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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Docker: failed to add the pair interfaces (operation not supported)
After installing Docker, I am getting an error when I try to run the Hello World example:
Error response from daemon: Cannot start container ...
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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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VPS: How can I update the available hard disk space after upgrade?
I made an upgrade of a VPS hosted on OVH, specifically from VPS CLOUD 1 to VPS CLOUD 2 that have 25gb more of previous solution (50gb total).
On this VPS is installed CentOS 7.2.1511
There is the ...
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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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IPv6 Gateway outside network (OVH)
We a dedicated server at OVH, assigned 2001:41d0:a:72xx::/64
I have set the machines on a segment bridged to the wan, as per
IPv6 public routing of virtual machines from host
The gateway is 2001:...
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Is it possible to convert RAID1 to RAID0 without system reinstalation?
I bought the E3-SSD-3-32 server from the SoYouStart offer. There is a 3x120 GB SSD drive. Unfortunately, after some time, there was a lack of disk space. Is there any way to convert RAID1 to RAID0? ...
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How to investigate causes for a very slow telnet?
Having some connection problems with my website, i found out that my server has a bigger problem. I installed it, with ubuntu 14.04. It is a cloud machine bought from a specific isp (ovh) but entirely ...
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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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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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Configure DNS server on Debian 9
I need some help configuring a DNS server in Debian 9 (Stretch). I'm following this tutorial, but I think that there is something that I'm doing wrong...
In my case, we will suppose that I own a ...
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Change kernel of Centos OVH
I'm using a server of OVH with OS centos7. OVH has its own linux kernel:
3.14.32-xxxx-grs-ipv6-64
Now I try to configure another Centos7 kernel.
I installed the other kernel(s).
yum install kernel
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IPv6 public routing of virtual machines from host
So I have a dedicated server from OVH. With that I got a /64 range of IPv6 addresses and 1 public IPv4 address. I purchased a second IPv4 address as a fallback.
The host is running the Xen hypervisor ...
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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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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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Unable to receive mail from the amazon network
I currently have several servers at OVH including one that acts as a personal mail server.
Postfix takes care of receiving the mails, but I have a problem for the reception coming from certain domains....
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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cloud-init can't set up ipv6
I've bought a Public Cloud VPS from OVH and trying to set up ipv6.
Also I've found a tutorial on how to set up ipv6 in their documentation. It works until I reboot the VPS.
In this tutorial they ...
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Configuration of IPv6 in Ubuntu fails - OVH VPS
For some time I am struggling with configuration of IPv6 in my Ubuntu VPS. I followed many tutorials on this matter, but none worked for me.
The problem is, when I use one-time configuration in ...
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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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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 [email protected], 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu 14.04, Postgres 9.4, Pgbouncer 1.7, SSD 80Mb/s
After:
Haswell ...
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Set up 4 ip addresses with Subnet mask 255.255.255.252 (30)
i bought 4 ip addresses on OVH.
Then they gave me this details:
84.84.184.176/30
Network IP: 84.84.184.176
Broadcast IP: 84.84.184.179
Gateway IP: 84.84.184.178
Netmask: 255.255.255.252
And they ...
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Setting up a BIND server to provide additional records
I've got a nice small VPS from OVH and two domain names (let's call them first.com and second.com). As OVH does not support DNSSEC and CAA records I was informed that I can set up my own DNS server to ...
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Checking if my hostname is correct (ovh vps + centos7)
I recently purchased a VPS from OVH with Centos 7 preinstalled. I want to make sure my hostname is correctly set.
According to some tutorials:
hostname returns the hostname
hostname -f returns the ...
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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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Remote host identification has changed
I'm trying to connect serverpilot manually on a cloud server at OVH (unbuntu 16) via the terminal on my mac (ssh [email protected])
The operation failed once and now that I'm trying to re-setup it ...
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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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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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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
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Redirect root & all subdomains to another domain equivalent (DNS only)
First, yeah, I know, this question is probably a duplicate, but I've searched for some hours now and I can't find any relevant answer.... So I try asking.
I got, let's say, domain-a.com & domain-...
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Cannot connect to the MySQL remote server. Debian 8
I have issue that I cannot reach the 3306 port (mysql) even if I set it in iptables.
How can I resolve this issue?
root@vps191532:# iptables-save
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.21 on Thu Oct 22 20:...
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Configure IPv6 - CentOS OVH - Can't ping
I can't ping my IPv6 from outside and inside of the server, i can't ping any IPv6. My IPv6 : 2001:41d0:2:XXXX::/64
I use CentOS 6.6 with a Xen Kernel that supports IPv6. My provider is OVH and i ...
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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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Migrate docker microservices from OVH to AWS with Rancher?
I've got a bunch of microservices (docker) which I need to transfer/migrate from OVH to AWS.
They're orchestrated by Rancher.
What's the best/easiest way to accomplish that?
Also, I planned to ...
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WAN Static IP with Carp but different GW
I have the following problem, and I cannot find the solution, even after googling and reading the pfsense documentation.
my ISP gave me the following information:
Gateway: 1.2.3.254/32
Public IP: 5....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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OVH and HEROKU DNS redirections failing for root
I currently have a domain at OVH (let's call it mysite.com) which is setup by OVH with a bunch of different CNAME for different subdomains like :
smtp.mysite.com CNAME mysite.com
imap.mysite.com ...
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