12-24-2019, 09:42 AM
@LightDestory Great review as per usual. Very important feedback for all VPS 9 holders as well. Am very happy you've managed to sort everything out - seems as though you are completely on top of the VPS - both the good which seems to be the overriding element and the not so good - of which there is little to worry about.
I agree with the lack of OS being a not so good situation, but can only imagine once Virmach has consolidated its upgrade to KVM, that possibly there must be plenty of feedback about their need to sort that out. I recall they had Ubuntu 18.5 up as a download option at one stage, and someone at post4vps tried it, and it didn't work, and then the next day the option in the Admin Panel for installing Ubuntu 18 was removed. So there must be technical stuff Virmach must overcome in order to have more OS options available.
Also, there's a new alert in the Admin Panel OS download options that CentOS 7.0 doesn't work with protected IPs. My new IP must have been a protected IP, as when I moved back to CentOS 6.5 I didn't even have to disable SeLinux - everything worked right off the bat, except for trying to change the port number. Unfortunately of course CentOS 8.0 is still not available either. As following @"Hidden Refuge"s discussion about the new OS would have been nice to be able to try it out. So a slight backward move in not being able to use the same CentOS 7.0 that I had before, and now having to use CentOS 6.5 but at least it works and without the need to disable SeLinux.
I seem to be OK too now with having my main blog running for the first time since beginning of November just before my VPS was upgraded. Like I can use my VPS as I did before (without port number change) and the only main drawback - like a really big one in my case is how they have configured my new IP. I still have to get the hang of how they did it as I'm not completely knowledgeable with how Virmach configured a German IP to work as an IP from Phoenix. However, I'm sure that's the reason my speed has gone down to less than a third of the original speed (my ISP is in South Africa). The ping has gone up more than three times what it originally was with the previous IP - so latency is not that great to make an understatement - in comparison with what it had been before. It's still OK in speed though, and one could probably say it went from SUPER fast to reasonably fast. I'm wondering whether I could ask Virmach if they could make my VPS location Germany instead - like wouldn't that be better for the VPS performance?
I had issues too with changing the Port Number. The very first time I tried with CentOS 7.0, it worked two sessions, and then something must have reset possibly in the Firewall, maybe a protection element in the VPS, or who knows, maybe something else. I retried this right up to my current OS CentOS 6.5 and still the same problem. Compared with previous, when I only had to do the port number change once and never had an issue with the Port Number after. It lasted for almost a year to the extent I wasn't even aware of having a different port number.
I'm at peace for now and once again a VPS 9 Phoenix up and running holder, and am planning to experiment more with fixing the port number and other issues, before I add all of my other Websites. I still maintain my position however that VPS 9 is not ideal for beginner users, unless the user is in your category of a specialist in how to set the VPS up to work around some of the issues. The silver lining perhaps is it's a great learning tool for how to overcome some of the issues. Which you seem to have done in spades!
I agree with the lack of OS being a not so good situation, but can only imagine once Virmach has consolidated its upgrade to KVM, that possibly there must be plenty of feedback about their need to sort that out. I recall they had Ubuntu 18.5 up as a download option at one stage, and someone at post4vps tried it, and it didn't work, and then the next day the option in the Admin Panel for installing Ubuntu 18 was removed. So there must be technical stuff Virmach must overcome in order to have more OS options available.
Also, there's a new alert in the Admin Panel OS download options that CentOS 7.0 doesn't work with protected IPs. My new IP must have been a protected IP, as when I moved back to CentOS 6.5 I didn't even have to disable SeLinux - everything worked right off the bat, except for trying to change the port number. Unfortunately of course CentOS 8.0 is still not available either. As following @"Hidden Refuge"s discussion about the new OS would have been nice to be able to try it out. So a slight backward move in not being able to use the same CentOS 7.0 that I had before, and now having to use CentOS 6.5 but at least it works and without the need to disable SeLinux.
I seem to be OK too now with having my main blog running for the first time since beginning of November just before my VPS was upgraded. Like I can use my VPS as I did before (without port number change) and the only main drawback - like a really big one in my case is how they have configured my new IP. I still have to get the hang of how they did it as I'm not completely knowledgeable with how Virmach configured a German IP to work as an IP from Phoenix. However, I'm sure that's the reason my speed has gone down to less than a third of the original speed (my ISP is in South Africa). The ping has gone up more than three times what it originally was with the previous IP - so latency is not that great to make an understatement - in comparison with what it had been before. It's still OK in speed though, and one could probably say it went from SUPER fast to reasonably fast. I'm wondering whether I could ask Virmach if they could make my VPS location Germany instead - like wouldn't that be better for the VPS performance?
I had issues too with changing the Port Number. The very first time I tried with CentOS 7.0, it worked two sessions, and then something must have reset possibly in the Firewall, maybe a protection element in the VPS, or who knows, maybe something else. I retried this right up to my current OS CentOS 6.5 and still the same problem. Compared with previous, when I only had to do the port number change once and never had an issue with the Port Number after. It lasted for almost a year to the extent I wasn't even aware of having a different port number.
I'm at peace for now and once again a VPS 9 Phoenix up and running holder, and am planning to experiment more with fixing the port number and other issues, before I add all of my other Websites. I still maintain my position however that VPS 9 is not ideal for beginner users, unless the user is in your category of a specialist in how to set the VPS up to work around some of the issues. The silver lining perhaps is it's a great learning tool for how to overcome some of the issues. Which you seem to have done in spades!