Update VPS Plans regarding VPS 9 Status

LightDestory

As the title says on the VPS Plans page the information about VPSes 9 is not up to date.

All the VPS has been migrated to KVM
The disk space is now variable: 10GB to 100GB

Thanks for your patience,
LightDestory,

deanhills

We've had discussions like these before. So am curious to update this information. What device/s are members using as their main device/s for posting in the Forum. Desktop computer/laptop computer/tablet/smart phone or other? Using a phone to just look at posts doesn't count - but if you are posting from more than one device I've enabled multiple choice for answers. I'm interested to know what your main device/s is/are for posting in the Forum.

Would be nice if you could discuss your choice in a post as well, and let us know what and why you prefer those devices.

If you are using a smart phone to post in the Forum, possibly you could also discuss challenges that are experienced with the Forum script while you are using your smart phone. If your smart phone is your main device for posting in the Forum, how do you think post4vps can improve your experience to make it easier to post by smart phone?

deanhills · Posted by: deanhills - 12-18-2019, 02:30 PM - Forum: Hobbies - Replies (1)

I was recently fascinated by an article in Financial Times about virtual youtubing*. Being the new major trend at Youtube. According to Kevin Allocca, Head of Culture and Trends at YouTube, there have been 5,000 channels (since May 2019) self-describing as "virtual youtubers" and videos from these channels got more than a billion views.

So was wondering whether there were any members who have created virtual videos themselves? Or are interested in such?

I'd have thought this to be a major element in the design of new games. Looks as though this is an area where lots of money can be made if you hit it right?

What software would one use to create these videos with?

*Link removed - warning: (refer HR's shoutbox link here):
https://imgur.com/vsrg7oW

The above didn't come up for me when I Googled the article. However, may annoy other members as well, so have removed the Financial Times article link. If you are keen to read it maybe you could Google it with search words

Code:
Financial Times + Kevin Allocca

. I tried it a second time with Firefox, and was also able to get the article without being prompted for signing up.

xdude

Even when you are not a die-hard gamer, there might be games which you can't stop playing. I'm not a gamer and haven't installed any latest games for a long long time. But there are 2 games so far I couldn't stop playing. I should have stopped long ago but I just couldn't or more like don't want to.

The first one is a browser game called Elvenar. This is my biggest problem. It's a boring city building game from INNO. I have been playing this like for 3 years now. It takes like one hour every single day. I just play the game because of the people I have met there. Now it has become a part of the daily routine of mine.

The second one is an ancient game. It's is a real-time strategy game released in 1998. That makes it nearly 20 years old. This game should have become obsolete and long gone. But it seems there is a faithful crowd of fans who would make it work for the current Windows system. At least it works fine in Windows 7 and previous. It's a quite rough and massive complicated game that has no in-game tutorials or guides. Compared to it's time this game has taken strategy gaming on an epic scale. I think I first played it like in 2005 or 2006 but still haven't got bored it with.

So do you guys have a game or 2 which you can't just leave and move on?

chanalku91

A few days ago I passed the exam and got a certificate!

Now I have to face the thing that makes me want to throw my PC off the table !, a problem on the web server!

A few hours ago I tried to fix this problem but it didn't work!
If you have a solution, please post below!

I am giving screnshot via Smartphone now because my PC cannot be turned on!

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Mashiro · Posted by: Mashiro - 12-13-2019, 06:41 PM - Forum: Tutorials - No Replies

Installing Docker & Portainer on Debian 10

Hello Post4VPS Community

A few days ago I was talking with a few work colleagues from the IT department in which I work as a full time staff at my current employer. We were talking about Docker and that we're looking forward to use it more and replace all our standalone Linux servers and applications with Docker containers to reduce work and maintenance load caused by them. We run a monitoring system, a ticket system and a UniFi controller on seperate physical and virtual Linux servers with different Debian OS versions (8 which is EOL soon if it isn't already and 9). Every of these services requires a web server, PHP (or Redis/Ruby) and a database engine. So you can image how much work it is to install all of this for each of the servers, install the individual applications and maintain everything over all the years. The company I work for is mid sized but we have several branches in addition to our main HQ. The IT department is basically too small to manage the amount of people and systems that we have. We have taken steps forward to fix this issue already by hosting some important servers off site through a IT contractor and we're looking forward to hire new staff.

Anyway. TL;DR: we want to port all our dedicated Linux machines into Docker containers to reduce workload and maintenance on them. As I mentioned before we already use Docker and want to use it more often. The problem with this is that "we" currently is one staff who is very into Docker and has set everything up with a full dedicated server and a powerful VM as a Docker Swarm (although Docker Swarm is history now with the purchase by Kubernetes). What does that mean? Well, one simple and important thing: we need at least a second Docker administrator to jump in for cases where stuff goes wrong or to create new projects in Docker and maintain them. Guess who that is. Right, it is me. My problem: aside from reading things about Docker and always wanting to try it out I never did and never had the chance due to way too much work.

How is that story related to this tutorial? I have a VPS 16 with 12 GB of RAM and 200 GB of storage space. I have projects I want to run that would actually also require many different components to be installed separately if done without Docker. And that is the point where my job meets my hobby. I want to learn how to use Docker and Portainer (we use this to manager our Docker containers) and use this knowledge to run the projects I wanted to host on my VPS 16. Through this and maybe other tutorials I want to share my journey and experience with you.

Let's get ready.

Requirements

A dedicated or virtual server with Debian 10 64 Bit. If it is a VM/VPS I would recommend KVM, Hyper-V, VMWare or other hardware virtualization.
The server should be compatible with Docker without limitations created by virtualization like OpenVZ or others.
Root or administrative access (sudo) on your server and basic Linux experience to manage the server.

Other than that you simply need time and fun with learning and hosting new things. Docker and similar container technologies are becoming the future of hosting and cloud hosting because they're easy to use and maintain after you've learned how to handle it all. There are a lot of helpful tools such as Portainer, Traefik and others.

Now to the guide.

Step 1

First of all login into your server as root or as a user that has administrative access. After you're in it's time to update the server to the latest package versions and state. Run the command below to update Debian 10 to the latest version.

Update commands:

Code:
apt-get update

apt-get upgrade -y

apt-get dist-upgrade -y

(Remember to use sudo infront of the commands if you're not root).

After you're done with updating I would recommend to reboot the server once to make sure all updates are applied properly. Once the server is back we can install everything needed to get the latest version of Docker for Debian 10.

First install a few important tools to which will allow apt to download packages over HTTPS by using the command below.

Code:
apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2 software-properties-common -y

Now download and import the repo key of the official Docker repo for Debian by using the commands below.

Code:
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | apt-key add -

After that is done we can add the repo to the Debian package sources with the following commands.

Code:
add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

Now update the local package database on your server with the command below.

Code:
apt-get update

Step 2

At this point we can install Docker on the server by using the commands below.

Code:
apt-get install docker-ce -y

The installation process will take a while. Just wait until you are at the terminal again and can enter further commands.

Check if the Docker services are running with the command below.

Code:
systemctl status docker

If it isn't running start it with the following command.

Code:
systemctl start docker

If it isn't starting due to some kind of issue or error feel free to open a support thread here or consult Google and other sites. Most important read the Docker documentation, too!

Docker is now installed on the server.

Step 3

Finally we can install Portainer to manage our Docker containers. Actually Portainer is already a Docker container that manages all the other Docker containers we want to run. So we're already installing our first container!

To install Portainer on your server run the commands below.

Code:
docker volume create portainer_data

docker run -d -p 9000:9000 -p 8000:8000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer

This two commands will create a volume for Portainer where all the configurations and other files are stored for it and then it will create a Portainer Docker container. After running this commands you can access Portainer on port 9000 already. Just open it in your web browser by going to IP:9000 oder domain:9000. There you can do the first configuration such as setting up a password and a administrator username.

This is how Portainer looks like after you login the first time:
[Image: MOnYR9q.png]

We're at the point where we have Docker and Portainer running already. Data is stored in the volume that was created before. The volume is located in /var/lib/docker/volumes/. You can find out the location by running the following command.

Code:
docker volume inspect portainer_data

Result would be like this:

Code:
[

    {

        "CreatedAt": "2019-12-13T13:15:01-05:00",

        "Driver": "local",

        "Labels": {},

        "Mountpoint": "/var/lib/docker/volumes/portainer_data/_data",

        "Name": "portainer_data",

        "Options": {},

        "Scope": "local"

    }

]

Now that Portainer is installed you can start using it. I would recommend to use its documentation to get started. This guide is purely for the installation of it as I haven't started using it actively, yet. I wanted to install Docker and Portainer to have something to begin with.

Docker documentation: https://docs.docker.com/
Portainer documentation: https://portainer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

I hope you can make use of this guide. I'm about to start learning how to use Docker with their official documentation and the same for Portainer.

This guide was infact created by reading both documentations and applying them on my own server successfully.

ikk157 · Posted by: ikk157 - 12-12-2019, 01:58 PM - Forum: Software - Replies (27)

Hello everyone,

I’ve got a very old laptop of mine which is currently my only windows system. However, it is an extremely low-end laptop with horrible specs as follows:

Single core intel atom at 1.82Ghz
2GB of DDR2 RAM
300GB HDD
Windows 8.1 (originally came with windows 7 starter, but it somehow runs much better on windows 8.1. I tried Windows 10 and it was on the verge of unusable).

It has become significantly harder to manually detect malware and delete it, which is what I’ve done in the past.

I’ve used several paid antivirus software before, the ones that you can buy on any electronic store (such as Kaspersky). But they just seem to be too heavy for my low speced laptop, so it struggles to do anything with the antivirus process running.

And hence, are there any extremely light antivirus software that are also free? I’ve already paid enough for other antiviruses and don’t see myself spending more money on more.

Thanks

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hamed · Posted by: hamed - 12-12-2019, 05:42 AM - Forum: SEO Optimization - Replies (5)

Hi . I need software to compress my website images. As you know compression of images is an important point in SEO of a website. Thank you if you introduce one of their best to my servant that will make the images up to 16 KB in size. (With best quality)

Decent12

hey guys,
the other day my laptop got turned off automatically due to low charge but after that i am unable to use my laptop there is a disk F which inaccessible and whenever i try to open this error pops up.
"The disk is inaccessible the disk parameter is incorrect"

Searched google but there is no helpfull solution.
i have tried one thing till now for solving but no solution
1) tried chkdisk

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