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how to setup VPS domain registered via different service?
I have a domain that was registered with network solutions and my vps is hosted via hostWinds. I got a cheap/budget VPS because I'm a developer by trade and would rather know how to set all this ...
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How to extend partition to all unallocated space in a VPS?
Hello and sorry for the dumb question but I'm a bit new to Linux and I'm always very scared to mess with partitions. Anyway, here it goes my story:
I rent a VPS that uses a SSD of 10GB (Debian 7) and ...
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Disabling ssh password authentication does not work on my debian VPS
I have a Debian 7 VPS setup. I just enabled SSH Key authentication and disabled password authentication but the disabling did not work.
When I attempt to SSH into my VPS, it prompts me for my SSH Key ...
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Can not connect to my webserver on my own IP
Lately I'm having trouble connecting to my VPS Webserver.
Every morning when I try to connect to my webserver via pop ,visit a website that runs on the server or even ping the server, I get no ...
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Why can't connect my vps ip via firefox?
I have installed lamp on my new bought bandwagon host vps ip ,and edit an file named echo.php in /var/www/ .
The content in echo.php is:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
In the console , php ...
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CentOS 6.5 hostname on VPS
I'm trying to change the hostname on my fresh CentOS 6.5 image (VPS) via SSH. The sources I've found all say the hostname can be permanently changed in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts, and that ...
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Create Snapshot an store it on a other server
Is it possible to take a complete Snapshot of my (VPS - CENTOS) server? with a script? And that it will stored on a other server?
With snapshot i mean everything ( configurations, websites etc )
And ...
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How to mount VPS hard-drive to extend available disk space
I have an unmannaged VPS and recently and we upgraded the disk space from 200GB to 500GB.
The VPS support wrote me the following message:
Please take note that you have to mount the additional ...
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Backing up/restoring a full VPS, can't boot from live media
(My question here is specifically about Ubuntu, but I'm posting it on Unix & Linux because I think the answer will apply to Linux in general. I'm more than happy to reformat the question or move ...
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Permissions for new user
I have created a user in my Centos VPS. But with the new user I can not create, modify files in any folder (for example /var/www/ or /etc/nginx/conf.d/), even though I have added the new user to the ...
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Debian dns “A” record used by another domain?
I have a Debian Wheezy server with a domain name and a static ip address. The domain name's "A" record set to my server's ip address. Everything works fine. The problem started when another guy set my ...
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Can't push git updates & run Unix commands when connecting via SSH
I have installed java 8 on my bluehost VPS. I have followed http://tecadmin.net/install-java-8-on-centos-rhel-and-fedora/
instructions .
In order to add directories to PATH variable I have added
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Openvpn stops responding
I've been trying to set up openvpn with a vps and raspberry pi. The raspi is natted while the vps is public. I've tried connecting to the openvpn from mint laptop as well, but it's no use:
Server ...
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How do I diagnose why a VPS is freezing?
I have a Ubuntu 14.04 VPS (1cpu, 512MB ram, swap 1024MB) with Apache, mySQL, sendmail and sshd, sometime it freeze, I can't access neither through ssh nor with VNC provided by the vps provider, the ...
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Is user/filesystem access separation of services enough to have well secured data of services?
I'm about to publish some of my projects. So, I'm gonna to re-install my VPS and do it properly. I'll have running on it Apache server(websites are made using Ruby and Python), databases. I'll also ...
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Why is my systemd journal not persistent across reboots?
I'm experiencing a very weird issue with a fresh Fedora 21 image on a Linode instance. I cannot reproduce it outside of Linode. The issue is that my systemd journal is not persistent across reboots. ...
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Custom compiled Nginx with ngx_pagespeed in CentOS 7 wont start
Since PageSpeed must be compiled along with Nginx, and I don't like the way instructions are in the Google page, I decided to follow another great one.
Anyway, I did everything there. And when I get ...
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How to set up a Load Balancer High-Availability Cluster between two VPS/VPD or cloud hosting?
I need create two apache web server and gather them behind load balancer HA cluster. One main requirement for LB cluster is each node have to place on different VPS/VPD or cloud server provider. Each ...
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Understanding free -m Memory Usage
I dont understand this. When free -m show this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 15334 14025 1308 0 258 10918
-/+ ...
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Recover /var/lib/dpkg directory in ubuntu 14.04
Today by mistake, i deleted directory /var/lib/dpkg using "rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/*" from my VPS server.
Can you please tell me how i can recover this directory ?
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Initial iptable rule and knockd operation in vps
Today I launched a vps with Debian 7 x64 and started playing around with it.
I installed xampp as well as knock daemon to get my hands dirty. So, all I wanted to do was to actually block all requests ...
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I moved root partition by error
I'm on a VPS with CentOS 6.5
I was trying to install ASSP so by error i did this command
mv -f /* /usr/share/assp
and then I can't do anything
when I try something like:
[/]# dir
-bash: /bin/ls: ...
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How to connect to a VPS without SSH.
I have a fresh VPS I just bought, for playing only. No risk of any kind involved, so I noticed that due to my slow connection I have to wait seconds to finish writing commands and opening/closing ...
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Pluto not finding interface on a ipsec VPN
I'm trying to setup ipsec however pluto appears not to bind to a public IP and IPsec Kernel requires updating.
This is what I've come up with so far:
-IPSec Verify states my kernel is not supporting ...
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Configure distant terminal behaviour
I just installed debian 7 on a VPS, created users, configured ssh ..etc
The problem is that the terminal application changed its behavior just after connecting with my new username:
Autocompletion ...
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virtualbox mail server postfix+dovecot
I'm setting up a mail server(ubuntu14.4 serverX64) for development/testing purposes (using virtualBox bridged-mode) and I just finished this tutorial
and everything seams to work.
Now I'm not able ...
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VPS SSH and my OWN IP
Is it possible to to stay in total anonymous mode for the VPS provider?
I have got a VPSVZ machine with UBUNTU server.
Is it possible to do anonymous tunneling:
VPS1 -> VPS2 -> VPS3 (all UBUNTU) ...
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Port multiplexer sslh: why is it so resource-intensive?
I've just discovered the existence of sslh.
I tried to install it on my 512MB RAM VPS running Debian 7 wheezy. After having configured sslh, I tried to connect to one of my apache2 virtual hosts, and ...
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How not to write kernel warnings into /var/log/messages?
I keep getting these log warnings due to a bug in kvm.
Jun 30 19:12:31 server kernel: kvm: 28882: cpu0 ignored rdmsr: 0x345
Jun 30 21:12:31 server kernel: kvm: 31191: cpu0 ignored rdmsr: 0x345
Jun ...
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bad inodes reappear after fsck() for vps guests
I have several vps guests that were created by virt-resize. I do daily backups on the guests by creating a snapshot and rsync file contents. But some of them don't have a clean disk image.
As soon as ...
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Securing VPS against access by server company
I have a few linux VPS boxes that contain the private keys to Bitcoin. I've taken a few steps to harden them:
Blocked all ports except those needed for my server with uncomplicated firewall
Disabled ...
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yum - No package httpd available (new VPS)
So I have a new VPS that only has the bare bones. Not what I was expecting at all and I may be well past my depth but I'm trying to get the essentials running. The host is Swedish and aggressively ...
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VPS/Cloud configuration management automatization for small environments [closed]
What would be an appropriate tool/approach for configuration management of a relatively small number of VPS/VMs (1-5). Even though it's a small number I'm a big fan of "nuke 'n boot" in case of any ...
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speed up linux server [closed]
On my VPS, I have centOS 6.5 installed with 2 virtual cpu 2048 MB memory, 60 GB disk and 300 GB monthly data. Doing a speed test today resulted in 168.62 Mbit/s dload and 37.39 Mbit/s upload.
Then my ...
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How to manage authentication with multiple VPS's and GoogleApps?
I have a bunch of VPS's and every now and then I have to create another. Currently I use AWS, Rackspace and DigitalOcean as my IAAS providers. Most of them are Ubuntu-based. Besides, I have the users ...
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Problems connecting to IRC server from VPS
So I'm running a CentOS 6 VPS that I've got irssi installed on. I'd like to run irssi as a permanent connection to an IRC server so I can log in from anywhere and not lose my conversations.
Irssi ...
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I've just purchased a VPS: What are the first things I should do to keep it secure [closed]
So I've just purchased a VPS to mess around with and host some of my sites.
I've changed the password to a 15 digit alphanumeric string via SSH, but I would like to know what basic security measures ...
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Shutdown Red5 failed on every attempt
I'm at my wits end. I have asked everywhere. I've uninstalled - reinstalled countless times in countless different ways and STILL Red5 fails to shutdown.
Can someone please give me a clue?
Not even ...
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How to back up VPS
"It is highly recommended in the event a system is compromised that a backup of the VPS be taken and an operating system be performed." I have no idea what they meant by second part either.
How is ...
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memory consumption alert
My VPS has reported a memory consumption alert says reached 273% and I cannot access any of my sites.
But I checked on the terminal today and it does not look like a memory problem. Am I correct in ...
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Is there a right way to use one VPS backup file to build a clone VPS with it?
I tried many times to restore a tar ball from a different server to a fresh installed VPS with the same Linux Debian version (exactly the same) but every time when I restore the tar ball on a ...
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How to find out which virtualisation technology is used on Linux VPS server? [duplicate]
I have access to some Debian Linux vps servers, however I cannot access their controls panel directly: only server administrator himself can do that.
Is there any way to find out what visualization ...
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Linux VPS host with graphical interface using RDP (not VNC)
Our CEO's latest brain-waive is "More people will use our software product if it were all accessible from the web". He wants to dump a lot of (but not enough) resources in to taking a complex ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - setup a user, when ssh login gives me /etc/bash.bashrc: Permission denied
I setup a user on my Ubuntu 12.10 server named "deploy" and I believe i added the user to the sudoers properly.
However, whenever I SSH into the server with this user, I get:
-bash: ...
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Persistent script to check if my webserver work with low budget vps?
I have a low budget vps and they constantly change a lot and my webserver is often unable to reach. Is there a shell script that is persistent and can check my webserver is running and if not make it ...
