Derek Bodner’s Blog

A while back I mentioned about how the webhosting industry scares me. It still does. Here’s some recent questions I’ve seen asked by people who actually sell shared/dedicated hosting plans:
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change site`s ip from the ssh ?
hello

i wanna know how i can change site`s ip from there server

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Hello,

We lost ssh access in one of our vps and we unable to give ssh access with putty.
How can rebuild ssh with yum? because we have console access to server.

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Hello,

How can use scp for transfer a folder?
I have following error when try to transfer a filder via scp:
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scp: /backup/cpbackup/weekly: not a regular file

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Just remember. YOU MIGHT BE PAYING THESE GUYS TO MANAGE YOUR SERVER. If that doesn’t warn you to read up and use reputable hosts, I don’t know what does. That second guy was literally trying to sell VPS’s, and the level of troubleshooting he got to was “hm…can’t ssh in, can login at console, have no idea how to troubleshoot why I can’t login so maybe if sshd got lost and I need to reinstall it mmmkay?”. Not only was it sad that he couldn’t figure out how to use yum, the fact that that was his resolution to “I can’t ssh into my server” represents someone who started using linux within the, oh, I don’t know, last week?