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December 29, 2013

SolusVM displaying wrong disk usage statistics for Xen PV VMs

Recently some of our Xen PV VMs started to show strange disk space usage statistics in SolusVM – despite there being plenty of space left on the disk in the VM, SolusVM was reporting that the disk was nearly full! I struggled to find any public information about this, but apparently it is a known problem with SolusVM and the...

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February 20, 2012

SolusVM Nginx PHP bug

It looks like there is a bug in the SolusVM Nginx installer which means that the php_cgi service doesn’t start on a reboot. It seems that the installer sets the unused “spwan-fcgi” process to start, but not the “php_cgi” service that is actually used to handle SolusVM. Luckily, this is easy enough to fix by running two commands on any...

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February 6, 2012

Commercial SSL certificates with SolusVM

When you install SolusVM it generates a self signed SSL certificate for use with the end user control panel and admin interface, however it would be wise to purchase a certificate from a commercial certificate authority to prevent man in the middle attacks (and get rid of annoying browser warning messages). There are two different methods of installing SSL certificates...

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February 4, 2012

Convert SolusVM from Lighttpd to Nginx

Historically the brilliant SolusVM VPS control panel have used the Lighttpd web server on their master and slave nodes, however it is now possible to use the popular Nginx as an alternative web-server. I’m a big fan of the performance and flexibly of Nginx, not to mention that in my opinion the Nginx configuration files are just much easier to...

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April 28, 2011

Missing kernel initial RAM disk with SolusVM and Xen

If for any reason your /boot/solus-vmlinuz symlink as well the /boot/solus-initrd.img initial RAM disk are missing or incorrect in Dom0 on one of your SolusVM Xen slaves, then you can force SolusVM to regenerate them using the latest Xen enabled copy of the kernel installed on the server using the following command in Dom0 on the slave: php /usr/local/solusvm/includes/xenkernel.php This...

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Tag: SolusVM

SolusVM displaying wrong disk usage statistics for Xen PV VMs

SolusVM Nginx PHP bug

Commercial SSL certificates with SolusVM

Convert SolusVM from Lighttpd to Nginx

Missing kernel initial RAM disk with SolusVM and Xen