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gmq posted:I have a Linode 512 but lately I'm starting to get tired of having to take care of the server, messing with config files to ensure it works under a high load, etc. Can you expand on this more? I recently just moved from share to Linode 512, and have always assumed it's more or less set and forget after the initial setup/hardening.
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rawrr posted:Can you expand on this more? I recently just moved from share to Linode 512, and have always assumed it's more or less set and forget after the initial setup/hardening. Well, yes. Unless you made a mistake while setting it up and don't realize until it's too late.  Linode is great. I'm just somewhat frustrated because my server was randomly failing to load but apparently it was a local network problem because now it works perfectly fine.
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Jul 15, 2012 05:05
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OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:It's currently backing up the 2tb I've put on my 6tb server so far. how's that workin for you? I'm still on the 30 day trial, andstarted uploading my 1TB of photos in mostly raw (nef) format. The time estimate varies between 5 and 6 months of uploading.
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Jul 15, 2012 05:22
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Stein Rockon posted:how's that workin for you? I'm still on the 30 day trial, andstarted uploading my 1TB of photos in mostly raw (nef) format. The time estimate varies between 5 and 6 months of uploading. According to Wolfram, that should only take about ~18 days to transfer at 5mbps. I'm particularly interested because the largest volume of data I want to backup is going to be the exact same format. I have small amounts of documents and such but mostly my photography is what I'm concerned with.
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Jul 15, 2012 05:42
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rawrr posted:Can you expand on this more? I recently just moved from share to Linode 512, and have always assumed it's more or less set and forget after the initial setup/hardening. yeah assuming the software you run never needs to be updated to patch security vulns 
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Jul 15, 2012 13:50
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Rufo posted:yeah assuming the software you run never needs to be updated to patch security vulns Well, you'll have to update whatever software you're running on shared hosting as well, so that doesn't change anything.
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Jul 15, 2012 15:24
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Comradephate posted:Well, you'll have to update whatever software you're running on shared hosting as well, so that doesn't change anything. web server etc
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Jul 15, 2012 15:28
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gmq posted:How's Mediatemple's shared hosting? I went from MT to a Linode 512, and MT's performance isn't anywhere near what Linode offers. If you want the performance of Linode but without the hassle of an unmanaged VPS, why not get a managed VPS?
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Jul 15, 2012 16:55
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Rufo posted:yeah assuming the software you run never needs to be updated to patch security vulns Isn't that more or less just doing apt-get update?
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Jul 15, 2012 20:36
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rawrr posted:Isn't that more or less just doing apt-get update? update/upgrade yeah. do this and you'll be fine
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Jul 15, 2012 20:40
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what about kernel updates? god knows how old my kernel is...
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Jul 15, 2012 22:38
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Haywood Japwnme posted:what about kernel updates? god knows how old my kernel is... yeah if your host uses xen/kvm then you also need to take care of this. one of the few upsides to openvz
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Jul 15, 2012 22:49
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Stein Rockon posted:how's that workin for you? I'm still on the 30 day trial, andstarted uploading my 1TB of photos in mostly raw (nef) format. The time estimate varies between 5 and 6 months of uploading. Oh sorry, I meant it already had it backed up for a couple weeks. I'm on a full-gigabit connection so it took a couple days.
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Jul 16, 2012 00:41
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I shouldn't use shared hosting, but if I do how do I choose? Are there speed benchmarks or anything to go by?
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Jul 16, 2012 00:45
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lwoodio posted:I shouldn't use shared hosting, but if I do how do I choose? Are there speed benchmarks or anything to go by? It's kind of hard to benchmark shared hosting - you could be a on busy server, or it could be a busy time of day...
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Jul 16, 2012 00:47
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gmq posted:Is the default configuration for csf secure enough? "Secure enough" isn't really a measurement you can meet. It really depends on what you are doing with the system and what you have running on it. At a minimum run the included "Check server security" and see what gets reported back. It's not an exhaustive list of things to check, and having something in "warning" status isn't always a bad thing. But it is a good thing to run through and just see what comes back. Personally, I think the list is fairly good and I would recommend getting as many of those items from "Warning" to "OK" as you can without impacting what you need the server for.
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Jul 16, 2012 02:14
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Really noob question... I have a customer on fastshosts who needs their domain forwarding. I normally use cpanel and use that redirect.... In the fasthosts settings under DNS i can change A Records, AAAA Records, CNAME Records, MX Records, SRV Records, SPF Records and TXT Records. Which or these to i add to make a temporary redirect to another domain? Ignore me... I found the big ADD FORWARDING button. ffs thegasman2000 fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Jul 16, 2012 |
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Jul 16, 2012 09:36
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Looks like cPanel bought its way into WHMCS. http://blog.whmcs.com/?t=51686 quote:When a web host begins to gain a reputation for great service, it can feel like a superhuman feat to keep up with the demands of a growing business. Thankfully, hosts can depend on the help they need from the heroic developers of online automation tools and control panels. cPanel & WHM (WebHost Manager) is a control panel for the Linux operating system, allowing hosts, resellers, and end-users to work with their hosting accounts through a web-based browser. WHMCS (WebHost Manager Complete Solution) is a system that turbo-charges the provisioning of new accounts, client management, billing and support. I hope the cPanel developers don't destroy WHMCS too much. Kind of curious as to what this means for WHMCS's support for other control panels such as Plesk.
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Jul 16, 2012 18:03
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Anaxite posted:Though it's primarily for Postini, Google's documentation has some interesting information about MX records. http://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/postini/docs/admin/en/activate/mx_faq.html Awesome responses guys, guess I'm in over my head. I have a mac mini sitting in a data center. I have a domain that I would like to set up email for, using the mac mini as an email server. I have an IP address for the mini, what records do I need to configure, so that the mini starts receiving mail?
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Jul 17, 2012 23:32
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Go ahead and get email setup and working just to see how that whole process works, and then immediately switch to Google apps because gently caress hosting your own email. It's not worth it.
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Galler posted:Go ahead and get email setup and working just to see how that whole process works, and then immediately switch to Google apps because gently caress hosting your own email. It's not worth it. This but optionally skip step 1
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Jul 18, 2012 00:17
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Galler posted:Go ahead and get email setup and working just to see how that whole process works, and then immediately switch to Google apps because gently caress hosting your own email. It's not worth it. Used to be viable 10-15 years ago. Absolutely not a reasonable choice today.
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Jul 18, 2012 00:49
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As a hosting provider, I don't even want to be hosting email. Trying to explain to customers why their messages aren't always delivered to people's inboxes is frustrating as hell. It was easy a while ago before webmail became an acceptable replacement to the POP/IMAP client. Now, with spam buttons so prominently displayed, people are accidentally flagging messages from recipients and wondering why they're no longer getting mail from that recipient. Yes, people use the spam button as a delete button since they both get the message off the screen.
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Jul 18, 2012 01:02
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optikalus posted:It was easy a while ago before webmail became an acceptable replacement to the POP/IMAP client. Now, with spam buttons so prominently displayed, people are accidentally flagging messages from recipients and wondering why they're no longer getting mail from that recipient. Yes, people use the spam button as a delete button since they both get the message off the screen. Use the unsubscribe link! 
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Jul 18, 2012 01:22
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Bob Morales posted:Use the unsubscribe link! But don't use the unsubscribe link on actual spam that you didn't sign up for! Do you think the general population can tell??
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Bob Morales posted:Use the unsubscribe link! That would be great if your average mailing list didn't hide the unsubscribe link in 2 point font in the bottom left corner of a noisy patterned background and include the "allow two weeks for the change to take effect" so they can continue sending you mail for another two weeks. If it's any harder to unsubscribe than clicking a clearly labeled sidebar or footer link and clicking OK on the confirmation window that pops up, you deserve every spam report and blacklist you get. corgski fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Bob Morales posted:Use the unsubscribe link! This, a million times this. I once took a call from someone who had signed up for updates from a music-related forum; he was flagging those email updates as spam and was annoyed that some were still coming through. I ended up explaining that just because he hated all the young people talking about music he didn't like was not a good reason to flag everything as spam, and he should unsubscribe what he signed up for. ^^^ yeah, for every legitimate unsubscribe there's always dozens of lovely ones. 
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It's like my old boss, "I keep marking these as spam but they keep coming back! I don't know why I even signed up for this dumb newsletter!"
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Jul 18, 2012 03:12
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I'm on linode 512, and was checking my munin graphs when I see this: Which appeared to have been caused by this:  All other metrics are otherwise normal. I am assuming one or more xen nodes on the same physical server was doing something disk intensive - is this something I can expect with any frequency? Is there anything I can do about it? Is it a big deal? edit: xvdb is swap - why would speed of the swap disk affect my http load time? rawrr fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Jul 19, 2012 |
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What datacentre are you in? We were have trouble with our connection today, I think someone was getting DoS'd.
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rawrr posted:I'm on linode 512, and was checking my munin graphs when I see this: What are your memory stats? It looks like you're hitting the swapfile, and that's going to kill performance. Get a bigger instance or tweak your web/database configurations to free up some RAM. Can you plot bandwidth against those disk times? What's running on that server, a forum, CMS, etc?
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wanderlost posted:I have a mac mini sitting in a data center. I have a domain that I would like to set up email for, using the mac mini as an email server. I have an IP address for the mini, what records do I need to configure, so that the mini starts receiving mail? I would really appreciate some actual help with this, or at least someone could point me in the right direction? I appreciate that y'all apparently think I'm crazy, but I'd really like to at least try to host my own email.
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wanderlost posted:I would really appreciate some actual help with this, or at least someone could point me in the right direction? I appreciate that y'all apparently think I'm crazy, but I'd really like to at least try to host my own email. It basically goes like this: Create an MX record for your domain, like mail.wanderlost.com. Point it at the IP address of your Mini. The configure the mailserver on the Mini to accept mail from that domain. Then allow connections via IMAP/POP3/SMTP to get the mail from your client. Are you running OS X Server or just regular OS X?
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Bob Morales posted:Create an MX record for your domain, like mail.wanderlost.com. Point it at the IP address of your Mini. specifically your zone file needs two things yourdomain.com. MX 10 mail mail.yourdomain.com. A 69.88.420.247 I used to run postfix+dovecot+amavis+spamassassin with a mysql db to manage the accounts. I used debian but builds of them all doubtless exist on OSX. It was a complete loving nightmare and I strongly advise you to not waste your time. You're not teaching yourself a useful skill here; frankly you're being a bit of an idiot.
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Rufo posted:frankly you're being a bit of an idiot. Agreed. I did it for my business for a while with the Windows email stack - hMailServer+ClamWin+SpamAssassin - and it was a huge waste of time. Spam still made it through, and it used a surprising amount of server resources for mail (handling the massive spam) Setup GApps or go with one of the 10,000 cheap mail hosting services.
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Jul 22, 2012 16:42
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I'd really like to move away from Google Apps for Domains mail. Any recommendations for a fast IMAP email host with a pretty interface?
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Jul 23, 2012 05:39
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Granite Octopus posted:I'd really like to move away from Google Apps for Domains mail. Any recommendations for a fast IMAP email host with a pretty interface? Do you mind me asking why? I haven't made the jump, I'm just curious what's deficient with Google Apps.
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Granite Octopus posted:I'd really like to move away from Google Apps for Domains mail. Any recommendations for a fast IMAP email host with a pretty interface? I use FastMail. They're not free, but have served me well.
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Quick question. Does anyone know which domain registrar Google Apps use? Or do they have their own? I notice they give an option to register a domain with them through the sign up, but how would you transfer your domain name to them? My hosting package is about to end and I need somewhere to manage my DNS records (for free preferably.) 
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transfer it to namecheap/gandi and use dns.he.net for the dns
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