VPS-9 is heart favorite VPS of P4V community, Here is a short review of my VPS-9 experience with this amazing VPS sponsored by "Virmach"


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Short introduction/Specifications
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Standard Information of container as per VPS Plans head:

Disk Space 100 GB SSD

RAM: 8 GB

IP Addresses: 1x IPv4

Virtualization - KVM

Monthly Traffic: 4 TB

Location:  US

Control Panel: Ask Admin " However if you said no CP, is much better" 

Connection: 1Gbps

Games servers: Allowed
Provided by: VirMach

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Review
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Benchmark Results:
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All information is got from "Yet-Another-Bench-Script" available on github.
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System Info
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Network speed (IPv4 only)

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Experience
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• I Never face any downtime or crash from day first to til now. 
  
  
• Never face any DDos Attack 
  
  
• Running very smoothly even not a managed VPS but i run it as a learner with the help of all forum experts. 
  

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Conclusion
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VPS 9, sponsored by Virmach, is a very powerful and valuable VPS, this VPS comes with no control panel, so if you don't want flood our poor @deanhills of support tickets you need to know how to use Unix-systems.
You can run almost everything on this VPS, just be a good user and respect Virmach ToS!

I want to end this review thanking:

• @Dynamo, as always, for creating Post4VPS community that allowed me to use this VPS;
  
  
• @deanhills, this time around I didn't open any support ticket but he is always there ready to reply;
  
• @HR & arsalahmed786 for supporting me always as a professional teacher; 
  
  
• Virmach for sponsoring this amazing VPS;
  

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So, did you read the latest news? No?
Don't be shy, I am here to tell you everything!

Let's do a small re-cap:

• CentOS is developed using as base RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) but doesn't give any support;
  
• IBM has recently aquired Red Hat
  

So, what happened?
If you have some time, you can directly read the official blog's artiche.

My summary:
CentOS 8 is going to be deprecated in favour of a new OS called "CentOS Stream", what changes? Everything. This new OS will not be based on RHEL and it will change it's behavior from downstream to upstream. So CentOS Stream is just a brother of Fedora. They are likely the same!

What CentOS 8's users liked was the immense stability of the system thanks to the RHEL base, but now this stability is not guaranteed anymore. So why I should use CentOS Stream and not Fedora? They are:

• Both upstream development
  
• Both rpm based
  
• Both compiled from the same source
  

IMHO: CentOS Stream is like Ubuntu flavors but Fedora-based.

What do you think about it?

So, I received VPS 14 likely 3-4 months ago, I couldn't review the VPS sooner due to my busy life. But here I am, ready to let you know about my experience with this amazing VPS sponsored by BladeNode (
@phoenixwolf)!


VPS 14 is a new VPS which entered Post4VPS family on October. This VPS is one of the most powerful available, it comes with no control panel so it is suggested to apply only to advanced user. It is located in Dallas, USA. I am from Italy and the latency has not affected me in any way. There isn't much to say with words... let's numbers speak!






Unfortunately I couldn't use Post4VPS's benchmark script by @sohamb03 because it couldn't complete the test successfully. So this time I used an interesting script called "Yet-Another-Bench-Script" available on github.

Due to my busy life I didn't have much time to play around with the VPS. I have manly deployed stuff using FTP and github. I have successfully setup a CI/CD pipeline from github to my vps. I didn't much stress test because... let's be clear: the specs are listed above, what you do except from them? Bottleneck? Don't joke. To give troubles to this machine you must do very very heavy workload. I have never experience a down time since October.
Some of my adventures are:

• Deploying web service stuff related to university projects;
  
• Run for a week or so a minecraft server;
  
• Setting up a sort of certificates vault
  

VPS 14, sponsored by Bladenode, is a very powerful and valuable VPS. Like my previous VPS, VPS 9 sponsored by VirMach, this VPS comes with no control panel, so if you don't want flood our poor @deanhills of support tickets you need to know how to use Unix-systems.
You can run almost everything on this VPS, just be a good user and respect Bladenode's ToS!

I want to end this review thanking:

• @Dynamo, as always, for creating Post4VPS community that allowed me to use this VPS;
  
• @deanhills, this time around I didn't open any support ticket but he is always there ready to reply;
  
• @Mashiro for his tutorials, I used some of them to set-up my environment;
  
• Bladenode (@phoenixwolf) for sponsoring this amazing VPS;
  

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I thought this might be something good to share about the post4vps community and its sponsors.

I made a list of all sponsors that have an affiliate program.


https://shadowhosting.net/blog/affiliates/

https://www.racknerd.com/affiliates

*readydedis: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/16...e-programs

https://cubedata.net/beareseller

https://virmach.com/vps-affiliate-program/

https://manage.hostdare.com/knowledgebas...ogram.html

*I wasn't able to find a link to readydedi's affiliate program, but there was mention of it in the linked topic.

If you are a sponsor and I missed your affiliate program please notify me so I  can include you on the list.

I thought this would be valuable information to people choosing sponsors. If you are required to have a backlink, why not make it an affiliate link? That way you have a chance to put some money in your pocket and help sponsors make some sales too. You can even do something like this: https://surprising.design/sponsors/ (affiliate links)

Hello all experts...!

I have a question about basic Hardware info of VPS server, we got simply CPU info my putting this " 

but GPU info and OpenGL version not mention in this info. can anyone have working command to check GPU server info. size memory of GPU card if any?

Apparently google experienced some downtime today in North America, from which they're just starting to recover from. This is after a massive outtage yesterday affecting gmail and youtube and other google services. As a reminder, if you have any systems integrated with google products, you may want to check and see if anything is missing or misplaced. If you use google for DNS, you may want to think carefully.

I first noticed the outtage when testing my vps for transactional emails. I thought the problem was on my end, but checking the logs revealed otherwise.

Some people (myself included) have been unable to send/receive emails.  If you rely on gmail for communication, you may want to seek out an alternative; likewise if you are expecting communication and have not received it, this may be an explanation. If you use google smtp for relaying emails, you may have some that  never sent.

This tutorial is aimed at Cyberpanel users  who may wish to offload database functions on a separate machine for a gain in performance. Remote database is a newer feature of cyberpanel introduced in version 2.0.2 If p4v admin to decide to create a system for users to get a second vps, it could be very useful

I wrote this tutorial, however I didn't do it without some good sources:
#TLDR Check these pages and it'll give you all the information in this tutorial and then some.

https://cyberpanel.net/docs/installing-cyberpanel/
https://cyberpanel.net/docs/remote-sql-for-cyberpanel/
https://www.virtualmin.com/documentation...ase/remote
https://www.webmin.com/deb.html
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/t...d-commands

The closer the physical proximity and lower the latency between the two servers, the better the opportunity for performance gain. For those curious, the specifications of the servers used in writing this tutorial can be found here post #3

It is written using 2 servers using  ubuntu 18. It assumes you have basic knowledge of logging into your server via ssh and familiarity with the command line/terminal.

1. As always it's recommend to update the installation by running the following command from terminal on both servers:

When your servers finish the upgrade, you'll need to set up the database server first. It will be required for cyberpanel to complete its installation. While any sql server should work, I chose to use webmin: a sturdy, lightweight open source web panel to facilitate installation and configuration of the sql server.

2. First I  download  the webmin installation:

3. Then use dpkg to start the installation.

Oh no! The installer isn't going. We're missing dependencies!

Before I could get the webmin installation to start, here's what I had to install:
Try running dpkg again webmin-current.deb, if it still complains about missing dependencies you might want to check here
In a few moments, if everything worked, you will be informed you can log into your webmin server at localhost:10000

4. For security reasons, I recommend creating a sudo user to login to webmin rather than using root.
You will be asked to enter a password twice. The more complex the better. Then add this user to the list of sudoers so you can log in and work inside webmin panel.

5. I recommend running webmin from a non-standard port. Webmin has been  around for years and black-hats often port scan the webmin default ports. You can edit the webmin port in the webmin conf file. look for the line that reads "port=10000" and change the number to something different.
You can edit the webmin conf file with the editor of your choice or by running:

For the purposes of this tutorial I'll assume you changed port=10000 to port=12345. ctrl+x will save your changes to miniserv.conf
Now restart webmin so the port change takes effect.

6. you should now be able to log into your server via webmin in the browser. Note that your browser will throw an error from self-signed ssl. This is normal. In your browser navigate to
where 123.456.789 is your database server ip and 12345 is the port you used in webmin.conf

Enter in the credentials of the sudo user you created. After this you should be logged into webmin. If you've never used webmin before, you'll see lots of links on the left sidebar. Don't panic!

here's a screenshot to show you where to look and help you feel a little more comfortable:
   
7. Click on "Servers" on the left. If you see MySQL Database Server, skip this  step. It wasn't installed for me, so I had to click on "Unused Modules". Scroll down until you see MySQL Database Server. The SQL installer will take a few moments. After it completes, you may need to click "Refresh Modules" to bring it up in the "Servers" sub menu.

Now you've gotten SQL installed, but it needs to be configured.

8. From the "Server" sub menu click on "MySQL Database Server"

9. First click on "Set admin password" - I recommend you use a password generator and use a very strong password here.

10. Next click on "User permissions" then "Create a New User"

*Make sure you give the user the name root. a user named root is required by cyberpanel.
*Make sure to use a strong password
*Make sure you set "Hosts" to the IP of the server you'll use for cyberpanel installation
*Highlight all the permissions so cyberpanel can do what it needs to in the database.
Once you've got everything filled out, create your user

11.  After your remote user is created, click on Database permissions.
For Databases, select "Any"
For Username, input "root"
Hosts: The IP of your cyberpanel installation
Permissions: highlight all

12. Next, go to "Mysql Server Configuration"
For Host, use the IP of your cyberpanel installation
You may wish to change the default port: be forewarned that while this is recommended for security, it can cause complications with some web apps depending on how they're configured.
Scroll down and click "Save and Restart MySQL"

At this point your Remote database should be ready.

13. It is strongly recommended to use a firewall for increased security. I used ufw to close off all ports except those needed for sql, ssh, and webmin, and restrict access to sql to only the Cyberpanel IP.

14. Now we're ready to begin the cyberpanel installation on our other server.
The only dependency I needed was curl.

This covers the installation of Cyberpanel with OpenLightSpeed WebServer. It doesn't cover the installation of Cyberpanel ENT, although they should be similar.

15. The installer will ask you if you want a full install or a custom install. I chose a custom install, because I don't want to deal with the hassle of setting up services I would prefer to offload for increased performance.

The installer will ask you if you want to install DNS, Postfix, or FTP. This tutorial does not cover the configuration of the full cyberpanel stack, only the minimum required for serving web pages. I chose no for all of these options.

16. The installer will ask you if you want to install Cyberpanel with Remote Database. Choose Yes.
The installer will ask you for the hostname of the remote database server. You can use the IP of your database server here.
The installer will ask you for a mysql port. Use 3306 if you didn't change the port in step 12. If you did, enter that port here.
The installer will ask you for a mysql user. Enter the credentials from the user created in step 10.
The installer will ask you which database has the default mysql schema: 'mysql' worked for me.

17. The installer will ask about a few more additional softwares: Redis, MemCache, Watchdog. This tutorial does not cover the configuration of these programs. I entered no for all options.

Cross your fingers and hope for the best. If everything worked properly in a few minutes the terminal will tell you how to log into your new cyberpanel installation

I sort of stumbled on this by accident, but in my opinion it's just too good not to share. If you're already in the know, then you know. If not, keep reading.

I discovered recently, quite by accident, that I have 2 VPS in the same datacenter, and on the same node. The ping time between the two is ~.3ms, so very low latency. I decided to try and take advantage of this coincidence by setting these two servers to work in concert.

I've been very impressed with cyberpanel, having used it for a couple months now. It's very clean and intuitive; but it's a bit on the heavy side for a minimalist such as myself.

Webmin is a sturdy well known web server admin panel that's been in development for years. It's  lighter than cyberpanel, but also  less user friendly.

So what I did as an experiment, just to see how it would perform, was set up in webmin a remote database for my cyberpanel installation, making sure to set user and database permissions so the db server can only be accessed from the web server.  I then did a custom install of cyberpanel, leaving out the services I can offload (dns, FTP, email). What I found at the end was the best of both worlds.

All I can say at this point is WOW. OpenLightSpeed Web Server, left doing nothing but serving web pages, with another nearby server handling database queries, moves remarkably fast. Like spooky fast. Ludicrous speed. I knew as soon as I installed wordpress and started looking through themes and plugins I was on to something. I haven't ever seen wordpress move that way on a remote server. It's almost as fast a local install.

The backend for cyberpanel, with a standard install, isn't bad. It pretty peppy, and won't leave you twiddling your thumbs. With remote database implemented on the same node, it's about twice as fast.

Don't believe it? I probably wouldn't either, if I hadn't seen it. Keep reading.

What I'm curious about now is how well it will perform under a bit of strain - more than I can stress it on my own. So here's an offer for the community: for a limited time only. If any respected members of the community want to try out cyberpanel with no risk, I'll be happy to set you up with a user account on my cyberpanel vps.

A few notes about this offer:

*For now, it is only available to respected community members
*This is a minimal setup. There is no DNS, FTP, or email. You need to be comfortable working with a file manager to manage your website, and able to set DNS records at your domain registrar.
*I can make you a subdomain if needed.
*you can use sendmail for transactional emails
*It's hosted on a couple small vps. All server resources are to be considered 'fair share'. What this means is that everyone gets a fair share - if you are getting more than your fair share, preventing others from getting their fair share, you may be removed.
*this is an new, experimental service. I am an amateur admin. You should literally expect everything to fall apart at any moment, and be surprised if it doesn't.
*servers located in Los Angeles, USA. Anything you place on the server must comply with US law.
*limited resources mean that available accounts will be delivered on a first-come first-served basis.
*servers and domain are paid until 9/2021. Consider it a small miracle if the service is still available at this time next year.
*I'm one person, not a large company. Anything can happen at any time. If I get struck by lightning or some other crazy accident, the service could disappear with 0 notice. You should expect this to happen and be prepared for it.
*I will be watching like a proud parent for any sign of abuse or misuse. Legitimate use only. Testing is legitimate. Experimentation is legitimate. Porn is not legitimate. Your personal file server is not legitimate. Common sense should be applied.

Lastly, I prefer to make this offer available to persons who haven't yet had an opportunity to try cyberpanel. I'm not personally involved with cyberpanel, but I'm very impressed with how it performs, and I'm happy to promote it over greedy cpanel.

If you want to try it out, here's all I ask.
1. Respected community members only. If you are a hosted member, you qualify. If you are not hosted but feel you are a respected community member, I'll happily review your request.
2. Send me a pm with an estimate of your hosting requirements in terms of disk space/ bandwidth.
3. In your pm include a  description of what type of website/service you intend to host. Indicate if you require a subdomain.
4. make a post on p4v displaying your work, when you have something worth showing.

Why am I doing this? Two main reasons:

1. I got lucky on Black Friday with a some free VPS during a holiday giveaway. As I got them for free, this is my way of giving back. I don't like the idea of selling something I didn't pay for.
2. I think it could turn into a good learning opportunity. Research is great. Experience is often better. Your account on the server is selfishly for my own education and personal benefit. You will break things and I will have to fix them. That's how I will learn. Throw a wrench at it. Give it hell.

I'm looking into building a small public forum. Thanks to the wonderful FOSS developers of the world, there's plenty of ready made solutions available: which is great but it can make the process of choosing somewhat difficult.

As for what I'm looking for:

• I want it to be as small and light as possible for running on a small VPS (0.5GB RAM)
  
• Internal messaging system for maintaining user accounts
  

So far I've tried a few options, some of which would work, but none that scream out to me "this is the one!"

The wordpress method:
Wordpress has a few nice forum plugins. I've tried bbpress, asgoros, and WPForo.

I didn't really like the formatting/appearance of bbpress. Asgoros and WPForo I like much better, and they're easy to set up, but additional plugins would be necessary for internal messaging. I tried to implement this on both asgoros and wpforo but when I installed the user messaging plugin things start breaking. Those plugins may not be designed to play nice together.

full featured forums: php bulletin board and simple machine forum are two well known FOSS forums with years of development and strong communities/documentation backing them. Both of these could work, but there's a lot more options/complexity with set up. I recently installed phpbb3 and it looks great and would do everything I want, but the admin area looks like a mess to me. So many options all over the place, I feel like it would take weeks or months of studies to figure out what everything does. SMF has always been known as a powerful full featured forum, but not necessarily designed with minimalism in mind.

flat file forums: small and light with no database, there's a few flat file forum softwares.  I really liked the look, ease of setup, and speed of flatboard, but I have yet to find any flat file forum with internal messaging built in.

Other options: finding a forum I like and adding messaging to it. If the software I'm looking for with the features I want doesn't exist, there's always the option to modify an existing software and add internal messaging to it, without reinventing the wheel. I did manage to write a very simple chat server in php for another project, which would be similar to an internal messaging system, but before I decide on this more labor intensive solution I think I owe it to myself to explore every other option.

so here's the opportunity for discussion:

Do you have any experience operating a forum? If so, what software did you use? How would you rate it in terms of ease of use and performance?. What features does it have that you  like? What's the development schedule like? Are there any licensing restrictions? How is the documentation/support?

Sad news tonight. @phoenixwolf is discontinuing VPS 6 sponsorship. Reason being that he needs to make the two VPSs work for him, and unfortunately they have not been actively used over the last couple or more months. His sponsorship of VPS 14 though is continuing.

We thank @phoenixwolf for the time we've been able to use VPS 6 and his hands on quality support during that period. It is one of the favourite VPSs in our pool because it can be used for games. Hopefully when things pick up one day Bladenode can return with VPS 6.