EthernetServer.com VPS Host Review

Hello again, First i want to say Thanks to EthernetServers.com for provide me trial VPS with 2G Plan for review. Now we will start reviewing a VPS from EthernetServer.com, never heard before? yeah, me too, maybe we are too young to know the fact that is that VPS Host is exist, not only exist, but i think its good enough, i have propose the trial for this VPS, espesially in 4Gb Memory plan.

CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1240 v3 @ 3.40GHz

Number of cores : 4

CPU frequency :  3392.357 MHz

Total amount of ram : 2048 MB

Total amount of swap : 0 MB

System uptime :   56 min,

Download speed from CacheFly: 43.9MB/s

Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 20.3MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 7.24MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 932KB/s

Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 1.30MB/s

Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 3.98MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.09MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 1.62MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 1.44MB/s

Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 40.7MB/s

I/O speed :  690 MB/s

Benchmark Result (By Geekbench.com)

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/2841242

Geekbench Score

Single-Core Score 3090 - Multi-Core Score 7655

Angelimus Score

253.112

(Plan Ram 2GB)

Note : SSH Port in Here are not using port 22, for security reason EthernetServers change the port, i will not mention the port, to avoid brute ssh.

(Previous Day Scene)
I have contact their Customer Service by email, and has been redirected into their Sales Promotion Team, and finally spoke with "The Person" i don't mention name :P, the respon for that is quite fast, and very kind, they offer me server in Buffalo, NY for trial with the spec as i requested.

And i request to review their VPS and post it on my blog which is angelimus.blogspot.com the old domain, and now is Angelimus.com.

They gave the permission, its nice.

Now, from the value side, it has diffrence in what they offer in website and their promo, promo are not mentioned in their official website, it's a special offer, i have verified with ethernet server, and it's valid. But until when? for this time it's still valid until next confirmation.

      

Last check : June, 25 2015

Terms of Service

Before you buy service, you must read the Terms from EthernetServers.com

(https://www.ethernetservers.com/terms)

Examples of unacceptable content or links: 

- Unsolicited Mail (Spamming) 

>> no mass mailing

- Distributing illegal copies of copyrighted software or Warez 

>> can't host illegal warez from anywhere including torrent. 

- Violations of copyrights, trademarks or U.S laws

- Selling and/or distributing illegal contraband

- Anything related to IRC

- Hacking Tools and/or programs 

>> Including hacking script using python, bash, etc.

>> Including Metasploit, even if you are a pentester, so there are no exception for this matter.

>> Including Port Scanner too :P, so no hacking activity too, even if your reason is for security purpose.

- File Sharing, Image Galleries, Image Hosting, and/or Storage sites

- Escrow sites

- Investment sites

- AutoSurf sites

- Banking sites

- Lottery sites

VPS CPU Usage

We operate a fair-share CPU policy. CPU is not dedicated to any one VPS on a host machine, and as such, you are asked to moderate your usage and consider other people who are sharing the same hardware as you. We do not allow any other form of CPU intensive application such as Bitcoin Mining which can utilize a large amount of CPU. Our Management Team reserve the right to suspend any VPS' that we believe are using excessive CPU. Game servers are acceptable assuming they do not utilize too much CPU.

>> Max CPU Load is 1.00

Server Abuse

Any attempt to undermine or cause harm to a server or customer of Ethernet Servers is strictly prohibited. As our customer you are responsible for all your accounts. Should you violate the Terms of Services outlined within, your account will be cancelled without chance of refund. 

Traffic Usage

All accounts that exceed bandwidth usage will be automatically suspended, it is up to the service owner to work with Ethernet Servers on a solution. 

I don't know about ADULT PORN material, but personally, i'm not agree with CHILD PORN.
-updated-

above are respond from EthernetServers.com about porn.
There are no restriction about Porn, it is legal, but it will be illegal if you don't have permission from the original author. Note that.

VPS Control Panel.

 You can reinstall your VPS Using Centos, Ubuntu, and Debian, all OS With 32 and 64 Bit Support

 you can activated this on statistic, by select time span.

Okay, Now we have VPS, let start installing.

1. Speed Test.

2. Access Root From PuTTY

3. Install MySQL (http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/install-mysql.html)

4. Install Wordpress
(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/part-4-installing-wordpress-to-centos-6.html)

5. Installing SSH Dropbear

(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/part-5-installing-ssh-dropbear.html)

if you follow my previous tutorial (link above), it said when starting dropbear at first time after install script will failed (Step 1, last picture), on this server, it's not failed, it success,

 but you still need input OPTIONS="-p 443"

in /etc/init.d/dropbear

in order Dropbear run in port "443"

Read the tutorial about SSH Dropbear for how to add user and connect it.

(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/part-5-installing-ssh-dropbear.html)

6. Install PPTP VPN
(http://www.angelimus.com/2015/06/tutorial-install-pptp-vpn-on-centos-6.html)

Before installing, go to Control Panel (vpanel.ethernetservers.com)

and turn on both TUN/TAP and PPP.

7. Install KDE (Tutorial Install KDE)

Remote VPS Server that running KDE Desktop using VNC From Windows 7

8. Wait a moment, come back later, you'll never regret it, promise... :P

For now, this is my review about EtherServers, for me, this VPS is quite good even only with 2GB of RAM, next review, we will try install Virtualmin and Webmin, i will post in here too.

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How to add user in Centos 6

Hello again, today i want to share about how to manage user in Centos 6 64Bit. User are an account that has created by user or by 3rd Party Application in order to run.

User can be created if you want to add another account to share your VPS, but remember, because you are in one VPS, so you much share your resource too  with another user that logon in your VPS.

You can limit user activity too for your user, example, if you want to limit your user only using SSH, or FTP, or VPN, it’s up to you. I recomend to limit your user, so it can be controlled, and your VPS not too overload, because some VPS Host will suspend VPS if there are unusual activity or high activity that makes VPS Overload.

1. How to add user in Centos 6

adduser angelimus
passwd angelimus

then type your password twice

2. How to add user in Centos to Group

usermod -a -G ftp angelimus

-a = append user in group
-G = new list of supplementary GROUPS

ftp = group name

another example :

usermod -a -G ftp angelimus, porthos, socrates, delinios

3. How to limit user in centos 6
- Prevent User using SSH and FTP

usermod -s /sbin/nologin mynewssh 

- User only using VPN

vi /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
angelimusVPN pptpd pass900 *

4. How to lock user in centos 6

usermod -L angelimus

5. How to remove user in centos 6

userdel angelimus

just delete user account

userdel -r angelimus

-r = remove angelimus home directory too

6. How to force expired user password in Centos 6

chage -d 0 angelimus

7. How to view user password in Centos 6

cat /etc/passwd

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How to Create Strong Password and Easy To Remember

A password is a word or string of characters used for user authentication to prove identity or access approval to gain access to a resource (example: an access code is a type of password), which should be kept secret from those not allowed access.

definition of Password by wikipedia.com

Create some password is a common things that people do, most of all online service, asking their user to register using username or email, after that you must create your password, then, you can using their service, it easy right?

But HOW IF, someone using your ID to use your paying service? Maybe no problem for you, but HOW IF someone login to your account and doing some illegal activity on the internet??? That's will be a HUGE problem for you, i guarantee.

You think you Password can't be breach? Because you use password generator?

Hmm... how about if you have 10 diffrent account in diffrent website, are you using diffrent password for each account, and you generate your password using password generator, do you remember it all? If yes, how about 50 diffrent account? do you remember it all??? :P no offense.

Do you believe you can remember all username and password of 1000 diffrent account and website?

  - Yes, i can remember it all.

Okay, i will show you some sample to create strong password using some pattern, with your brain as password generator.

Step 1 - Find something you like but no one knows, only you and god knows it, or maybe you can select it randomly, but you must remember, it's like your secret word.

Example : i choose word "BASH" because i create script using BASH everyday.

avoid your dog name, mother name, father name, chidren name, because name is easy to guess

Step 2 - Create Pattern,  create some custom pattern that originally from your mind, dont use the hard one, create the simple one, and remember it.

Example : [type connection] - [website/application] - [secret word] - [amount of character in website]

Example i want create account in https://www.facebook.com/

type connection : for website i use HT from Http:// , for application i use AP from App , for ftp i use FT from ftp:// , for ssh i use SS from ssh:// ,  for sftp i use SF from sftp://.

Now we have 5 diffrent combination

website/application : name of website that we will use to register, in this case is facebook i only take the last two word which is ok from facebook so i use "Ok"

secret word : which is "BASH"

amount of character in website : facebook contain 8 character, so i use 8.

Final, so my password for http://www.facebook.com is

HTOk"BASH"8

Simple right? how about http://www.yahoo.com

HTOo"BASH"5

Take more example on application like game, it need 2 password, web password and game password, and in some games required vault password.

Example game Perfect World, website http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/pwi

Password for Website

HTEs"BASH"8

Password for Game

APEs"BASH"8

That's all, all you need to remember is your pattern and your secret code, simple right, how about that 1000 account? can you remember all?? YES...

But, is it still can be breach?? Yes... using Dictionary Brute Force, but maybe it takes about 2 years or more, its not worth it to breach it. 

With only 2 thing which is BASH and Pattern, you have qualified password. Your password can't be breach by anyone, except by you, so don't ever tell your PATTERN or Secret Code to anyone or anything that looks like human, except your pet :P, and don't ever write it down or save it in your computer, even its your personal computer. 

Our brain is most strong and secure password generator.

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How to Unzip / Zip file in Centos 6

Hello again, now i want to share how to zip and unzip file in centos, what in zip file? zipping file is collecting a few or more file that you choose and compress it into one file, so you can give that file or send to your friend or send it to file hosting, zip file usually used when you want to backup something, as a sample, i have website that i put on /public_html folder, and i want to back it up in case something happened or maybe you want to do a major change to your website, so i just zip my /public_html directory into one file, and i start change or modify the original file, if something happened, i just recover all my files in /public_html directory by unzipping from zip file that i created as backup.

Before we start, make sure zip package is installed in your system, by type zip in your terminal.

zip

if there are no zip package installed, it will reply -bash: zip: command not found

so you must install it first by type :

yum -y install zip

1. Zip

Now you have zip package installed in your system, now type zip, there are a lot of option for zip, we don't use that all, i usually only use -r and -v.

-r is recurse into directories it means, zip include directory
-v is verbose it will showing line by line what file has been added to your zip file

the command fo zip is

zip [options] [new_file_name.zip] [dir / file(s) that we want to zip]

example :

i want to zip files with .txt as extension

zip -v /home/backup/backup_mytext.zip /home/tutorial/*.txt

i want to backup my website file in /html/wordpress into /home/backup/

cd /var/www/html/wordpress/

zip -rv /home/backup/backup_myweb_15062015.zip *

2. Unzip

Before using unzip, try type

unzip

if the reply is -bash: unzip: command not found it mean there are no unzip package in your system, so you must install it first by type

yum -y install unzip

Now unzip package already installed in your system, lets start

To view file in .zip, use this command

unzip -l /home/backup/backup_myweb_15062015.zip

To restore / extract zip file, use this command

unzip /home/backup/backup_myweb_15062015.zip -d /var/www/home/html/wordpress

To restore / extract zip file, and overwrite it

unzip -o /home/backup/backup_myweb_15062015.zip -d /var/www/home/html/wordpress

To restore / extract zip file, and update it

unzip -u /home/backup/backup_myweb_15062015.zip -d /var/www/home/html/wordpress

There are a lot of options to use, but not all of that options is used, it depends on your case, maybe you will use it, but these are a basic command in compress and extract file(s)

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How To Monitoring Running Process in Centos 6 64Bit

Hello, again now i want to share some tutorial about how to monitoring resource on centos 6, this tutorial is very common, i got this from a few source, a few of them i got from tecmint.com, you can check it there for more information and of course there are much usefull information, you must visit there.

What is monitoring running process?? in windows, we usually use task manager to see what is running on our system, but in centos, we have a few similar tool like task manager too, but if you only use terminal there are a few script or command to show what running on your system.

Sometimes we got our VPS running slow, and you must check on control panel in website for how much our memory is being used or how high our processor load, it not necessary, it wasting time of course, cause centos has built in tools to check memory usage and processor usage to, and the important things is we must know, if is there any other user using our VPS or no, because sometimes we dont know who are using our VPS, and what is application that our user running.

1. Some cool stuff from Tecmint.com  (Post by AVISHEK KUMAR)

This stuff has great view, i like this too, and sometimes i used it too, it has many information about our VPS, to install it, follow this step, open your terminal, and type :

Dependency
There is no dependency required to use this package for a standard Linux Distribution. Moreover the script don’t requires root permission for execution purpose. However if you want to Install it, you need to enter root password once. (original statement from tecmint.com)

Security
Have taken care to ensure security of the system. Nothing additional package is required/installed. No root access required to run. Moreover code has been released under Apache 2.0 License, that means you are free to edit, modify and re-distribute by keeping Tecmint copyright. (original statement from tecmint.com)

wget http://tecmint.com/wp-content/scripts/tecmint_monitor.sh

chmod 755 tecmint_monitor.sh./tecmint_monitor.sh -i

monitor

2. Top (Built-in centos 6 monitor)

If you need more spesific about what is PID of running process, the user who running the application, how many resource used by application, etc you just type :

top

3. ps -eLf

To use this, you don't need to install anything, just type it, this will show you history of running process by user and also what command that user type to run script, use this if you have unknown user in your system.

ps -elf

4. atop

This is similar like top, but you must install first. Open your terminal and type :

yum -y install atop

to run it just type atop.

5. htop

This is similar like top and atop, but this more colorful and has built in function to kill process, search, filter, and the important is this application can modify priority of running process, you can modify it in realtime, no need to kill the process first. Use up and down arrow to select process and select what task todo.

yum -y install htop

to run it just type htop.

Thats all, you decide which one you want to use, remember, all application above running consume resource too, dont you run all time, use it when you need it.

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How To Create Sub-Domain in Virtualmin

Hello again, now i'm gonna show you how to "Create Sub-Domain in Virtualmin" in this tutorial i will install roundcube and add sub-domain pointing to roundcube. Roundcube is a web-based email client. In previous post, i have explain how to create sub-server in Virtualmin (How To Create Sub-Server Virtualmin), Sub-Domain and Sub-Server are diffrent, and the way to create it is diffrent.

Before we want to create Sub-Domain or Sub-Server, we must know what is the diffrent, how do they act, and the structure in directory.

Let's take an example : forum.angelimusvps.tk, let see the structure both Sub-Domain and Sub-Server, see below.

Sub-Server directory of forum.angelimusvps.tk

/root/home/angelimusvps.tk/domains/forum.angelimusvps.tk/public_html/<website files>

Sub-Domain directory of forum.angelimusvps.tk

/root/home/angelimusvps.tk/public_html/forum/<website files>

Okay, lets start create Sub-Domain.

Step 1 - Install Roundcube 

(you can skip this step if you already have directory for sub-domain destination directory)

1. Open your browser, and login to your terminal.

2. Choose your domain that you want to install roundcube on left panel, by click the drop down menu.

3. Click Install Script on left panel, and see on the right panel, in email section, click on roundcube

4. Click on Play Button on the Right or Simple Just Click "Show Install Options"

5. I'm gonna use my domain in this case angelimusvps.com, so my "Database for RoundCube preferences" = angelimusvps_tk_roundcube (MySQL, new database)

6. Install sub-directory under public_html = DO NOT CHOOSE at top level, and type roundcube, by default its checked beside that.

7. Click "Install Now"

Note :

(1)For someone of you that running Centos 6, maybe have a little problem in PHP Version, in my case, i can't install roundcube, because my PHP Version is 5.3.3 so i must upgrade into PHP 5.4.x, see this tutorial to upgrade your php How To Upgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.4 in Centos 6

(2)After installing roundcube, now try open your browser and type http://<yourdomain>/roundcube if nothing  happened, or it's like downloading or saving something else, maybe thats normal, because i have same problem like that before, now go to virtualmin again, on left panel > angelimusvps.tk (as domain) > Server Configuration > Website Option > PHP script execution mode = Apache mod_php (run as Apache's user) 

Click save, now try again open your roundcube http://<yourdomain>/roundcube

Step 2 - Create Sub-Domain 

Now i'm gonna make subdomain inbox.angelimusvps.tk that point to /home/angelimusvps.tk/public_html/roundcube

1. Manage your domain in your domain provider.

My domain is free domain from freenom.com, so i login to freenom.com and manage  freenom domain, add new record inbox A (your ip) see image below

after that click on save changes, wait about 10-30 minutes, i usually only wait about 10 minutes.

to check if it already registered, try ping inbox.<yourdomain>.tk if no reply or time out, wait again a few minutes and ping again. If you still confuse about this manage dns, see my previous tutorial in (Tutorial host multiple website using Virtualmin)

2. Go to Virtualmin, on left panel, on top section, click on Webmin. 

3. Click Servers > Apache Webserver, now see on right panel, click on "Create Virtual Host" 

1. Choose "Spesific address" = your vps ip address

2. "Document Root" = find your directory that you want to redirect to subdomain.

3. "Server Name" = just type your subdomain, i type inbox.angelimusvps.tk

Click "Create Now"

Note : after you click create now, see on top right section, Click "Apply Changes", then "Stop Apache", then "Start Apache"

Open your browser, and type your subdomain, ex : http://inbox.angelimusvps.tk you will see your sub directory redirected to sub-domain.

I think that's it for now, if your have a better and simple and more secure, feel free to share on comment section, and see you in next tutorial.

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How To Upgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.4 in Centos 6

Hello again, now i want to share about how to change PHP Version, in Centos 6, many of them are still running PHP 5.3.3, actually there are nothing to worry about PHP 5.3.3 but in some case, you need to run on PHP 5.4.x

Step 1 - Checking Version of PHP
Okay, now lets start.
Before we upgrade make sure you running PHP 5.3.x, how to to that?
Open your terminal and type
php --version

See picture above, it showing the version of PHP that running in your system


Step 2 - Upgrading PHP 5.3.x into PHP 5.4.x
Now we will upgrade it into 5.4.x
Type command below in your terminal
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zaq111/bash/master/angelimus-upgrade-php-53-54.sh
chmod +x angelimus-upgrade-php-53-54.sh && ./angelimus-upgrade-php-53-54.sh

after this, there are a few prompt, just answer with typing "y" (without quote)
when its all done, just type
php --version

to re-check that your PHP version is already upgraded.

It's done.
See you in next tutorial.

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How To Create an Email Account for Virtualmin

Email is the most important things in your personal or bussiness website, email is one of the media to communicate between admin and user of website, beside social media. Its nice if you have email with your own name and your own domain, it can boost your popularity of your website too, for me i prefer emailing rather than calling or pm in social media, because i have high intense in checking my email, but remember, emailing can consume more resource to your VPS, in some VPS Host, there are some restriction about mass mailing, it is a feature to mailing all your costumer or all your friend or all people that you dont know for reason is promoting your website or something that you thinks it is necessary, 

Now we will begin to create email user in Virtualmin, i assume you already create website in virtualmin, if not, see previous tutorial ( >> How to Create website in Virtualmin)

Step 1. Accessing Virtualmin

Open your browser and login to your virtualmin by entering

Https://<your domain or VPS IP Address>:10000

I using domain from freenom.com as i mention in previous tutorial (How To Create Sub-Server in Virtualmin) which is angelimusvps.tk

Step 2. Creating and Cofiguring User in Virtualmin

1. Click on edit user on the left panel (see pic below)

2. Click on Add a user to this server (see pic below)

see in the list, there are already angelimusvps.tk,

that user is by default create when we create virtual server in earlier tutorial about 

(Host Multiple website on Virtualmin Step 4)

3. See picture below

1. Email Address : this is email address username (ex: admin, or support, or yourname, etc)

2. Real Name : Type your Real Name or anything you like.

3. Password : create the password for your username (password will be used in here >> (

How To Create Sub-Domain in Virtualmin)

Mail Forwarding Setting

4. Tick "Yes, forward to address" and type the destination email, if you want to forward automatically your email from this account to another email account.

5. Tick "Yes, repond with message", if you this, when your user or friend sending you an email, there will be an automatically reply email to sender.

ex: "A" sending an email from angel@yahoo.com to your email admin@angelimusvps.tk, after "A" sending an email, he/she will automatically get a reply from admin@angelimusvps.tk.

This feature usually contain a greetings or welcome message, etc. Just type a good sentence here if you want to enable this feature.

6. Minimum time between autoreplies, for security reason i recomend you to DO NOT Choose "No Minimum", because if someone do an email bomber to your email account, it cause a heavy duty to your VPS it will result you get banned by your host. Just select about 5 or 7 minute for safety.

7. Click Create, to create your email user.

It's done, see you in next tutorial about virtualmin.

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How To Create Sub-Server Virtualmin

Hello again, in previous Tutorial Topic about How To Create Multiple Website on Virtualmin, now i want to share How To Create Sub-Server on Virtualmin using Centos 6 64Bit.
In this tutorial i still use VPS from Evoburst.com, the reason is, Evoburst.com provide high resource with low end price.

Step 1 - Manage Domain and Add Sub-Domain in DNS Management
- Login to freenom.com
- Click on Domains > My Domains      (see pic below)

- Click on Manage on Domain you create in previous tutorial before (Tutorial host multiple website using Virtualmin)  (see pic below)

- Click on Manage Freenom DNS
-

- Add your subdomain name (in this tutorial i using forum as subdomain), Type = A, Target = <vps ip address> (see pic below)

- Click on Save Changes

- Now wait about 5-10 minutes, while trying this

- Open terminal and type this code

host forum.angelimusvps.tk ns01.freenom.com

Note change forum.angelimusvps.tk to <your-sub-domain>.<domain>.tk.co

- if the result is forum.angelimus.tk has address 104.xxx.xxx.x9

- it means your subdomain is registered.

Step 2 - Creating Sub-Server on Virtualmin
- Now go To Virtualmin (see pic below)

- Then Click on Sub-Server

- Domain Name = <your-sub-domain>.<domain>.tk.co      ex: forum.angelimusvps.tk

- Click on create server, now open the browser, and type <your-sub-domain>.<domain>.tk.co      ex: forum.angelimusvps.tk

- If you got error like this

- It means your subdomain is ready to use.

- Open terminal, and type

cd /home/angelimusvps.tk/domains/forum.angelimusvps.tk/public_html
echo "This test sub-server - angelimus.blogspot.com" >> index.html

- Now your browser again and refrsh, like picture above. (see pic above)

Thanks for reading my tutorial, supported by freenom.com and evoburst.com

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