linux

I have installed Nagios on my webserver but than server load is very high sometimes. A missconfig is the reason or what is wroing?

tar -zcvf /home/everything_whole_server.tar.gz /home --exclude="/home/everything_whole_server.tar.gz"

You can remove -v to turn output off.

I cannot decide which OS should I take with the EQ4 Server from Hetzner. Really good hardware and much cheaper than Theplanet, 1&1 and Strato etc.

I need a secure and fast server for less than 100 domains and less than 10 active sites with daily 100k+ pageviews and monthly 1-2TB traffic.

I need a good linux distro as webserver with php, mysql, apache, webmin and virtualmin. Later I will need ffmeg. I dont want to pay extra money for control panel like cpanel or plesk. I am not a linux guru therefore it must be easy configurable.

Reasons why i can not decide:

I want to install network-server monitoring tools on my server. How can I install Munin and Nagios easily? Thnaks for any help!

Sometimes we need to search in only .php, .inc, .txt or template files for a string. Search can take very long time if there are thausend of files or GB-sized files(logs, xml/csv data etc). We can ignore all other files with a find-grep combination and save performance.

find /home/USERNAME -name *.php -exec grep -l 'MYSTRING' {} \;

Hello, I am a linux beginner. Why are three firewall software(iptables, apf, lokkit) installed on a dedicated server? Do I really need all of them? Is not there a conflict related big risk. For example they could block each other and all other network programms and connections. I just want to have an easy to use and secure webserver with less limit.

Today morning woke up and saw httpd not running. I tried to install/update Apache using Cpanel's Easyapache script over webinterface(post 2086/2087) but no chance. I tried the same with ssh as root using putty but I got same error output like this:

Checking that all packages are present and up to date.
!! No method to auto repair package system !!
!! Please visit http://www.cpanel.net/support/could_not_ensurepkgs.htm for help with this error. !!
!! Restoring original working apache !!
!! Executing '/scripts/initsslhttpd' !!
!! Restarting 'httpd' ... !!

I want to setup wildcard subdomains. Also anything.example.com must be redirected or located to example.com. Can I do it with .htaccess or httpd.conf or do I need to change dns settings too ?