Hello everybody,
We faced, for a very short time, some issues in our website’s server which were resolved by night shift staff. Everything should be functioning normally now. If you’re still experiencing difficulties, please contact us at support@hostplate.com as soon as possible and we will be glad to resolve your problem in the earliest possibility.
The long awaited credit card gateway is online now by help of Skrill, an e-wallet company in UK, very similar to PayPal but with less limitations specially for countries like India where you could not pay by credit card through PayPal.
If you are among those limited by PayPal to pay by Credit Card, simply follow the same procedure you used to do with other payment methods. Click on view invoice in your client account, then on top right click on the drop down menu and choose Moneybookers and click pay.
A new window will open and let you on the left side to pay with a credit card. It is not required to login nor to register. If you have any issue paying with a Credit Card through Skrill (Previously known as Moneybookers), please contact billing@hostplate.com.
Hello Everyone,
Eventually, managed service is considered as one of the Hostplate’s active services. According to our statistics, more than 55% of clients had requested for this feature.
During the last week, after a board meetings held between different departments, It was decided to have managed services among other existing products of HostPlate.com.
Some of the features this new service includes are as follow:
- 24/7/365 Server Monitoring
- Setup complete server for different purposes
- Server Software Installation/Upgrades/Support
- Server Backup Restore & Server Migration
- Upgrade OS and application
- Server Security, Tweaking and Hardening
- cPanel/WHM Support
- Support different web server like: NginX, LiteSpeed, Apache
You should be able now to upgrade to a package including some or all of the features mentioned above in your client account.
Please let us know how you think about this new service by sending us an email to Feedback .
This tutorial is written by one of our customers who successfully applied software RAID10 on his server without KVM and only by use of Rescue Mode.
It gives you the idea of how to apply different type of RAID on your server simply by using dedicated panel in your client account.
Software RAID10 Tutorial by Alberto Nakayama:
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Woops I haven’t read it ’till now, here’s a how-to.
On the example the /home partition is the one that have almost all of the HD space.
It’s been made using raid1 for /boot and raid10 for all other partitions.
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1) To begin I’ll asume that you are on the SSH of your recently installed server with Linux on SDA.
2) Let’s create some partitions on the SDB disk. This oneliner will create a 200M active partition (for /boot), a 50G partition (for the system), a 4G partition (for swapping) and the last one for /home with all the resting space. All the partitions are changed to “Linux raid autodetect”.
echo -e “n\np\n1\n\n+200M\nn\np\n2\n\n+50G\nn\np\n3\n\n+4G\nn\np\n4\n\n\nt\n1\nfd\nt\n2\nfd\nt\n3\nfd\nt\n4\nfd\na\n1\nw\n” | fdisk /dev/sdb
3) Let’s copy that partitioning to all other disks
sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc
sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdd
4) Now we mount some needed modules
modprobe linear
modprobe raid0
modprobe raid1
modprobe raid10
5) And start all the RAID disks with one missing partition for each one of them
mdadm –create –level=1 –force –assume-clean –metadata=0.9 –raid-devices=4 /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 missing
mdadm –create –level=10 –force –assume-clean –metadata=0.9 –raid-devices=4 /dev/md1 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2 missing
mdadm –create –level=10 –force –assume-clean –metadata=0.9 –raid-devices=4 /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3 missing
mdadm –create –level=10 –force –assume-clean –metadata=0.9 –raid-devices=4 /dev/md3 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sdc4 /dev/sdd4 missing
6) Now, let’s format the disks. I’ve chosen ext4 but you can use any format you like like ext3 or reiserfs.
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md1
mkswap /dev/md2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md3
7) Let’s save the array disk’s data on file
mdadm –examine –scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf
Now we have to make a new initrd file so that it loads the raid module on-boot. This is needed for CentOS and probable Debian based systems too. Remember to delete any rd_NO_* line on the kernel line because that may avoid your server from loading the raid disks.
mkinitrd –fstab=/mnt/server/etc/fstab –with=raid1 –with=raid10 –preload=raid10 –preload=raid1 /boot/initrd-raid-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`
nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
9) Let’s mount the new arrays on /mnt and copy all the system into them.
mkdir /mnt/server
mount /dev/md1 /mnt/server/
cd /mnt/server/
cp -ax / .
mkdir /mnt/server/boot
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/server/boot
cd /mnt/server/boot
cp -ax /boot/* .
10) Now, change the old SD disks to the new MD disks, add the last one to get mounted as /home. We’ll only edit the copy that’s already inside the array disk so that if you need to boot with sda to fix something, you’ll be able to do it.
nano /mnt/server/etc/fstab
11) Now, let’s install grub on all the new /boot partitions
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
root (hd1,0)
setup (hd1)
root (hd2,0)
setup (hd2)
root (hd3,0)
setup (hd3)
quit
12) With our fingers crossed, we execute reboot
- If after some time your machine don’t boot up (give it at least 5 minutes), you can boot into recovery mode and change the file /boot/grub/menu.lst to boot with /dev/sda2 again, so you can start over and see what went wrong on the logfiles.
- Otherwise if it worked, we have to add SDA to the array
13) First let’s copy the partitions
sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sda
14) Then add it to the /boot raid and reinstall grub once it has finished
mdadm –add /dev/md0 /dev/sda1
(wait ’till it finishes, its just a few seconds)
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
exit
15) Then we add all the other partitions to their corresponding array disk
mdadm –add /dev/md1 /dev/sda2
mdadm –add /dev/md2 /dev/sda3
mdadm –add /dev/md3 /dev/sda4
16) Wait till they all sync up and you’re ready to go.
PS: You can cat the file /proc/mdstat to know how much has been synced and how much you have to wait, it will probably take a few hours on large disks.
Let’s get straight to the subject.
You may be aware of cloud hosting, or you may not but you are already using it even though you might have not purchased it from a company offering it as some services provided by cloud hosting is offered free of charge, for example Gmail you are using or photo sharing services such as Flicker both use this technology.
Cloud hosting soon will replace shared hosting as many of the limits from shared hosting are no longer an issue in cloud hosting. For instance, in shared hosting you have access to a small share of one server while in cloud hosting you can borrow resources as much as you want from many servers ready to forgive. You will not care any more for hardware of your server as Cloud hosting lets you to only focus on your website or any other activity you use it for.
Having said above, after unmetered 1 Gbps project, this will be even a bigger project for HostPlate which was finally approved by management last week and the budget requested was allocated. What I can tell you is that it will be superb and one of the the bests offered in market of cloud hosting. It will completely change the way we offer Windows and Linux VPS now.
This is clearly a good news for those who wanted to join HostPlate train but PayPal was providing them with no ticket due to their special policies which one needs to study 10 years in law school to understand how beautiful they are farming money with your money and their abusive policies.
Thus, we opened a credit card project to be discussed with billing department and at the end it was decided to integrate an EUROPEAN (Yessss) credit card gateway for our customers. You will be finally with a real billing pal who does not hold your money to earn money.
As far as I have been updated so far, the gateway accepts majority of countries where credit cards are offered by banks. Those without a credit card might try bank to bank transfer.
Don’t hesitate to send us more of your feedbacks as they have been extremely helpful.
Hello guys,
Just got you some good news and thought it would be the best to share it here with you.
Considering your frequent requests and feedbacks regarding more bandwidth on 100TB servers or even the possibility of having unmetered traffic like the way it is in our VPS packages, HostPlate.com has arranged to provide 1Gbps unmetered servers very soon. The first question comes to your mind I’ve assumed would be when? I asked about it and even though they did not provide me with a clear answer, but I could estimate that to be 1 month.
Servers will be in EvoSwitch Datacenter and prices will be the most interesting part of it. I promise (I’m not allowed to swear) to know nothing about the range of prices at the moment, but I do my best to leech that out soon.
Stay tuned, as this is a “to be continued” series…
Thanks in advance for your interest in Hostplate.
Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of HostPlate 100TB Custom Servers. Please check the following link for more details:
Hostplate’s 100TB Custom Server
In respect to your feedbacks concerning 100TB express packages upgrade possibility, we decided to offer Hostplate 100TB Custom Servers with much more professional features for clients who need more Performance, Space or Memory.
Unfortunately, we have been informed by support that many dedicated server users are still unfamiliar with dedicated management panel we offer with no extra charge. It is not a KVM but it does all basic functions.
To read the tutorial, please click on the following link:
Hello guys,
Considering we had a lot of requests in regard of how to do this or that in SolusVM panel, we decided to write a tutorial to aid you through every option in this panel. For those with Linux VPS that have not tried this panel, we suggest you to take a look as there are some pretty cool stuff inside.
To read the tutorial, please click on the following link:
