New website BuyServer.Info

Some time back, i registered the domain name www.buyserver.info

My plan is to provide information on dedicated servers and data centers that provide good deals on dedicated servers.

I could not start the work of the web site due to many other works. So the site was just showing directory listing untill today. Today i just created a blog and posted few dedicated server special offers.

I thought about doing this after seeing special offer from dedicatednow.com. I have two linux servers with them. One my first linux dedicated server taken years back running on RedHat 9, other one is running on CentOS. Both are working fine. Thinking of getting one more server shortly.

Anyway keep visiting www.BuyServer.info

I will try to post more special dedicated server offers (If some data center provide better deals.)

SIM Create Problem on Free Hosting Server

Last few days i found the Free Hosting Server (AMD 2400, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB HDD) getting down with high traffic.

Last month, i have diabled the bandwidth monitoring service for free web sites because it overloaded MySQL data base.

So i have installed System Integrity Monitor (SIM) on the server. Last few days i found there is too many down times, services like httpd, ftpd, sendmail and sshd won't work. But server is responding well for PING, that is server is not down... but all required services are down... Every time i have to open a reboot ticket with data center to get the server back online... this will take near 30 mints to get the server rebooted by data center. Anyway server reboots are fast...

I thought server is getting down with high traffic, actually there was high traffic, many times, it was above 1 MB per second, if we allow this, server will exceed its monthly bandwidth limit of 1000 GB per month. High bandwidth is caused by the fact we don't have the facility to limit bandwidth per web site.

So i disabled all mp3 files on the srever

# locate *.mp3

will give list of mp3 files on the server, i just copied every file locations and added "chmod 000 " to the beginning of line with regular expression, that is replace "^" with "chmod 000 ".

Now bandwidth usage is under control, still at times, services become down, no access to server other than ping.

So i have through of perventing HOT LINKING. So i added .htaccess file to prevent hotlinking of files to all users.

Now users can't hotlink images, exe, zip or rar files from other web sites, they need to link to a web page under their BizHat.com free home page.

These changes won't made any improvement in server problems... server get down at times.

So i start looking into SIM.

I have read there is problem in using nice command with sshd .

So i reconfigured SIM

# /usr/local/sim/autoconf

And disabled monitoring of service sshd.

Now SIM monitors services

httpd
sendmail
mysql

Server Load
8 - Warn
10 - Critical

Nice services when load level is Warn.
Reboot Server when load level is Critical.

After this change (removing sshd from SIM monitoring), server seems working fine.

SIM
SIM is System Integrity Monitor, that monitor your server at predefined time using cron job. If a service found down, it will restart the service. Also if the server load is above Warn level, it can nice the processes.

nice is a linux command used to set priority for processes running linux box.

Free phpBB Forum Hosting

On Jan 24, 2005 we brought Multi Forums Pro Host script to start phpBB free web hosting. This will allow us to provide hosted phpBB message board to our users.

Setting up a message board with Multi Forums Pro Host is very easy, just fill a simple form and submit, your phpBB forum is ready to use.

You can find our Free phpBB forum hosting at

http://www.netfreehost.com/phpbb/

Features we offer with free phpBB hosting are

- PHPBB latest version.
- Easy installation
- No Banner Ads or Popups
- Over 50 Templates
- Support over 50 Languages
- Private or public forums
- Sub Domain: YourForum.NetFreeHost.com
- Instant Activation
- 24/7 Community Support
- Quick Reply and Banner MOD
- Free search engine submission of your forum.
- No limit on number of post, space, members, or size.

We have made few changes to Multi Forums Pro Host script. Now our users get free forum setup as a sub domain to our domain name netfreehost.com, this allow them to submit their forum in search engine. We have also installed search engine mod, this will make the forum urls search engine friendly.

Many free phpBB free hosting offers near 250 templates to their users, but we have installed only 50 templates. This is because we don't want to maintain all these templates when new versions of phpBB is released. Next version of phpBB is told to be using entirly different template structure, it will take some time to get new versions of all these templates, chances are some templates will not have a new version too.

New Domain for free web hosting

We started BizHat.com Free Web Hosting on domain name www.DomainsToBuy.com

We selected the domain name DomainsToBuy.com for offering free web hosting as we don't use this domain, so thought of using it to offer free web hosting.

Just found a good domain name NetFreeHost.com, that is available for registration. I waited few days thinking to register it or not. At last i descided to register the domain name NetFreeHost.com and use it for Free Web Hosting.

Domain NetFreeHost.com is better suited for offering free web hosting than DomainsToBuy.com

So made few pages (most copied from domainstobuy.com) for netfreehost.com, still its under construction. Need to make more pages like FAQ, Link Directory of members, etc...