VPS & Dedicated

After experiencing heavy downtime on a server in a colocation facility, a business owner at this forum is considering hosting the server from his own office. While placing a web server in an office might perhaps make it more accessible to the owner, most offices do not have the right …

There are a number of DNS services out there, including a new offering by Google. Considering all the options available, which one is best? As far as I’m concerned, it boils down to one thing: speed. DNS Benchmark is a piece of Windows freeware that will measure the speed of …

You have already tried “yum clean all” and you still are getting dependency errors. These errors can only mean that you have something that is installed that should not be or you need manually install the dependency to whatever package you must have despite YUM‘s warnings. In case of the …

Nothing beats a good text editor, and sometimes it is just not practical to download a file, edit it on your computer, and then upload it back to your server. Furthermore, if you have SSH access to your dedicated server or web hosting account, why not use it? Linux offers …

Question: YUM is telling me I have broken dependencies. I can’t install anything. Help! Answer: Fiddling with your server can lead you to problems, very serious ones if it lands you in what is affectionately called RPM Hell. This usually happens when you download an RPM outside of your standard …

You may be aware that a VPS is simply a virtual dedicated server with a set amount of RAM and CPU power allocated to it, but how exactly is a VPS “built” ? As the name implies, virtual private servers don’t exist in physical form. You can’t go to a …

Question: Show I run X.org on my Linux-based dedicated server? Answer: When you are running a dedicated server, especially one with live websites, there is always a lot to learn. From domain name servers (DNS) to mail server configuration, you may find yourself with little time for anything else. One …

Since 2008, OpenSSH now has a feature that allows Linux system administrators to keep web hosting clients and other users out of system directories like /etc /bin /var, and others. In the past, admins had to rely on other packages, such as rssh. The process is called chroot, which essentially …

Question: I get an error on my server with apt-get, and it will not let me install any new packages. What should I do? Answer: Depending on the error, there are a number of solutions you can try. The first is to tell APT to resolve any unfinished transactions or …

Only one user should have the root password to a server, but since virtual private servers (VPS) can exist within a server, those users also have root passwords. Generally speaking, it is a bad practice to login to the server directly as root (administrator). Although SSH connections are encrypted, it …