Last night I was able to upgrade Debian 8 to Debian 10 from the command line, using a tutorial of Mashiro's:
https://post4vps.com/Thread-Easy-way-to-...-Debian-10

To say the speed increased, is understating it.  Debian 8 performance was OK and normal fast.  But after the reboot, the performance of my VPS was like lightning in comparison. How come?

So what was there in Debian 10 that made the VPS perform so much faster (and possibly more efficiently) than Debian 8 did.  Again, Debian 8 was doing OK.  Not as fast as Debian 9 that I was using yesterday.  But Debian 10 for me is a total surprise.  A nice one!  

I should check out tutorials for Debian as well.  Like it's not that difficult to use Debian so far coming from CentOS as all I do is replace yum with apt-get, and Google has an answer for everything.  But would be nice for me to have a closer look with a quality how-to tutorial.

Over the last few days of tutorials I just come to experience first hand how many iffy and rubbish tutorials there are out there under really good and what seems to be reliable names. Like maybe the tutorials are mostly used as a cheap means of advertising the business. They are not that complete and can put one on the wrong path very easily, particularly if one takes them seriously.

For me today, the question is whether those who play pubg like to play with the phone or with the computer. Note only pubg mobile not pc.
[font=MsYekan, Tahoma]I have been playing with the computer for more than 6 months, as you can see in the picture below. Unfortunately with PC the quality of the game comes down but you can fight better.
I recommend this game to everyone and friends who want to know how to play with the computer should send me a private message to guide them.


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I've been quite busy over the last two days with a project to install a Web Server and a WordPress blog without a panel. Took a lot of study and learning, and in the end the only thing I couldn't sort out was the permissions for WordPress. The plugins didn't come up when I worked in the dashboard of my WP installation.

I installed a LAMP Stack on CentOS 7:

Webserver httpd
Disabled SELinux
MariaDB server
phpmyadmin
php 7.3
Ioncube
WordPress

Felt quite funny to be working from var/www/html instead of home/admin/web/..... The first part went OK. I was able to get a Website up easy.

Challenge came with Wordpress. I was happy I could get it up and running. Once installed, when the install windows came up promptly when I typed in my URL. With the database info I provided (installed with MariaDB from command prompt), WordPress was not too happy - it could not create the config file automatically but prompted me to create and upload it manually. And that worked out OK. Problem came with trying to download plugins. The plugins wouldn't come up for selection. I was able to install them manually through uploading zipped folders from my computer. But was unable to update them, or create new ones directly from WordPress. Something went wonky with the permissions.

In all of my previous installations all I had to do was to provide the following simple chown command after installation of WP so that plugins could be installed and updated from the dashboard:

chown admin -R *

However with the installation of Apache through command line, it can't find the user "Admin". So I now wonder what I need to do to be able to use:
chown admin -R *

I then Googled this to death - tried all kinds of other things - none of which helped:

chown apache:apache /var/www/html
chown -R apache /var/www/html/

I finally followed the suggestion in this recommendation - which I think broke my WP site in the end:
https://www.ryadel.com/en/set-file-syste...s-7-chmod/

Created a script file that I uploaded to the root of my var/www/html folder with this bash command:


And I think it broke the WordPress installation as I was no longer able to get in.

So does any one know what I need to do to get chown admin -R* to work? I.e. create admin?

I'm going back to VestaCP temporarily, so I can check the conf files.

I need some command for mariadb I think to make wordpress happy. Give it permissions. At least WP had a workaround with getting me to upload the wp-config.php manually. But that was the first hickup.

I also need a command for setting up admin to work with wordpress.

Hello, I am creating an emergency project for available covid resources in my area. The main feature is users can find using their Pincode it is that simple.
I have started building it yesterday, and need your review for this app. Thank you.

Here is a screenshot of the app -
I am releasing this app tomorrow hopefully. Please let me know your valuable opinion. Thank you.
   

This discussion is a tribute to @fitkoh who was successful in installing an above average quality minimalist free hosting service to members of gigarocket.net.  Gigarocket.net stopped providing hosting to its members in December of last year.  So fitkoh came up with his own minimalist solution.  For me it was brilliant in its simplicity.  During the development of his project I had plenty of correspondence from him that I feel needs to be documented here.  Just in case someone else wants to try something similar.  He was basically using three small VPSs from RackNerd (he won these in a competition) with a free dot.design domain.  

Fitkoh invited me during December to be a "guinea pig" and I'm so glad I participated as presently my CyberPanel User Account with him is the fastest and most efficient hosting account I have.  Now that I've created my own CyberPanel installation I understand how expert an Admin Fitkoh must be as every detail in his setup is excellent.  To get all three of the micro VPSs to talk expertly to one another and to increase instead of decrease speed and performance is an art bar none.  

fitkoh Wrote:My goal when I began this project was to create a shared hosting alternative to gigarocket that was comparable in quality, without the significant cost/overhead. To me, the best thing about it is it's 100% free. The domain was from a free porkbun promo. The vps from racknerd giveaway. The software is FOSS. And yet, in spite of the zero cost associated with it, it's remarkably high quality, simple, easy to use. Perfect? Not by a long shot. Will it ever be able to grow to the size of gigarocket? Doubtful. Yet it's doing exactly what I planned for it to do: high quality free shared hosting.

fitkoh Wrote:These aren't high spec vps with multi-core dedicated cpu and tons of disk space, so I was trying to figure out a way to increase the scope of the shared hosting potential without exceeding the boundaries. Seeing that cyberpanel does remote database, I thought that if I split the services, I could potentially double the scope... and WOW I was stunned. The speed that wordpress moved on the backend was really something. Like when loading plugins/themes they just pop right up. I thought that using a remote database was going to make the service slower, due to the latency between the web server and db server. I was very happy to be wrong on this occasion. That was when I looked and saw that both of the vps are on the same node. The ping time between the db and web server is ~.3ms, or .0003 seconds. That's why it's so fast. Usually wordpress hits a bottleneck when loading from the database, but with the db having its own cpu, and not responsible for doing anything else (unless I happen to be logged into webmin), it can really look up and serve those records incredibly fast - faster than the web server can with everything else it's trying to do.

Fitkoh Wrote:The only real ceiling is the size of the server. These are micro vps instances. They're built on solid hardware (Ryzen 9 cpu, NVME disk, ECC DDR4 RAM) but still small. Each vps has only 15gb of disk which is the main limitation to what you can do with it.

The database is tricky. Because it's a remote database, cyberpanel doesn't manage it or warn me when disk is approaching package limits like it will for user files, so it will take careful monitoring to maintain its health.

The service is distributed between 3 vps.

s0 runs OpenLightSpeed WebServer + cyberpanel
s1 runs mariaDB + webmin
s2 (still in development) has OLSWS + cyberpanel with local db, and to be used to run the landing site for the service.

I have just successfully installed CyberPanel in my quest to find a good alternative to VestaCP.  The verdict is still out there as I get to know it better, but I thought I would share the requirements and steps for those who are also interested to install CyberPanel.  The steps are for use with CentOS.

Requirements
You can work through the requirements on the CyberPanel Installation Website:
https://cyberpanel.net/docs/installing-cyberpanel/

According to the Website the OS requirements are: Centos 7.x, Centos 8.x, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04

However I found that Centos 7.x is probably not ideal.  Reason being that CyberPanel works with high-end Python, so Centos 8.x is better.  Probably the same would apply for Ubuntu.  CyberPanel seems to be a very up to date script that works on the high-end side of requirements.

CyberPanel also has the following requirements:

Python 3.x
1024MB or above Ram.
10GB Disk Space.

Please note that the above specs are checked during the installation process.  So don't try to install CyberPanel without having the above specs on your VPS.

Free vs Premium version of CyberPanel
Initially I thought there would be two different scripts for the free and paid version of CyberPanel.  But there is only one script.  During installation you will be asked whether you want the one or the other.  For a comparison of the two you can check the above cyberpanel.net Website.  The free one is referred to as CyberPanel with OpenLiteSpeed.  And the paid one as LiteSpeed Enterprise.  I'm not sure what the difference is between free and paid as the free version is excellent.  Possibly it could be that the LiteSpeed Enterprise version is much better supported.

Installation Steps
1. As previously mentioned.  CyberPanel works on the high-end of Linux available technology, so best is to start with a clean install of CentOS or Ubuntu and the most up to date version you can find.  In my experience it is better to use a Minimal version of the OS as the Panel Script will be loading all the software you need.  So the only software you should make sure to load is Python. To install it on CentOS 8 you need the following command:


2. Disable SElinux
Next step needed is to disable SElinux as per the commands below:

Set SELINUX=disabled

It should look like this:




Ctrl X - Y for Yes - and then Enter key

For SELINUX=disabled to take effect the VPS has to be rebooted.  Note that when OS is reinstalled in future, SElinux will remain disabled on the VPS.

3. Install CyberPanel
Use the following commands to start the installation script:


4. During the installation process first question asked is to choose one of the following:

Quote:1. Install CyberPanel with OpenLiteSpeed.

2. Install Cyberpanel with LiteSpeed Enterprise.

3. Exit.

If you want the free version, select Option 1.

Next you will be asked whether you want FULL or CUSTOM install.  FULL is probably ideal to get the full benefits of cyberpanel, also of course full benefits of headaches.  I prefer minimal and chose Custom which helped me to opt out of FTP, DNS and e-mails.

It took quite a while for the script to load after that.  Compared with VestaCP VestaCP loads in a fraction of the time, and never fails.  My first attempt at installation of CyberPanel with CentOS 7 failed due to Python issues.  But with CentOS 8 I had no issues at all.  I also had a Website up and running within minutes after the installation of CyberPanel was completed.  Note that you don't need to add on any domains.  Don't look for that tool once you're in the Panel.  Go straight to "Create Website".  And CyberPanel will take care of the rest.  If you want to create a WordPress site after that, after you have created the Website, scroll downwards and you'll see the WordPress Icon.  Takes about one minute (no kidding) to have the WordPress site up and running.

Assistance
You can check this post4vps discussion about CyberPanel, particularly if you have issues with installation of e-mails.  Here is a link to @tiwil's post in the discussion about how he was able to have success with e-mails with CyberPanel:
https://post4vps.com/Thread-CyberPanel?p...4#pid39214

You can also check CyberPanel sources below:

Website : https://www.cyberpanel.net
             Forums  : https://forums.cyberpanel.net
             Wikipage: https://docs.cyberpanel.net
             Docs    : https://cyberpanel.net/docs/

I've been having issues with changing my port number.  With OS CentOS 7 x86_64 Minimal v2 although I think it is more on the VPS side.

These are the steps I followed for changing the port:

yum install nano
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
I removed the #comment before Port 22 and changed the 22 to 6382
Then successfully saved it - ctrl X - Y - Enter
Then tried to restart ssh: service sshd restart

An error came up and it wouldn't allow me to restart the service.  Unfortunately I didn't copy the error wording but it basically said that sshd was unavailable.  Of course when I tried to get in again via SSH there was an error.  I then reinstalled the OS again.  Googled the issue.  Tried alternative commands.  But same results.  Once I've done a change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config I can't get in any longer.  At one point I even tried to change back to #Port 22 - the way it was before. I was still unable to get in again.

Hello all experts. please help me i am stuck here. 

sudo service mysql restart



i unable to install and program phpmyadmin. 
at login page i got this error



using many many tutorial and ways to fix it but fails 



unable to install phpmyadmin due to this error at the time of configuration 


   

As the title suggest, this thread is about movies that you watched and want to recommend. It doesn't matter when you watched it or why or how old the movie is .. All I'm asking here is that the movie should have stuck with you for awhile after watching it, which should be a sign that it's a good movie..

As to the pertinent question of what makes a movie good or not?.. I'll leave it to the contributors' own judgement/sensibility.. Because you don't need to be a professional film critic to have a reasonable sense of that...


I will start here by :
> Paul Haggis's Crash (2005). An intelligent well crafted film with a wonderful original soundtrack.. Highly recommended.

> Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained (2012). It's a story about the pre-Civil War African-American Slavery in the US South.. The movie (Django Unchained (2012)) is a 2h 45min-long highly entertaining watch.. Tarantino-style!.. A good casting too.. I enjoyed the performance of Jamie Foxx (as Django) and Christoph Waltz ( as Dr. King Schultz)

> Michael Mann's Heat (1995). To my mind the best crime drama ever and Michael Mann is the master of the genre. The movie starred Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmar, Jon Voight etc...

> Michael Mann's Collateral (2004): a gripping noir thriller starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Mark Ruffalo etc..

I have a few Freenom free domains and during the last week when I had to move five Websites and change DNS, Freenom DNS propagated faster than Namecheap. Namecheap offers more in that one can create one's own Name Servers with one's domain. But with Freenom its DNS is great. I chose to use Freenom's DNS instead of Vesta CP by creating an A Record in the Freenom Panel. That went effortless and propagated almost immediately.

Freenom domains these days are not as easy to get as before though. Something to do with how they scrutinize and compare your user details with the info in the application. And it usually happens right at the end of the application process, annoyingly so. But it's still possible to get a domain if you try, try and try again. Just make sure however that you don't use the Freenom free domain for sites that get a lot of traffic, as I've heard bad stories about Freenom making the domain disappear. My Freenom domains are mostly used with low-profile personal blogs. I've lost the odd Freenom domain over the years due to my own fault, as one can only renew the site 2 weeks before the expiry date and not earlier. And I have forgotten from time to time to renew it on time. In most cases however I've been able to get the domain back.