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    Disk I/O limit per OpenVZ VPS is doable?

    Hello, is there any free method to limit OpenVZ VPS disk I/O ? I know there is setting to set I/O priority for each OpenVZ VPS (IOPRIO), but it dont appears to be solution in my case (some VPS use I/O very intensivelly so there are journaling processes which shows large percentage of I/O). So...
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    Is it worth having multiple SSD?

    Hello, on an VPS node server, is worth to buy secondary SSD into HW/SW Raid? im asking because im not sure how it is with failure of SSD drives when comparing to HDDs i dont need higher speed than one SSD has and also i dont need extreme redundancy, but good one into next 18 months
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    Is my filesystem OK when having high io indicated by journaling process?

    Hello, im having Centos 6.6 and 2.6.32 kernel 2 HDDs in HW raid 1. /dev/mapper/vg-root     /                       ext4    discard,noatime 1 1 And there is an journaling process: [jbd2/dm-0-8] which has like 50% I/O usage for more than hour. I have a few OpenVZ virtual servers. What are...
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    OpenVZ VPS high load cause

    Hello, on OpenVZ VPS (apache webserver) when running "top" command, i have average average 75% CPU idle, around 60% RAM free and %wa value (HDD I/O) is at zero Load grows to around 20.00 + what else please should i check to find out which limit need to be increased on VPS please? CPU, RAM...
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    Proxmox only .iso image install?

    Hello, on Proxmox wiki i see they mentioning only .iso installation. Isnt there any way on how to install Proxmox via SSH command line only without KVM-IP console? I want to use KVM+Proxmox Thank you
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    Wich virtualization is most effective/stable/fast for MS Windows?

    In Your oppinion which virtualization (Linux based) is best for running VPS with Windows 7, Windows 2012? I thought i will setup KVM and Proxmox. But i never setup VPS with Windows as a remote desktop. So what do you think would be best, cost free way to do this? I will have Linux and SSH...
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    [ovz] large VPS, how you backup with low/no suspension time?

    Hello,   i have one VM which vzdump-X.tgz file is around 100GB large, when creating dump file using "vzdump", the second sync (while VPS is suspended (i use --snapshot, but it fall back to suspend)) takes more than 20 minutes which is becoming not acceptable. VM do not contains large files...
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    How to monitor how many seconds server is down?

    Hello,   an Linux VPS, i expect it to go offline (turn off) for some minutes or hours and i woul like to somehow simply discover how many seconds it was offline? Please how can i do it?   i have other linux server at hand too
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    No socket connect to server

    Hello, my dedi server control panel suddenly started saying me that there is "No socket connect to server" I can connect server via SSH, checked logs, and see nothing strange. Please what do you suggest to check?
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    How you backup OpenVZ node server?

    Hello, How do You backup virtual machines / VPSs on your OpenVZ server? Any clever, non gzipping rsync way? Im currently runnning vzdump with compression and suspend on all containers. Its quite HDD intensive process
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    Which nameservers do You use?

    Hi, which nameservers do You use in your webserver /etc/resolv.conf file? Or how do you determine which are best ones to place there? Do you think Its better to add more than 2 nameservers or even three sets of nameservers (6 lines)? like example google ones, opendns ones and one more? thx
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    How to test quality of server internet connection?

    Hi, i got server and the SSH shell really lagging for whole like 1,5 days. i wait even seconds before commands are written on the screen after i stop typing the top -c, iotop, dstat shows server is not bussy when tried to download something especially from europe (server is in USA), there...
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    No ploop support in the kernel, or kernel is way too old. - CentOS 5.11

    Hi, can u please advice me how to enable ploop on CentOS OpenVZ dedi server, if its good idea?   vzctl returns (in /var/log/vzctl*): No ploop support in the kernel, or kernel is way too old. Make sure you have OpenVZ kernel 042stab058.7 or later running,and kernel ploop modules loaded.  ...
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    What has the greatest impact on OpenVZ VPS suspend time during vzdump?

    Hi, on an OpenVZ server there is tool vzdump to backup VMs one can backup large VPS and it will be down maybe even seconds. It is true, but only in some cases.. I use  About vzdump modes: i want to ask how to prevent big downtime during vzdump backup. my downtime was 15 minutes when i...
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    How to clone drive and change boot priority after primary drive fail?

    Hi,   server has 2 drives, primary SSD with operating system and secondary HDD. I want to clone SSD into HDD. So if SSD fail, i can somehow just switch boot priority and reset server to boot from HDD.   STEP1 - What command/s i need to do to do this clone? Also link to tutorial would help...
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    HDD is read-only & server cant boot, what to do on IPMI console?

    Hello, can You please give me an advice, it appears my partition / is whole read only suddenly, and cant remount into writable sate: [root@serv ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 1866322480 554196528 1215792948 32% / /dev/sda1 101086...
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    Linux swappiness - how do you set optimal value?

    Hello, how do You set proper value of swappiness for the Linux server? i mean how to meter the performance before/after change (its a webserver) to find optimal value.. ------- show current value: cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness Set temporary new value sysctl -w vm.swappiness=0 set...
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    NL Dedi provider with 29IPs possible?

    Hello, is there any Netherlands dedicated server provider who allow like 29 IPv4 to the server (no more than €2 per IP) at same time i dont want to pay more than like $100 for the 16gb ram, Xeon E3 server with 2 HDDs
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    Why to suspend spamvertised website based on an SPAMCop email?

    Why to suspend spamvertised website based on an single SPAMCop email? Cloudshards says that it does not appear to be a legit website. But i need to explain my client the reason.. i did not found anything illegal on that website.
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    Small cheap dedi for backups

    Hello, Kimsufi offers around 7usd dedicated servers with 2GB ram. that is something im looking for, except i would like to have 1-3 IPs, but this has only 1 IP. Is there any similar priced offer which has more than 1 IP, preferrably 3?
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