Servers With Solid State Drive (ssd)
Dec 26, 2007Did anyone see that anywhere?
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Solid State Drives
Jun 15, 2008I'm sure by now we have all noticed the Liquid Web ads for solid state drives by now. These offerings would make for incredible database servers, among other things.My questions is:
How many of you are going to run out and get a solution like this, from liquidweb or anyone else? Why or why not?
Solid Internet Servers Down
Oct 15, 2009I have been a client of SolidInternet for exactly 7 years back since they were Myacen. I was able to deal with the fact that their customer service was less than desirable.
It was a little better as Myacen but SolidInternet seemed to adopt the philosophy that customer service was less needed.
I was never able to access their forums because it would not allow me to register. For months ever since they changed their site I have not been able to access my account page. So they started to automatic bill me. I did not make a big deal of it because for the most part my site was staying up.
NOW, there is a BIG problem. My site has been down since early Monday evening. TWO of their servers (server 4 and server 8) were down in red on their server status page when I checked up until Tuesday night. Since then, they have removed their support page (and server status page) and replaced it with a page that says "Back Soon." They have also removed their live chat which didn't work once you entered it anyway.
I have emailed them twice at sales@tw.com.au and msn@solidinternet.com since Tuesday night to request SOME kind of update as to what is going on. NO response.
Is anyone else aware of this problem? I am very close to switching hosts. 7 years ago I signed up with Hostpacket and they had only a few people running it until eventually the owner abandoned ship. I chose Myacen because they seemed to have a good track record at the time and good package. Now I get the feeling their level of support has been short staffed as well and it seems like now they just don't care.
Does anyone know anything about what is going on with SolidInternet or experiencing the same problem? Is there anyone from SolidInternet on this board able to give an update as to why two of their servers have been down almost 72 hours?
As far as new hosts I am looking into the following: hostgator, 1and1, ixwebhosting, dreamhost, hostmonster, godaddy. I'd love to go with pair.com but they don't offer enough and are expensive (except for the fact that they do provide great customer service and uptime from what I hear). I want someone with a long track record and good customer support if needed.
Building New Servers - Drive Setup
Oct 4, 2009We're building a bunch of new servers (as I mentioned in another thread). What do you guys think is the best drive layout? Traditionally we just have the entire 4-6 drives in a RAID 5, but now I'm wondering if it makes sense to have a separate OS drive, and then the rest in a raid 5?
On a side note, we need a giant ~2TB-3TB partition on these boxes, that's why we go with the multi-drive raid setup. Thoughts? I know it was customary to have a separate OS drive back in the day (I remember having WD raptor's for that), but now when the WD Black-edition (which we'll be using for the raid setup) are as fast as the raptor's, is it even worth it?
Is It Possible To Access A Servers Hard Drive....
Feb 4, 2008is it possible for me to access my servers hard drive in the same way I would with any other drive on my computer? Kind of like with ssh but in a file directory instead of a command line.
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Sep 14, 2009My site/e-mail/etc that is hosted by Solid Internet has been down for almost 2 weeks. This is causing me some major problems.
Their support forum doesn't work, their phones go straight to voicemail, their voicemail inbox is full, they don't respond to e-mails or support tickets. I'm not sure what else I can do to find out what the problem is?
I've only just renewed for a further year too so I'm not overly keen on flushing all that money down the toilet.
I don't think I have any site back ups, certainly no recent ones so I don't want to lose everything which I assume I'll need to do to move to a new host?
Rock-Solid VPS Provider
Aug 27, 2007As a newly established Australian based web hosting company, we are looking to add a US based VPS, in order to offer US hosting options to our clients.
Put simply, price is no obstacle, while money is short (as it always is in a new business venture), if the service stacks up, then I can write a business case for it, no matter the cost. I've seen figures of $US60 floating around as a "decent" price for a VPS in the US, however, we are prepared to spend a lot more than that to get something rock solid.
Basically, we are looking for something with a decent amount of disk space and bandwidth, and need a host with lightning fast response times (and knowledgable staff). We also would like to get a provider that keeps the machine patched for us, although we wouldn't care if we had to pay more for this service.
As I said, price isn't an obstacle, so show me the best providers for performance and customer support in the US industry.
Solid, Dependable Colo In Northeast
Apr 24, 2008We're having trouble locating a decent provider for colo'ing a single box in the upper northeast. Only providers capable of the following need reply:
Location: Northeast; New York, New Jersey, Allentown, Baltimore, etc. (not San Diego, not Ogden, not Orlando...)
Space Needed: 2U-4U or 1/8th rack for one 2U server
Bandwidth: <1mbps (avg 56kpbs-384kbps/20-100Gb of transfer)
Providers: Dual path, with at least ONE TIER ONE in the pair.
Connections: 3 Ethernet: 2 for failover team, 1 for remote admin. (ILO)
IPs: 32 (29 usable), or more (can provide justification).
Backup generators, Liebert cooling, etc.
If you have a single Tier 2 or 3 provider... or if have a rack in your garage... or if you have an old D-Link switch in an open rack... or if you want $200-300 per month for a single 2U server to consume little more resources than the rack space... forget it.
If your company can meet those simple requirements and are willing to provide a detailed SLA committing to those requirements at a reasonable rate, please PM me. Sorry to sound snide but we're frustrated by "we're the best" only to find out that they have crappy connections and/or want $10 per amp for a power cord and/or $1 per IP address and/or and/or...
Dedicated Provider With Solid FreeBSD Support
May 27, 2008Can you reccomend - based on your experience - some dedicated hosting provider with a solid freebsd experience ? By "solid" I mean they will be able to provide a decent freebsd installation (especially if a control panel is requested) on tested hardware, rather than setup their standard server, put on it a freebsd7 iso, do a very poor setup then discover something like the raid card does not work as expekted, scratch their head, embarass themselves proposing centos as an alternative, and similar ridiculous behaviour ...
[I am in the market for a middle range core duo with 4gigs ram. Budget around 180$, 210$ including DirectAdmin. 2000GB bw on a 100mbit port. NY, DC, VA datacenters highly favourite, but also a well-networked chicago one would do, I guess].
Data Lost , But Still Have Old Home Drive , How To Copy To New Drive
Jan 26, 20071- i did Os Reload with new Hard drive for "home"
2- data "backups" drive lost
3- replaced the old home drive as "/old drive"
4- " /old drive " is now the secondry drive in my server and it has the all sites usres and evry thing
5- what i need , to trasfer, copy this sites from " /old drive " to "home"
but data center said
The /olddrive/home directory contains the contents that were previously in the /home directory. You can copy files from this directory to any other directory on your server.
The command to copy files in the UNIX environment is the "cp" command.
The user directories in /olddrive/home directory contain the web page files for the users. However, simply copying the contents over will not recreate the users or domain entries in DNS/httpd. If you wish these back you will need to recreate them manually or restore them from backups.
Drive Corrupt, Recovery From 2nd Drive Mount
Feb 16, 2007Primary drive (centos/cpanel) is corrupt
The server is displaying these errors when I tried to do an FSCK:
Bad inode IO
ext3-fs error (device(8,3)) IO Failure
I am having a new primary installed and old primary set as 2nd drive. I need to recover the cpanel domain accounts from this 2nd drive after I mount it with the method below:
mkdir /backup
mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
However, how do I actually recover these accounts in an automated process via whm? I've done this before with the same matter (corrupt primary drive, mount as 2nd, etc) but cannot exactly remember the proper steps.
How To Copy My Current Drive Contents To A New Drive
Dec 28, 2007I just purchased a brand new 10K 150GB drive. How can I take an exact copy of my current drive and transfer everything over to the new drive? I think I need to create a snapshop, or mirror it somehow.
What software will do this? I was told trueimage, but its very pricy, is there anything else?
VPS Getting Mounted State Then Locked Each 3 Hours
Aug 17, 2007I 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.
State Sbwait Lockf Select
Jan 8, 2007explain me state table parameters when you run TOP ?
sbwait lockf select
I could find info about them in MAN
Power Price In Washington State
Dec 22, 2007Is there any where I can find out that?
We're setting up a new facility there and some quoted me $10/amps, some quoted me up to $15/amps.
MySQL Process List - State = Locked
Aug 18, 2008When i login to the root for the server and go to mysql process list i see a lot of processes that are connected to photo handling and the sate is Locked with over 500 seconds of each one.
I see there is one process that the state says: Copying to tmp table
I read online that if this is taking long it might lock up other queries causing your server to perform slow and only solution is to restart mysql servers.
Right now i have over 100 queries that say Locked and one that says Copying to tmp table....each time i have to restart the mysql services but this happens every 10 minutes as i have enough traffic to cause this problem.
Apache :: Threads Stuck In Logging State
Aug 2, 2013I have Apache 2.4.6 x64 installation. With the lapse of time, more and more threads appear that are stuck in "L" state.
They are all gone after httpd restart, leaving 408 errors in access logs. What can be the reason?
Can mod_log_rotate be involved? Currently it's set to rotate every 2 days.
Drive Corrupt - Should I Ask For New Drive Or Reimage
Jul 9, 2007I have a dedicated box and I started getting Input/output errors today.
I tried:
# fsck
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/hda2: recovering journal
fsck.ext3: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/hda2
then I tried:
# fsck -a -t ext3 /dev/hda2
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/hda2: recovering journal
fsck.ext3: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/hda2
My data is backed up, so was going to ask for a reimage, but is this an indication of bad hardware? Should I ask for a replacement drive? Is there anything else I should try on my own before going to the host?
Dedicated Server Hardware To Real State Portal
Mar 15, 2008i want to star a real state portal, but i have some questions on what kind of server i will need.
So my real state portal will have:
PHP/Sql Databases (for all the information)
Up to 20000 images (50kb each)
Up to 500 Videos (encoded in flv. 400kbps at full screen)
Visitors / moth: 100000
Assuming that every user that enter the site, views many houses, and videos and photos.
What kind of server or servers will i need to keep this website running?
Connection State ESTABLISHED,RELATED Is Not Working In My Iptables
Nov 13, 2008connection state ESTABLISHED,RELATED is not working in my iptaables...?
Accept If input interface is lo
Accept If state of connection is ESTABLISHED,RELATED
Drop If protocol is ICMP
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 80
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 99
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 25
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 110
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 10000
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 21
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 30000:30500
Accept If protocol is UDP and destination port is 53
Accept If protocol is UDP and source port is 53
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 445
Accept If protocol is TCP and destination port is 2390
this in my Incoming packets rules..
Outgoing packets are all accepted..
so if i made connection from the server the input rules shuld accept them because it is established and related connection.. But it wont work.. any ideas about it..?
my vps is running on cent os 5.2 final..
and the control panel is webmin.
Unexpected Character In Input: (ASCII=26) State=1 In /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/ph
Apr 3, 2008i add the php5 and set php4 as cgi from whm,
after finisging,
it takes errors
Warning: Unexpected character in input: (ASCII=26) state=1 in /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php4 on line 864
Warning: Unexpected character in input: (ASCII=8) state=1 in /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php4 on line 864
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php4 on line 864
Bad Page State In Process Apache2 (Server Reboots Frequently)
May 16, 2007Code:
Kernel Version2.6.18-4-686 (SMP)
Distro Name Debian 4.0
Model Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
I've installed the default apache 2, mysql, php using aptitude.
The server load is not at all high, around 1-1.5 max. The apache processes running are at an avg 60-80. It has 1GB ram and Disk Swap usage is 0kB
My server keeps rebooting every now and then. These are the messages I get in the ssh session just before the reboot..
Code:
Message from syslogd@xxx at xxx
kernel: Bad page state in process 'apache2'
kernel: page:c17bc0a0 flags:0xc0000000 mapping:00800040 mapcount:0 count:0
kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
kernel: Backtrace:
Plesk 12.x / Linux :: Creating New Domain Inside Subscriptions - Target Directory Is In Invalid State
Apr 15, 2015I have following Warning when creating a new Domain inside a Subscriptions:
I found this Article: [URL] .....
But in my case this does not solve the Problem.
1> All permissions are right.
2> When I type command '/usr/local/psa/bin/repair --restore-vhosts-permissions' i get the answer 'Directory permissions were successfully updated.'
3> The Order of Webuser and FTPUser (as described in the article) could also not be the problem, because in my case there is only one user (There is only Webuser and no FTP-User.)
4> When typing '/usr/local/psa/bin/repair --update-vhosts-structure' I get the following error 6 times each:
Code:
[2015-04-15 21:03:30] ERR [util_exec] proc_close() failed
Error: update-vhosts-structure failed: mkdir: cannot create directory `./webroot.kk-bits.com/logs': File exists
ERROR: Cannot relink logs. Target directory '/var/www/vhosts/webroot.kk-bits.com/logs' is in invalid state.
Unable to update the structure of the home directory: an unexpected error has occurred.
update-vhosts-structure failed: mkdir: cannot create directory `./webroot.kk-bits.com/logs': File exists
ERROR: Cannot relink logs. Target directory '/var/www/vhosts/webroot.kk-bits.com/logs' is in invalid state.
To get the error 6 times seems to mean, that i have this problem with 6 Domain.
Mirror Drive A > Drive B
Feb 6, 2007I have a Win2K3 server which has 2 hard drives. I was considering backup options and I thought that I might try mirroring Drive A ==> Drive B. I would think that, then, if Drive A has a hardware failure, I could simply switch Drive B into the Primary slot (A) and the server would continue to hum along as nothing has happened. This would reduce the downtime, hopefully.
I have 3 questions.
1. Is this idea practical (will it work)?
2. What is a good software program to use fto handle the mirroring?
3. Any considerations, warnings, technical advice in regard to this method?
Hardware: Db Servers, Web Servers, File Servers. Cpu, Ram, Disk
Jan 20, 2007I have a lot of questions here so if you can't answer them all I understand. even pointing me somewhere where I could get the answers would be appreciated; hardware sites focusing on server hardware, forums focusing on such, etc.
we plan to have three different types of servers:
- db server (self explanatory. mysql. for forums, mysql driven sites.)
- file server (lots of files around ~2-10MB, consistant 70mbps right now, but we want more room for upgrades. needs a LOT of storage room.)
- web server (lots of php files, but also static things like plain html, images, etc. also includes all misc services for the setup-- dns, etc.)
could I be given a rundown for which hardware each of the three should have? I don't need specifics, even just knowing that more ram is important here while cpu doesn't matter as much, or that the fastest disks available are a must, etc would all be valuable info for me. despite that, I certainly wouldn't mind specific hypothetical hardware configs.
for the database server I'm assuming the more ram the better. not entirely sure about the cpu? also not positive on disks...
for the fileserver, how much ram would be practical or useful? disk io will be an issue I'm because plenty of people will be pulling files at once so the disk needs to read from multiple places. scsi (and even raptors) are not an option as we need 750GB+ of space on a reasonable budget. more ram will take some load of of the disks, but how much is neccessary / reasonable?
for the web server I'm assuming cpu first, then ram, but it'll likely need less ram than the db server?
I'm more lost on the disks than anything. scsi on the fileserver is not an option under any circumstances due to $/GB. for the db & web server I'm willing to pay for scsi if the performance increase really does warrant the extra money, but I'd like to be convinced before shelling it out. if you have benchmarks geared at server hardware when it comes to disks I'd really appreciate it.
also, what's the best way to network these together when colocated? each one with a dual gigabit ethernet port and then the communications go to and from the router?
Send Mail To Another Servers But We Cant Recieve Mails Another Servers
May 24, 2008We send mail to another servers but we cant recieve mails another servers. We can't recieve with webmail and outlook.
I look logs but there is no error and our ip is not in blacklist.
there is the error in our server
[url]
linux cpanel centos 4.6
Load Balancing 2 Web Servers And 2 MySQL Servers
Mar 28, 2008I was wondering if it is possible to cluster 2 web servers and 2 mysql servers with only one server working as load balancer.
I am planning to use LVS (ldirectord and heartbeat).
Let's say I have 3 IPs allocated to the load balancing server.
111.222.111.222 (Main IP)
111.222.111.223 (Web Load Balancing IP)
111.222.111.224 (MySQL Load Balancing IP)
If a connection is made to .223 it would pass the request to one of the web nodes.
If a connection is made to .224 it would pass the request to one of the MySQL nodes.
Is it possible to do this?
If not, can I run, for example, nginx on 223 IP address to provide forward proxy? (Then it would not be able to HA but the main point is to load balance so)
Also, what would be the best way to keep the data same on both web servers? This is a web cluster for a very high traffic forum with a lot of uploads every hour so it has to do real time synchronization. I heard that DRDB is only one way and not two way so I'm not going to be able to use this.
Renting Colocated Servers As Dedicated Servers
Oct 11, 2009I am just colocating servers and managing them myself, and renting services off of them. In the future I would like to start offering dedicated servers as well. I am wondering if many companies do this, or if its more of a general practice to just setup as a reseller? The worst part that comes to mind is thinking of how to do billing for the bandwidth per month. With my setup I would only be offering flat bandwidth packages (like 2TB a month) but even so, I cant think of anyway to automate it so WHMCS knows if they went over, if so, how much, etc.
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