Posted by: fitkoh - 12-17-2020, 06:06 PM - Forum: Make Money
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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)
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?
I have a question about basic Hardware info of VPS server, we got simply CPU info my putting this "
Code:
cat /proc/cpuinfobut 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.
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 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:
Code:
$ apt-get update && apt-get upgradeWhen 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:
Code:
$ wget http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin-current.deb3. Then use dpkg to start the installation.
Code:
$ dpkg -i webmin-current.debOh 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:
Code:
$ apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl unzipIn 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.
Code:
$ adduser your_nameCode:
$ usermod -aG sudo your_name5. 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:
Code:
nano /etc/webmin/miniserv.confFor 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.
Code:
$ /etc/init.d/webmin restart6. 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
Code:
https://123.456.789:12345Enter 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.
Code:
$ apt-get install ufw
$ ufw deny all
$ ufw allow 123 //whatever port you use for ssh
$ ufw allow 12345 //webmin port
$ ufw allow from 987.654.321 to any port 54321 //cyberpanel's VPS IP, sql port14. Now we're ready to begin the cyberpanel installation on our other server.
The only dependency I needed was curl.
Code:
$ apt-get install curl
$ sh <(curl https://cyberpanel.net/install.sh || wget -O - https://cyberpanel.net/install.sh)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 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:
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?
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
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.
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.
I see several good discussion comments coming from this thread here so I thought maybe it would be beneficial to continue in its own topic. I'll quote a few comments; forgive me if I don't include specific @ mentions.
I took the initiative to run a free SEO audit. The results weren't terrible - 76/100, but still plenty of room for improvement. There were 17 critical flags, all of which were the same: duplicate titles. I imagine it has something to do with the forum software (mybb if I'm not mistaken?) and the theme used. Without looking at the backend, I don't know exactly how to fix it, but there should be a way. I guess google likes it better if each page has a unique title, rather than all pages having the same title.
I can definitely see the benefit of this, if I'm understanding correctly. Gigarocket was set up much the same way - with a landing page and a few other pages describing the services offered and requirements for obtaining them, legal pages, as well as links to the community/forums. Maybe we could run the forums on a subdomain/directory and use a wordpress blog or some small flat file cms (like grav?) to create the "pillar" pages for post4vps.
A brilliant suggestion, if we can sort out a way to implement this effectively. I use a plugin on my wordpress blog to cross post weekly to my facebook page - but it can be scheduled/programmed in different ways. For example, to only post from a specific category, to post the most recent, or choose at random. The plugin I'm referring to is called "Revive Old Posts" and can be found at https://revive.social/
It's licensed GPL 2 so it's okay to modify for your own purpose.
I wonder if a similar plugin exists that could be used with the forums at p4v, or if the plugin could be modified to work here. In lieu of automation it could turn into a bit of work once a month to keep a few social sites current with giveaways, etc, but still very possible, and also maybe a good idea for someone willing to work for a second vps or substitute some of their posting requirements.
A valid point. Perhaps the script that counts/scores the posts could be made to sort through this information as well. If it were, there would be a possibility to create a minimum credit_point over post_amount for a post to be credited, encouraging better posting over time. Of course it'd have to be set up to not count posts in off-topic areas. The downside of this is that it may discourage some people from trying to post here: particularly persons that aren't very strong in English and may feel insecure about making a long post with deep explanations. As a note I'd like to add that I appreciate very much the non-native English speakers that post here. Your task is double difficult: not only do you have to make quality posts, you have to do it in a language in which you aren't completely comfortable. Cheers to those that make the effort through the struggle.
You raise an interesting point here, and I really want to drive it home. Now considering we have a few VPS that are really high specs and probably would sell for easily 20-30 VPS, and we have a lot of smaller ones worth easy 5-10$ a month. And over 20 vps not doing anything... I could ballpark it and say there's easily 2-3k a year in vps that could be doing something... anything at all. If you think about it like that was your money, in your wallet... 2-3000$ USD going to waste, doing nothing. Who among us would squander so much for no gain?
With the recent loss of gigarocket, there's a big empty hole in the free hosting market. Perhaps we could snatch up a piece of it? One of the nicer vps could be set up for shared hosting, and we could offer it to members in addition to a vps... perhaps with a posting requirement of 1 good post a week for a decent shared hosting package, enough to host a small-medium sized blog. Of course this suggestion comes with a lot of work involved - work for the moderators with a new category of posters to track, as well as a lot of admin work to set up the shared hosting service. But it's just an idea for discussion. Maybe it would be a fun community project for a few dedicated individuals
In my opinion, the ads are very minimal. That's how the site makes money. While no one wants to visit a forum overburdened with ads, I think p4v could handle a few more without being distasteful. Just my opinion.
Another option would be affiliate marketting. Like anything else, there's a bit of work involved. One would have to search through the providers list, determine which ones have an affiliate reseller plan, sign up, etc etc. However, it could work - If the affiliate accounts are properly set up, you could even give members an affiliate link to share rather than the vanilla link to their providers, if a web site is hosted. Sales that are created through member sites would then be credited to p4v and used to offset hosting costs or maybe even get a small paycheck on occasion.
Quote:I wonder the forum structure giving wrong vibes to Google search bots. Because we have about 36 boards under 6 forums i think. Only one forum has the word " VPS " and none has important keyword phrases like free VPS, Free Hosting etc. Word 'VPS' is mention it about 9 boards out of 36. Same goes for board descriptions. I don't see words like Web Hosting, VPS Hosting at all. Same goes for Title tag and Meta Description tag which is too long and says Free VPS too many times plus has no other related phrases.
I took the initiative to run a free SEO audit. The results weren't terrible - 76/100, but still plenty of room for improvement. There were 17 critical flags, all of which were the same: duplicate titles. I imagine it has something to do with the forum software (mybb if I'm not mistaken?) and the theme used. Without looking at the backend, I don't know exactly how to fix it, but there should be a way. I guess google likes it better if each page has a unique title, rather than all pages having the same title.
Quote:Another thing is I think the forum need few pillar type pages about important keywords we are targeting. For example a page for 'Free Game Server Hosting' with lots of details about game servers how to get a free one here, or getting cheap one from one of our sponsors and game server related urls, common problems etc. Pages like these will rank well in Google search and attract more new members.
I can definitely see the benefit of this, if I'm understanding correctly. Gigarocket was set up much the same way - with a landing page and a few other pages describing the services offered and requirements for obtaining them, legal pages, as well as links to the community/forums. Maybe we could run the forums on a subdomain/directory and use a wordpress blog or some small flat file cms (like grav?) to create the "pillar" pages for post4vps.
Quote: Also a better social media presence. Like details of monthly give aways should be posted in FB fan page etc.
A brilliant suggestion, if we can sort out a way to implement this effectively. I use a plugin on my wordpress blog to cross post weekly to my facebook page - but it can be scheduled/programmed in different ways. For example, to only post from a specific category, to post the most recent, or choose at random. The plugin I'm referring to is called "Revive Old Posts" and can be found at https://revive.social/
It's licensed GPL 2 so it's okay to modify for your own purpose.
I wonder if a similar plugin exists that could be used with the forums at p4v, or if the plugin could be modified to work here. In lieu of automation it could turn into a bit of work once a month to keep a few social sites current with giveaways, etc, but still very possible, and also maybe a good idea for someone willing to work for a second vps or substitute some of their posting requirements.
Quote:Now for the post quality. Okay! here we can't expect everyone to comply with that all the time, but we can see a pattern on how much hard they're trying over time. A look at the ratio of Credit_point over total_posts will tell you a lot about that. Simple unmistakable Math.
A valid point. Perhaps the script that counts/scores the posts could be made to sort through this information as well. If it were, there would be a possibility to create a minimum credit_point over post_amount for a post to be credited, encouraging better posting over time. Of course it'd have to be set up to not count posts in off-topic areas. The downside of this is that it may discourage some people from trying to post here: particularly persons that aren't very strong in English and may feel insecure about making a long post with deep explanations. As a note I'd like to add that I appreciate very much the non-native English speakers that post here. Your task is double difficult: not only do you have to make quality posts, you have to do it in a language in which you aren't completely comfortable. Cheers to those that make the effort through the struggle.
Quote:The value in VPS that one can get here far exceeds the time it takes to write those posts. Imagine a VPS with 8GB RAM, 2 cores, and 100 GB disk space. How much would that cost in a month and how expensive would the 20 posts be in comparison time wise? The VPS I have would be a minimum of 25-30 US$ a month.
We have a whole cache of VPSs that are not working for any one. We need to do something with those.
You raise an interesting point here, and I really want to drive it home. Now considering we have a few VPS that are really high specs and probably would sell for easily 20-30 VPS, and we have a lot of smaller ones worth easy 5-10$ a month. And over 20 vps not doing anything... I could ballpark it and say there's easily 2-3k a year in vps that could be doing something... anything at all. If you think about it like that was your money, in your wallet... 2-3000$ USD going to waste, doing nothing. Who among us would squander so much for no gain?
Quote:So Google Algo probably thinks this forum is not directly connect to web hosting but just a General Forum with web hosting part. We don't even have boards about Web Hosting generally.
With the recent loss of gigarocket, there's a big empty hole in the free hosting market. Perhaps we could snatch up a piece of it? One of the nicer vps could be set up for shared hosting, and we could offer it to members in addition to a vps... perhaps with a posting requirement of 1 good post a week for a decent shared hosting package, enough to host a small-medium sized blog. Of course this suggestion comes with a lot of work involved - work for the moderators with a new category of posters to track, as well as a lot of admin work to set up the shared hosting service. But it's just an idea for discussion. Maybe it would be a fun community project for a few dedicated individuals
Quote:On the other hand there is also the deeper dimension of being a contributing member of a community of VPS Holders, who like to help one another, and also would like to support the owner, Dynamo, so the business can continue. If anything should happen similar to freevps.us, it will be a huge loss to me as I really love my VPS. I also like the quality support from our specialist members and am learning from every one on a daily basis.
In my opinion, the ads are very minimal. That's how the site makes money. While no one wants to visit a forum overburdened with ads, I think p4v could handle a few more without being distasteful. Just my opinion.
Another option would be affiliate marketting. Like anything else, there's a bit of work involved. One would have to search through the providers list, determine which ones have an affiliate reseller plan, sign up, etc etc. However, it could work - If the affiliate accounts are properly set up, you could even give members an affiliate link to share rather than the vanilla link to their providers, if a web site is hosted. Sales that are created through member sites would then be credited to p4v and used to offset hosting costs or maybe even get a small paycheck on occasion.
Is there any one here with experience of scraping material from the WayBack Machine? I Googled it, and there are so many options, but I'm not comfortable with how legit or otherwise some of them are.
So this starts as a sad story. When Gigarocket closed, one of the members from Iran failed to respond in time, and as a consequence lost his blog. Initially I didn't take it to heart, as in this day and age it is very difficult for me to understand when someone doesn't make regular backups of their Website, particularly if it is a valued Website. But then I learned this guy has rheumatoid arthritis, and can barely use his fingers. The blog was really important to him. I had hoped that the owner of Gigarocket had made some backups of all of the hosting accounts, but learned that that had not happened, so the blog was no more.
I then checked first with DuckDuckGo to see whether I could find bits and pieces, which I could. When I read the bits and pieces I began to develop an understanding that this guy must be a lecturer or professor in engineering with lots of IT capabilities. The blog posts were written in excellent English so I began to understand that he must have put a lot of energy in it. It must be a great loss to him. I then thought to check the WayBack Machine to see whether I could find any material there, being doubtful initially as I wouldn't have thought the WayBack Machine would take copies of a personal blog. But then discovered that the blog had been "photographed" by the WayBack Machine 57 times, the last one on 31 October. It was that good a blog with substance.
The blog is a WordPress blog, but I get the feeling some of it was designed by the owner of the blog himself. Like the design is based on a WordPress Micro Blog template. Obviously I can't get the database, but I was able to copy and paste the source of the pages and CSS stylesheets to NotePad++, but there are still lots of material missing. Such as the images.
So if there is any one who has suggestions of how to scrape the WordPress site deeper than what I've been able to do, this will be much appreciated.
So this starts as a sad story. When Gigarocket closed, one of the members from Iran failed to respond in time, and as a consequence lost his blog. Initially I didn't take it to heart, as in this day and age it is very difficult for me to understand when someone doesn't make regular backups of their Website, particularly if it is a valued Website. But then I learned this guy has rheumatoid arthritis, and can barely use his fingers. The blog was really important to him. I had hoped that the owner of Gigarocket had made some backups of all of the hosting accounts, but learned that that had not happened, so the blog was no more.
I then checked first with DuckDuckGo to see whether I could find bits and pieces, which I could. When I read the bits and pieces I began to develop an understanding that this guy must be a lecturer or professor in engineering with lots of IT capabilities. The blog posts were written in excellent English so I began to understand that he must have put a lot of energy in it. It must be a great loss to him. I then thought to check the WayBack Machine to see whether I could find any material there, being doubtful initially as I wouldn't have thought the WayBack Machine would take copies of a personal blog. But then discovered that the blog had been "photographed" by the WayBack Machine 57 times, the last one on 31 October. It was that good a blog with substance.
The blog is a WordPress blog, but I get the feeling some of it was designed by the owner of the blog himself. Like the design is based on a WordPress Micro Blog template. Obviously I can't get the database, but I was able to copy and paste the source of the pages and CSS stylesheets to NotePad++, but there are still lots of material missing. Such as the images.
So if there is any one who has suggestions of how to scrape the WordPress site deeper than what I've been able to do, this will be much appreciated.
Please anyone help me in this. I have purchased a laptop.
Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i9 9th gen
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 DDR6 4gb
RAM: 8GB DDR5 (7.5 Usable)
Storage: 512 GB SSD (476 Usable)
Wifi: Wifi 6
Windows: Windows 10
I have downloaded Destiny 2 to run it on my laptop.
It was having V-Sync on so my fps was capped at 60 fps because my screen refresh rate is 60 hz.
I thought its capped at 60 so my GPU will not get used that much.
But while playing it the gpu was getting rapidly hot.
I don't know why
Other games like CS:GO, Rocket League works fine and doesnt heats my gpu much.
But Destiny 2 is heating a loss. That too in a very short time.
Help me out pls. And tell me how to fix it!
Will running destiny 2 in medium settings help? Currently running on high settings.
Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i9 9th gen
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 DDR6 4gb
RAM: 8GB DDR5 (7.5 Usable)
Storage: 512 GB SSD (476 Usable)
Wifi: Wifi 6
Windows: Windows 10
I have downloaded Destiny 2 to run it on my laptop.
It was having V-Sync on so my fps was capped at 60 fps because my screen refresh rate is 60 hz.
I thought its capped at 60 so my GPU will not get used that much.
But while playing it the gpu was getting rapidly hot.
I don't know why
Other games like CS:GO, Rocket League works fine and doesnt heats my gpu much.
But Destiny 2 is heating a loss. That too in a very short time.
Help me out pls. And tell me how to fix it!
Will running destiny 2 in medium settings help? Currently running on high settings.
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