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by **sanchezcaro** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:37 pm

Hi everyone. First of all, many thanx to polarhome team, who activated my shell account minutes after i made the bank transfer and sent the form by fax. I uploaded my website files yesterday by ftp and it goes really fast, more than any other ftp server i have tried.

But not everything's good

After uploading the files, i try to access my site from the internet followin the instructions in the port list and it gives an error of unavailability

While for example, you can access to http://www.polarhome.com:793 (redhat OS) from the link in the ports list, you cannot to http://www.polarhome.com:753 (debian)

Does this means debian is down? When is it goin to be on service for http?

by **afonic** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:56 pm

SSH seems to work, so it seems that Apache is down.

Please email support@polarhome.com and report this.

by **dillona_aix** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 9:10 pm

I agree the host is up. I ran a simple finger from aix:

bash-2.04$ finger zoli@debian
[debian.polarhome.com]
Login: zoli Name: Zoltan Arpadffy (zoli@polarhome.com)
Directory: /home/z/zoli Shell: /bin/bash
Last login Fri Jan 13 13:08 (CET) on pts/3 from 212.209.198.194
No mail.
No Plan.

I also tried http and https, and I get no response. Zoli will be able to fix it.
Afonic, Can you login and try netstat -a?

by **SiNGLeLord** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:19 pm

12:14:28 up 2 days, 20:24, 2 users, load average: 21.50, 21.88, 22.24

sngllord@debian:~$ ps aux|grep apache
root 2096 0.0 2.5 16624 6504 ? Ss 09:01 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 2929 0.5 3.9 19736 10148 ? S 09:26 0:55 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 3204 0.5 3.9 19480 10016 ? S 09:35 0:48 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 4084 0.5 3.9 19496 10028 ? S 09:50 0:48 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 4233 0.5 3.8 19460 9960 ? S 09:56 0:47 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 4687 0.5 3.9 19684 10096 ? S 10:00 0:41 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 4727 0.5 3.9 19740 10220 ? S 10:03 0:40 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 4877 0.4 3.9 19524 10048 ? S 10:09 0:34 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 4887 0.5 3.9 19684 10096 ? S 10:09 0:40 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5246 0.4 3.8 19472 9948 ? R 10:12 0:33 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5247 0.4 3.9 19732 10132 ? S 10:12 0:35 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5407 0.4 3.9 19624 10092 ? S 10:18 0:34 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5412 0.5 3.9 19704 10168 ? S 10:19 0:36 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5414 0.4 3.8 19468 9960 ? S 10:19 0:31 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5415 0.4 3.9 19716 10204 ? S 10:19 0:31 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5421 0.4 3.9 19684 10092 ? S 10:19 0:31 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5520 0.4 3.9 19724 10144 ? S 10:20 0:27 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5644 0.4 3.9 19720 10148 ? S 10:20 0:29 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5649 0.4 3.9 19580 10056 ? R 10:20 0:33 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5652 0.4 3.8 19496 9980 ? S 10:20 0:29 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL
www-data 5654 0.4 3.8 19544 9956 ? S 10:21 0:33 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -DSSL

by **zoli** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:30 pm

yes...

I upgraded the kernel and some other packages to recent level and it was necessary to reboot the box (after more than 300 days uptime).

For some reason apache did not start and also there were some changes in DNS resolver.

It should be OK by now.

by **SiNGLeLord** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:00 pm

On debian are lots of apache daemons (again)

sngllord@debian:~$ ps aux|grep apache|wc -l
12

by **zoli** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:05 am

this is a good sign.

start worry when there are no apache processes.

by **SiNGLeLord** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:11 pm

I thought that where should be only one apache daemon, sorry

by **sanchezcaro** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:22 pm

debian http service is down again since some days. this is not possible Since this migration to shell accounts i've lost all my visitors i got with so many efforts and this way is no way for recovering my poor site! );
Anyone could do something for debian to be stable please?

by **zoli** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:26 am

I'll take care about it...
It annoys me as well and I will give my best to solve it ASAP.

by **pwlin05_debian** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:17 am

Dear Zoli,

I, too, am waiting for this to be fixed, it works sometimes and then stops for some days. It will be really appreciated if you could take some time and fix this as soon as it's possible for you.

by **dillona_aix** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:15 am

Hi,
I'm sure Z wil get to it, but if you haven't noticed(on the front page) Tru64 is completely down, so that is currently taking no. 1 priority.

by **zoli** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:04 pm

hi,

seems the web server is running, but the server itself is overloaded and requests time out.
Same with mail

I'll check what can we do... probably a hardware upgrade would help.

by **pwlin05_debian** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:37 pm

Hi Zoli,

Thanks for setting up Thy!

It really does the job, well it doesn't have php but it's ok until you get time to check the real problem. But for now it works and I am happy with it!

Thanks so much again!

by **afonic** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:17 am

There is always a solution out there for the brave ones!

zoli, maybe the debian server can handle Lighttpd as well?

Have a look:
http://www.lighttpd.net/

It supports PHP etc, so if it could handle it, it would be a more permanent solution so that you don't have to worry about fixing this fast.

by **zoli** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:57 pm

interesting... definitely worth testing/investigating.

by **afonic** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:21 pm

Yeah have a look at the benchmarks:
http://www.lighttpd.net/benchmark/

and the wiki:
http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/

I have not tried it in a server with huge load like Debian, but we use it in an old P3 700MHz that server, which is being used as an internal server in the univercity and it 'caused the load to drop in half comparing with Apache2.

by **pwlin05_debian** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:46 pm

I thought it's an Apache problem and installing Thy will keep it going for the time being

But it seems it's not that simple and even Thy stops working :cry:

by **afonic** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:55 pm

It's not really a "problem" aka a server software related one, just Debian is obviously over the limit of what its hardware can handle.

I am sure that zoli will find a solution, please be patient until then because as you probably know Polarhome is a non-profit host running on retired machines. Its users donations, shell users and zoli's pocket that keeps it running, so getting better hardware isn't easy.

by **pwlin05_debian** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:18 pm

afonic wrote:It's not really a "problem" aka a server software related one, just Debian is obviously over the limit of what its hardware can handle.

I am sure that zoli will find a solution, please be patient until then because as you probably know Polarhome is a non-profit host running on retired machines. Its users donations, shell users and zoli's pocket that keeps it running, so getting better hardware isn't easy.

Thanx for the great work and I'll wait patiently

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