moving up in the world to unmanaged vps.
system (presently on managed vps) works well on centos 5 but since starting from scratch wondering if 6 is way to go.

any thought?

lol now I get to learn how to install stuff through yummy commands..gotta say I like my windows 2008r2 servers :)

CentOS 6.2 is the stuff. I have it installed and never had any issue. I wanted to have a more recent kernel than the 2.6.18 that comes with centos 5. So far so good.

Centos 6 is the latest release and best option. It has fixed some bugs from 5.x.

It will com installed on most VPS hosts, but you may have to install a control panel which is usually extra on unmanaged.

looking at klaxo for control panel. directadmin supposed to be closest to cpanel but have not heard back on price yet.
besides klaxo will (when I try to isnatll) supposedly install apache/php/and my sql itself so...easy :)
what do you alluse if not cpanel?
trying to save 15$ a month license fee cpanel wants

I am NEW (2 hrs lol ) to unmanaged vps so may hit you all up for questions :)

6.2 64bit you wont regret.

 

I am NEW (2 hrs lol ) to unmanaged vps so may hit you all up for questions :smile:

if you're opting for security, choose XEN VPS rather than OpenVZ but if you're after speed then OpenVZ

it is openvz, using SolusVM panel.
right now pricing was a huge concern for me so I had to look towards that too.
cent 6.2 64 installed now, now just gotta learn howw to install kloxo and stuff.
huge learning curve LOL

what do you all use to connect to the server (from windows machine) in order to run stuff?
putty?

Ya I use Putty and it works well for me for what I can't do easily in cPanel.

I'm still running CentOS 5, and want to upgrade, but a bit shy of messing up the whole thing.

man I cannot connect with putty. disabled GSSAPI (I am on win7 box) and can at least enter root now w/o access denied.
enter password however is always access denied.
set for ssh2 as that seems to work for most.
hmm..

of course kloxo does not work with cent 6 64bit...sigh. trying to avoid cpanel license

try

virtualmin
or litespeed

both have free option and they are "good" hosting managers.

 

it is openvz, using SolusVM panel.

right now pricing was a huge concern for me so I had to look towards that too.

cent 6.2 64 installed now, now just gotta learn howw to install kloxo and stuff.

huge learning curve LOL

looking at some of the topics @ your websites. I'm pretty sure you will have to think about security at some point. believe me!

my websites are constantly attacked by fanatics. Everyday there are DoS, DDoS, SynFlood attacks, Port scanning, fingerprinting attacks ...etc

if it is in the manual of website attack, then I've seen it.

lol yeah at some point I expect it, one reason I want something like cpanel where I can block ips easily (as well as backup easily) as I suck at cmd line stuff.
will look at those 2 mentioned.

you block at server level with csf. it is as easy as csf -d IP

LOL
spekee english?

LOL

went with cent 6 64 and am paying for cpanel. still a LOT cheaper than managed vps with more ram. at least I have experience with cpanel and can at least get some stuff running then.

if you have cpanel then install CSF It's an advanced firewall and HIDPS and it's free :)

I had been looking at that, waiting on cpanel install right now so just uploading site files and importing databases while I wait.
will run a few days using ip address to test then import final database backup and point dns.

damn blank white pages in php 5.3 that I also had on cent5 with php 5.3.
5.2.17 always worked though.

 

damn blank white pages in php 5.3 that I also had on cent5 with php 5.3.

5.2.17 always worked though.

check your php error log, if there is nothing there then most likely because you did something wrong while compiling php using cPanel easyApache. Redo the compilation and you should be fine. I have 5.3.8 working without any issue :)

cpanel not installed yet, cent 6 had 5.3 preinstalled.
installed cent 5 (click of amouse is nice :smile: )and uploading files now to see.
same issue on live server, use 5.3 and white pages on board.
all other php pages worked, just board had issues.

going with what I know works initially, cent 5 64 with php 5.2.17.
get that running then will look at updating.

was thinking may be bit easier if I used vnc or something and logged in that way too.

do you have nexus installed? seems my 5.3 issues may have started after that.

wanted to try something first.
fresh cent6 64, LAMP install.
apache default index page is fine.
upload board files to install new board and blank pages.
damn odd..is php 5.3.3 will try 5.3.8 as you have.

 

wanted to try something first.

fresh cent6 64, LAMP install.

apache default index page is fine.

upload board files to install new board and[u] blank pages[/u].

damn odd..is php 5.3.3 will try 5.3.8 as you have.

Rule no #1.
Blank Pages means PHP error, but your error_reporting level for php is not showing them.... put PHP in strict reporting mode... til that error is actually shown to you, you are basically fishing without a rod...
display_errors on
error_reporting
E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR
that should at very least show the PHP error it is white-paging on.