Author Archives: Tyler

Fail2ban jails not activated: NOK: (‘database disk image is malformed’)

Symptoms Activating fail2ban generates errors in Plesk: ERROR NOK: (‘database disk image is malformed’,) ERROR NOK: (‘columns jail, path, firstlinemd5 are not unique’,) ERROR NOK: (‘database or disk is full’,) ERROR:f2bmng:Command ‘[‘/usr/bin/fail2ban-client’, ‘reload’, ‘plesk-wordpress’]’ returned non-zero exit status 255 ERROR:f2bmng:Failed to reload following jails due to errors in configuration: plesk-wordpress Plesk panel.log You get the […]

Reinstall your VPS

This guide will explain how to reinstall your VPS step-by-step (for any model). Reinstallation enables you to change the virtual server operating system, and to benefit from the latest distributions offered by servermeister. Warning, this could delete all data and personal settings on the server. Connecting to the manager Simply go to the following URL […]

Response time in Website monitoring

In website monitoring, response time is calculated as the total time taken to resolve the DNS, complete the TCP hand-shake and download the full HTML output from the server. However, it does not include getting the images and other resources that are loaded within the HTML page. Note: The factors taken into account to calculate […]