Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkidu Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royzee Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 I am NEW (2 hrs lol ) to unmanaged vps so may hit you all up for questions :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhana Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 6.2 64bit you wont regret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkidu Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 what do you all use to connect to the server (from windows machine) in order to run stuff? putty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royzee Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 of course kloxo does not work with cent 6 64bit...sigh. trying to avoid cpanel license Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkidu Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 try virtualmin or litespeed both have free option and they are "good" hosting managers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkidu Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkidu Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 you block at server level with csf. it is as easy as csf -d IP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkidu Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 if you have cpanel then install CSF It's an advanced firewall and HIDPS and it's free :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 22, 2012 Author Share Posted January 22, 2012 damn blank white pages in php 5.3 that I also had on cent5 with php 5.3. 5.2.17 always worked though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enkidu Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 do you have nexus installed? seems my 5.3 issues may have started after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmacleo Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcher Technologies Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 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 onerror_reporting E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR that should at very least show the PHP error it is white-paging on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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