Oktay is back once again, this time with some offers for his brands VPSDime andWinity.io. Recently, VPSDime expanded to introduce some high-storage offers which give you storage at Backupsy pricing but with more RAM. Winity.io has expanded to Los Angeles since we last featured them. Oktay and his brands are known for the custom control panel they all utilize, always fully integrated into the billing area. No double logins and no SolusVM to have to fool around with. VPSDime nodes have a variety of configurations but they each have 384GB of RAM, at least 8 drives in RAID10, and either dual Intel Xeon E5 2620 or dual Intel Xeon X5660/L5640 CPUs. SSD caching is available in Dallas only. Disk space in Los Angeles is full SSD. The storage nodes for VPSDime are configured with dual Intel Xeon X5650 CPUs, 128GB RAM, and 12x 4TB hard drives. VPSDime offers come with a free MySQL offloaded account in Dallas, where you’ll get 20GB of space, and free daily backups with an option to self-restore. Winity uses host nodes with redundant power and network, dual Intel Xeon E5 2660v2 CPUs, 384GB RAM, 8x 4TB hard drives in RAID 10 for strage, and 4x 128GB SSDs for caching. A full, legal, non-trial Windows license is included in the price. Reviews are predominantly positive. As always, please share your experiences with them in the comments! VPSDime High Memory   6GB RAM 30GB disk space 4 vCPU cores 2TB bandwidth 1Gbps uplink 1x IPv4 address IPv6 in Dallas/LA OpenVZ/Custom Panel Dallas, New Jersey Los Angeles $7/month Order here VPSDime High…

Introduction This article will walk through the steps required to install HHVM on Ubuntu 13.10 on a Digital Ocean VPS. The article will also illustrate how HHVM can be used by creating: A command line 'Hello World' script in PHP A web based 'Hello World' script written in PHP and served by the HHVM server Prerequisites The only prerequisite for this tutorial is a VPS with Ubuntu 13.10 x64 installed. Note that HHVM doesn't support any 32 bit operating system and they have no plans to add support for 32 bit operating systems. You will need to execute commands from the command line which you can do in one of two ways: Use SSH to access the droplet. Use the 'Console Access' from the Digital Ocean Droplet Management Panel What is HHVM? HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is a virtual machine developed and open sourced by Facebook to process and execute programs and scripts written in PHP. Facebook developed HHVM because the regular Zend+Apache combination isn't as efficient to serve large applications built in PHP. According to their website, HHVM has realized over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption for Facebook compared with the Zend PHP engine + APC (which is the current way of hosting a large majority of PHP applications). Installing HHVM Installing HHVM is quite straightforward and shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Executing the following 4 commands from the command line will have HHVM installed and ready: wget -O - http://dl.hhvm.com/conf/hhvm.gpg.key | apt-key add - echo deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu saucy main | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hhvm.list apt-get update apt-get…

About Linux Swapping Linux RAM is composed of chunks of memory called pages. To free up pages of RAM, a “linux swap” can occur and a page of memory is copied from the RAM to preconfigured space on the hard disk. Linux swaps allow a system to harness more memory than was originally physically available. However, swapping does have disadvantages. Because hard disks have a much slower memory than RAM, virtual private server performance may slow down considerably. Additionally, swap thrashing can begin to take place if the system gets swamped from too many files being swapped in and out. Check for Swap Space Before we proceed to set up a swap file, we need to check if any swap files have been enabled on the VPS by looking at the summary of swap usage. sudo swapon -s   An empty list will confirm that you have no swap files enabled: Filename Type Size Used Priority Check the File System After we know that we do not have a swap file enabled on the virtual server, we can check how much space we have on the server with the df command. The swap file will take 256MB— since we are only using up about 8% of the /dev/sda, we can proceed. df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda 20907056 1437188 18421292 8% / udev 121588 4 121584 1% /dev tmpfs 49752 208 49544 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 124372 0 124372 0% /run/shm Create and Enable the Swap File Now it’s time to create the swap file…

About Linux Swapping Linux RAM is composed of chunks of memory called pages. To free up pages of RAM, a “linux swap” can occur and a page of memory is copied from the RAM to preconfigured space on the hard disk. Linux swaps allow a system to harness more memory than was originally physically available. However, swapping does have disadvantages. Because hard disks have a much slower memory than RAM, server performance may slow down considerably. Additionally, swap thrashing can begin to take place if the system gets swamped from too many files being swapped in and out. Check for Swap Space Before we proceed to set up a swap file, we need to check if any swap files have been enabled by looking at the summary of swap usage. swapon -s   If nothing is returned, the summary is empty and no swap file exists. Check the File System After we know that we do not have a swap file enabled, we can check how much space we have on the server with the df command. The swap file will take 512MB— since we are only using up about 7% of the /dev/hda, we can proceed. df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda 20642428 1347968 18245884 7% / Create and Enable the Swap File Now it’s time to create the swap file itself using the dd command : sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=512k   “of=/swapfile” designates the file’s name. In this case the name is swapfile. Subsequently we are going to prepare the swap file by creating a linux swap…

List of computer PSU form factors ATX PS/2 This is by far the most popular PSU form factor and is often called the “standard ATX PSU” Standard dimension for this form factor is: 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 140mm (D) PSU with depth longer than 140mm can still be considered as an ATX PS/2 model ATX PS/3 This form factor is compatible with ATX PS/2, the only difference is the shorter depth. Many have also called this the “Micro ATX” PSU form factor, which is incorrect as no such standard exists for power supplies. Standard dimension for this form factor is: 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 100mm (D) The depth for this form factor may vary from 100mm up to 139mm SFX This form factor is popular with small computer cases and is also often wrongly referred to as “Micro ATX” power supplies.  Because this standard is smaller than ATX PS/2 in all dimensions, it can be used in cases that support ATX PS/2 with simple adapters or brackets. Some retail SFX power supplies are sold with adapters included. Standard dimension for this form factor is: 125mm (W) x 51.5mm (H) x 100mm (D) There are variations for this form factor that have longer depth. Flex ATX This form factor is often used in small computer cases and is sometimes wrongly referred to as “Mini-ITX” PSU. Standard dimension for this form factor is: 81.5mm (W) x 40.5mm (H) x 150mm (D) There are variations for this form factor that have longer depth TFX This form factor is commonly…

To increase general awareness of PC users on motherboard sizes and form factors, the following outlines most known ATX motherboard form factors in a simple guide. Standard ATX (most of the time referred to as simply “ATX”) Standard ATX specifies length to be 12 inches with width varying from 6.7 to 9.6 inches. Maximum number of expansion slots is seven (7) Up to ten (10) mounting holes are available, although four of them are optional (circled in red)   ====== Form factors smaller than standard ATX motherboards ===== Retail motherboards smaller than standard ATX motherboards will always be compatible with cases designed for standard ATX form factor. In order of decreasing sizes, they are: Micro-ATX Micro-ATX specifies length to be 9.6 inches with width varying from 6.7 to 9.6 inches, it has three less expansion slots than standard ATX. Maximum number of expansion slots is four (4) Up to eight (8) mounting holes are available. The two holes circled in green are optional positions for motherboard manufacturers to utilize and holes circled in red are usually eliminated if the board size is small to not require them. Micro-ATX and ATX are the most common motherboard form factors   DTX  DTX Mini-DTX   DTX specifies length to be 8 inches with width varying from 6.7 to 9.6 inches. Mini-DTX specifically refers to DTX motherboards with a width of 6.7 inches. Compared to Micro-ATX, DTX has two less expansion slots. Maximum number of expansion slots is two (2) Up to six (6) mounting holes are available. The holes circled in red are usually…

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Introduction Syncing folders and files between computers and devices can be done in many different ways. One method for automatically syncing content isBitTorrent Sync. BitTorrent Sync is a method of synchronizing content based on the popular BitTorrent protocol for file sharing. Unlike traditional BitTorrent, files shared using BitTorrent Sync are encrypted and access is restricted based on a shared secret that is auto-generated. While BitTorrent proper is often used to distribute files in a public way, BitTorrent Sync is often used as a private method to sync and share files between devices due to its added security measures. In this guide, we will discuss how to install and configure BitTorrent Sync on two Ubuntu 12.04 VPS instances. Install BitTorrent Sync To begin, we will need to install BitTorrent Sync on both of our Ubuntu 12.04 instances. If you would like to install BitTorrent Sync on your local computer to allow you to sync with your server, you can find the binary packages here. BitTorrent Sync is relatively easy to install on Ubuntu 12.04, but it is not included in the default repositories. We can use a PPA (personal package archive) so that we can have access to a maintained BitTorrent Sync repository and manage it with our normal apt tools. Ubuntu 12.04 includes the PPA tools in a package called python-software-properties, which we can download through apt: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python-software-properties After this is installed, we can add the PPA that contains updated Ubuntu packages: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tuxpoldo/btsync Press "enter" to add the new PPA. Once the new repository…

Introduction WordPress is a popular CMS (content management system) that can help you get your site off of the ground quickly and easily. Sometimes, you need to host multiple, unrelated sites on the same server.This guide will cover how to host two separate WordPress instances on one VPS. They will each have their own domain name. This is different from setting up multisite.We will accomplish this through the use of virtual hosts. This guide will use an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS server, but other distributions should function in a similar way. Prerequisites This guide has a few requirements that are covered in-depth in some of our other articles. Before you begin, make sure you have completed the following: Create a new DigitalOcean VPS to host your WordPress sites. Complete the initial server configuration by following this guide.   Set up two domain names with DigitalOcean. Use this guide to learn how to set up domain names with DigitalOcean.   Install a LAMP stack on Ubuntu using this guide.   At this point, you should have LAMP installed on Ubuntu and both of your domain names should be pointing to your droplet.Ensure that this is the case by visiting your domain names in a web browser. Both domains should give you the same default Apache index page:If your domains do not lead to this page, then either you need to wait for the DNS changes to propagate, or you have misconfigured something in the previous steps. Do not continue until this is resolved. Download Wordpress When you are ready, log into your server and change to your…

Introduction Understanding networking is a fundamental part of configuring complex environments on the internet. This has implications when trying to communicate between servers efficiently, developing secure network policies, and keeping your nodes organized. In a previous guide found on myip.com, we went over some basic networking terminology. You should look through that guide to make sure you are familiar with the concepts presented there. In this article, we will discuss some more specific concepts that are involved with designing or interacting with networked computers. Specifically, we will be covering network classes, subnets, and CIDR notation for grouping IP addresses. Understanding IP addresses Every location or device on a network must be addressable. This is simply a term that means that it can be reached by referencing its designation under a predefined system of addresses. In the normal TCP/IP model of network layering, this is handled on a few different layers, but usually, when we refer to an address on a network, we are talking about an IP address. IP addresses allow network resources to be reached through a network interface. If one computer wants to communicate with another computer, it can address the information to the remote computer's IP address. Assuming that the two computers are on the same network, or that the different computers and devices in between can translate requests across networks, the computers should be able to reach each other and send information. Each IP address must be unique on its own network. Networks can be isolated from one another, and they can be bridged and translated to provide…

Introduction To protect your SSH server with an two-factor authentication, you can use the Google Authenticator PAM module. Every time you connect you have to enter the code from your smartphone.Attention: If you activate the google-authenticator for a normal user but not for root you can't login with the root user directly anymore. You will need to login as the new user first, then switch to the super user with the su command to get root.Before you do anything on your VPS, install the Google Authenticator application, it is available for Android, iOS and BlackBerry. Install the App using the market or use your mobile browser to go to m.google.com/authenticator. After this connect to your VPS and switch to the root user. Step One - Install Dependencies sudo apt-get install libpam-google-authenticator libqrencode3 will be installed automatically and will allow you to use the camera of your phone to scan the qr-code directly from the console. Step Two - Edit the Configuration Files To use the module you have to edit two configuration files. nano /etc/pam.d/sshd Add the following line on top of the file: auth required pam_google_authenticator.so One more file to edit: nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Find and change the following line: ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes Step Three - Activate the Two-Factor Authentication For a User You can activate the google-authenticator for the root user or any other user. Switch to the user who should use the two-factor authentication and type in: google-authenticator You will be prompted to answer a few questions; answer the first two questions with yes (y): Do you want authentication tokens…

vSphere 5.x does not allow operations to be performed directly on an ESX host managed by a virtual center. This error is given while connected directly to an ESXi server with vSphere client, attempting to resize a virtual disk on a VM (to add more capacity). However as this ESXi server and its virtual machines was managed by vCenter server, it would not let me modify its "resource settings" i.e. its disk size. There is a way to remove the host from thinking it was connected to vCenter. This is probably not supported by VMware and I do not support it but it works. 1. Connect to the ESXi server either on the console or via SSH 2. Edit /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg vi /etc/vmware/vpxa/vpxa.cfg Remove the whole vpxa section including <vpxa> and </vpxa> "d" <vpxa> <bundleVersion>1000000</bundleVersion> <datastorePrincipal>root</datastorePrincipal> <hostIp>123.123.123.123</hostIp> <hostKey>52e16e0d-07e4-366e-7bf6-73279af3c8f0</hostKey> <hostPort>443</hostPort> <licenseExpiryNotificationThreshold>15</licenseExpiryNotificationThreshold> <memoryCheckerTimeInSecs>30</memoryCheckerTimeInSecs> <serverIp>123.123.123.123</serverIp> <serverPort>902</serverPort> </vpxa> Save it ":wq!! 3. Restart the services /sbin/services.sh restart 4. Connect back to the ESXi server with vSphere client and it should now let you make the changes Note: I would very much assume at this point if the host was managed by vCenter you will have to disconnect and reconnect the host to push out the VPXA agent and config, otherwise you wont be able to manage the host via vCenter. As it happens the ESXi server I had this issue with was no longer managed by vCenter server as someone has rebuilt vCenter, but had not removed this host from vCenter before doing so. Before I did a fresh install of vCenter,I want to add some more…

If you start to get "413 request entity too large" when you upload files in your Pydio after you followed this QUICK FIX. It's probably because you are using Nginx and its setting is happy with the large upload. We need to modify it. Nginx configuration The client_max_body_size directive assigns the maximum accepted body size of client request, indicated by the line Content-Length in the header of request. If size is greater the given one, then the client gets the error "Request Entity Too Large" (413). To fix this issue edit your nginx.conf. Open the Terminal or login to the remote server using ssh client. Type the following command to edit your nginx.conf using a text editor such as vi or joe: edit the file: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf . if you are not sure about the file location (it might be a different name), find / -name "nginx.conf"   Add the following line to http or server or location context to increase the size limit in nginx.conf, enter: # set client body size to 8192M # client_max_body_size 8192M; Save and close the file. Reload the nginx webserver, enter: # /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s reload OR # /sbin/nginx -s reload OR use the following on RHEL/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu Linux: # service nginx reload Please check the previous QUICK FIX for PHP configuration modification.  

Pydio is a web based file manager, formerly known as AjaXplorer. You can take a look at the online demo (use demo as login and password). This contrib integrate Pydio with the SharedFolders contrib. If Pydio is installed, you'll see a new option in the configuration of shared folders asking you if you want to enable access to this shared folders through Pydio. some people encounter the error, "File is too big", when they try to upload a large file. The cause of this problem can be various. I've listed a few solutions that help solve the problem 1. Check and modify the settings in "php.ini" If you are not sure where is your "php.ini", type the following command to find out find / -name "php.ini" edit php.ini. Here I just use 8192 because I need to upload large ISO images. #This sets the maximum amount of memory in bytes that a script is allowed to allocate memory_limit = 32M #The maximum size of an uploaded file. upload_max_filesize = 8192M #Sets max size of post data allowed. This setting also affects file upload. To upload large files, this value must be larger than upload_max_filesize post_max_size = 8192M safe_mode = Off 2. Check the Uploader plugin settings in Pydio admin panel. This two steps should solve your "file is too big" problem. However, if you, then, encounter the error "413 Request Entity Too Large Error and Solution". You should click HERE to follow this QUICK FIX post.  

Introduction A basic understanding of networking is important for anyone managing a server. Not only is it essential for getting your services online and running smoothly, it also gives you the insight to diagnose problems. This document will provide a basic overview of some common networking concepts. We will discuss basic terminology, common protocols, and the responsibilities and characteristics of the different layers of networking. This guide is operating system agnostic, but should be very helpful when implementing features and services that utilize networking on your server. Networking Glossary Before we begin discussing networking with any depth, we must define some common terms that you will see throughout this guide, and in other guides and documentation regarding networking. These terms will be expanded upon in the appropriate sections that follow: Connection: In networking, a connection refers to pieces of related information that are transfered through a network. This generally infers that a connection is built before the data transfer (by following the procedures laid out in a protocol) and then is deconstructed at the at the end of the data transfer. Packet: A packet is, generally speaking, the most basic unit that is transfered over a network. When communicating over a network, packets are the envelopes that carry your data (in pieces) from one end point to the other.Packets have a header portion that contains information about the packet including the source and destination, timestamps, network hops, etc. The main portion of a packet contains the actual data being transfered. It is sometimes called the body or the payload. Network…

A fully qualified domain name (FQDN), sometimes also referred to as an absolute domain name, is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS) after registering a domain. It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone. A fully qualified domain name is distinguished by its lack of ambiguity: it can only be interpreted one way. incorrectly configured FQDN can cause mail server malfunction and many other problems.  Ubuntu/Debian: 1.you need to edit /etc/hostname server1 CentOS/Redhat: 1. you need to edit /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=server1.domain.com 2. you need to use 'hostname -F' to setup the hostname -F, --file             read host name or NIS domain name from given file hostname -F /etc/hostname 3. edit  /etc/hosts to setup FQDN 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost wan_ip server1.anydomain.com server1