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    VPS crashes every few day, really can't pin down the reason.

    Attached are monthly graphs and htop stats apache server status doesn't hint on clear winner, there are processes from all sites. It's 50-60 WP sites with low traffic on the 2cpu, 2gb ram, 6gb swap SSD VPS wp-login.php anx xmlrpc.php are blocked server wide I'm not very experienced but at...
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    Let's talk about keeping all your VPSs up to date.

    I'm struggling to keep all of them updated so was wondering what the others do. How often you apt-get update and do you always backup before doing so? What are generally considered good practices to keep them as updaded as possible without overkilling it? Have you ever have the update break...
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    Having lots of "127.0.1.1 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" apache connections?!

    My extended server status has like 100 of these right now Srv PID Acc M CPU SS Req Conn Child Slot Client VHost Request 0-0 - 0/0/474 . 1.40 12760 0 0.0 0.00 1.98 EDI.TED.IP.XX 127.0.1.1 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 Short google on OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 shows many people having those (but with...
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    Few mbits incoming traffic for no reason?

    For the last few days  I have 2 to 4 mbits of incoming traffic hitting a fresh VPS with couple of sites on it that don't get any traffic at all. I can see via the control panel (vestaCP) that none of them is getting any traffic. iftop doesn't show any significant traffic to anything top...
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    Help with nginx template syntax :(

    I need to disallow access to xmlrpc.php server wide for anything but localhost by adding it to this template below. No idea if I can add it to the existing such block that forbirds wp-login.php or should add new one? Is that the most effective way to do it? Sorry for the stupid question but...
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    How to find the site that crashes the server?

    Probably 1 out of 100 sites crashes the VPS every few days. Apache connections go to few hundreds and mysql requests to few millions. That causes the CPU to be at 100%+ permanently and making the server completely unusable. Restart fixes the situation for few days. How to find the evil one...
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    Limiting the access to /wp-admin/ for the whole server

    I want to limit the access to /wp-admin/ to specific IPs or even localhost it's described here http://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks#Limit_Access_to_wp-admin_by_IP but that seems to be for individual site I want to make it server wide. So obviosly i would put the .htaccess file in...
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    Apache causing huge load, how to pin down the reason?

    Well I'm new to this, just setup a VPS, threw bunch of sites on it and now i'm overloading it. And they are not that high traffic ones. Here are some graphs to show my case here are some vrom VestaCP (standard vestacp automated install) Obviosly apache is way overloaded and nginex which...
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