Questions tagged [ovh]
Questions about dedicated server, cloud, and VPS services provided by OVH. Other OVH services might not be on topic at Server Fault.
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I can not access to debian server via ssh anymore
we have a debian server over OVH(baremetal),and wa are unable to acces the server via ssh anymore but we can do that using rescue mode.after investigation we found that, it is a network problem. is ...
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Adding a New Server to Existing Proxmox Cluster - Network Configuration and VM Communication
I’m looking for some guidance on expanding my Proxmox setup. Here’s my current setup and what I’m trying to achieve: Current Setup I have a dedicated OVH server running Proxmox. On this server, I ...
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Expand primary partition with additional Volume on OVH instance with Linux Ubuntu
I'm trying to setup a VPS on OVH. I've chosen the smallest public cloud general purpose instance and installed Ubuntu 22.04. Here are the system specifications: 8 GB RAM 2 vCore (2.3 GHz) 50 GB NVMe ...
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requests from different web sites are egressing from the routing src ip not assigned ip
I have dedicated server from OVH, that has 40 ip addresses on three routes. ip route show default via x.y.z.254 dev eno0 a.b.c.0/24 dev eno0 proto kernel scope link src a.b.c.161 x.y.b.0/24 dev eno0 ...
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Ceph's failure to automount after network failure
I'm having some problems with the mounting of a ceph-cluster on debian machines, don't know if I'm doing something wrong, if it's a version problem or anything else. I'm using the ceph cluster from ...
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deploying pfSense in OVH public cloud as a DHCP server in HA
I am trying to deploy two pfSense in the OVH public cloud (OpenStack). Each has its own public IPs and public connectivity works without any problem. Things become more complicated on the vRack part (...
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Improve connection speed for South America users to server in Europe
I'm running an MMORPG Game with central server based in Europe-Warsaw hosted on OVH. My player base is located both in Europe (mostly Poland) and South America (mostly Brazil). Due to server ...
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Why are cloud platforms like Azure or AWS more expensive than dedicated server providers like Hetzner, OVH or Strato?
I'm wondering why cloud platforms like Azure or AWS tend to be more expensive than dedicated server providers like Hetzner, OVH or Strato. What factors contribute to this pricing discrepancy, and are ...
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OVH DKIM Record Not Found
I set up a DKIM Record on my OVH VPS recently. The ultimate record generated is as follows (public key overwritten): v=DKIM1;g=*;h=sha256;k=rsa;s=email;p=...
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Why does my Let's Encrypt certificate contain references to Cloudflare?
I own a website that uses a Let's Encrypt certificate. It's not behind Cloudflare, it's hosted at OVH and I'm accepting direct traffic from it. Now, I set up an apache2 webserver and used certbot to ...
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Do I need to change SOA on OVH to use AWS? If so, how?
I bought a domain name on OVH, it's dnapc.ovh. But, I want to store the DNS configuration on AWS. (I find this simpler to manage, and it's clearer this way what belongs to the AWS config and what ...
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Which folder I should backup?
I have server on ubuntu 22.04/OVH. I have my main files in home. I using docker, and backup every day all docker-compose file and data folder. I want also backup my server setup, nginx configuration, ...
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Going to example.com redirects to example.com/www
So firstly I'm not entirely sure if this is the right place to ask but I couldn't find another stack site relevant to servers so. Recently I bought a domain with OVH, and have setup the site with an ...
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OVH IPMI applet on Linux
Trying to get IPMI from OVH to work on Ubuntu. Getting this error Error: Could not find or load main class ns102103-ip-147-135-36-us-1.jnlp Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: ns102103-ip-147-...
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Is 250Mbs on a cheap VPS enough for 500 CCU listening to radio stream? [duplicate]
I'd like to use a cheap VPS hosted by OVH, France (1 vCore, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD NVMe, 250 Mbps unmetered) to host an icecast server which will be used for an event this month. There will be up to 500 ...
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Using OVH VPS as a shield to dedicated machine
I am having a few dedicated machines in a few hosting companies which either do not offer DDOS protection or their protection is awful. I've been contacting a few hosting companies and friends and got ...
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Soft-raid with Windows Server (Redundancy on OS)
We lease bare-metal servers on OVH. We use Windows Server 2022 as OS on the servers. OVH offers soft-raid for all of their servers. They do not offer hardware raid. While it's generally possible to do ...
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How can I redirect domain A to domain B without hosting, using only DNS records?
I want to redirect domain A (without hosting space) to domain B (301), but when I try https://domainA.com or https://www.domainA.com it ends with ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. Is it even possible to use ...
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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 ...
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Can windows server be upgraded from a mounted iso?
I have a windows 2012 server raw metal dedicated server hosted in a datacenter. (OVH) It appears I can mount an ISO to be viewed as a CD with a drive letter, but if I mount a server 2016 or 2019 ...
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In OVH, how to connect 2 VMs, each one in a ProxMoxServer, using vrack?
Each of both PVE has 1 VM for firewall and several other VMs, organized in subnetworks, addressed with RFC1918, according to the this diagram For better understanding, this is the networking ...
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systemd network ipv6 gateway is not set up
Cross posted on github I don't understand why my systemd network config doesn't set up ipv6 gateway route, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX and YYYY:YYYY:YYYY:YYYY:: are always the same ip. My server is hosted by OVH: ...
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OHV VPS ports not modified. Where are those rule set?
I have a problem with a VPS ports config (on ovh.com). I set up Debian 10 and updated it. I didn't install any firewall software. OVH infrastructure is protected by a global firewall, but on my panel ...
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OHV VPS ports remain "closed" and can't be changed, why?
I have a problem with a VPS ports config (on ovh.com). I set up Debian 10 and updated it, but when I try to configure ports I get many errors. I found that OVH infrastructure is protected by a global ...
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VMWare ESXi + LetsEncrypt - SSL certificate renewal
With VMWare ESXi (I'm running ESXi 6.7), I'm regularly go through an SSL issue. Chrome & Firefox do not allow self-signed certificated provided by internal VMWare system. In my case, the only way ...
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Urgent help needed with GRUB centos
Today I had an email of OVH saying my server was hacked (it was nothing more than a wordpress plugin of a client messing around) but it ended with my server forced to Rescue Mode and I'm not able to ...
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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 ...
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Networking start failed on OVH Proxmox 6.4 if a bridge has no interface
We are setting up a new Proxmox 6.4 (based on Debian 10.9) host on OVH (Advance-2) hardware, using the OVH provided template. In order to create a "virtual" bridge for VMs and LXCs, we added ...
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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 ...
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Cloud regions apparently fail now and then. How resilient should one expect a cloud region to be against fire or natural disasters?
Today the SBG2 availability zone in the SBG region burned down. All other AZ's (SBG1,2 AND 4) was shut down due to this, and will remain shut down until at least monday. All SBG zones are apparently ...
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OVH+Proxmox: How to use packer to build Proxmox image with Fallover IP as DHCP?
I searched entire internet haven't see any solution for it yet. I have a OVH + Proxmox instance. Plan to automatic the launch VM process. I know I can try use cloud-init but since I use Packer + (...
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OpenVPN - client access to VPS private network
I have 3 VPS servers at OVH. I created a private network, where all servers have public IPv4 and private IPv4 address. I'm trying to give a user access to other VPS servers via private address from ...
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Post kernel update: Only OVH's rescue kernel works - but why doesn't mine?
I just went through upgrading from Debian 9 to Debian 10 and I am having a weird issue. Probably not too weird to people that do more intensive sysadmin things, which is why I bring it here: During ...
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Get valid ssl certificates with EC2 and OVH
I have an EC2 instance that I will use for some backend services in my mobile app. In order to get valid SSL certificates for this instance, here is what I did: Setup EC2 + python backend services ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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RAM progressively increasing in Debian VPS
I have a VPS that has below configuration: Debian OS 16 GB RAM 320 GB SSD NGINX Plesk Admin Panel There are just a few wordpress websites hosted on this server that have no more than a few visitors ...
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Setting default valid_lft and preferred_lft values with Netplan on Unbutu 20.04
What's the impact, if any, on having values greater than zero/forever for valid_lft and preferred_lft? Should I worry about this, and if so, how to set it automatically to forever at boot time (...
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Is there a way to target an interface without knowing its name or mac address?
We're running a handful of virtual servers at OVH, which use openstack. Most of the servers have a public interface as well as a private interface which is connected to a "virtual private cloud&...
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How to setup OVH firewall for OpenVPN server?
I got my OpenVPN server running, by using this script: https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install I can connect to VPN network, ping local and external IP addresses, access HTTP server (by using ...
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Unable to configure IPv6 correctly in Ubuntu 18.04
I have a cloud instance on OVH which is accessible over IPv4 but not IPv6. It's running Ubuntu 18.04. I've found conflicting advice about using netplan vs configuring systemd-networkd directly, but ...
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sysctl disable IPv6 autoconf
I'm trying to setup IPv6 on my OVH server using their guide. In the article they recommend to disable IPv6 autoconf and router advertising to prevent known issues You can do so by adding the ...
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Can't connect to public cloud server via http/https in OVH
I'm new to OVH and trying to setup a site inside a public cloud server. I've got the server up and running and i can SSH into it, but can't get to port 80. (server has apache running and it can be ...
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Can't reconnect VPS Essential OVH after removing set_hostname from cloud-init
I have a VPS Essential in OVH with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed. I just removed the set_hostname module of the cloud_init_modules from /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg and reboot the system and now I cannot connect ...
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Unable to install PHP 7: error undefined symbol: crypto_pwhash_scryptsalsa208sha256_memlimit_interactive
I can not install install php on my server. I always have the same error : May 10 12:26:13 vps819983 systemd[1]: Starting The PHP 7.3 FastCGI Process Manager... May 10 12:26:13 vps819983 php-fpm7.3[...
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Emails go to spam from server A, but form server B not (same configuration)
I have puzzle with my So You Start servers from OVH - from server A my mails go to google spam folder, but from server B it is ok. I'm not sure that it is problem with SOS servers or some IP addresses....
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OVH server DDOS attack protection
I purchased the server on ovh.com. (not gaming, regular) For 3 days now I’ve been trying to set up protection against DDOS flood. Nothing comes out. Support responds once a day and does not give an ...
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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 “...
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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 ...
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Extend linux partition size without losing any data / techniques
I bought a 200G additional disk for my OVH cloud server because my initial disk was full. Now, my additional disk is almost full (as you can see below). So I added 200 extra more G in it. As you can ...
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