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  1. sleddog

    WebHostingTalk Worst of the Hosting Industry

    I'm bored and tired of these "WARNING!" "UNETHICAL!" "SCAM!" etc. threads. An 18 minute video about WHT practices is just out to lunch. Likewise, all these GVH threads are just senseless. Neither accomplishes anything useful. All this endless "investigation" and "exposure" of this and that...
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    How to check OS install: Manual vs Template

    ISO install may have commented-out references to cdrom in /etc/apt/sources.list.
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    BoltVM Gives Customers 30 Minutes Notice Of IP Address Changes

    The new IP address was assigned in addition to the existing IP address. We then had 12-48 hours to change DNS before the old IP was revoked. Please fix your thread title. Thanks :)
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    Reliable Domain Registrar

    Or just pig-headedness as in the case of netfirms.com I have a client with a domain registered with them 7 years ago -- and paid at the time for 7 years. Now it's expired. They lost the login password. They do have access to the administrative email account. But Netfirm's "lost password"...
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    Is it worth it to host your own dns?

    Previously I had a commercial account with DNSMadeEasy. Two failures (around an hour each) in two years. Not bad I guess, but there's a real helpless feeling when it's completely out of your hands. Yes, but a sql query is so much easier :)
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    Is it worth it to host your own dns?

    I host my own, primarily because of the control / flexibility it provides. If you're hosting only a few domains, Cloudflare or the domain registrar is fine. But if you have hundreds, and need to find all A records pointing to 192.168.1.2 and change them to 172.21.3.3, then a web interface is a...
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    [For Sale] HP EliteBook 8560p - $240 i5-2520M/8gb RAM/500gb HDD

    Right handed laptop... Wish the manufacturers would stop that :)
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    [OVZ] 042stab107.x kernels swap-happy?

    I've noticed it in containers with recent kernels...
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    How To: Determining how many 'VPS neighbors' you have or if you are on an oversold OpenVZ node

    64MB Bandwagonhost, $3.99/year #subsys_name hierarchy num_cgroups enabled cpuset 3 1334 1 cpu 3 1334 1 cpuacct 3 1334 1 devices 4 1333 1 freezer 4 1333 1 net_cls 0 1 1 blkio 1 1335 1 perf_event 0 1 1 net_prio 0 1 1 memory 2 1333 1 VM works great, love it :)
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    [ASK] VPS Business from HOME?

    Nonsense. Given sufficient connectivity, electricity, hardware and knowledge it'll work perfectly. :)
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    Website Geolocation for cheapskates like me

    Biggest expense so far has been the Namesilo domain name... :) http://kate-cms.com/geolocation-with-php-part-i/ Next is the HA...
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    BlueVM sold / change of ownership? (UPDATE 5/14: Now owned by ChicagoVPS)

    They've been near death for months. Even with new owners it'll be a long struggle to regain any user confidence. Maybe a rebranding is in order: GreenVM perhaps? Oh, wait now...
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    The cesspit / chat thread.

    Hobby project - http://kate-cms.com/ Added post categories today. Tomorrow it's back to work and no fun coding :(
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    How often do you update your servers?

    Is this for a personal server, or the general practice at WLS?
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    Postfix + Mandrill Bounce Notifications

    I'm experimentally using Mandrill as an SMTP relayhost for my Postfix setup. At the moment I'm stuck at understanding how bounce notifications work. User Joe has his desktop mail app configured to send via my Postfix He composes a message, making a typo in the "To" address, and sends it My...
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    NGINX Security / Lockdown & Tips

    robots.txt is for the well-behaved robots. Blocking is for the rest :) But really, for a private site/server I think an overall access policy might work better, e.g. location / { # Allow access from designated network addresses or require htpasswd authentication. satisfy any; allow...
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    Are the Newer OpenVz Kernels Swap-Happy?

    Thanks. I do understand how swap works. What I don't understand is why a lightly-loaded container, using maybe 10% or 20% of it's RAM (including cache), swaps out a significant amount of that memory-in-use. And swaps it in again later.
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    Are the Newer OpenVz Kernels Swap-Happy?

    No, it was vswap, 2.6.32-something. Sorry, didn't keep a note.
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    Are the Newer OpenVz Kernels Swap-Happy?

    Don't know. These are rented VMs.
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    Are the Newer OpenVz Kernels Swap-Happy?

    This VM was recently migrated to a new host node, running a newer OpenVz kernel: [root@red:~] uname -a Linux red 2.6.32-042stab104.1 #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 12:58:41 MSK 2015 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@red:~] free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem...
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