A VPS or Virtual Private Server is a virtual machine hosted by a VPS provider and accessible only via the internet. It may also be called VDS or cloud server. The most common VPS types are OpenVZ, KVM, Xen and VMWare.
Questions tagged [vps]
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Remotely access postgresql database
I need to access a postgresql database from a remote machine on a VPS at DigitalOcean running 12.10 and postgresql 9.1.
How do I do this? I noticed port 5432 is closed, how do I open this?
Øyvind
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Trying to start nginx on VPS, I get "nginx: unrecognized service"
Following the How to install rails and nginx with passenger on Ubuntu tutorial from DigitalOcean.com, the seventh step manually starts nginx:
sudo service nginx start
but fails with the following error:
nginx: unrecognized service
Marius Butuc
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What server control panels are available for Ubuntu Server?
As a dedicated Ubuntu server or as a VPS, I am looking for a web control panel, something like cPanel which is something like a web administrator for a server.
I have not used any on Linux since I do everything through the terminal, but still want…
Luis Alvarado
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How can I run Dwarf Fortress in text mode (ncurses) on my Linux VPS?
I installed Dwarf Fortress on my Linux VPS to use with dfterm. It's running Ubuntu 10.04 Server x86-32. I'm fairly certain I have all the dependencies:
I've installed:
ncurses
ncursesw
libsdl
libsdl-image
libgtk
libglu
libopenal1
I had to turn…
Macha
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How do I delete ALL SSH known hosts?
How do I delete ALL SSH known hosts?
I've managed many VPSs before and I want to delete these keys.
ravagingbacon
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What is the named daemon and why is it running?
I want to know why the named daemon is running, do I need it running for my VPS to work properly ?
Can I stop or remove it ?
HackToHell
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Easy method of switching from Openvpn-Acess Server to Community Edition?
I recently installed the OpenVpn-Access Server on a vps and it's great. However, now that I got it running I want to switch over to the Community-Edition because I do not want to deal with purchasing licenses and I think the C.E. will do everything…
Chev_603
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Why did my upgrade to 12.04 fail with "glibc not found" or "libc6" or "requires kernel 2.6.24" error?
I upgraded my server installation form 11.04 to 11.10, then to 12.04 over ssh. All seems almost ok - but there is a small issue with glibc, which is messing up my apt.
I tried sudo apt-get install -f but it does not get what it needs. I am running…
Billy Moon
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Best Way To Learn How To Set Up OpenVPN On Amazon EC2/a VPS?
What is the best way to learn how to set up a VPN using OpenVPN on an Amazon EC2 server/a VPS? What level of proficiency is required in Linux System Administration for this?
JFW
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sshd response "Exceeded MaxStartups" while connecting
We have a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) server that is open to world with ssh port 22. (I know that this is a bad idea, but fail2ban is running also on this server just for this reason.) Recently, the server started a behavior of suddenly using high…
FedKad
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Can't store passphrase in same session with eval $(ssh-agent) && ssh-add
In Ubuntu 16.04 I executed:
eval $(ssh-agent) && ssh-add
I got:
Agent pid 3361
I then SSH tunneled into my VPS successfully, after inserting my passphrase.
The problem:
Well, it's not that much of a "problem", but:
I went back to my local…
user423047
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1 answer
Can't connect with VPS running Ubuntu server 16 with x2go
earlier today (or yesterday -_-) I've rented a VPS (from aruba cloud) for a personal project. I've managed to establish SSH connection in putty so I can run shell commands alright. What I want to do now is get access to my VPS's graphical interface.…
Verrierr
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Invisible processes using all of system memory
I have a VPS (Ubuntu 14.04) with 512MB of RAM. This used to be quite enough, but for a while, this has been causing problems -- something is eating up all of that memory, and my debugging has left me clueless.
I have turned off Apache, MySQL, etc,…
forresthopkinsa
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PHP-FPM eating memory & Creating many Pools
I set up my nginx with php-fpm. Each vhost has its own unix-socket and separate POOL.
But the problem is that php-fpm is creating 7 thread for each config pool that I created in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/
Why? And how could I define that the pool creates…
r004
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Is the "linux-firmware" package actually required on a XEN VPS?
This package is half a gigabyte so I'd like to determine if it's truly needed.
I'm having trouble understanding why it would actually be required on a VPS, and no other packages depend on it, however, I'm still worried because if removing it somehow…
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