I am using VPSmalaysia. The original VPS run Ubuntu 20.04, which I manually upgraded to 22.04
One thing is non-standard: I replaced SSH port 22 with another one…
Installation is run as a non-root user with sudo. So actually the command was:
I am afraid I don’t completely understand what kind of support is required. In my case I first updated 20.04 to 22.04 and only after that started MIAB installation…
But anyway, if some 22.04 templates do not support MIAB, is there any means to force installation of an older MIAB version?
If I start MIAB installation on, say, Ubuntu 20.04, which version will be installed?
MiaB only supports installation on a fresh 22.04 install
If you are upgrading 20.04 to 22.04 some MiaB dependencies might not be taken into account. People have managed to make it work but it requires linux knowledge to figure out what is missing/broken and you might have issues further down the road so not recommended.
You can not install MiaB on 20.04
22.04 only supports v60 and above
18.04 only supports until v57a
I would ask the VPS provider why they dont offer 22.04 like anyone else in the industry and what their plans are. If it is in the pipeline in the next few weeks/months then option 1 is ok. You can migrate when it is available. I wouldn’t install a new sever to run long term on 18.04
If they are not planning anything, I would go for option 2 unless you know your way around linux.
Alternatively find another good provider.
I talked to VPS provider’s customer support. Because they were not sure if Ubuntu 22.04 will be offered in the nearest future, I decided to try whatever works…
First, I tried Power MIAB on 20.04. Guess what? The process started vividly, but hit the same piece of rock as before: Upgrading Nextcloud!
I even tried older versions of Power MIAB. Same outcome!
Being desperate, I reset the VPS to Ubuntu 18.04. And tried normal installation of MIAB. Guess what?
Absolutely same result!
I wonder if VPSmalaysia is especially hostile to MIAB. But there were good reviews elsewhere on this forum about successfully running MIAB on VPSmalaysia.
Am I doing something completely wrong?
I will be grateful to anyone who can give any clue!
Regards,
Gregory
IT’S A MIRACLE!!!
After waiting for 30 minutes or so (during which I typed the above desperate text), I was about to abort the installation…
But suddenly the process went alive and soon finished successfully…
I am now able to log into MIAB web interface.
Perhaps I was not patient enough in all previous cases?
Gregory, I am glad it worked out and you installed MIAB successfully
I hope you can share with us what version you are using?
I installed a MIAB instance on Ubuntu 18.04 successfully on VPSMalaysia.com.my. I waited patiently for the install to complete and I then logged into MIAB admin panel.
What I like about VPSMalaysia is they are dual stack and support both IPv4 and IPv6.
Late to the party here, but I was going to ask how long you’re waiting. I found the nextcloud download to be very slow. In a separate terminal, do a watch ls -l on the download directory (can’t remember where it is sorry) and you can see the progress.
Yes, Nextcloud seems to be the slowest component to install. I waited for about 30 minutes or so… And no progress messages at all. As I said, I believed the installation froze again and was about to terminate it, but suddenly the process revived and went on again…
Except for Nextcloud, the entire MIAB installs in perhaps 10 minutes or so.
I wonder what is the reason for Nextcloud being so slow and so silent.
As for your advice to watch the download directory: it may be useful once you know exactly which component will be downloaded to what directory.
I am a novice in MIAB so this was not an option for me…
I ended up with v57a of MIAB installed on Ubuntu 18.04.
I don’t care about MIAB version being not the latest one. Though I am eager to have the latest version, of course! But I am happy with my first email server to be up and running!
Ubuntu 18.04, to the contrary, is a point of concern. It’s approaching the End Of Life point. No reason for panic though, I believe. I hope nothing bad gonna happen in the nearest months. And then VPSmalaysia will probably start offering 22.04
As for VPSmalaysia in general, they make a good impression. Of course my experience with them is limited to less than 10 days, but at least their customer support is very responsive. And no chatbots! Real humans only!
Anyway, my web server is running and is able to send and receive email. So problems still remain. I need to thing them over and if I fail to find a solution myself, I will open a new topic in this forum.
I appreciate the help from MIAB community and I am very grateful to everyone who responded.
I believe your download is slow because your distance from the server
I use vpsmalaysia.com.my and lightnode.com since they have servers near to me.
While vpsmalaysia.com.my may be very near for me (and download is super fast)
it may be far for you depending your physical location.
I live far away from Malaysia, in Eastern Europe. My choice was based on reviews of some people on this forum, who praised VPSmalaysia as a reliable hoster for MIAB. Also, it proved to be inexpensive and having a good customer support. So I don’t regret my choice!
But how is it related to download/installation speed? I did not upload any files from my desktop… Instead the installed program downloaded all the components of MIAB from any remote repository. Which location does not depend, I believe, on my own location…
