better way of doing this, where one machine isn't such a bottle neck, assuming that this can be done at all? I hope this makes sense..
View 0 Replies View RelatedIs there any one running Java web hosting with tomcat or any other server?
I would like to know what control panel you are using and few other server management related things.
I have experience of tomcat and jboss servers. However I don't have enough knowledge of running a hosting service with it.
I'm currently hosting with softlayer and running the following:
4 super fast http servers on a load balancer with 1000 connections (costs a fair amount) - apache 2.0
1 fast mysql server (the server is starting to struggle but i'm concerned about expanding this because clustering mysql is very complicated in my situation) - mysql 5.0
I was looking at amazon s3 and it said it would only cost me $2,500 for my needs which is not only considerably cheaper but i think theirs would be even faster than softlayers with their network and the fact that there wouldn't be hundreds of mysql connections per second as there is now.
Money is not really an issue, I'm more concerned about flexibility and in case i get a ddos attack that i can handle it since softlayer doesn't provide ddos protection (cisco guard) on load balanced IPs and all IP requests to the server show as the load balancer IP.
going to be starting a file hosting site, i know that the main problem on these sort of sites for the owners is Bandwith and HD space. Just want to know some perhaps some advice on how to run this kind of business as far as the hosting part of it goes.
Do i just keep purchasing servers lets say at midphase for example they offer 10TB 250 Gigs of hdspace at 200 a month, so if i go over do i just keep purchasing servers and then load balance the site across all the servers i get? is that the basics ?
When sites start to consume massive amounts of bandwidth is their cheaper alternatives then just going with the normal BW that hosts offer, like working out deals with certain companies that specialize in giving BW deals, would CDN networks be an option?
As cPanel is an integral part of server hosting and has the ability of compiling Apache 1.3.x with PHP4 (cgi) and PHP5 (dso) on your server OS.
Does anyone know or have baselines/benchmarks for which performs better generally for hosting: 32bit or 64bit RedHat 5 when cPanel 11 has compiled for the Apache and php mentioned above on either of these OS editions? (assume latest versions of apache/php4/5)
I was wondering if 32bit performed better or 64bit on a quad core Xeon. Don't forget PHP is compiled for prefork and not multi-threading for Apache 1.3.41 (which are considered legacy 32bit forked apps compiled against 64bit OS).
Or rephrased, could i be hampering performance by running it on a 64bit OS on a Xeon (X3210) or improving performance? I'd assume 64bit would offer better all round processing power, or is this a misconception.
I recently decided to get a server on RedHat Enterprise 5 X86_64 (64bit), when i wondered if 32bit version would have provided better performance and been the better options for compatibility.
I'm trying to run a simple bash script when a new account is created, because I need to move some files automatically. So what I did:
I have created a simple bash script for testing if Plesk run it, called move_some_files.sh under /var/www
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo "${NEW_SYSTEM_USER} ${NEW_DOMAIN_NAME}" >> move_some_files.log
I created this file as root and did chmod +x.
I created a new 'Hosting settings created' event running as root and with the highest priority with this command: /var/www/move_some_files.sh
I created a new customer with to test it
But, is not running the script! If I try some command directly on the event like 'touch /var/www/new_file' it's created, so the event is running, but not my script.
I use shared web hosting service to get my website online. I'm wondering how many people use dedicated servers or virtual private servers instead and pay from $20 to several hundreds of dollars? Will I face any big problem with shared web hosting package which makes me choose dedicated servers?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI would like to host 1 domain with 2 servers. How would i get both servers to have the same info on them. I have 2 servers and I only have the intended need to host 1 website. How would I do that?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI run a website that gets a huge spike in traffic approx. once a month for 24 hrs.
Can you mirror one site on two separate servers and add load balance via the DNS records on godaddy.
exmp.
ns1.siteone.com
ns2.siteone.com
ns1.sitetwo.com
ns2.sitetwo.com
Is this possible? If one server goes down will I loose 50% of visitors or will it all forward to the up server.
How many people are on future hosting servers and can anyone comment on the performance
Last time I had one my loads where very high, access to plesk and ssh was very slow
They have a new offer on, 35% off double ram etc.. seems to good to be true
For a small business where there is no colocation facility within any reasonable distance, who needs to host an application on ~5-10 servers in total, would such businesses simply be out of luck - or could they self-host their servers?
What are the reasonable alternatives to colocation? Getting a colocation facility in a different city wouldn't be an option. Neither would going with dedicated/managed hosting (because the business has its own servers and the in-house resources to administer them).
What is the viability of creating your own mini "data center" - by this I don't mean anything like a real data center, but just someplace where you could host 5-10 servers?
Perhaps you could give some advice as to the kinds of things one would have to keep in mind before attempting such a thing. (e.g. physical security, bandwidth, power, etc). The reason I ask is because surely you couldn't just rent a little office space and set up the servers there, right? (Or could you...?)
Do you know anyone who has hosted their own servers, numbering around 10 of them? (How did it turn out?)
Sometimes you have a "shopping" experience which really sets itself apart from the rest... I think this is how "tips" were invented... anyways, I wanted to share my story because I am very pleased with this hosting company.
I am a web designer/developer/marketer. I have worked for big corporations who had in house hosting, to small start-ups using shared hosting. When I was looking for a VPS solution, I bumped into (online) Larry from XSI Hosting. I needed to finalize a host within 2 days to get a large client site live.
Larry spent over 2 hours answering my questions and giving me advice and recommendations. I had been to at least 30 other hosting companies who offer VPS and none of them were willing to spend the time to answer my questions accurately, honestly and correctly.
When I ran into a few "self inflicted" issue, the XSI support team is absolutely phenomenal. Not only have they been available 24/7 (believe me, I have contacted them many times at various times), they respond promptly, professionally, and work VERY quickly to resolve the issue. They even proactively monitor the account and resolve any concerns they have which may lead to an issue.
This is a VERY professional hosting company who provides quality service, quality support, and VERY competitive pricing.
All my new clients are going with XSI now.
Well haven't managed hosting on vps machines yes so I am wondering that how much this type of machine suit for running a hosting business ? Very honestly I think that people use vps for temporary bases and later they move to individual servers. I will appreciate your opinion.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI'm experiencing some issues that I thought were something normal, or something that you could expect when working like this, but I think that it is something that should NOT happen.
We own a dedicated server, where we host some sites we develop (around 80 right now). We usually host both email and web page in the same server, but recently we had two customers who wanted to host email in a different place. The first one has its own server with proxy, and the second one is waiting the previous company to change DNS values.
The problem shows when we try to send an email from ANY domain hosted in our server, to one of these domains. From Outlook, the error is something like "no such user found", but the REAL problem comes when a PHP script (usually a contact form) tries to send the email. This mails get simply lost, and the customer never receives them.
My question is: What do I configure, or how do I do so my webserver looks for the real DNS, instead of trying to send the mail directly to the local domain?
I searched for some shared hosting providers which host on RackSpace Servers... i have found MOSSO but i am still looking for others alternatives.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSorry to be always posting these "Anyone use such and such on shared hosting servers?" But it's pretty much the best thing I can think of instead of experimenting and going through all problems myself first. I guess all of us likes to see someone else try something out first and give feedback on it before attempting to implement himself.
I want to try this GreenSql as a way to help prevent user's web apps from being hacked using sql injection. Ive tried suhosin sql protections in the past but they simply don't work, but there is no kind of docs or even simple explanation anywhere about it on hardened-php site so that's probably why.
If anyone here uses this, has used it and knows anything about using this on a shared server please share your experiences. I am going to implement it on a test server no matter what but would be nice to know that this isnt one of those things with insane default rulesets.
It looks real cool and I will be giving it a try myself probably tonight and tomorrow. If anyone is interested I will post my findings.
As the rest of you hosts know we cannot guarantee 100% security or any kind of hack proofness. But in my time I have found out taking some steps to help preventing weak and outdated php apps can help in preventing disgruntled wep-app-hacked clients from making a crusade on the web saying you servers are insecure, crappy and all that. Isn't a sure fire way but I think it helps.
For what you used to use Dedicated Servers?
For your hosting purpose or for reselling them to your hosting clients?
some quality offshore dedicated server providers. I have heard of Leaseweb and Piradius. Leaseweb seemed not to be a good choice as if I recall properly I read that previous hosting clients were dissatisfied with the lack of support. Is this true - what do you Leaseweb clients have to say? I could not find the Piradius servers so I gave up looking for them. Does anyone know where I can find their "actual" website?
Also, it would be helpful if someone can tell me how to find out who hosts a website by checking some data. For example, here is a Piradius client. Piradius might be a datacenter for all I know, so how I do find out who the hosting company is?
Can anyone recommend shared hosting company where servers are located at Brazil ?
If should be reliable, economical and Ii would be good if I can host multiple domains.
Also if the hosting company has its site in English or their staff can communicate in English?
how to host one domain accross two different servers that gives resliance and load balancing?
I know I could setup my domain on two servers and have two of the following records:
www.domain.com x.y.z.a (IP add 1)
www.domain.com y.y.z.a (IP add 2)
But the problem is users also access emails by www.domain.com/webmail.
Now the MX record is pointing to one sever as we want to gather all the emails at one point. So how do I get the users to go to one particular server for the email? I was thinking to alter the email url to something like
www.mail.domain.com/webmail which only goes to one server.
I am developing a website for a client, whose web host is BT Business Broadband. I had noticed that the FTP connection to their server was a but slow, and the http connection was not as fast as my reseller account here. I also noticed something else funny....
I have simple PHP script that greets users according to the time of day. It was saying Good Morning, when it is the afternoon. To test, I uploaded another script to output the current time of the server. It was 5 hours out!
I contacted BT to ask them why the time was wrong, and they said that it's because the server is not located in the UK, the company that manages the server is located in Canada!
Frankly I am dissapointed with BT and feel slightly ripped off on behalf of the client.
They pay them enough money to expect a fast service, and to have the server located in the same country, let alone the same continent! This also will affect their search engine results, as it is hosted on a foreign IP address.
Has anyone else heard about this about BT before?
I am about to create a domain for my shoutcast hosting service.
Now, I am getting a dedicated server just to host the shoutcasts accounts,
and keep on using my actual web hosting company for
the new domain website and email support.
Also I would like the shoutcast clients IP account to be:
server1.mydomain.com
So I need to create this subdomain in my shoutcast dedicated server?
And what Name Servers should I use for my domain?
I wonder, cos to be able to make the website and email I need
to give the DNS of my web hosting company, but if I dont use the
DNS of the Shoutcast Dedicated Server, would my clients be able
to login to their account?
Let's say I want to host DOMAIN.COM on one server, and FORUMS.DOMAIN.COM on another server.
View 3 Replies View Relatedone of my new customer demand "Email Hosting on Multiple Servers"
I don't understand what they want, i have two VPS with CPanel.
I require Windows 2003 web hosting on Canadian datacenter (Canadaian IP address) for some websites of one customer.
My exact requirement are
Windows 2003 server
2 domains to host
Total 20 Mb disk web space
20 mb Mysql database space (2 x 10 MB)
PHP, ASP (classic), ASP.net support
20 MB mail space (2 x 10 MB) (optional, can put the pricing in optional)
4 email address
AWSTATS
Control panel
Bandwidth requires will be less than 1 GB (total) per month.
We currently are not planning to use email feature, just will be hosting 10 to 15 pages on 2 websites. but do provide us the pricing for the same
Please give your best pricing for hosting on Canada Datacenter only.
We will be paying with paypal or credit card.
A nehalem with 12 GBs of RAM. It would have 10 TBs of bandwidth. Just wondering how much stress does it use on the CPU/RAM? How many accounts should I put on it? Lets say each account is 1 GB of space and 10 GBs of bandwidth.
View 0 Replies View RelatedCan we host a domain spanned over different servers?
Eg: domain.com
domain.com/blog hosted on host1 (dns.host1.com)
domain.com/forum hosted on host2 (dns.host2.com)
domain.com/wiki hosted on host3 (dns.host3.com)
Can this be done? How to implement this?
What are the features or facilities required to host like this.
Many of the free or cheap hosting companies and servers get closed very soon. They are not so reliable.
So if we can host the Blogs and Forums on a different servers and other content on low cost servers,