I bought two VPSs from CloudCone, and both are on the same Host Machine. This approach lacks resilience because if the host machine fails, both VPS instances will go down simultaneously. I’ve asked the support to migrate but they said: I’m afraid migration is not possible in the VPS Servers because of their infrastructure 🙁 Continue Reading »
I’ve added the Colocrossing to the VPS Database. Colocrossing also provides the dedicated servers as well. I’ve two dedicated servers with them. Few things could go wrong with the dedicated servers and there are no problems such as Noisy Neighbours which could also affect a VPS (Virtual Private Server or sometimes called VM: Virtual Machines). Continue Reading »
One of my cloudcone servers was slow and laggy – I had to reboot it. However, it got stuck at the shudown-and-reboot phrase, so I had to issue a hard reboot. It took a few minutes for the server to reboot, and I managed to SSH to it. However, the server was at a high Continue Reading »
I have been a Vultr for a long long time (many many years). Vultr has offered a Free Tier Program. However, you have to register and get approved. Once approved, you can select a Free Tier instance at (Cloud Compute – Regular – Free Instance). Current Vultr users are likely to be approved for the Continue Reading »
I have 20+ servers, and I need to make sure they are safe, so here are the few steps I took to harden the security: Change SSH Port number you can configure Port XXX in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and remember to restart the ssd service to take effect: service sshd restart Disable root SSH login you can Continue Reading »