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Bob Morales posted:Alright, so this company just finished creating our AWESOME NEW CORPORATE WEB SITE, using WordPress, and they plan on going live with it in a month or so. digital ocean is also suppose to be pretty good but i do use linode and they have been pretty good.
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Anything but EIG. If you go VPS, and a VPS is a VPS, make sure - at the bare minimum - you enable automatic OS updates, install fail2ban, enable recidivism, and use WP CLI to check and rollout updates nightly. Otherwise you’ve got a pretty slick corporate site for 9 months until bitrot sets in.
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May 3, 2018 21:04
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Bob Morales posted:Alright, so this company just finished creating our AWESOME NEW CORPORATE WEB SITE, using WordPress, and they plan on going live with it in a month or so. If you haven't used wordpress, it's a pretty standard LAMP app with decent features for running its own updates. That said you need to be diligent about patching and wordpress.com might be easier. I've only used it for zero traffic personal sites, not company websites.
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May 3, 2018 21:37
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We're running Joomla now...barf. Along with a Wordpress site and a Blogger site. gently caress.
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May 3, 2018 21:46
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General hosting question: for smaller web hosts (including the EIG hosts) - if someone has a cancelled credit card and hosting tries to renew, hosts generally just suspend services, right? I have two domains on an EIG host that are expiring (I don’t need them anymore) and my concern is despite cancelling the associated credit card and setting the domains to NOT auto-renew they are going to try and renew them anyways. Then they send me to collections or something like that. (I did check their TOS and it looks like without payment they don’t renew domains and suspend hosting services, sort of like a prepaid phone.) I am just curious if that billing approach is industry-standard for small hosts. Also for transferring domains - there’s a 60-day wait period (change of registrant lock) if certain WHOIS information changes. Does that also apply if a privacy service is turned off for a transfer? That means you need to shut off privacy on the domain, wait 60 days, THEN you can transfer out. Also I am amazed that EIG is still solvent at all and investors are pumping money into them. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 13:00 on May 7, 2018 |
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May 7, 2018 12:55
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Three-Phase posted:General hosting question: for smaller web hosts (including the EIG hosts) - if someone has a cancelled credit card and hosting tries to renew, hosts generally just suspend services, right? quote:I have two domains on an EIG host that are expiring (I don’t need them anymore) and my concern is despite cancelling the associated credit card and setting the domains to NOT auto-renew they are going to try and renew them anyways. Then they send me to collections or something like that. (I did check their TOS and it looks like without payment they don’t renew domains and suspend hosting services, sort of like a prepaid phone.) quote:Also for transferring domains - there’s a 60-day wait period (change of registrant lock) if certain WHOIS information changes. Does that also apply if a privacy service is turned off for a transfer? That means you need to shut off privacy on the domain, wait 60 days, THEN you can transfer out. quote:Also I am amazed that EIG is still solvent at all and investors are pumping money into them. It's just a really really really big balloon that's taking time to deflate. They're suffering - consolidating brands such as eHost, canning support in Provo, jacking up prices, cutting billing confirmation notices, and trying to save what's left. Really, good riddance. They destroyed shared hosting by trying to maintain pole position with Dreamhost that introduced "unlimited" hosting by way of CephFS. It was janky and slow as poo poo, but at least "unlimited" on paper. EIG? Not at all. Go no further than the legal agreements to learn what "unlimited" means to them.
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May 7, 2018 15:12
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Three-Phase posted:Also for transferring domains - there’s a 60-day wait period (change of registrant lock) if certain WHOIS information changes. Does that also apply if a privacy service is turned off for a transfer? That means you need to shut off privacy on the domain, wait 60 days, THEN you can transfer out. Disabling privacy protection will not trigger a 60-day hold unless you actually update the registrant contact info. The hold is not triggered by changing what the public sees, only what is actually set for your domain.
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May 7, 2018 17:19
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Nem - thank you very much for that information. DarkLotus posted:Disabling privacy protection will not trigger a 60-day hold unless you actually update the registrant contact info. OK, now that's something I wasn't aware of. Interesting, thank you!
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May 8, 2018 00:19
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Three-Phase posted:OK, now that's something I wasn't aware of. Interesting, thank you! Yeah, ID / Privacy Protection just masks your whois information and doesn't actually update the registrant or other contact info.
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May 8, 2018 02:36
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These two domains have been derelict (nothing hosted on them) for a long time and have pretty much nil resale value (oddball names > 8 character .com and nil search metrics) so I am just going to let them expire. Made sure that any accounts tied to old email were moved to third-party mail services (gmail, iCloud, etc.) Web hosting just isn’t for me, at least doing stuff at this lower level. Too much stuff you have to watch very carefully and EIG hasn’t helped. But it has taught me a lot of respect for people who have the responsibility of managing web hosting and all the challenges and pitfalls. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 15:36 on May 8, 2018 |
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May 8, 2018 15:33
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I was going to try out lithium hosting for the leecher trial they have, but apparently I had some phonecall/SMS stuff I didn't catch and now I can't even participate in the leecher, I can only start a payment plan? talk about sadness.
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May 22, 2018 16:43
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Syfe posted:I was going to try out lithium hosting for the leecher trial they have, but apparently I had some phonecall/SMS stuff I didn't catch and now I can't even participate in the leecher, I can only start a payment plan? talk about sadness. You should submit a ticket, it's an easy fix 
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May 22, 2018 16:59
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Hey, one additional question about domain expiration: When a domain expires and isn’t renewed, does WHOIS show the last owner’s information, or does it generally revert to the original hosting company’s contact information, or something completely different?
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May 24, 2018 03:27
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Three-Phase posted:Hey, one additional question about domain expiration: A domain expires on it's expiration date, for 36 days it is in the renewal grace period, then 30 days of redemption and another 5 or so for deletion. During all of that time, it shows the current/last owner's registrant and whois info. Once it is deleted, it can be immediately purchased by a new registrant. **Those numbers are not exact and vary by TLD.
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May 24, 2018 13:40
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Ugh that’s great since domain privacy will disappear and since I cancelled the registration I cannot edit my information. I did change the email and phone to a “burner” google voice and email addresses before cancelling at least so that’s good. I’m just paranoid about privacy I guess. I can’t wait until this albatross is off of my neck. Thanks again for the clarification.
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May 24, 2018 14:09
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Three-Phase posted:Ugh that’s great since domain privacy will disappear and since I cancelled the registration I cannot edit my information. I did change the email and phone to a “burner” google voice and email addresses before cancelling at least so that’s good. I’m just paranoid about privacy I guess. Can't you just re-register it for a year with some fake information (since you don't care about the domain anyways, it doesn't matter if you are violating the registrar's ToS...)?
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May 26, 2018 11:03
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That’s one idea. Part of the problem is it’s an Endurance host that I want to have as little to do with as possible. So almost every solution is a bit “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”. My understanding with the TOS is pretty quick after expiration they will take over the domain for auctioning and stuff, try and see if they can flip it for a profit (this is part of the TOS, once it expires it becomes their property and they can put their corporate info into the WHOIS record.) So it’s sort of like the domain doesn’t really expire, it just becomes EIGI’s property to resell or put up a parking page. I also leaned recently that there are paid services that can provide an “ownership history” of a domain going way back, so if someone registered a domain and then tacked on privacy, their information could still be determined. It is a bit silly this whole thing since the only info that’s really confirmed is the email address used. I also thought there was going to be a huge WHOIS blackout due to the European privacy stuff but GoDaddy is like “NAAAAHHH ain’t gonna do that brah”. 
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May 26, 2018 14:53
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Does anyone have any experience with Vultr's $2.50/mo plan? https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ I'm just looking to serve static files with Nginx while running a couple cron jobs. Has Vultr ever shown themselves to be lacking in their security, like Linode?
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May 27, 2018 11:19
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Triglav posted:Does anyone have any experience with Vultr's $2.50/mo plan? https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ Yeah it's only available in certain locations and permanently "out of stock" in others, something I only learned after depositing money in my account
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May 27, 2018 11:27
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Yeah, I see that now. It's only available in New Jersey and Miami. Doing some reading online, it seems consensus is the plan is mostly a marketing gimmick, and they limit them so too many people don't downgrade from $5/mo to $2.50/mo. I'm still curious about the plan, though.
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May 27, 2018 11:45
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hey research question, do any of you actually want to deal with vps poo poo? what stops you from heroku or app-engine-ing your thing? like if you could just rsync php files somewhere and then load them in a browser... what else do you actually want?
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May 27, 2018 13:35
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I went ahead and got a $2.50/mo Vultr yesterday. So far it seems fine. Stressing it locally, top shows nginx using 10% CPU and 0.4% RAM to serve 1000hits/sec with 0ms response time. You get a static IPv4 with it, their web frontend is clean, with usage charts, a terminal, a reboot button, easy snapshots, etc, and you can add their backup solution for $0.50/mo (or just do it yourself).
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May 28, 2018 19:49
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I have a $5 vultr that I have ran for almost two years, switched from DO because it would lose or have very slow networking at times. Just use it for some static web hosting, irssi, socks proxy for surfing at work, and loving around with Linux/programming
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May 28, 2018 23:03
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Might not be the best place for this, but any good ideas for an email host for say a family? I want to buy a domain for us and then create email addresses for each of us and then some aliases/groups as well. LIke parents@domain.com goes to both me and my wife. I'm probably better off going gsuite or outlook premium. No webhosting needed, just email. Don't really need email storage in fact, email forwarding to our personal gmail addresses would work as well. Just want something easier to use online than blahblah12389@yahoo or whatever. I do have an OLD google apps standard account good for up to 50 users, I don't think you can change the domain though. I'm looking into maybe using that
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May 30, 2018 17:20
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skipdogg posted:Might not be the best place for this, but any good ideas for an email host for say a family? I want to buy a domain for us and then create email addresses for each of us and then some aliases/groups as well. LIke parents@domain.com goes to both me and my wife. I'm probably better off going gsuite or outlook premium. No webhosting needed, just email. Don't really need email storage in fact, email forwarding to our personal gmail addresses would work as well. Just want something easier to use online than blahblah12389@yahoo or whatever. You could always setup O365 with Exchange Online licenses. That way you only get the mailbox and not the software licensing. Then just verify your domain in the tenant and boom done.
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May 30, 2018 17:31
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skipdogg posted:Might not be the best place for this, but any good ideas for an email host for say a family? I want to buy a domain for us and then create email addresses for each of us and then some aliases/groups as well. LIke parents@domain.com goes to both me and my wife. I'm probably better off going gsuite or outlook premium. No webhosting needed, just email. Don't really need email storage in fact, email forwarding to our personal gmail addresses would work as well. Just want something easier to use online than blahblah12389@yahoo or whatever. O365 is super nice for that, because you can also do the usual exchange crap, like contacts, mail aliases, and so on. About the only thing to keep in mind is to make drat sure your registrar PW is secure, and keep the contact details up to date.
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skipdogg posted:Might not be the best place for this, but any good ideas for an email host for say a family? Fastmail can handle this sort of thing, I'm pretty sure. I've never been anything but happy with them, and I've used them for over a decade at this point (though not always with a custom domain, and I haven't done any of their multiple-user things)
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Is there something I can host on my own stuff that is similar to meetup or evite? I'd basically want to send out private party invitations with email confirmations. On another note, I am noticing a lot of failed login attempts to my Wordpress site from AWS systems. Is there a way to ban HTTP requests from AWS entirely?
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Is there something I can host on my own stuff that is similar to meetup or evite? I'd basically want to send out private party invitations with email confirmations. You'd clutter your iptables if you tried to ban all of their networks. I'm partial to using mod_evasive + fail2ban as a sieve to iptables. Set DOSPageCount low (10) and DOSSiteInterval to something that no reasonable human would do, like 2. Whenever the same page is requested 10+ times in a 2 second interval it emits a message to /var/log/messages, fail2ban picks it up and bans their rear end. You could also use WP fail2ban that works off the same idea on a narrower scope. Rocko Bonaparte posted:Having set up Apache on a VPS over the weekend, I assume then that we're probably not going to see a really solid free, open-source cpanel alternative due to all the secret sauce that has to be constantly updated behind the scenes for all the tools it supports. Incidentally came here to bring this up. Finished a rough cut of apnscp provisioning playbooks last night. There are still some bugs to ferret out over the next week during live testing. It takes a pristine CentOS/RHEL environment, installs some packages, reconfigures services, and sets up a firewall; yet, it's still some 5500 lines of yaml. The panel is a whole different beast of complexity and a good indicator why a free panel is untenable.
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apnscp technical preview has launched.  It's everything but the admin interface, which will be included in the pre-alpha, along with DNS providers for Cloudflare/DO/Linode + Ghost/Laravel web apps. I sent out licenses to those who signed-up that I recognize from the forums. Send me a PM if I missed you.
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You guys heard of Frantech or buyvm as they are called now. They're really stable. I've been with them for about a year now.
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If you want to kick the tires on DigitalOcean it looks like there is a $300/60-day credit that is part of this dev pack: https://pusher.com/developer-package
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https://aws.amazon.com/activate/ I signed up for AWS a few weeks before applying to the above linked program and got $1000 in credit in about a week. They literally gave my company $1000 in AWS credit. If you have a startup it rules.
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Jun 29, 2018 03:22
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Vultr is having issues in Chicago. Bleh.
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I made a major breakthrough with spamassassin today on my personal vps. I have diligently trained the bayes classifier, but spam was still hitting my inbox with a header like this: code:This is on debian btw. I found I had previously uncommented these lines in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf: code:The header of this .pre file explains that when they add new plugins they'll add a new v###.pre file where you can enable the new plugin so they aren't constantly modifying init.pre. Enable the plugin by uncommenting: code:code:code:
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Jul 26, 2018 23:10
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Look into rspamd, its algorithm is better at matching spam and faster too. SA requires a ton of samples, both ham and spam, to be effective.
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nem posted:Look into rspamd, its algorithm is better at matching spam and faster too. SA requires a ton of samples, both ham and spam, to be effective. Yeah I'm gonna switch when I move to the new ispmail guide for the next debian release, I already have a new VPS, just need to get off my rear end. I've never liked spamassassin and it's resource consumption, I just wanted to share the solution to something that was a problem for literally a year
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I've built a simple benchmarking script for cloud providers and curious as to what you get for bootstrap time. It stresses CPU/network/disk and provides a good baseline on single CPU. Multiple CPUs will speed up some compilation processes (PHP, Ruby, Python, Passenger from source). If you're spinning up a new CentOS server and have 90 minutes to burn, benchmark and time it for me pretty please or submit a PR directly.code:code:So far what I've gathered between comparably priced 2 GB/1 CPU DO/Linode/Vultr instances:
AWS t2.small is a comedy option. Still working through that. It's on SSD, but takes around 4 hours to complete and disk speed is reporting a paltry 40 MB/s.
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quote:curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apisnetworks/apnscp-bootstrapper/master/bootstrap.sh | bash asking people to pipe curl into bash is shameful.
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jre posted:asking people to pipe curl into bash is shameful. Sure. That’s why the source is on Github. You can wget and invoke from shell if that’s your thing too. Or clone the repo or just check the SHA2...
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