steviewdr

Well I use Xen, a lot. So much so, I have all my services broken out amongst 3 vm's. Dom0 (running solid and very capable on 128mb of ram) can then monitor to see if a domU has OOM'd etc. destroy the vm and create a new vm instance. Of course there is a lot of setting up in that. -steve

I don't know about plesk, however most *nix systems have a logrotate script which gets run as part of a cron job. The logrotate script compresses old log files so they only take up a fraction of the space. Logrotate also removes very old log files. -steve

See monit. http://www.debianadmin.com/monitoring-debian-servers-using-monit.html Its probably on apt for ubuntu also. The problem I foresee is, that if your server OOM's (runs out of memory) then the monit service itself will have its memory squeezed and could stop as wekk. -steve

Training Videos made for particular software can cost $$$$$. Protecting these from been circulated on the Internet is big for these companies who make video training. I've seen DRM been used, however its fairly weak also at this stage. Also, you can easily use a screen recorder and a jack plug from your speakers to your mic and record the video. -steve

In my opinion unmanaged means: Any technician from the hosting company will not log on to your server or fix something for you. The should provide some level of support! Especially when they are using virtuozzo containers. I'd ask them and see. Make sure your first question is, "How much would it cost" in case they do try to slap a charge on you. If they're still not going to help you, start googling yourself for virtuozzo etc. -steve

Ah - I see. Well your best bet would be to contact your hosting company about virtuozzo. They should know the answer straight away. You might not be able to edit the file directly. You'll probably have to use some GUI within virtuozzo to change the settings. -steve

Good idea about the hosts file. Didn't think of that. Could you stream a video down to the client? I've seen videos streamed to the client and havn't been able to get a handle on the end file (as the end file is never copied onto the clients pc, its streamed). -steve

It should be easy enough to fix the syntax errors. What errors are you getting when trying to start httpd? -steve

Encode it as a flv. Code it so the flv will only play with a certain domain name. e.g. test.flv will only run if its residing on www.domain.com/test/flv -steve

Worth a look: http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_open_source_community_edition.html -steve

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ -steve

chown can only be done by root (not by apache, not by php). You'll need to get your php script to chmod 777 the files so you can delete them. -steve

Do you not have support with your license of RHEL? A quick google led to: http://openconcept.ca/upgrading_php_and_mysql_on_red_hat_enterprise_edition Quote from above website: "Enterprise installs of Linux promise well-supported and rock-solid combinations of software packages.The problem with upgrading the software on an Enterprise install is that the built-in program management system only lets you upgrade and install the limited selection of packages and versions that make up that particular distro." Once you install/upgrade php and mysql and go a non RHEL route, the onus is on you to keep it patched with security updates. -steve

Indeed, that mybench script is old. It worked fine for me, albeit I just ran it twice to quickly compare the performance of 2 mysql servers. Anyways, if you want to do some real testing of your server take a look at: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-benchmarks.html -steve

Glad you got it. Thanks for letting us know how you sorted it. *steviewdr marks this topic as solved -steve

It could be the MySQL database. Typically shared hosting servers have fast mysql db's, where as a dedicated server has to use its own. Try this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mybench -steve

A very basic example can be seen here: http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Apache#Apache_Rewrite_via_mod_proxy -steve

You could use frames. To be honest, you need to use Apache mod_proxy. A *lot* of companies block unknown ports such as 1234 and 5678. I know a few companies and they only allow outgoing traffic on 80 and 443. You can setup apache to act as a front facing webserver on port 80 which will seamlessly pass on requests to another server on a certain port. -steve

"Free Dynamic DNS and Port 80 Redirection Provided by No-IP.com Why am I seeing this?" Because your using some No-IP service to quietly redirect people to your server IP. Go "View Source" in your browser and see what the code looks like. -steve

What files are on the server? You said "currently got a server acting as a file server". Where are the files on the current server? /home/users? Setup the new computer. Install ubuntu on it. Copy the files from your current fileserver onto the new server. look into rsync for copying across the network. -steve

Setup new server in raid config. Install base os. rsync over /home /var/mail and other folders. If you don't want to have to install an os on the new server, but copy everything over, take a read of: http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Install_and_Config_Base_OS#Migrate_from_LVM_based_to_LVM_based_Partition It'll require a bit of work. Put a livecd in the new server. Setup raid on it. It'll be /dev/md0. Run the following command: nc -l -p 7000 | dd of=/dev/md0 Put a livecd in the old server and run: dd if=/dev/md0 | nc newserver.ip.address 7000 -q 10 Might take a while, but should work ok. Again thats only 1 option of many. -steve

I have apache2 serving out multiple ssl vhosts from the one ip, using a wildcard ssl cert. See http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Apache_2_%26_SSL_-_PHP4_-_MySQL_4.1 for my config. Also, the reason you got that server mismatch error is: *.domain.com ssl cert covers: www.domain.com mail.domain.com anyvhost.domain.com It will throw an error for http://domain.com however, as the ssl cert is for *.domain.com -steve

Bare-bones server? Is it a cd you want people to run ontop of their OS? OR a live cd (where they reboot their pc?). I made a custom cd which autorun apache on windows. I made it years ago, and it worked on vista even. You could also look at xampp. -steve

I use winscp to transfer files to my server. Your FTP program may be able to do it also. You would have to choose the "SCP" option on it however. -steve

Log response time? Just setup httping. -steve