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Godaddy's stock Turbopanel install is fucking up my servers

Submitted by mark on Thu, 2008-02-28 17:49

Thanks, GoDaddy! Your stock install of TurboPanel seems to suck balls. I have noticed on several different occasions the process "java" owned by root sits around and eats ast least 50% of my cpu. That's not very nice. (pun intended for the ultra-geeky)

How does one trace a pid to a cmdline? I taught myself this trick to figure out how.

  1. connect to your host (ssh, or god forbid telnet)
  2. use top to find the nasty process
  3. grab the pid
  4. use this nifty trick: (yes, you actually can do this)

    ~ cat /proc/pid/cmdline

Above, replace "pid" with the pid. This should get you the command that launched the process. Take that and use it to solve your problem.

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#1Submitted by Fletdog (not verified) on Thu, 2008-11-06 22:08.

A Fix for Godaddy's Dirty Trix!

Apparently Godaddy is not the nice web hosting company we thought they were. So sad. They seemed so professional. Now they're just grimey scam artist salemen who sabotage VDS performance to force users to pay more. But then again, I don't think there a scumbag hosting racket out there that doesn't sponge their users for every freaking drop of blood they can suck out of them. Maybe it's our own fault for not buying a decent server and just house it at a COLO somewhere for less $$$ and then we would be able to add 16GB or even 32GB RAM if we wanted to on a simple locked down LAMPS server that we would have full 100% control over. Hmmmmm...maybe I'll start a Godaddy revolt someday, but for now, just follow the link:

http://www.colinmcnamara.com/2008/02/03/why-godaddy-linux-virtual-dedicated-hosting-sucks-how-to-fix-it
#2Submitted by Helmut (not verified) on Mon, 2008-03-10 21:58.

no surprise. the technical

no surprise. the technical site of GoDaddy is a nightmare. the only thing i still use them is the easy domain control panel. the rest is crap and i host my sites elsewhere.
#3Submitted by mark on Sun, 2008-04-20 22:13.

I still host with them,

I still host with them, actually. I run Virtual Servers so I just SSH in and remove the packages I don't like.

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