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Virtual Private Server - a virtual machine running off of shared hardware, offered as a service by a hosting provider.

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Completely restore centOS 7 as it was on first installation ( Factory Reset)

I am running cpanel on my CentOS VPS. but now i need to uninstall cpanel from my server and trying to uninstall it. According to experts its difficult to do that because cPanel/WHM makes huge changes in OS core. So, now i just want to reset the…
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Why is my systemd journal not persistent across reboots?

I'm experiencing a very weird issue with a fresh Fedora 21 image on a Linode instance. I cannot reproduce it outside of Linode. The issue is that my systemd journal is not persistent across reboots. According to the documentation: By default, the…
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Disabling ssh password authentication does not work on my debian VPS

I have a Debian 7 VPS setup. I just enabled SSH Key authentication and disabled password authentication but the disabling did not work. When I attempt to SSH into my VPS, it prompts me for my SSH Key password which then works fine, BUT if I hit…
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Securing VPS against access by server company

I have a few linux VPS boxes that contain the private keys to Bitcoin. I've taken a few steps to harden them: Blocked all ports except those needed for my server with uncomplicated firewall Disabled login with password; setup SSH keypairs; disabled…
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Sony (and my VPS hosting) blaming me for attacking their servers by my VPS. How can I find out what happened?

Yesterday, my VPS hosting provider blocked my network in and out of my VPS, because they received abuse notice from Sony Entertainment, claiming that the IP of my VPS was attacking their servers. In the email, they said it was just 1 hour, but…
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VPS, VPN and Policy Routing in Linux

I am looking for a way to configure my VPN on my VPS in a way that my SSH connection will go through regular network, but all other traffic that goes out of that VPS will go through VPN. I decided to use policy routing for this. I've added a new…
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yum - No package httpd available (new VPS)

So I have a new VPS that only has the bare bones. Not what I was expecting at all and I may be well past my depth but I'm trying to get the essentials running. The host is Swedish and aggressively unhelpful. uname -a output: Linux myhostname.com…
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VPS/Cloud configuration management automatization for small environments

What would be an appropriate tool/approach for configuration management of a relatively small number of VPS/VMs (1-5). Even though it's a small number I'm a big fan of "nuke 'n boot" in case of any problems and therefore need to be able to setup a…
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Use Public IPv4 on Linux Network Namespace

I am using a VPS and gotten an extra IP address. I am trying and failing to assign the second IP address to a separate network namespace. Lets say my main IP and netmask is x.x.133.39/23 and my secondary IP assigned is x.x.137.159 and default…
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Why is my CentOS 7.4 on kernel 2.6.32?

I'm paying for a VPS which is running CentOS 7.4: # rpm --query centos-release centos-release-7-4.1708.el7.centos.x86_64 # cat /etc/centos-release CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) # uname -a Linux vps1 2.6.32-042stab120.16 #1 SMP Tue Dec 13…
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OpenBSD cannot find host names

I have an OpenBSD instance under vultr. I installed OpenBSD 5.8 and I can ssh into it just fine. But I can't seem to use pkg_add, ftp, ping or any other internet-dependent program. For example, I've tried using ping; it works when pinging 8.8.8.8,…
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speed up linux server

On my VPS, I have centOS 6.5 installed with 2 virtual cpu 2048 MB memory, 60 GB disk and 300 GB monthly data. Doing a speed test today resulted in 168.62 Mbit/s dload and 37.39 Mbit/s upload. Then my own speed at home computer is woeful at dload…
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How to manage authentication with multiple VPS's and GoogleApps?

I have a bunch of VPS's and every now and then I have to create another. Currently I use AWS, Rackspace and DigitalOcean as my IAAS providers. Most of them are Ubuntu-based. Besides, I have the users managed by Google Apps. For each of the created…
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Ubuntu 12.10 - setup a user, when ssh login gives me /etc/bash.bashrc: Permission denied

I setup a user on my Ubuntu 12.10 server named "deploy" and I believe i added the user to the sudoers properly. However, whenever I SSH into the server with this user, I get: -bash: /etc/bash.bashrc: Permission denied What would cause this…
Joel Grannas
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I've cloned my VPS content incl. domain into a new VPS with new IP but "Refused to connect to the site webscraping.pro"

I've cloned my VPS content into a new VPS with new IP ( OS: Centos 7) but "Refused to connect to the site webscraping.pro" or "Refused to connect to the site 178.208.88.6" The tech support cloned site from old VPS (IP 185.221.154.249) to the new…
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