In this article we will discuss how to extend your Server C drive, in case you don’t have much space. Most of Dedicated Servers comes with most of free space is assigned to D drive, and that make it difficult to extend C drive; because the end sector of C drive is the beginning of…
After creating a Block Storage volume in the Cloud Panel and assigning it to a server, Linux servers will need to be configured to access the new Block Storage. Learn how to add Block Storage to a Cloud Server with Linux. Scenario 1: Assign Block Storage as Separate Storage Connect to the server with SSH,…
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…
Replacement of SDA… For this particular ‘use case’. If your system is still bootable to local / normal system… Connect over RDP. (If for some reason a window pops up for you to initialize the disk select MBR for windows) Right click on windows task icon in windows task bar. Select “Disk Managment” from the…
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).…
As we have mentioned previously, how to Secure your Server SSH Login. Today, we are going to Install and Configure Fail2ban, to black list illegitimate connections, most likely (DDOS, Bruteforce Attacking, etc..) on your Server. Fail2ban is not available in CentOS package repository. Therefore, we need to install EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository…
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).…
When we boot Server into Rescue using GParted or Knoppix, we need to mount the Logical Volumes in order to fix whatever issue we have. However, we may receive “mount: unknown file system type LVM2_member” Now, let’s scan our Logical Volumes using lvscan From the output, it seems the Logical Volumes have not been activated.…
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…