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I'm not sure if this is a good idea. My whole system has been set up by Hestia CP, i.e. the Hestia installation program installed and default configured all servers. So, I think that you can say that Apache, etc "run on Hestia". Concerning the monitoring, I think that I will write a Perl script that periodically checks if the different services are running, and if one of them isn't, sends me an email. This could be done for all services and shouldn't be too difficult to do. How urgent would you say that it really is to upgrade Hestia? I am well aware that I'll have to do it. But, I'm always hesitating with such "big steps" to make. What if update fails? Wouldn't that mean that the whole system wouldn't work anymore and had to be re-installed? If I think of how many days I spent with the configuration before I got everything running, when I set up the VPS (of course, I've learned a lot meanwhile and it would take less time). I'm actually searching the web in order to find "the best way" to back up the VPS. The ideal would be to have some kind of global snapshot, with everyting = system, servers, home directory and databases, that you could simply playback (something like taking an image and restoring it on Windows 10)...

So, Uptime Robot works well? Maybe I'll try it... But can it really monitor all services? I mean all those listed on the Hestia page (including iptables, spamassassin). Do these services all run on a given port and how to do to find out what port it is (sorry, my admin knowledge is not lots more than zero)? Obviously, there is something very wrong with my updates. I'm still at version 1.6.8; that must be a year or so that no updates have been done. Any idea why updating stopped at version 1.6.8? And, the important question: What should I do? There are Hestia scripts to update the whole manually, I think. But, how secure they are? I mean that, for me, it's really not the moment to risk that something goes wrong and that the website will be down... Thanks for any suggestion.

The payment is made, same email address as for those before. Autobilling is disabled. If there is any problem, please let me know. Thanks a lot. And sorry that you have this extra work with my "custom subscription payment". But, even if it's not impossible for homeless people in Luxembourg to get a bank account, this one never includes any Internet payment features. So, the only possibility for me to continue my website is to ask someone else to make the payments. And I think that enabling autobilling on an account that isn't yours is not really how it should be if you respect the others. Sorry and thanks!

The important thing for me is to continue enjoying HelioHost services and running my website smoothly as it was for all this time. And with a monthly increasing number of visitors and downloads, I guess that paying the new price and having 1 additional GB of memory is it worth to do so. Thus, thanks for generaating the link for new 6 months subscription at $37.80. I'll pay tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, depending when my "sponsor" is back from holidays. Thanks for having the possibility to pay this way. Thanks for HelioHost to be there for us!

The subscription of my VPS ends in the coming days (can you, please, tell me when exactly?) and I wanted to ask how to proceed to renew it. May I use the link that Krydos gave me in June, or can you, please, give me another link? Subscription for 6 month (or, if this should be possible, for a whole year). Thanks.

I hadn't yet the possibility to try Uptime robot, nor to check for Hestia CP. Concerning Ubuntu 22, I think that a Linux upgrade with Hestia installed would be a really bad idea. And a fresh install? Backup of everything, install of Ubuntu, re-install and re-config of Hestia, restore of website, databases, scripts - that seems a lot of work to me. Do you really think that this is necessary? My VPS runs for a long time, but except this 2 servers down case, there wasn't ever a problem. Wouldn't it be more logical to follow the "Never change a running system" rule? I don't think that Ubuntu 20 has any security issues and as long as everything works fine, why taking all this necessary time to change (and even not being sure, if on the new system everything will work). It not really belongs in this post, but it's VPS related. On December 26, I had over 6000 visitors accessing a Perl script, that reads a huge amount of data from a MariaDB database, sorts it and displays a list. The application, the script belongs to, is more or less paused during 2 years and normally there is just a handfull of people accessing this URI. I first thought that it might be some trial to overload the servers, but awstats reports the visits as "unique visitors", so all different IP addresses. And over 800 people, who were more than half an hour on my site. Does someone have an explanation of this? Is it possible to fake the IP? Could there have been something wrong with awstats? Or just 6000 people, having the same day nothing better to do than run this script?

Hello after a very long time. My website running on a VPS since this bizarre affair with CPanel, I rarely visit the HelioHost forum. Some days ago, two of my servers were down. As I haven't an Internet connection of my own, I very rarely check their status and I noticed it just by chance. My VPS running on Ubuntu server with Hestia CP, someone has an idea if there is a very simple application, that regularly checks all servers and when one of them is offline, sends me an email? Or, do you think that the best way to do this is to write a basic Perl script myself? I have another question: At the beginning, I got several times a mail that Hestia has been updated to a new version. I haven't got any for a very long time and I wonder if there weren't any updates, if I just wasn't notified, or maybe there's something wrong in my configuration, so that there aren't any updates done anymore. Thanks in advance for any help. And a Merry Christmas to everyone.

Thank you for the link. That worked - with some little problem. In fact, after having done the PayPal transaction, the message "Something went wrong" was displayed. Repeating the procedure was successful. However, it seems, that not only this second time, but also before, a payment was made. Thus it is possible that there have been 2 payments. If this is the case, please, consider one of them as the 6-months subscription renewal and the second one as a donation (that you earn, without any doubt). Transaction number is I-WUMPHGGH8CVT. If there are 2 payments, the second one may or may not have the same transaction ID, but certainly has the same associated email. Thanks for your kindness (despite the heavy work you've had all this time with Plesk).

Hi. My VPS (vps43) subscription will end in some days and I wanted to ask if I could pay for another 6 months renewal. Last time (in January) Krydos posted me a URL to use to do so. May I use it for the new payment, too? If not, could you, please, post me a new one? Or, does it work to just make a payment via PayPal, indicating that it's for my VPS? Sorry to bother you all 6 months, but as I do not pay myself, an automatic renewal, configured in PayPal, is not a real option for me. Thanks.

It's really not an issue, but all annoying: When accessing a local HTTPS server with self-signed certificate, Firefox displays the "Security Risk" page and I have every time to allow access to my local Hestia CP. I searched the net in order to find a way to add a permanent exception to Firefox, but all the solutions, I found, did not work (maybe because I set Firefox to never remember history?). I posted in the Mozilla discourse forum, but, after weeks, no answer. Maybe there's someone of the great HelioHost community, who can help me. If not for Firefox, then maybe for another browser. Thanks.

It's these moments where I ask myself who's this perverse, who invented life. Why all misadventures and accidents of all kinds always touch those, who are kind and helpful and gentle with everyone? All best wishes for you and your father, Krydos. And courage for (all alone) continuation with Plesk setup.

Hi. As I'll probably keep my VPS for a longer time, independently when Tommy with Plesk is ready, I want to learn more about sysadmin stuff. I have installed a virtual machine with Ubuntu 20.04 and the question, I want to ask before starting is: Is it possible to install Hestia CP on a local server and is the installation process the same as on my HelioHost VPS? Thanks for answering. Have a nice day!

I guess that what you said about MySQL applies also to my local database server on Windows? What would mean when playing back one of my images and MySQL was running during this time, I could have problems with MySQL data integrity? Are there perhaps other services that have also to be stopped before taking an image?

Thanks for the link. If I do not use a recurring monthly payment, that's simply because I haven't a bank account and have to ask someone else to make the payment; and I cannot ask other people to keep some automatically renewed payment open. The payment yesterday ended with a "something went wrong" message. As the payment has been done (PayPal ID is I-MEP0N44X11YV), I suppose that the error happened because you associated the link with my email and the email used to make the payment is the one of the PayPal account owner. Please, confirm me if everything is ok. If you need this other email, please tell me so and I'll mail it to you. Thanks a lot and ready to go for another 6 months with HelioHost. Why? Because, despite the little doubts I got as a result of all these C-Panel/Plesk problems, you are simply the best! 😍

1. I run SSH on a custom port. My sorrows, that someone tries to hack me on this port, are not justified, I think. If there is all this traffic, I suppose it's because of myself, doing file upload using ftps (i.e. using the custom SSH port). 2. So you think that Hestia needs access to phpMyAdmin? Limiting access to a given IP would of course be a solution, but having no own Internet connection and using public WiFi networks in the street, this is not really possible. 3. On Windows, creating an image of a shadow copy works fine and restoring the image does not cause any problems. Isn't there anything similar for Ubuntu server? Or should I backup the filesystem, databases, etc separately?

Hi. The subscription of my VPS ends in 2 weeks. As Plesk on Tommy seems not be ready for then and considering to continue running my website on the VPS (runs smoothly for 6 months without any problem and the website is faster than it was the last months on Tommy before the C-Panel problem). 1. I suppose that making a new 6-month subscription would make it possible to continue running my VPS without having anything else to do? 2. What happens to old Tommy accounts having a VPS? Is the account and data transfered anyway to Plesk? If Plesk is ready, must I give up the VPS? If the VPS breaks, have I the right to immediately be back online with Tommy? All these questions, because I have to make a decision, how to continue. And even if there weren't any problems so far, I'm scared that something might happen. And if for example Hestia CP breaks down, I couldn't do anything to fix it, simply because I haven't the necessary sysadmin knowledge and coming back to Tommy would be the only thing, I could do, I guess. Concerning possible problems, I just made a post in the "Questions" forum: https://www.helionet.org/index/topic/50101-vps-security/ Happy New Year to the whole HelioHost team!

Hello and a Happy New Year to everyone! Some questions concerning making my VPS more secure, as I think that there are actually people trying to get in. 1. If I disable SSH (via Hestia CP), I suppose I can re-enable it (same way) if I need it. But, what happens, if Hestia CP breaks down? No more possibility at all to access the VPS? Or is it possible that HelioHost may re-enable SSH and can log in to the VPS again? Would changing the port each week or so be a good idea? I ask this, because there seems to be regular SSH traffic, without myself using it. 2. For some weeks, there is lots of web access to url = /phpmyadmin (175 during December). I guess that that is someone who tries to hack my databases. How risky such trials are and what is the best I can do? Would it affect Hestia CP, if I renamed the phpMyAdmin folder? 3. In order to be sure to be somehow prepared if my VPS broke down, is there a (simple) way to take an image of the whole system? Thanks for any suggestions.

I guess it's not as easy to find out, who these users are. I personnally think, that they should be banned from HelioHost servers. Using this great website hosting service for hosting code, that harms others, is extremely mean and unrespectful. Concerning the come back of Tommy, no guess? Before the end of the year? Beginning 2022?

Hi. Some days ago, when I tried to access Hestia Control Panel on my VPS, access to the site was blocked by Malwarebytes BrowserGuard; message: Website blocked due to reputation. I wonder what the reason for this could be. My website, hosted on the VPS works fine, myvps.heliohost.us has no webpage on port 80, only Hestia on 8083, with password login of course. Thus, how Malwarebytes can find something suspicious on this web address? In fact, no real issue, but interested in understanding how these things can happen... Otherwise, my VPS runs rather perfectly. But, there is still the wish to return to Tommy... Has someone an idea, when Tommy with Plesk will be fully available?

Is it the VPS that is down, or just your website? If you can ping the VPS, than the reason is probably that the webserver did not automatically restart. I had this problem, too, several servers not being running after the VPS had been shut down. Just check the servers and restart them...

Hestia is not perfect. Failed to startup after auto-update to latest version (website continuing running). This morning (before reading this post), I noticed my website being down. On the other hand, Hestia was accessible again. As on your VPS some servers (nginx, apache, php and spamassassin) were down. Restart via Hest Control Panel ok... A problem with my site however: so slow, that you nearly can call it non-responsive (some php scripts are even timed out). Someone has an idea, what the reason for this might be?

Simply the best... 😍

Hestia obviously does an auto-update, because since I run my VPS, two new versions were installed. Successfully. For the manual update possibility I will see; thanks for the tip. It's awstats, of course. Beside the top N (10) pages viewed and the top N files downloaded, awstats normally gives the possibility (via a link) to display the full list of all pages viewed as well as of all files downloaded. On my VPS, the full list works for the pages viewed, but not for the downloads. On Tommy, this worked well and I used the two full lists for my site statistics, in particular to count the most often downloaed Free Pascal executables and sources. awstats on my VPS seems to have another problem. For some days, it seems not to do any statistics update at all and this day seems always to be Saturday. I hope that on Tommy with Plesk all will work as before. Thanks for your help.

Hi everyone. Trying to set up my VPS as well as possible and trying to understand a maximum of how things work, here some further questions, I did not find an answer to, myself. 1. Apache and Nginx seem be running all the time, whereas MariaDB and other servers seem being restarted rather frequently. Is this what's usually the case, or might this indicate a restart caused by some problem? 2. The logs show relatively frequent IP bans by the firewall. Are these hack trials? Maybe, people trying to connect via SSH? 3. MariaDB users are created as "%" users. Am I right, that changing them to "localhost" users would be more secure and this would be ok, if the only connections, I intend to do, are through phpMyAdmin of the VPS? 4. There seems nobody in this forum, who knows awstats (I do not arrive to make it produce an "All downloads" list, that I use as base for my own monthly statistics). Is it possible to get the HelioHost configuration file of awstats, though I could compare their settings (that were well working on Tommy) with my actual ones (configured by Hestia). Thanks for any suggestions.

That explains a lot. Thanks. Trying to understand as much as possible of what I do and trying to do as it should be done (in particular as I intend to write a VPS tutorial for my website), I have some more questions concerning various components. Is it ok to post them or is there a limit, where you say "He really begins to tap on our nerfs"?