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Questions tagged [ovh]
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OVH: How to configure Proxmox VM with static IP
This has been frustrating me immensely for the past week. I have an OVH server with the IP of 144.217.76.xxx. I purchased an additional 2 IP addresses for VM configuration: 66.70.243.x81 66.70.243.x85
No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get the IP…

Ross Epstein
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Posgres : perf decreased although server is better :(
I've changed my VPS hosting for the better and saw a significative performance decrease.
Before :
AMD 8 cores@2.8Ghz, 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu 14.04, Postgres 9.4, Pgbouncer 1.7, SSD 80Mb/s
After:
Haswell 4 cores@2.4Ghz, 24 GB RAM, Ubuntu 16.04, Postgres…

Benjamin Toueg
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Missing firewallD in CentOS 7 VPS
i fresh installed CentOS 7 in a OVH VPS. but when i ran the command firewall-cmd i got this:
-bash: firewall-cmd: command not found
so i was looking how resolve that and i saw that basically i needed to install it.
So I was trying to fully disable…

DiogoSaraiva
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How can i split a partition on Ubuntu?
I just purchased a brand new server on OVH with disk specification: 2 x480GB of SSD SOFT.
When i do df -h, the output is:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 20G 13G 5.7G 69% /
devtmpfs 16G 12K 16G 1%…

Aarushi
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Can route-eth0 be created via CentOS 7 Anaconda installer?
I'm using the CentOS 7 Anaconda installer.
I want the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-eth0 to be created, if possible, by this installer. The file route-eth0 should have the contents after installation such as:
11.22.33.44 dev…

Steve Amerige
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Using OVH VRack, 2 PVEs can't fully communicate
In OVH, I have 2 ProxMox servers, each one containing a Firewall and a few other hosts. I am trying to use OVH vRack for private communication between them, but it is not working.
Here's a summary of my network:
The goal is accessing PRD1FRM206…

Gilberto Martins
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Automatically provisioning a Windows Server at OVH
I'd like to automatically run a script to provision Windows Servers when I set them up as Dedicated Servers at OVH.
I see that they have an option for an Installation script (URL)], but how do I use it for Windows?
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Sean Saleh
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OVH Public Cloud - Adding region to exisiting vRack
I have an OVH public cloud project with several instances connected between two datacenters
in vRack with the classic 192.168.0.0/24 range on the eth1 network interface.
The vRack was initially created to interconnect only two datacenters (DE and…

gennaris
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Consumption-based cloud service
For a current project I am looking for a cloud service which calculates the costs based on the processing power my application is using.
If my application only spends 5 minutes per hour doing any processing, a cloud service like AWS EC2 would still…

Adrian
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Vertically scale server in cloud without restart
For a current project of mine I need a cloud service which can (automatically) scale VMs vertically as the workload can not be scaled horizontally.
With scaling I mean assigning more RAM and/or CPU cores to a given instance.
This has to happen…

J Heschl
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How to configure RAID-5 for OS root (Ubuntu Server 18.04)
I have a fresh dedicated server I have provisioned running Ubuntu Server 18.04 and with 3x480GB SSDs (no hardware RAID controller though). The UI of the hosting provider will not allow the “/boot” or “/“ partitions to be configured with RAID-5 at…

nickz
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OVH VPS - firewalld not working in Centos 7
I installed a new server on OVH with CentOS 7:
yum install firewalld
then enabled and rebooted
systemctl enable firewalld
reboot
I am now be able to login using ssh but firewalld does not come up
[root@~]# firewall-cmd…

Marcx
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msmtp and OVH mail
I'd like to send a mail when a user authenticates on a Debian 9 server. I use OVH mail server. I've set up msmtp like so :
account myaccount
tls_starttls off
logfile ~/.msmtp.log
host ssl0.ovh.net
port 465
from user@mydomain.com
auth on
user…

Ror
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Enable IPv6 on OVH VPS running Arch
Having inaugurated my new OVH’s VPS SSD 1 I am greeted by a notification reading
Your instance is now linked to a free IPv6 in addition to the default IPv4.
Indeed I can see a “IPv6” and a “Gateway” fields.
Problem is: I can’t ping it using this…
user538262
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Debian depmod kernel error
I have run an apt-dist upgrade on my dedicated server that uses a kernel from the provider and I am getting the following error:
MTL ➜ ~ apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...…

Fabrizio Mazzoni
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