This article will give you a basic overview of how the internet functions and explain why you may not always see the advertised network speeds on your Server. Your data does not travel the way you think it does When you connecting to your server you may think that your computer is going directly from…
In this scenario we will recover from a situation where both drives in a software raid 1 in Linux have failed. First go through this guide: https://server-help.org/index.php/2019/04/17/rebuild-software-raid-linux/ If this process fails and the raid is not rebuilt proceed as follows. In this we assume sda is the drive with our data but is failing, and…
With Tomcat there are a number of different ways to install and use a SSL but I will show you how to do this the easy way. 1) Login to your IONOS Control Panel and go to Domains & SSL > Select your Domain > Create and Download .PFX File > Download 2) Save the…
Automated Scaling In part 4 we will look into using the IONOS Cloud API to allow for our setup to automatically scale up and down as resources demand it. API We will first need to setup our API access 1). Login to your IONOS Cloud Panel 2). Go to Management > Users > Create 3).…
In this guide we will show you how to move your partition from an HDD to SSD or vice versa. We will assume that you currently have a Dedicated server which contains multiple drives. As you can see there are 2 separate volumes named vg00 and hdd. Going forward you have 2 options. Option 1).…
Further Scaling and Redundancy In part 3 we will add additional scaling for MySQL as well as add in some redundancy into our setup. For this setup we will require at least 5 servers. 1 – Management Node (Where we will manage and control the cluster) 2 – Data Nodes (Where the MySQL Data will…
Scaling In Part 2 we will further scale your website to use 3 servers with a Load Balancer, Private Network, and Shared Storage. One Server will act as the MySQL Server while the other 2 will Load Balance to handle Web requests. Shared Storage 1). In the IONOS Cloud Panel go to Infrastructure > Shared…
The Basics In Part 1 of this guide we will show you how to increase your website performance using the most basic and typical server setup. This guide assumes that you have a single Cloud Server running CentOS 7 where you plan on hosting a single WordPress site that you will scale in the future…
1). First image your server with a pre-built docker image or follow the instructions below to install manually: A). yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2B). yum-config-manager –add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repoC). yum install dockerD). systemctl start dockerE). systemctl enable docker 2). cd /opt3). sudo curl -L http://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.24.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose 4). chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose 5). yum install…
1). After adding the Block Storage and assigning it to your VM in the Cloud Panel login to the server with SSH. 2). From here run fdisk -l to ensure the new drive shows (it should be sdb), if not reboot the server. 3). Run pvs to show your current volume group: PV VG Fmt…