Recent content by johnamber

Maarten, Hmm, seems plausible and will check this out today. I'll backup the system and give it a try. I'll post what I find. Thanks a bunch and happy new year! Johnny

WHA, Thanks for the input and I will be updating the system as well as steps from your previous reply. IONOS has something called 'serial console', which I believe is the equivalent to what you're referencing. I will let you know what the results are. Happy New Year, Johnny

I ran the command and got this result... I was looking up e2fsck and read that it is not safe to run on mounted disk... not sure what options to use. I'll definitely make sure I backup the server right before anything is done when the time comes. What is your suggestion? Thanks in advance...

Thanks for your help. That link was one of the first places I visited when I was researching the server issue. I know IONOS has a 'serial console' for dedicated servers. If or when this arises again then I will have do that. For now, I am trying to discover what caused it from what I can...

Hello WHA, Surely... When whichever event cause the server to crash then I cannot access anything on the server, not even SSH. I then have to reboot the server and everything runs smoothly for a bit. This has happened numerous times... btw I do have fail2ban and other security measures enabled...

I forgot to add this to thread...

Hello, Our server went down twice this month, and I am having trouble figuring out the cause. What I did find was that the memory caching keeps building up over time slowly. I was under the impression that it dumps cache as new processes are needed, but not sure if that is the case and is what...