setup — LowEndSpirit

Issue installing Alpine Linux on a VPS

o_be_one — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:10:24 +0000

Hello all,

i have several VPS with VirMach since years, all running Alpine Linux i've installed from netboot.xyz (network install). They are all running smooth since a while but there is one i've never been able to install. It's been a while, as i was "well just let it on the side for now eventually VirMach may have an issue they will fix" but after months i'm not able to install my server. I'm pretty sure anyway there is a workaround without involving my provider so i wanted to ask the community here first.

This VPS is able to run with they're premade setup (i've tried Ubuntu, works).
Again i already have several VPS with the same provider, all on Alpine Linux, same setup used. The difference between them is the node where they are hosted, as i often jump on new discounts they have (this one is a BF-2021 special, i have 4 VPS from this offer, 3 are working with Alpine).

Please see following screenshot to view my issue:

Thank you so much for sharing your time helping to debug .

Looking for suggestions - 2 sites and a Hostbill app

rootnet — Thu, 05 May 2022 06:13:45 +0000

Hi everyone

I am currently using a dedi server to host and manage 3 sites/apps below. Spending around $67/month.

1- Small store frontend, gets 10-20 visitors a day.
2- SaaS website, gets 50-70 hits a day
3- Hostbill (for billing/ordering/helpdesk for the above two sites), gets around 10-20 visitors a day.

I don't use wordpress. The store frontend site is PHP and HTML based and has 10 pages. The SaaS is a php script/app and it hardly uses around 500 MB RAM. Am pretty sure Hostbill is the most resource intensive out of these three, but I've never seen it utilizing more than 1 GB RAM.

Obviously the dedi server is under-utilized. And I have decided to move all the sites to VPS and save some money on the monthly fees.

I was thinking on two different setups and I'd appreciate if you can recommend or suggest which one I should go for.

Setup 1:
- 1st VM with 2x vCPU and 2GB RAM for the store frontend and SaaS Script
- 2nd VM with 2x vCPU and 2GB RAM for the Hostbill
- 3rd VM with 2x vCPU and 2GB RAM for DB hosting (to be used bu SaaS script and Hostbill)

Setup 2:
- 1st VM with 3x vCPU and 4GB RAM for the store frontend and the SaaS script. DB will be used within this same server
- 2nd VM with 3x vCPU and 4GB RAM for hostbill app. DB will be used within this same server

Am aware I can host all three sites/apps on a VPS with higher resources or on a VDS. But I have decided to keep the frontend sites and the hostbill (for billing and helpdesk) on separate VMs. That way if I mess up something or if one of the VM goes down, I still have the second VM to let the users know what's going on and update them in a proper way.

I am more inclined towards the first setup but considering the sites are too small my brain is having a hard time to figure out whether it make sense to have a separate VM just for DB. Am interested in knowing what you guys think is more practical option.

Also, this is my first thread in LES. Am still learning the ins and outs of this community. Please be gentle on me in case I have broken any unspoken rules or missed anything.

General Setup for MMO and Firewall

kind — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:19:14 +0000

Hello guys, its me again.
As im progress with the setup, new doubts are comming.
First of all, im gonna tell you about my setup and why I rent a dedicated server.
I have 2 servers of MMORPG, and, usually we (the ppl who has this kind of servers) rent vps, problem is most of the ppl who rent related to this game don't have a clue about nothing, and oversell resources af. So, since my 2 vps cost around 35USD monthly, I decided to take the leap and move to soyoustart.
My goal is to setup 4 vps with Windows Server (2 operationals and 2 for test).
This is the specs of my server: SYS-LE-2 Server - Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 - 32GB DDR3 ECC 1600MHz - 2x 800GB SSD SATA Soft RAID and it has Proxmox VE 6.2.

That being said, I have a couple of general questions:
1. OVH Monitor isn't enabled for SYS right?
2. Do you recommend to have RAID setup for this use? Currently I have one of the SSD unmounted.
3. What its the best configuration for Windows regarding VM options. Screen:

And about Firewall (the same topic since setup is relevant):
1. Is there a file config to see all the rules that has been applied? Im aware of iptables -S
2. Do you really see crucial to add a rule for SSH and GUI access only from 1 ip? Im from Argentina, and all the companies here use dynamic ip, or its enough with anti brute rules?
3. All the rules I apply to main server in SSH would be apply to my VM's if network firewall is enabled?
4. Need to limit connection ammount per IP and per time, I read this tutorial (hope isn't againts the rules share the link) https://javapipe.com/blog/iptables-ddos-protection/ with a bit of tweaks could be exactly what I need, only if I can add a ban to the ip that exceed the limite, for 30mins lets said.
5. Is there a way to add a whitelist IP for certain rules only? Like for example, I wanna limit connections with the rules from the link above, to 15 connections over 30sec.

Think that would be all. Thanks to all for reading, sorry for all the questions and the bad english ^^