Questions tagged [mediatemple]

MediaTemple is a U.S.-based company providing web hosting services.

MediaTemple is a U.S.-based company providing web hosting services.

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Changing qmail's outgoing IP

QMail uses the server's default IP as its outgoing IP. How do I change the IP to something else? I tried the instructions in the following links but they don't work in my case. http://www.indianwebportal.com/change-mail-server-ip-address-plesk…
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Where is the hosts file located in Mediatemple (dv)?

I need to edit the hosts file in my (dv) server. However, the file isn't under /etc. Where do I edit it in Mediatemple? Any help will be appreciated.
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running mongodb with openvz

Has anyone had any luck getting mongodb working on openvz? Was looking for some tips, tricks, hacks to get it from running out of memory I am running on centos on media temple and the servers just run out of memory really quickly I know its not…
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Cannot delete a dir via SSH: etc/rc.d/init.d/functions': Operation not permitted

I am attempting to delete a backup directory on MediaTemple's (dv) via SSH. The directory is "old" and contains the entire server contents from OS level that (mt) backed up there after my server was hacked. I want to remove it in case there's any…
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How should I host a site that could potentially get a short spike in traffic of 1000%+

This is a purely theoretical question, but what if I had a site that would normally only get a couple thousand hits a day, but for a few days each month that could shoot to several hundred thousand or even several million hits over the period of 1-3…
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Magento and Media Temple, playing nicely

I am trying to get the page load time as low as possible in my Magento store. I am using a Media Temple (dv) Extreme, which has 2GB of RAM. I have had APC setup along with Fooman Speedster plugin for caching the CSS/IMAGES etc. The page load time is…
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Comment Spam crashing Mediatemple dv Server

I have a dv (Dedicated Virtual) server at Mediatemple where I am hosting over 700 Wordpress blogs. Lately I have been facing a problem with comment spam wherein my the server memory utilization shoots up and Apache crashes. I have resorted to using…
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Qmail Patching Makes me Nervous

We have a system running CentOS 5 with Plesk 8.6 and Qmail running. Our primary domain is hosted through Media Temple. When Plesk and Qmail are hosted on a single Dedicated Virtual server, it reads the primary server IP and domain and reports that…
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Does uninstalling psa-firewall (plesk firewall module) disable firewall?

I have a dv server with media temple and the plesk firewall module is causing a tonne of grief, it use to work, not anymore... unable to edit firewall rules through the module etc. Does uninstalling this module, what i assume is known as the…
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CentOS and Snapshots

I'm planning on purchasing a virtual-dedicated server today and would like to pass a quick question by the community here before I do. I'm likely going to be getting CentOS, as that seems to be a pretty stable, and popular distro from what I can…
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Email can't be sent to my domain

Edit: My problem is solved (but I can't accept my own answer for another two days) Hi Folks, Basically I have my domain howcode.com bought at DomainMonster.com. I have set it all up to point to MediaTemple nameservers and everything works - mostly -…
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SSH closing by itself - root works fine

I'm trying to connect to a server but if i use any other user than root the connection closes itself after a successful login: XXXXXXX:~ user$ ssh -v XXXXXXX@XXXXXXX.XXXXXX.XXX OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8l 5 Nov 2009 debug1: Reading configuration…
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Migration to Media Temple (dv) from (gs) - 777 Permissions issue

I just migrated my website (built on CakePHP) from Media Temple's (gs) server to (dv). I got an error that the /tmp/cache folder is not writable. Changing the permissions to 777 fixes this error - however it seems unsafe (is this true?). On the…
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Server slows same time every day, no idea why

I have a DV server from MediaTemple and lately our server is slowing at the same time every day. It is not due to a traffic increase or anything like that. The slow down lasts 2-3 hours. It seems like everything takes longer to respond and download…
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yum install httpd-devel on mediatemple dv 4

I have a mediatemple dv 4 with plesk 11.0.9 installed. When I run yum install httpd-devel I get the following httpd-devel-2.2.3-76.el5.centos.x86_64 from updates has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: httpd = 2.2.3-76.el5.centos is needed…