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On Cloud 9
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24 years old
Birthday:
February 14, 1988
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London, UK
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Server Geek, Motorsport

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  1. In Topic: Anti Virus

    05 January 2012 - 11:25 PM

    its generally only required for PCI compliance

    however its still recommended either way, clamAV is a reasonable and free AV program available for most systems

  2. In Topic: New VPS can't resolve ANY hostname

    02 January 2012 - 02:26 PM

    check

    /etc/resolv.conf

    should have 2 or 3 lines like so (this is an example using Google's Public DNS:

    domain yourdomain.com
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4


    its very possible that the file is missing nameservers or the nameservers in there are broken (not the first time that vps.net internal nameservers have failed)

  3. In Topic: nginx + php-fpm

    02 January 2012 - 02:20 PM

    everything looks sane

    ignore the cached variable, thats linux foo :) it is managed automatically by the OS, in a nutshell its used to speed up the system, particularly FS based tasks it will automatically shrink (and grow) as your memory usage changes, the second line is actually the one you want to look at:

    -/+ buffers/cache: 426 2148

    your only using 426MB ram for everything, and you have 2148MB free for new processes etc

  4. In Topic: FTP Server

    31 December 2011 - 09:03 AM

    vsftpd is generally quite secure and simple

    one note to make though - make sure you enable chrooting if you can for logged in users

    vsftpd uses unix accounts, so giving a user an account on the server with the specified home directory will give them ftp access, to block ssh access just set there shell to something like /bin/nologin or similar

  5. In Topic: Varnish Cache

    31 December 2011 - 09:01 AM

    View Postboeki, on 10 December 2011 - 05:44 PM, said:

    i use varnish (from unixy) as a front-end to apache.

    it caches the pages served by apache and serves page requests from its cache until the cached pages expire (2 minutes).

    it has significantly dropped load off of my cpanel servers.


    i'd increase the expire time a little for more performance!

    also if your using something like wordpress, make sure you have something that can purge varnish caches when you update posts :)

    in WP - the w3 total cache plugin can purge varnish pages for you on posting :)

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    Cor van Noorloos 

    24 May 2010 - 17:45
    Hello Anthony, Without bumping this post [url]http://www.vps.net/forum/public-forums/technical-discussions/2580-vps-net-maxcdn-w3-total-cache-some-newb-cname-difficulties/[/url] I just wanted to thank you again for your support and letting you know VPS.net support has updated my settings.
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    Jono73 

    21 Nov 2009 - 12:25
    Hi Anthony Oh dear - on the day I sat down with my credit card and was to join VPS.net and move a load of shared hosting over this downtime occurs. Should I think twice or plough on? I was gonna go via your affiliate link by the way! Jono PS, Affiliate is spelt wrong on your somersettechsolutions.co.uk page - just thought i'd let you know...
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