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Yes, it's true that the private interface on Rackspace's Cloud Servers is on a network that is shared by others in your data center. I'm not going to take a stand on one side or the other about that; it is stated in multiple places on the website, but it's also still a bit misleading. What I will say, though, is that there are still security measures in place on the existing private network. IP/MAC spoofing is blocked, and there are some other measures in place that I'm not willing to divulge here.
However, our next-generation Cloud Servers, which are going into private beta on the 1st, will have private vlans for each customer by default using the OpenStack Quantum plugin. I believe that an API will also be available to configure and segment your private networks however you please.
Freyrs3 is incorrect. You are correct.
Percentage Calc Its about 4.38 hours technically.
Assuming the full Amazon downtime of 1 day, 14 hours from the uptime calc.. they owe 34 hours of downtime pro-rate.
However, Amazon is going to claim that as soon as the site was able to get "up", the downtime clock stops. Even if not every volume was accessible, etc. There are such loopholes in these contracts/SLAs. Reddit would be lucky to be compensated for half of that. (reading their SLA, its worse than I thought)
> If the Annual Uptime Percentage for a customer drops below 99.95% for the Service Year, that customer is eligible to receive a Service Credit equal to 10% of their bill (excluding one-time payments made for Reserved Instances) for the Eligible Credit Period.
It appears the max refund for any month is 10% of that month's service? Someone please tell me this isn't true. This is why I love Rackspace Hosting:
*Network: Five percent (5%) of the fees for each 30 minutes of network downtime, up to 100% of the fees;
Data Center Infrastructure: Five percent (5%) of fees for each 30 minutes of infrastructure downtime, up to 100% of the fees;
Cloud Server Hosts: Five percent (5%) of the fees for each additional hour of downtime, up to 100% of the fees;
Migration:Five percent (5%) of the fees for each additional hour of downtime, up to 100% of the fees.* From: SLA
you should use ssh keys for this. You can secure the ssh keys with a passphrase and then use an ssh-agent to save the passphrase so you don't have to enter it every time.
If you're in windows you can look at putty, pageant. It will also work with WinSCP and with some other things to make life easier.
This will not help with sudo to root. That is controlled with a local policy on the box and is an administrative decision. You can change the sudoers access to enable sudo to root with no password, you just add NOPASSWD: to the line that controls your access, but again it would be up to the site admins if this were allowed.
Use "visudo" if you make changes to the sudoers file. It protects you from making changes that break the syntax and lock you out of root.
Edit:
Here is a link to working with keys with putty:
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/generating-rsa-keys-with-ssh-puttygen
You don't need to write a script to retain and backup your logs. Use logroate, it already does this stuff and it's built in!
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/understanding-logrotate-utility
$2/Mailbox. 10GB Storage. IMAP/POP. E-mail Archiving available. You can also easily hybrid with Exchange if your execs need it.
Best support team I've ever worked with.
Great control panel.
Let me know if you have any questions.
I do not now, nor have I ever worked for Rackspace. I am a customer of theirs, and love their service.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
Not responsible for messing up your computer, although if you follow the instructions you should be fine. Instead of whatever.com use an unbroken line of text like 'trees' or similar. Requires computer restart.
I use this with my local servers so I can access them without having to memorize ip addresses. Example typing 'server1' in my address bar takes me to my first connected server, etc. Again this only works on the computer you change the host file on.
In case someone can't access pastebin here's the message:
>--- An update on the ongoing KG downtime ---
>Our apologies to all our users for the downtime and lack of updates on the situation. Here's the order of events from the last few weeks:
>- your kind donations paid for the next 12 months of web hosting.
>- BREIN lodged a complaint with our host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREIN
>- we are still online at this point. we began planning how to handle the situation, then...
> - an anonymous complaint to our domain registrar lead to suspension of our domain. this prevents your computer from translating karagarga.net into the IP address for our server.
>We have disabled access to the main website and tracker. The forum is still accessible with a workaround (see below). No data has been lost or leaked and we hope to see you all soon. > - KG staff
>--- To confirm this message is authentic you can check with our staff on various trackers, or try our IRC channel ---
>Forum note: get access by editing your HOSTS file and adding the line:
>94.75.228.133 forum.karagarga.net
>Keep a note that you've made this change, if we move server in the future you will have to undo it. Instructions here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
I think it's worth quite a bit, and therein lies the problem. Not much use for a mall-sized space, as indoor malls are becoming a thing of the past for the most part. The former Windsor Park Mall here in San Antonio sat empty for probably the better part of a decade before Rackspace bought it, and that was with the help of a good number of tax breaks. Interestingly, for a broad definition of the word anyway, the mall's previous too-small space is now a megachurch, and has been for probably 20 plus years. But most of them I think just sit until they're demolished.
There are too many variables to give a definite answer (sounds like something IT would say, right?).
Running 24x7x365 on true cloud infrastructure (NIST definition) is going to be more expensive than physical hardware, even with the price cuts. This applies to AWS, Azure, and Google. Just use any price calculator to see your monthly cost and figure the ROI on your physical hardware (adding in electricity, cooling, etc.).
Now there are some hosts that do not do "pure cloud" hosting but instead do VMs run in somebody else's datacenter (like RackSpace or Ubiquity Hosting) that are a lot cheaper for always on machines but do not have the "burst" capability or true cloud-based computing.
It isn't a simple answer and I see many spreadsheets in your future.
The You Can Run, But You Cannot Hide International has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Law Poverty Center. Currently, its website is hosted by Rackspace.net which is helping the group spread its anti-gay message to high school kids.
Rackspace.net may be contacted through this link. http://www.rackspace.com/forms/contactsales/ Please remain polite and sincere when asking if the company is aware of hosting a hate group's website.
The best, most reliable hosting, while providing a great value is linode (http://linode.com)
If you aren't able to handle your own shit (manage VPS servers in-house) you can't go wrong with Rackspace managed hosting (http://www.rackspace.com).
If you want to start slow and used a shared PHP host, Apis Networks has been good to me (http://www.apisnetworks.com)
Downvote me for this if you feel the need or recommend whoever else you feel necessary too.
But ,I say Reddit should migrate over to one of our hosting platforms at Rackspace Managed Hosting. I could go on a massive tirade about the reasons why but I can honestly say we already have a pretty straight and to the point explanation as to why you should choose us! Rackspace Managed Hosting
DO IT LIVE!
Packages like Minimal Hosts Blocker aren't Substrate tweaks - instead, they directly add lines to your device's "hosts" file. Since they're not Substrate tweaks, this update doesn't affect them.
No doubt. But even one server at a commercial hosting center can be more than that. For example RackSpace starts at $600/mo. If you are fortunate enough to have 100mbps coming into your home on a fixed IP, you could definitely run something like this on the cheap but reliability could be an issue.
Here is nice quick-comparison of the two.
In short, the two engines are built differently, giving you more optimal query performance in different situations. Furthermore, your ability to repair, recover data, etc varies from one engine to the other.
What do you mean your email is ran through Rackspace? You mean you're using Mailgun (http://www.rackspace.com/mailgun/)? Mailgun is pretty good, I use them. But another good one I've used in the past is postmarkapp.com.
There's a few others, but basically they just make sure their IP addresses are reputable and not blacklisted by any email providers.
But you can still get marked as spam even on a clean IP if the content of your email seems spammy.
If I were you, I'd sign up for litmus.com and use their deliverability tools. They do their own content analysis to determine if you might end up in the spam folder. They have a free, 7-day trial and that's enough time to test it out.
Do you need an actual mailbox, or just a platform for bulk sending, or both?
For bulk delivery I recommend Mailgun or Sendgrid. Mailgun is a full-blown API that allows you to programatically interact with outgoing and incoming email. Sendgrid is a platform you use via their website/API and SMTP/IMAP.
If you need a mailbox, I recommend Rackspace. You can get 5 for $10/month, but you should check and see if they have restrictions on bulk email.
http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/
$2 per month for their base email or $10 per month for an exchange account.
Voila, $10 max to get you're problem sorted!
Sign up for an account, re-produce the problem then call them, you're now BOTH ends so you can deal with everything yourself and not involve the customer at all, and they cant brush you off.
To elaborate on this:
-Install wordpress on demo.yourdomain.com
-Populate with a generic user/password for all clients demo/demo as the user/password
-Add some content, pages, plugins, etc that will establish base functionality
-Save a copy of the database after you're happy with your demo build
-Set up a cron job to run on the server every night at 3AM to restore said database.
-http://pastebin.com/G0mbvV5f (It will look something like this)
**Edit
If you're new to running cron jobs -- this is a good example:
Let me add a bit to what /u/rackerhacker said.
Collaboration and communication are very important skills for any role, but especially for entry level technical positions. You won't be expected to know the answer to every problem that comes your way, so being willing to admit that you don't know is a valuable asset that will help in any position.
Attitude is just as important as aptitude here. Every team is a bit different in the specifics of their interview process, but a general constant is that we look for a good culture fit as an important part of the whole. I would suggest taking a look at our core values if you haven't already. They tend to be much more than just words on a wall around here and should give you some insight into the culture you can expect.
One last piece of advice I would give is that there are many teams who may be hiring Linux admins, so if you don't get in on your first try don't hesitate to try for a different opening. I can tell you from experience that even as someone who was recruited, I didn't get hired for the first position I applied for.
Hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions.
>From a purely career
Unix - The jobs for it are normally better - They pay more, are at better companies and the bulk of them are not glorified help desk.
>learning perspective
Unix - The amount of tools/software/gizmos and what you can do with linux is insane.
Ex. Simple single instance scenario comparing a directory service
Windows Learning - "I want to run a Directory Service" - Follow This
Unix Learning - "I want to run a Directory Service" - Follow This
The latter forces you into things youve never done, i.e learning
You know, I normally don't pay too much attention to this sort of thing, but geez, there are an awful lot of middle-aged white guys on Rackspace's leadership team (http://www.rackspace.com/about/leadership). I bet there's an inordinate amount of talk about golf in that office.
I wouldn't say they'd be lucky... $1/dl for a 50 GB download is $0.02/GB, which is list price for some CDN services (For instance Rackspace - 5PB is only 100,000 downloads at 50 GB/ea). I'm sure a company like Rockstar is able to negotiate a better deal than list price, and when you're expecting millions of downloads of the same 50 GB file (Rather than a massive library like NetFlix has), you can do things like work with major ISPs directly to arrange for them to cache it on their side of the pipe, potentially cutting costs even more.
third result on the Google machine looking up "apache load balancer" http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/simple-load-balancing-with-apache
If you're looking to learn, you're gonna need to learn to be a bit more self reliant.
This guide lists the features tied to TCP Offloading and also makes it easier for you to roll-back if nothing changes. :)
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/disabling-tcp-offloading-in-windows-server-2012
Edit: on another note, this is just if the network performance is slow in the virtual environment. You say the virtual machines run slow in general? Maybe the assigned memory isn't enough?
One could just use rsync and copy the machine. Comes in handy when you need to migrate a machine that you have no physical access to, no recipes or configuration management and no backups. Clone to a VirtualBox or QEMU instance then you can migrate that disk image anywhere.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/migrating-a-linux-server-from-the-command-line-0 http://olivier.sessink.nl/publications/hotcloning/
Fix the legacyExchangeDN attribute / add X.500 addresses to the mailboxes corresponding to the failing name. See http://www.rackspace.com/apps/support/portal/6233 for examples--the relevant Google search keywords are: exchange x.500 address
No, don't use POP.
If you lose a hard drive, you'll lose your email, and syncing across devices is a pain. IMAP is a modern email protocol.
I recommend RackSpace or FastMail. They don't index your mail to show targeted ads, and you can call them for help.
I think your motivation for running your own mail server is to have a domain name of your choice for an email address.
No matter what, running a mail server incurs a cost beyond just some hardware and consumer-level Internet connection. You need a business Internet connection that can grant reverse DNS requests for a static IP, or rent a physical or virtual server. Point being: none of these costs is as low as using hosted email from a reliable service. example: http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/ $2/user/month.
You don't want a mail server you don't know how to diagnose when it breaks, and you definitely don't want one set up by a random person over a screen-sharing program... don't accept anyone who volunteers to fulfill your request.
Good luck on your design work.
>Should I use a VPS for this, or something like the Amazon EC2 hosting?
Same thing. EC2 is just a marketing thing.
>Each user will usually have their own database that they connect to (with the exact same schema however), and then the application helps perform simulations and querying the database etc.
That's a little confusing... where were you planning on hosting all these dbs? Yes they can be on the same server, but depending on how many dbs you're talking about it sounds like you need a separate db server. I should warn you, this is a design that will NOT scale well. If you don't think it'll ever go above 100 users, then you'll be fine, otherwise you'll be in trouble. A better design would be to store each user's data in the same db. (i.e. add a user key to the necessary tables.)
That being said, I don't recommend AWS. In your case I would make two recommendations:
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Microsoft Azure
Both are WAY easier to use than AWS and have great support for IIS/ASP & SQL Server. In your specific case I would recommend Rackspace. Why?
> I'll have to run this thing myself but I have no real experience with hosting a website, security etc. beyond getting a local instance of IIS up and running.
Good luck getting help (other than website) support from Microsoft. Rackspace it's easy to get someone on the phone, and if you have very specific questions, it's not hard have them get an engineer on the phone to answer specific questions. Yes, Rackspace is a little more expensive, but for a small MS server, it's not that much. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public-pricing/#cloud-servers
Disclaimer: Yes, I work for Rackspace. No I don't always recommend them. Look at my previous posts: I often recommend Dreamhost but they don't do much in the MS space. I play with Azure all the time too. Really easy to use but I'm not sure of the pricing.
Also, if you don't get much response here, try again over in /r/webhosting
A note, I'm a developer helping to build OnMetal (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/) for Rackspace that was announced this morning.
Open source isn't open if you don't know how to run it, so here's a blog post about how we're running Openstack Ironic to provide OnMetal.
Don't forget about Rackspace cloud files
The CDN is built in there, using the Akamai network which is arguably more impressive than Cloudfront. They also charge a flat price for storage and traffic.
I use that myself because I find the S3/Cloudfront combination messy to deal with.
One problem though: You cannot use only the CDN part like you can with Cloudfront, so no custom origins for your files
I would consider rackspace -- they're one of the bigger players in the hosting market and have built-in CDN support on their VPS management page that you can use (I think they use Akamai currently)
It might be worth looking into their "cloud sites" option as well if you're hosting a lot of wordpress sites -- I just use one of their smaller vps options, but I remember thinking the cloud sites might work well if you were hosting a lot of run of the mill stuff.
There are services like Rackspace that offer "unlimited cloud storage" for $0.15/GB/month (or $30/month for 200GB), which is probably cheaper than over-night delivery.
There is a pricing calculator.
One Server 2008 R2 w/ SQL 2008 R2 Web edition 2GB of RAM and 80GB with 218Gb of outgoing bandwidth breaks down to $199.84 USD per month.
Jungle Disk via Rackspace. 2GB = $0.30/mo + $5 per server. Automated, secure, incremental. You specify the encryption key.
Seriously I cannot recommend this service more. Yes, for your financial data. Its all good. http://www.rackspace.com/apps/backup_and_collaboration/data_backup_software/ Not to be confused with the cloud drive.
For future reference, this is much more of an engineering/development question and doesn't really have anything to do with data science. But since you asked I'll try to explain the best I can.
A cloud computing stack is typically made up of 3 layers, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infastructure as a Service (IaaS). On a nutshell:
• SaaS applications are designed for end-users, delivered over the web • PaaS is the set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying those applications quick and efficient • IaaS is the hardware and software that powers it all – servers, storage, networks, operating systems
Unfortunately that doesn't actually answer your question. It's likely that JPMorgan self-hosts all of their data but it's also possible that they keep some of their data in the cloud. If they were keeping their data in the cloud that would be an example of IaaS which really doesn't have any bearing on them using Apprenda's PaaS. JPMorgan apparently builds a ton of internal apps and Apprenda's system allows JPMorgan to develop and implement those apps via the cloud.
Rackspace has a great overview of the different layers of the cloud stack and should help further clarify the similarities and differences between them.
nevermind... what i was looking for is of course related to the windows hosts file. http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/modify-your-hosts-file
the thing though, is that I would rather make that DNS setup on my Netgear router rather then on my laptop alone... I wonder i Netgear can provide me with such a feature...
(what i mean by ext4) before you add a swap file, make sure your file system isn't btrfs. Good luck.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/create-a-linux-swap-file
how many threads of ngix are you running? edit: also, just buy some more ram from rackspace. don't cheap out man
You have connectivity but you don't have DNS. First try to ping 8.8.8.8 that's Google DNS. If you can ping it then try nslookup Google.com 8.8.8.8.
Check the article below to add DNS servers. Usually you can set your router as the DNS server. You can also use Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and Level 3 DNS 4.2.2.2.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/changing-dns-settings-on-linux
I believe you could, if you think OpenSSL is a better choice for your purposes than Win10's built-in IIS.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/generate-a-csr-with-openssl
DigiCert offers a free tool:
Add the hostname and IP address to your hosts file.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
It seems that DNS servers outside of Japan cannot resolve the hostname. Whether its intentional or some other issue, got me.
If you are on shared hosting you can peak in your error_log file to see if PHP is throwing a fit over something. If you are on a VPS using Ubuntu/Debian that log will be in /var/log/apache2/error.log. Edit: You can also check out your mail logs at /var/log/mail.log.
It's also possible your box is being flagged as spam due to incorrect SPF records. (Ref: http://www.rackspace.com/apps/support/portal/1212)
I would really suggest using a 3rd party mail sender like SendGrid, Mandrill, or Mailgun for any type of transactional email.
Is Facebook perhaps blocked in the hosts-file?
The browsers are up to date, but are all browser plug-ins up to date as well? Any plug-ins that seem unfamiliar?
Is grandma's antivirus program in use and updated?
Scan for malware with Malwarebytes Antimalware Free and / or Hitman Pro, just to be sure there isn't an infection present.
An update from their forum:
--- An update on the ongoing KG downtime ---
Our apologies to all our users for the downtime and lack of updates on the situation. Here's the order of events from the last few weeks:
your kind donations paid for the next 12 months of web hosting.
BREIN lodged a complaint with our host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREIN
we are still online at this point. we began planning how to handle the situation, then...
an anonymous complaint to our domain registrar lead to suspension of our domain. this prevents your computer from translating karagarga.net into the IP address for our server.
We have disabled access to the main website and tracker. The forum is still accessible with a workaround (see below). No data has been lost or leaked and we hope to see you all soon. - KG staff
--- To confirm this message is authentic you can check with our staff on various trackers, or try our IRC channel ---
Forum note: get access by editing your HOSTS file and adding the line:
94.75.228.133 forum.karagarga.net
Keep a note that you've made this change, if we move server in the future you will have to undo it. Instructions here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
=====
They posted this in the IRC channel: http://pastebin.com/deHQDjgd
> --- An update on the ongoing KG downtime ---
>
> Our apologies to all our users for the downtime and lack of updates on the situation. Here's the order of events from the last few weeks:
>
> - your kind donations paid for the next 12 months of web hosting.
>
> - BREIN lodged a complaint with our host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREIN
>
> - we are still online at this point. we began planning how to handle the situation, then...
>
> - an anonymous complaint to our domain registrar lead to suspension of our domain. this prevents your computer from translating karagarga.net into the IP address for our server.
>
>
> We have disabled access to the main website and tracker. The forum is still accessible with a workaround (see below). No data has been lost or leaked and we hope to see you all soon.
> - KG staff
>
>
> --- To confirm this message is authentic you can check with our staff on various trackers, or try our IRC channel ---
>
>
> Forum note: get access by editing your HOSTS file and adding the line:
>
> 94.75.228.133 forum.karagarga.net
>
> Keep a note that you've made this change, if we move server in the future you will have to undo it. Instructions here: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
Rackspace has a Racker Vet group internally, so there's lots of support internally for veterans :)
If you have specific questions, feel free to ask me. If you want to see the job postings, you can find them here: http://www.rackspace.com/talent/
If there's a specific REQ# you are interested in, PM me and let me know more about you, and I could send through a recommendation.
For hosted Wordpress, I'd like to recommend Pressable. Alternatively, if you feel like doing it yourself, you can always use Rackspace Cloud Servers. They offer a couple of different options but I'd recommend Managed Infrastructure if you are comfortable doing your own system administration.
Disclaimer: I'm a former Rackspace employee and know the good people at Pressable.
Rackspace has a DevOps offering you may want to look into. Your team could probably work with them as an extension of your own and have managed support. Their platform has some good features like a solid api, auto scale, cloud block storage, custom private networks, etc.
DNS caches for as long as you have it set to cache. "Up to 24 hours" is a cheap hosting company way of not providing support and hoping it will fix itself. I set dns to 3-5 minutes well in advance of making changes I may need to quickly revert and a week if I'm really comfortable with where things are located.
Look into editing your hosts file if you need to view the new site before DNS has propagated to your resolvers. Just be sure to change it back when your done. If dns is cached at your initial resolvers you can try switching to a new primary, but this isn't as reliable as the hosts file.
edit: Added link for hosts file
Easiest way to fix this is to add this line to your hosts file:
> 104.236.41.146 keychatter.com
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
Should be resolved by tomorrow regardless, sorry there's not an easier way right now
Rackspace has a hong kong datacenter. http://www.rackspace.com/about/datacenters
Hosted email is $2 a month I think, Hosted Exchange is a little more, they may work with you on pricing.
You don't ping with Arma - you need to use Windows Command Prompt.
The 'hosts' file is a plaintext list of domains and IP addresses that over-rides whatever DNS you are using. A corrupted or incorrectly configured file can cause problems.
Deleting it is not a problem as Windows will automatically recreate it on the next system boot. If in doubt, you can always back it up by moving it to a different folder.
IP Config renew makes your computer request new connection details from your router, and can mitigate some issues like IP conflicts where two or more devices have the same IP.
dig
You can get it here: http://www.isc.org/downloads/
It's under BIND. When you install BIND on a windows machine it will install dig as well.
Point dig at a specific dns server by doing something like this:
dig @10.0.0.1 www.example.com
Tell it to trace out the full run from the root servers like so:
dig +trace www.example.com
Other examples:
Okay so it's installed and running. Reset of the password is easy enough, or it should be
Follow THIS
Edit: make sure to only edit "mynewpassword" portion of the password line.
So it would be
>update user set password=PASSWORD("passwordhere") where User='root';
We have always been on some sort of hosted mail solution (first just a basic POP/IMAP provider, then Exchange from Intermedia, now hybrid Exchange/POP/IMAP from Rackspace). The ROI is very much dependent upon the amount of mailboxes and your organization's mail infrastructure requirements (HA, archiving, number of locations, etc). Rackspace has an ROI calculator that you can use for a quick glance at potential cost/savings.
When we first started using hosted Exchange, we only had ~50 mailboxes. We now have ~400 and greater requirements (archiving, user control over certain distribution lists, etc). So, we are at a tipping point on ROI. Rackspace does offer dedicated Exchange, but the costs go up pretty severely. Still better than running our own Exchange infrastructure and having to hire a full-time administrator for it.
We use Rackspace. They're not the cheapest, but they are quality. I'm not a developer, so I don't know the technical details, but from what I've absorbed they are pretty much the best in the business.
S3 isn't a CDN.
I like Amazon Cloudfront and rackspace cloud files, because it's simple to use (fire up cyberduck and copy things over) and it's powered by Akamai - which I could never afford directly.
To bounce off of what you said, the Google Apps way unfortunately isn't free any longer (though the small price is worth it!). If the OP is looking for a free solution, Zoho doesn't have all the bells and whistles but will get him by just fine. Rackspace also does email hosting for a smaller fee than Google Apps.
Add Pinion to your hosts file. This will make it so that when your computer attempts to access Pinion's motd server, it fails.
Sizzling Stats/logs.tf will be unaffected.
Here is a tutorial to open the hosts file. Once you have it open, then add the following line to the end of your hosts file then press Ctrl+S to save:
127.0.0.1 motd.pinion.gg
Sending prayers.
Regarding the DDOS. Have you ever considered using a virtual private server in the cloud? That way your family's internet will not be affected by any DDOS attacks.
God bless.
turn off ur hax
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
check the file based on ur operating system then remove the line that haxxors valvo into giving free hets
Change the hostname in CentOS - http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/centos-hostname-change
Are the A records for the 3 static servers defined in the zone file on the DNS server? Here a sample of a master zone file for a forward zone.
;-----------------------------
; Example data file for zone: sample.com
;-----------------------------
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA DNS1.sample.com. dnsadmin.sample.com. (
4 ; Serial 10800 ; Refresh 3600 ; Retry 604800 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Negative cache TTL
;-----------------------------
; NS Records
;-----------------------------
sample.com. IN NS DNS.sample.com.
;-----------------------------
; Resource Records for sample.com.
;-----------------------------
$ORIGIN sample.com.
$TTL 86400
DNS2 IN A 192.168.196.54
DNS1 IN A 192.168.196.53
obj00345 IN A 192.168.196.41
obj00346 IN A 192.168.196.42
obj00347 IN A 192.168.196.43
Also, When you query the DNS server with nslookup or dig, are you using the FQDN or the IP address?
What's your budget?
If your customers are willing to pay for a mailbox I strongly recommend being a Rackspace reseller. That includes great support, fantastic spam and phishing filters, and a super easy to use control panel for setting up mailboxes, domains, etc. http://www.rackspace.com/partners/
If you need free, then Google is your best bet.
Expanding on Thalagyrt's suggestion, you want to put nginx in front of Rails. But, more importantly, which application server are you using with Rails? The default is Webrick and it is not intended to be used in a production environment.
At the very least, add Thin to your Gemfile and it will replace Webrick.
Now, Rails listens on port 3000 by default, so you need to either change this port, or configure Nginx to proxy to this port.
Here's a walkthrough on creating this setup that gives you all the relevant configuration for a Ubuntu instance.
The key thing to keep in mind is to ensure that Nginx is listening on 843 which requires changing this line in the server block:
listen 80 default deferred;
to:
listen 843 default deferred;
Once that's done, and you have the security group allowing 843 to your instance you should be good to go.
Find your operating system in the list on the linked page, and replace whatever domain you want then to not access with 127.0.0.1. Most siblings will never think to look here to fix things.
So if you want them to not get to badwebsite.com, make an entry that looks like
127.0.0.1 badwebsite.com
And that should stop them from ever getting there.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/how-do-i-modify-my-hosts-file
As you already know Chef and are interested in OpenStack you should have a look at the cookbooks that Rackspace make available for installing it - here's a tutorial.
Rackspace Email would be an option. There's plenty of big name hosting providers that also offer a managed email solution for enterprise. Compare a few of those and pick someone that fits your situation.
Mongo could definitely be the solution, but you're going to need a lot of hardware because you'll want to shard all that data out (a billion is LOT to think about storing haha). But it's honestly one of the better solutions to what you're looking to do.
You could do this with hadoop, but it won't exactly be the "fastest" mode, but it's certainly not out of the question. Just don't expect real time results (nor should you from mongo). Hadoop is just a bit harder to get off the ground and understand fully, but scales pretty nicely.
Personally, if I were going on a project like this, I'd give mongo a much deeper look, but also price out some hardware for the end game scenario you're wishing to scale to.
Edit: Might want to look into some third party solutions for hosting that by the way. Full disclosure I do work at Rackspace so my two suggestions here are a bit biased.
For Mongo objectrocket is pretty awesome for the performance you get: http://objectrocket.com/
For Hadoop, Rackspace just launched their cloud big data platform you can apply for early access to: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/big-data/
Edit 2: And the only reason I suggest those is to handle scaling in a MUCH easier fashion. Not just trying to coax you for business (:
If you don't already have a monitoring system in place, you should get one ASAP. Looks like they have a package for a few dollars a month, which is well worth the trouble. Plus the clock usually starts when you notify them of the issue, so best to have a system to find issues quickly Http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/monitoring/
And load balances are orders of magnitude more stable than servers, usually running in a cluster configuration by default. They won't fix all problems, but they get you as close to 100% up time that you can using a single data center.
TL; DR; Single Server < Load Balanced Servers < LB servers in multiple datacenters
Monitor this page like a hawk. But I'm pretty sure Amazon is prepared for all scenarios. They've done well so far I'm sure they'll hold up. They'll probably be on generator for a while, though.
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/preparing-our-data-centers-for-hurricane-sandy/
Rackspace is also pretty well prepared, too.
I work for a national association and our site is running Drupal. I have it setup on Rackspace Managed Cloud. I have 2 cloud servers setup, one for production and one for development. It costs around $460/month at it's highest. One server should cost you around $280/month managed - $180/month unmanaged.
We've been super happy with RS and have had no issues whatsoever with it. Setup was crazy easy and their support is awesome.
I'm running it with 2 GB's of memory.
VPS's normally don't have a lot of storage, but 20gb ones are about 20USD and should be enough if all you need is a few videos, linode.com is good and reliable I also hear good things about http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/ who also have storage options.
Well not much I can do on this. It didn't happen in the US and I can't find the video from the original source (http://www.vice.com). If anyone comes up with the original video let me know. Seem that Vice.com is hosted by (http://www.rackspace.com/) so we can contact them about Vice having child porn if it's there on their site and we can contact the FBI about the site too. This might be an old video if the comments are right so I'm not sure about statutes of limitation or the legality and all in Europe. Worth attempting though. I'll keep searching for more information on this and on what can be done.
You need to tell us what technology your game uses. If it is simple enough you can get away with signing up to a cheap web host and have your game send and receive data via a web API.
You can also rent a server or buy a server and then rent rack space. The advantage to renting rack space is that you own the server and are just paying for electricity and space at a data center.
Buying your own server in the long run is cheaper but you alone are responsible for its upkeep both hardware or software wise.
Therefore, I recommend you rent since you don't sound like you have experience in the area.
You can try places like Rackspace or Hostgator. A VPS (Virtual Private Server) is probably best for something lightweight like a turn-based game.
Rackspace say they do cloud hosting for 1.5c an hour... if my calculations are correct - ((1.5 * 24 * 365 / 12) / 100) then they're only charging $10 per month for a cloud VPS server? Half price of linode! Even if this sounds too good to be true, it's too good to ignore as well! Do you have any reaction / thoughts?
I noticed that you guys used rackspace. As a racker, I feel honored that you use us :D
I highly recommend that you look into Rackspace cloud sites. The advantage is that it a manage service, hence you don't have to setup the server. Combine that with their Cloud Files service and you will have a bullet proof site.
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/sites/pricing/
I apologize for being so cryptic.
You're looking for a solution which will maintain 10GB of disk space (I would imagine more than that, especially for a music service) and transfer 50GB per month. This would require a fairly "big" solution, not only in services offered, but potentially in price.
People around here in /r/webdev seem to recommend Rackspace, so it may be worth taking a look at for this sort of thing, especially their pay-as-you-go pricing. My other suggestion would be to look at Amazon CloudFront, whose prices are very reasonable for something like this (you can use CloudFront to serve up the actual high-bandwidth music files, and a standard webhost for the PHP/MySQL as necessary).
But you're going to be hard struck to find 50GB transfer at a flat $8/month.
You want a social networking site. Front-end (what the user sees in the browser window) and back-end (what the server does when the user sends a message or uploads a photo).
The developer would need to know HTML, CSS, Javascript, and PHP at a minimum. (Now that I think about it, this seems like more of a job for a team of developers, given the scale of the project.)
Your hosting would need lots of bandwidth and lots of space. Facebook, for example, consumes more than 5TB per week in new photos (that's five thousand gigabytes). I've heard good things about Rackspace.
Rackspace bought Slicehost a few years ago, and incorporated their management infrastructure into their Virtualized hosting platform. Slicehost is migrating their customers to rackspace "c word that shan't be named" accounts by the end of the year.
Rackspace vm pricing is
- 256MB/10GB disk == $11/mo + $0.18/gb outgoing bandwidth.
- 512MB/20GB disk == $22/mo + $0.18/gb outgoing bandwidth.
Edit: pricing.
The thing is that unless someone uses bittorrent for the downloads, they'll use a minimum of about .45$ of bandwidth to download the bundle (that's for downloading the full games for only one OS, with no soundtracks nor any of the jack claw stuff). Unless their CDN isn't charging them normal rates, people who gift bundles under .45$ almost definitely cause a loss for whomever is paying for bandwidth; taking paypal fees into account, the point at which they break even might be even higher.
I use Rackspace's email offering. I think I pay $10 a month as a base amount (which comes with ten boxes) and a dollar per mailbox past that. I think the mailboxes are limited to 10GB but that really hasn't been an issue for me.
Here's a couple:
http://www.intermedia.net/products/lync-secure-chat-and-conferencing/pricing
http://www.rackspace.com/skype-for-business/
If you can't find a good standard host, my company can set up a Skype for Business system in a local ISP for you, customized the way you want it.
lol. Happy new year.
I could never bring myself to do it. But you could replace all your subreddits and bitcoin forums with a locally hosted reminder or a link to something work related...
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/modify-your-hosts-file
Maybe a script to block it for part of the day...
You know you have a real problem if you just reddit on your phone after that.
Something might have edited your hosts file, which can redirect URLs you're trying to access to other IP addresses. Maybe check that?
Here's some pages mentioning that malware can do this and how to lock the file against it happening again. Also how to find and edit it to fix the file. http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/modify-your-hosts-file http://www.thewindowsclub.com/hosts-file-in-windows
If anyone is having an issue with Browsy not showing up any ads on the main pages or the browser bar is stuck just loading make sure you have not edited your HOSTS file. If you have go back to it delete any entries and try again to load the webpage.
The HOSTS file stops any adverts from loading directly through the windows settings and works like an adblocker.
http://imgur.com/a/ZuKAi
Here are some links.
Access Owncloud webdav
How to use Rsync
Automate RSync
Gluster is powerful, but in certain cases finicky. I use it to maintain metadata across all nodes in my openstack deployments. Frankly it is a bit of overkill for this application. A simple Lsyncd configuration should be more than adequate. Rackspace has a pretty nice guide on setting it up.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/install-and-configure-lsyncd
Another option is to simply serve images from S3 in AWS, as mentioned by /u/perivane
There is also true clustered filesystems like OCFS2 but setting this up is often difficult and I have no idea what your backend storage looks like.
Its cool that you want to start learning and either this article http://www.rebeladmin.com/2014/07/step-by-step-guide-to-setup-active-directory-on-windows-server-2012/ or this one http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-active-directory-on-windows-server-2012 should help you establish an AD. Adding a machine is pretty easy... http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/win8/windows8-join-domain.htm
If you need any more help, let me know. Always like doing a fresh start, means I can create it how I want with no previous issues to work with, good luck.
Look into load balancers - rackspace has a cloud one link. Your DNS would point to the LB which then routes traffic to another ip (your rackspace web server). This is usually for splitting traffic/load across multiple servers but it can also be configured so that in the event of a downtime to your web server, it would route to another IP (wherever your maintenance page is hosted).
Alternatively, some DNS providers like dnsmadeeasy will have dns failover and updates your a record to a secondary ip when it detects the primary ip is down. But it sounds like you have no control of what dns provider they use, so this is probably not going to work for you.
You shouldn't need to do anything fancy to get the domain name to stay the same. On your backup server, just make sure you bind the domain name to the backup ip (this is a one time thing, not something you need to do each time the site goes down).
If you are on a computer add the following line to your "hosts" file.
185.31.19.193 i.imgur.com
If you don't know how to access and edit your hosts file here is a short tutorial.
This will basically cause your computer to connect directly to imgur server bypassing ISP filters. If you are on a phone however you would need to change your DNS settings.
Here's an article about it: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/disabling-tcp-offloading-in-windows-server-2012 I'd leave it disabled tbh. Haven't seen that happen before where you couldn't load MS sites.
This guy is probably pulling down 6 figures, not exactly online, though.
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/how-i-started-learning-python/
http://www.openstack.org/ is mostly in Python. Are you any good?
We had similar issues and ran through some of the chimney, TCP-offload, and RSS network settings.
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/disabling-tcp-offloading-in-windows-server-2012
What you want is called a 'split domain'. I haven't set one up, but I've read about e-mail providers offering it for clients that want to phase their e-mail migration over a long period of time, or splitting users between Exchange and POP/IMAP accounts. It may require in-house exchange. I don't know, but knowing the right term might help you to research the matter, more.
Intermedia: What Is A Split Domain (Exchange)?
Rackspace: Manage Split Domain Routing
I would keep your domain registration with GoDaddy and just move the hosting. Then for email you should choose an email provider.
For hosting a simple website, probably anyone is fine. A Small Orange you can get a single domain plan for 35/year.
For email you could use Google, but I recommend Rackspace. http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/ (2-5USD per email box depending on if you get archiving or not)
Both of those you'd be paying more for email than webhosting, but, you know how important good email service is and simple shared hosting is pretty similar.