Right I am now all sorted, hooray :)

I am going to list what steps I took to fix my problem and at the same time upgraded to the Pro version.

I would also like to take a moment to thank the forum members that have helped with this problem and a big big thank you to Joe and the VM team.

Virtulamin is an awesome product and I have been converted from Plesk and am looking forward to moving all of our sites to a VM platform!

I think I have flaky hardware that was causing my problems, I meed to buy a new server and wanted to buy the Pro version of VM, but at this moment in time could not afford either..... :(

I did not want to wipe my current box and rebuild as if my backups did not work I would of lost my data and settings. As I could still get into VM/WM (it was just the acctual sites apache/php that had the problem) I used the virtulamin backup tool to back up my sites and settings. Just in case I also backed up the SQL databases and home folders.

I then subscribed to the Amazon EC2 service and created a VM Pro box, adjusted the DNS settings as needed and then restored my backups into it. It all worked great with out a hicup :)Did not even have to use the manual backups of MySQL or the home folders.

So all in all I went from a flaky local hardware running VM gpl to runninig on the amazon cloud with VM pro in under an hour. How awesome is that, I was over the moon :)

I am going to wait and see what my first months bill from Amazon is like before I decide to buy new hardware and VM Pro and run it locally. If Amazon is cost effective for me I might just leave it in the cloud.

VIRTUALMIN ROCKS!!!!!!!

Just one more quick suggestion for Joe, the instructions to create a VM pro AMI are assuming you are using a Linux based workstation, they are slightly different if you are using a Windows client to create the Amazon AMI. Might be worth adding the Windows commands to your site as well. Just a thought.......

reagrds



Will

Right I am now all sorted, hooray :)

I am going to list what steps I took to fix my problem and at the same time upgraded to the Pro version.

I would also like to take a moment to thank the forum members that have helped with this problem and a big big thank you to Joe and the VM team.

Virtulamin is an awesome product and I have been converted from Plesk and am looking forward to moving all of our sites to a VM platform!

I think I have flaky hardware that was causing my problems, I meed to buy a new server and wanted to buy the Pro version of VM, but at this moment in time could not afford either..... :(

I did not want to wipe my current box and rebuild as if my backups did not work I would of lost my data and settings. As I could still get into VM/WM (it was just the acctual sites apache/php that had the problem) I used the virtulamin backup tool to back up my sites and settings. Just in case I also backed up the SQL databases and home folders.

I then subscribed to the Amazon EC2 service and created a VM Pro box, adjusted the DNS settings as needed and then restored my backups into it. It all worked great with out a hicup :)Did not even have to use the manual backups of MySQL or the home folders.

So all in all I went from a flaky local hardware running VM gpl to runninig on the amazon cloud with VM pro in under an hour. How awesome is that, I was over the moon :)

I am going to wait and see what my first months bill from Amazon is like before I decide to buy new hardware and VM Pro and run it locally. If Amazon is cost effective for me I might just leave it in the cloud.

VIRTUALMIN ROCKS!!!!!!!

Just one more quick suggestion for Joe, the instructions to create a VM pro AMI are assuming you are using a Linux based workstation, they are slightly different if you are using a Windows client to create the Amazon AMI. Might be worth adding the Windows commands to your site as well. Just a thought.......

reagrds



Will

Just one more quick suggestion for Joe, the instructions to create a VM pro AMI are assuming you are using a Linux based workstation, they are slightly different if you are using a Windows client to create the Amazon AMI. Might be worth adding the Windows commands to your site as well. Just a thought.

Excellent idea...but I don't have a Windows box, so I don't know what the Windows steps ought to be. My lappy dual boots, or used to, but Windows has been broken for about a year. I'll be getting a new lappy sometime soon, so I'll hopefully have Windows again soon. If anyone wants to add some Windows notes to the docs, that'd be cool, too. (all of our documentation is in a wiki, so anybody with an account here can edit it) ;-)