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New 50 Mbits Server

April 15, 2006

Time for a new project. A new 50 Mbits server that I ordered last monday is up and running. It took about 5 days for the server setup. Tried to login as root and got this message.. “Password auth with the SSH2 server failed”…

So what is wrong.. I did double check the username and password and still can’t log in. Next, time to contact the network administrator. They responded to me saying they did make a boo-boo. They gave me the wrong IP address the first time and appologized to me. Thats ok.. people do make a mistake once in a while hehe Now, that I have the correct IP address… time to mess with the server… first move is to check on system information..

Those commands executed as shown in the picture confirm that the server is an Intel P4 2.8 Ghz CPU with 1MB L2 Cache, 1024 MB of DDR RAM, and 80 GB of disk space. That is about all the information I need to know for now. Maybe execute the command to confirm the Linux distribution as well using cat /etc/issue and it says CentOS release 4.2 (Final). That is what I expected.

A speed test done using wget to kernel.org shows us that the download speed is about 1.86 Mbps, which is a significantly good download speed within the continental U.S. The rest would be to fix the machine time, hostname, services, speed and other things to suit the usage. Time to mess with it again..

Filed under: Unix / Linux