LiquidWeb Announces Parallels Plesk Panel
Herndon, Virginia - May 11, 2009 - Web hosting and data center services firm, LiquidWeb, will offer automation and virtualization provider, Parallels’ Plesk Panel 9.0 on 100% of its dedicated and virtualized servers.
Clinton Hansen, Manager of Windows Products, LiquidWeb remarked, ”The value and performance of Parallels Plesk Panel is unmatched in the market. By working closely with Parallels, we are able to offer the solution on 100% of our servers and enable our customers to focus on IT efficiency and the optimization of internal resources.”
By adding Parallels hosting automation control panel software to its Linux based servers, LiquidWeb is able to increase per server profitability and provide its entire customer base with the most stable and secure multi-platform hosting control panel on the market.
LiquidWeb started offering Parallels Plesk Panel on its Windows servers and is now expanding this to include the 80% of its servers that are Linux based. The intuitive interface is easy to navigate and enables the company to present all of its customers with a way of making cumbersome tasks quick and straight-forward, regardless of their operating system. This gives small-and-medium sized business owners the ability to save money and better manage their servers without needing to employ a large IT team.
Parallels Plesk Panel also offers complete integration with leading services such as the Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog and Parallels Plesk Billing 6.0. The APS Catalog provides access to hundreds of pre-packaged applications, while the integration of Parallels Plesk Billing creates a full-featured hosting automation solution that eliminates the need for third party billing software.
Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Division, Parallels noted, ”The increased functionality of Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0 creates an easy and completely integrated end-user experience for LiquidWeb customers. The availability of the APS Catalog and Parallels Plesk Billing 6.0 enables service providers and resellers to build more profitable full-featured offerings to increase their revenue streams.”
The offering will vary in price and be available within the next two weeks through LiquidWeb.
Liquid Web is a leading provider of premium web hosting products and data center infrastructure. Established in 1997, Liquid Web’s growth has been fueled by providing unbeatable managed services to businesses of all sizes, in all areas of the world. Liquid Web currently serves more than 10,000 clients in over 100 countries around the world. Liquid Web has been honored by INC Magazine as one of the nation’s fastest growing companies consecutively in 2007 and 2008.
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.
To learn more about Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0, please visit: www.parallels.com/products/plesk.
For more information, please visit: www.parallels.com.
Install ServerStats on Debian
This tutorial will quickly explain how to install and set up ServerStats (http://hostingfu.com/article/server-monitoring-cacti-serverstats) on your server. This will set ServerStats to run on port 9087. Make sure port 9087 is open in your firewall, or adjust the port below to match the port you chose and opened in your firewall. This tutorial MUST be executed as the root user.
Let’s install the dependencies needed to get the script working.
apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev xinetd build-essential -y
Once this finishes running, it’s time to download the source code of the script and install it on your server, you can do this by running the following steps:
cd /usr/src
wget http://hostingfu.com/files/serverstats/serverstats-0.1.tgz
tar -xf server*
cd server*
make && make install
Once this finishes running (which should only be a few seconds, since it’s one file), it’s time to complete the configuration. This can be done with the following steps:
cd /etc/xinetd.d
echo “service serverstats” > serverstats
echo “{” >> serverstats
echo ” type = UNLISTED” >> serverstats
echo ” socket_type = stream” >> serverstats
echo ” wait = no” >> serverstats
echo ” user = nobody” >> serverstats
echo ” server = /usr/local/bin/serverstats” >> serverstats
echo ” port = 9087″ >> serverstats
echo ” disable = no” >> serverstats
echo “}” >> serverstats
Once this finishes running, all that is left to be done is restart xinetd, and you are set, which can be done by running:
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
We also have created a shell script to do this for you automatically, available here.
Make RPM Work Again
You’re facing a dilemma: RPM has stopped working on your box. You run the command, and it just hangs. Nothing happens. This is a quick fix that has worked several times for me in the past:
First, become root on the server by running:
su -
Once you have become root, then run the following:
killall -9 rpm
rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
There are 2 underscores in the rm command followed by an asterisk. You may be prompted to delete the following files:
/var/lib/rpm/__db.001
/var/lib/rpm/__db.002
/var/lib/rpm/__db.003
If you are, delete them and RPM should be working once again.
Cartika Hosting Announces Launch Of Clustered Hosting Service
Ontario, Canada - Web hosting company, Cartika Hosting, has developed a new High Availability Linux (HAL) clustered hosting service, offering a range of targeted solutions, in addition to a streamlined web interface.
The new HAL services feature completely redundant clustered architecture with additional load balancing of all services within the cluster. Complimented by predictive failure analysis, Countinous Data Protection and enterprise grade Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus features.
Andrew Rouchotas, Cartika’s CEO explains that the unique aspect of HAL is that it resolves most common issues associated with shared hosting. By spreading loads over multiple nodes, HAL allows websites to burst well beyond normal CPU and RAM allocations without overloading servers. Additionally, service is more reliable as a downed server node will not impact service availability.
Mr. Rouchotas noted, ”HAL solves the problems typically associated with shared hosting by spreading services and loads across a fleet of load balanced nodes. We are able to dramatically increase the resource availability and capacity to any given website hosted. Additionally, we are able to increase reliability by building physical server redundancy into all services.”
A Pressure Release System ensures that the system will never become overloaded during periods of very large bursts by Quing request and also acts as an indicator for a requirement to add additional resources (i.e. nodes) to a given array without resulting in cluster instability.
Users get real multiple domain hosting allowing granual email, ftp, stats and web options control for each domain and DNS zone, as well as an Ajax based webmail solution powered by Roundcube. Spam is essentially eliminated with Mailfoundry Enterprise grade spam appliance integrated into users control panels and included for free with any HAL package.
HAL is a premium hosting service transcending industries, sectors and company size. With their range of services, Cartika specializes in providing small to medium sized and enterprise businesses the very best in high availability web hosting, complete with service that includes security firewalls, load balanced architecture, redundant storage arrays, continuous data protection, mail foundry anti-virus and anti-spam protection, and much more.
Mr. Rouchotas added, ”The TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) analysis for HAL is very strong for any business serious about their website performance, availability, and scalability. For $100 a month, a business can acquire high availability hosting for all of their core services. The solution is more reliable and robust then a dedicated server and solves the typical problems associated with shared hosting environments. Additional value adds as found in the redundant, end user accessible backup solution as well as the integrated Mailfoundry anti-spam/virus appliance round off this offering and positively impact a company’s TCO calculations.”
Founded in Toronto in May 2002, Cartika Inc. is an established Application Hosting utilizing advanced clustering technologies, providing advanced web hosting facilities, combined with several best of breed Open Source and Commercial Applications. Cartika caters to businesses of all sizes providing shared, reseller and dedicated hosting solutions on Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD operating systems supporting a multitude of solutions, languages and development platforms, including Coldfusion, Sharepoint, MS Exchange, CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Market differentiators include automated, multi-platform, managed clustered solutions allowing companies to scale across platforms, services and across a potentially infinite number of nodes from central control interfaces.
For more information on new High Availability Linux (HAL) hosting, please visit: www.cartikahosting.com/HAL.
To learn more about Cartika Hosting, please visit: www.cartikahosting.com.
Converting JailTime.org templates for HyperVM
Well, after finally figuring out how to do this myself, I felt necessary that I shared this with others, so that people can easily do this on their own without having to feel their way through doing this on their own.
Note: Root access is required. This MUST be done on a server or VPS that allows mounting using the loop device, as this is needed for some of the steps.
For our example, we are going to demonstrate how to convert the debian image into a HyperVM-ready image. This can also be done on any other template provided by JailTime.org.
Firstly, we must download the image onto the machine we’re going to be doing the conversion on.
wget “http://jailtime.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=cache&media=download%3Adebian64%3Adebian.4-0.64.20080709.img.tar.bz2″
After downloading the file, we are going to extract out the image. There will be a xen configuration file in the archive as well, but this can be ignored as HyperVM generates its own xen configuration file.
tar jxf debian.4-0.64.20080709.img.tar.bz2
Next, we will prepare a directory to mount the image file to, and mount it using the loop device.
mkdir /mnt/foo
mount -o loop /root/debian.4-0.64.img /mnt/foo
Now, to get to the very simple part. All we need to do now is tarball the image so that HyperVM can read it appropriately.
cd /mnt/foo
tar -czf /home/hypervm/xen/template/debian-4.0-x86_64-jailtime.tar.gz
Please note, when naming the templates, you MUST name the template in the following schema:
distro-version-arch-custom.tar.gz
This instructs HyperVM which configuration variables it must pass to xen, and which configuration HyperVM must choose to ensure that the VPS will boot successfully.
After that step, your template is ready for use.
Note: I have noticed that some of the jailtime.org templates lack running GeTTY on xvc0, which may prove to be a hassle for some users, especially if they make use of the HyperVM console login. If you want to enable this, add the following line into your /etc/inittab
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L xvc0 9600 vt100
Also ensure that the line containing tty1 is commented out, as this may cause conflicts.
Happy templating!
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