I'm trying to connect my recently bought gandi domain name with my vps ip but I'm very confused a friend of mine not familiar with arp but with other vps's tells me that I have to login gandi and change its dns to the ones provided by arpnetworks and also to login to the dashboard of my vps and find some place to configure my DNS's so it resolve to the domain name desired As of I'm really confused, maybe can someone explain a general brochure of the full process? WaREX: what is the domain name? jpalmer: xaique.com, at gandi ok, gandi offers DNS hosting for free, right? If I remember correctly, ARP doesn't offer DNS hosting, only reverse DNS. so you'll either want to use gandi's DNS servics, or sign up for a free one like http://dns.he.net I've never used gandi, so, I'd be limited help there. but if you want to signup for dns.he.net, I can walk you through the whole thing up_the_irons: ping spurious pong pong (DUP!) WaREX: your friend is wrong; we don't provide DNS hosting because every decent registrar on the planet already does so. Go into Gandi and use their DNS service. Tell it your domain name and the IP of your VPS. dr_jkl: pong gandi is a good one (or pick someone that offers anycast \o/) WaREX: for future reference if you want to check what A record, MX or Name Server the domain is currently set to: http://dns.mnathani.com/investigate.php?Domain=xaique.com lol mnathani # Your IP has been restricted due to excessive access, please wait a bit (under "Whois report for xaique.com") hmm, brycec: works fine for me now. Probably need to have some sort of caching proxy to prevent those in the future. couldn't hurt. but probably not worth it for the "massive" onslaught of traffic you get ;p I just host my own DNS I'm always SSHed in, so I figure why not? My main bind server automagically updates the slaves. It's nice :) brycec: I actually had it configured earlier, but had only 1 IP so all port 80 traffic would go though my squid proxy then hit 8080 on apache.(Unneccessarily caching all web traffic) Now I have multiple IPs I can separate the traffic that needs to be cached. mnathani: why not cache verything? mnathani: apache is multiple process, squid, apache traffic server, varnish etc aall multiplex Limited RAM for one reason. Some of the complex Wordpress / Joomla sites would bring the server to a crawl when caching everything it should be the other way around you should be able to reduce ram usage by having less oh are you using lighttpd? phlux: going for the boost-powered bind 10? it even has the sqlite's haha negative mercutio: not using lighttpd. I guess most of the Wordpress / Joomla content is dynamic so wouldnt really benefit from caching anyway mnathani i suppose fastcgi witha pool of processes is what i was really thinking of it can reduce memory usage when having multiple concurrent users ther'es still a lot of dynamic content too, css style sheets etc and apache will use lots of processes per user these days because each tcp connection uses separate process mnathani: its pretty simple to set up try_files in nginx so you at least avoid serving all static content through that awful ms-files.php figured out quota and chroot problem... it needs /proc/sys/fs/quota/ We don't need no stinkin' quotas! hah I thought WP/Joomla had their own in-build caching for dynamically-generated pages anyways? congrats up_the_irons tnx anyone have a recommended kvm? kvm switch* IPMI ;) well im talking about a desktop with two machines im sick of running windows with a linux vm i just pull up and i have the other desktop hardware overall they seem super overpriced and buggy so i've been skeptical i've been highly considering http://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-4-Port-Multimedia-Switch-GCS1794/dp/B001V9LQ52/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1362037662&sr=8-2&keywords=kvm+hdmi because it seems mostly solid aside from mouse / keyboard issues which can be worked around. I use a standard 104-key keyboard anyway and a standard mouse the problem i have is that this type of hardware is so infrequently reviewed it's hard to make judgements and it's not so cheap that I feel like I wouldn't regret buying it