Hetzner experiences with Centminmod

Good day Everyone,

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I recently picked up a dedicated server from hetzner based on a recommendation from a reputable member here.

I don't think I'm having much luck with it for the following reasons:

1. It was a nightmare to get lvm working, as I wanted to combine both the 2TB drives into 1 and you can seem to only do that if you set it as SWRAID 0, but they don't tell you that, so I just had to keep experimenting.

2. Once I got centos 7.3 minimal installed, I updated it and tried to install centminmod 123.09beta01, but it kept failing at the part where it tries to download wget (sorry I don't have any logs to share right now, I've been dealing with this for a few days).
Upon coming to the conclusion that there is some sort of network connectivity issue, I confirmed this by git copying a random project between this new server and my old one and the new one of course fails. I then took all the bs hetzner values out of the /etc/resolve.conf, and I tried a few different ones before I settled with google's, I even at one point tried stealing the content of my other ovh server resolve.conf and using the same nameservers, that didn't work at all.

3. Eventually I was able to hack-job a centminmod install and manually intervening as things were failing and trying to get them to work, however, the result was a centminmod that looks like it functions but was missing Memcached, "php is not installedproperlyy", phpfpm, dont know, it probably doesnt work either. I think the only thing that installed and worked was mysql.

So I put in a ticket but then realized a few min later than the response to this ticket may be the same as other 1 line ticket responses, me...long email explaining my partition issue, response: "Have you tried using raid", well more info never killed anyone,

So i decided to cancel the server and immediately and put in an order for a new one, but if i need to play dns games and make tweaks to have this thing get up and running even before I dive into centminmod again then I'll be cancelling permanently and going elsewhere, ovh is good and i may have to go back there again. I canceled my vultr server as i wanted to set up a personal vpn server but realised it would cost too much if im piping close to 200GB through the server everymonth.

Any recommendations from existing hetzner users. I'm not a big fan of turning my back on a company especially If I was in the wrong and/or didn't follow their proper procedures.

 

Thanks @eva2000, I didn't post any logs and didn't keep them as I've never seen a server behave this way, it's almost as if the server was going through cycles of offline existence, and I'm fairly sure there's some sort of hardware issue there. I've canceled and got a new server and using centminmod git install method and everything seems to be going smoothly so far.

 

Yes, as I thought. I received an email where they said that they're going to take a look at the old server as they suspect an issue, and centminmod installed perfectly on the new one

 

wow, so accidentally closed the ssh tab while things were installing, so to be safe, reimaged, reinstalled everything, centminmod using curl this time:

Code:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Curl Installer YUM Time: 228.2927 seconds
Total YUM Time: 32.321595333 seconds
Total YUM + Source Download Time: 51.6122
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 85.9065
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 238.9748
Download Zip From Github Time: 2.8004
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 372.7689
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 749.2624
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 980.3555 seconds
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

thanks @inthecloudblog ill check out lara, this server is alot faster and has more memory than the one im currently using

 

And I was @eva2000, but my options at that time was to wait and see how they'll fix it and probably a constant back and forth of emails before they actually decide to do something so I figured there's no point. It looks like it was some hardware issue so hopefully the new server wont have the same fate.

 

Wow I think hetzner may not work for me. Everything is good to go, installed 1 site, installed netdata, upgraded to php 7 and installed GA for ssh. Now when I attempt to run centmin i get this:

Code:

[04:45][root@cluster1.xxx.com /]# centmin
/usr/local/src/centminmod /

and it just sits there, nothing happens, any ideas before I reimage and start again, although if I have to keep doing that then you may be right @eva2000 this company may be nothing but problems. I wanted to test out their vps service so a few days ago i signed up for one, still havent received it yet, which is strange given that in that time i had 1 dedicated, and then got another one as a replacement. its not looking good for hetzner and/or germany, I might have to call Trump lol

 

its strange because I tried that too, same result, I waited about 10 min then it actually loaded the centminmod menu up. I ran

Code:

yum-config-manager --save --setopt=varnish-4.1.skip_if_unavailable=true

as I kept getting errors about it then rebooted the server 4 times and now it loads up centminmod right away. I still think this server also has some sort of connectivity issues, just not as pronounced as the last server.

Theres also things that as far as I can tell don't even function properly and Im not certain why, for example nginx status page is enabled and refuses to work even though i configured it almost exactly like my ovh server which runs fine. I feel this is risky as I can't have a production server doing whatever it wants or deciding to seclude itself from the internet to take a nap.

I even tried replacing the contents of the resolv file and added google's dns. I'll keep experimenting with this but I think I may cancel this server and ditch this company within a week.

 

thanks @eva2000, they're looking at it now so i'll wait before I start doing anything,

the packet loss is insane though

Code:

[20:48][root@cluster1.xxxxxxxx.com /]# mtr -s 1000 -r -c 1000 www.google.com
Start: Mon Mar 20 20:48:09 2017
HOST: cluster1.xxxxxxxx.com    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1.|-- 2a01:4f8::a:14:a           0.0%  1000    0.6   0.6   0.4  10.8   0.6
 2.|-- 2a01:4f8:0:3::1f9          0.0%  1000    0.6   0.6   0.5  23.0   1.6
 3.|-- core1.fra.hetzner.com      0.0%  1000    5.2   5.2   5.1  16.9   1.1
 4.|-- juniper1.ams.hetzner.de    0.0%  1000   11.0  10.9  10.8  13.9   0.2
 5.|-- 2a01:4f8:0:e020::6         0.0%  1000   11.0  11.4  10.9  57.9   3.8
 6.|-- 2001:4860:0:f8c::3         0.0%  1000   12.6  11.1  11.0  20.5   0.6
 7.|-- 2001:4860::c:4000:d9ac     0.0%  1000  106.2 106.7 106.0 116.8   0.3
 8.|-- 2001:4860::c:4000:cf5c     0.0%  1000  107.5 107.4 107.3 108.0   0.0
 9.|-- 2001:4860::8:0:caf7        0.0%  1000  107.4 107.3 107.2 107.9   0.0
10.|-- 2001:4860::c:4000:d64b     0.0%  1000  106.5 107.0 106.2 139.7   1.1
11.|-- 2001:4860::1:0:aa7a        8.7%  1000  107.2 107.5 106.7 113.8   0.4
12.|-- 2001:4860:0:1010::1        0.0%  1000  113.4 107.6 107.2 117.7   0.6
13.|-- 2001:4860:0:1::159d        0.0%  1000  107.1 106.6 106.2 174.5   2.3
14.|-- ord36s02-in-x04.1e100.net  0.0%  1000  106.1 106.6 106.0 121.1   0.8
[21:05][root@cluster1.sflcnetwork.com /]#


MP1:~ xxxxxxxx$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/mtr -r -c 1000 cluster1.xxxxxxxx.com
Password:
Start: Mon Mar 20 16:48:56 2017
HOST: MP1.local                   Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1.|-- xxxxxxxx            0.3%  1000  147.6 169.7 143.4 1979.  95.1
 2.|-- 10.8.16.200                0.1%  1000  149.6 166.9 143.3 1877.  93.0
 3.|-- ???                       100.0  1000    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 4.|-- 10.6.160.2                 0.2%  1000  150.8 170.8 143.8 1672.  92.2
 5.|-- ???                       100.0  1000    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0


MP1:~ xxxxxxxx$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/mtr -r -c 1000 46.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.38
Password:
Start: Mon Mar 20 17:07:03 2017
HOST: MP1.local                   Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1.|-- xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx.255.129            0.5%  1000  539.6 175.5 143.8 670.4  71.5
 2.|-- 10.8.16.200                0.4%  1000  438.8 178.6 143.8 1251.  85.3
 3.|-- ???                       100.0  1000    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
 4.|-- 10.6.160.2                 0.8%  1000  237.5 177.3 144.4 1050.  85.8
 5.|-- ???                       100.0  1000    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
MP1:~ xxxxxxxx$