One more VPS Node with 64 CPU Cores being added to our VPS Network in LA

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As per our previous post we added a new VPS Node 64 CPU cores and got it in production on 7th July 2018 and it is giving really good performance for our VPS Services and it’s already about to get full so we are now adding another VPS Node in LA, USA with following configuration:

4 x AMD Opteron 6380 ( Total 64 Cores of 2.5 Ghz Each)

256 GB RAM

6 x 1 TB SSD (RAID 10)

Gigabit Port

DDOS Protection from Psychz (All our VPS Nodes are having DDOS Protection from Psychz)

Server Location: LA, USA

Network Looking Glass: https://lg.hosteons.com

You may order our VPS Services from https://hosteons.com/vps.php

 

Google Chrome Update 68 SSL Warning of Secure and Non-Secure Websites – Get Free SSL Installation with Hosteons.com

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Google will be updating their browser Chrome to version 68 this July, once this browser update is released if your website does not have a SSL Certificate your website will show as non-secure website to all the visitors using Chrome Browser 68 which can lead to loss of trust and good will for your website, does not matter whether it’s a wordpress blog or an e-commerce portal, if you don’t have SSL enabled in your website you are going to loose a lot of visitors and your bounce rate will also increase and eventually your website will even start loosing ranking in Google and various search engines.

We at Hosteons.com are offering free SSL certificate along with installation of SSL certificate with all our web hosting packages, you can enable SSL directly from your cPanel account or just submit a ticket to do it for you. So switch your website to hostEONS.com before it’s too late. We have all kind of web hosting packages starting at just $1 to unlimited web hosting packages. All our Web hosting packages comes with following features:

  1. cPanel
  2. Softaculous (one click script installer for scripts like wordpress, forum software etc…)
  3. Free SSL Certificate
  4. Free IPv6 along with standard IPv4, so that your site is future proof
  5. Instant activation
  6. Mysql Database
  7. Multiple PHP Version available
  8. POP3 and IMAP email access
  9. Webmail
  10. Many more features

You can order it from https://hosteons.com/web_hosting.php

For any queries please submit a support ticket from https://my.hosteons.com

 

New VPS Node with 64 CPU Cores

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Until now we have been using Dual Xeon 5680 or similar CPU for our VPS Nodes but these CPU had 6 Cores in each CPU and with hyper threading it increases to 12 Virtual Cores per CPU so basically we were getting in total 24 CPU Cores Per VPS Node which means multiple VPS were sharing same CPU Core but since we were using Xeon 5680 CPU due to it’s high Clock Speed of upto 3.3 Ghz it was not affecting VPS Performance, but now our new VPS Node will with Quad AMD Opteron 6380 CPU.

AMD Opteron 6380 CPU comes with 16 Core Per CPU and since we are using Quad we will get total 16 x 4 = 64 CPU Cores

But clock speed of this CPU is 2.5 Ghz and not 3.3 Ghz. But now since we got a lot more CPU core per VPS Node it means that a CPU Core will be hardly shared among multiple VPS, most of the times all VPS Will get a dedicated CPU Core which means better performance even though it’s clock speed is a little slow then our current VPS Node. This new VPS Node is costlier then our current VPS Node setup, but we want to keep improving quality of service without increasing the price hence we are doing this change.

We expect our new VPS Node to be ready by next week, it will not affect any existing customer, but once our current VPS Nodes are full all new VPS will be setup on our new VPS Nodes.

We will be still using KVM Virtualisation with Pure SSD RAID 10 setup for best performance.

For any queries submit a support ticket from our website https://hosteons.com

 

Custom VPS Now available at hosteons.com

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Now you can design your own custom VPS at hosteons.com, we are now allowing our clients to design their own VPS Package and only pay for the resources they need, our regular VPS packages are still available at https://hosteons.com/vps.php

You can design and order your own custom vps from – https://my.hosteons.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=35

Now you can decide how many CPU cores do you want, how much RAM do you need or how much Disk Space do you need, you can even order additional IP.

For any queries please just submit a support ticket from https://hosteons.com

Stay away from AMD EPYC based VPS Providers

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Some german researches have found a flaw in the AMD EPYC CPU architecture and were able to read all data of VPS hosted with AMD EPYC based CPU, and it seems currently there is no patch for it so it’s best to stay away from it for now, more information is available at:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/encryption-of-amd-epyc-vms-can-be-broken-researchers-prove/

 

AMD responds to security flaws in its EPYC virtual machine encryption

 

We at Hosteons are not using AMD EPYC CPU, we are using Dual XEONS for VPS Hosting

How to enable iptables in CentOS 7

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Just use the following commands to disable firewalld and enable the good old iptables in any CentOS 7 based VPS or server:

[root@test2 ~]# systemctl stop firewalld

[root@test2 ~]# systemctl mask firewalld
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/firewalld.service to /dev/null.

[root@test2 ~]# yum install -y iptables iptables-services
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.centos.org
* extras: mirror.centos.org
* updates: mirror.centos.org
base | 3.6 kB 00:00:00
extras | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00:00
Package iptables-1.4.21-24.1.el7_5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package iptables-services.x86_64 0:1.4.21-24.1.el7_5 will be installed
–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=========================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=========================================================================================================================================
Installing:
iptables-services x86_64 1.4.21-24.1.el7_5 updates 51 k

Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package

Total download size: 51 k
Installed size: 25 k
Downloading packages:
iptables-services-1.4.21-24.1.el7_5.x86_64.rpm | 51 kB 00:00:00
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : iptables-services-1.4.21-24.1.el7_5.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : iptables-services-1.4.21-24.1.el7_5.x86_64 1/1

Installed:
iptables-services.x86_64 0:1.4.21-24.1.el7_5

Complete!
[root@test2 ~]#

[root@test2 ~]# systemctl enable iptables
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/iptables.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service.
[root@test2 ~]#
[root@test2 ~]# systemctl start iptables

How to update SSH Port in CentOS 7

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Update SSH Port in CentOS 7

Here are few simple steps on how to update SSH Port in CentOS 7 VPS or Dedicated Server

Edit the SSHD configuration file :

nano -w /etc/ssh/sshd_config

(if nano is not installed use any other text editor or install it with yum -y install nano)

and change the Port number from 22 to any custom port you choose :

e.g. Port 18989

Make sure to even remove the # mark before Port

Save the config file

SELinux is enabled by default in CentOS 7 so you need to even inform SELinux to change the SSH Port else it won’t allow you to restart SSHD with new Port.

To run semanage for updating SSHD Port you nee to first install policycoreutils, install it with :

yum -y install policycoreutils-python

now update SeLinux policy to allow new port for SSH service. to do this, run below :

semanage port -a -t ssh_port_t -p tcp 18989

now you need to update Firewall policy to allow new SSH Port, to do this run below :

firewall-cmd –permanent –zone=public –add-port=18989/tcp
firewall-cmd –reload
systemctl restart sshd.service

SSHD Port is now updated, you can now connect to your new SSH Port: 18989

Free upgrade to Gigabit port for all VPS (Beta)

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We have temporarily removed the 100Mbps cap from all VPS, if you think your VPS is still capped at 100Mbps, please just reboot it once from your VPS control panel and it should switch to full unmetered Gigabit Port, but please note we are just testing with Gigabit port, if we find that giving uncapped Gigabit port is affecting overall performance of our VPS services then we may again cap it to 100Mbps unmetered but for now all VPS should work on Gigabit Port