Dear Jonathan,
My VPS provider is Vultr.
Thank you.
Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Singapore
27 Oct 2025 Monday 4.07 pm
On Monday, October 27th, 2025 at 3:59 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> What provider are you using? I would recommend using Linode as they have a
> large number of data centers including in the APAC region. Check them out as
> they are not that expensive plus backups as well for the VPS's
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <[email protected]>
> Sent: 27 October 2025 08:56
> To: Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>;
> [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [MariaDB discuss] MariaDB Database Server on Ubuntu keeps
> shutting down
>
> Dear Jonathan,
>
> I have read the Zabbix documentation you provided.
>
> The minimum requirement for Zabbix is 2 vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM.
>
> Looks like my Virtual Private Server (VPS) in Tokyo, Japan doesn't meet the
> minimum requirements for Zabbix.
>
> My VPS only has 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM. Immensely inferior.
>
> But upgrading the VPS until it meets the minimum Zabbix requirements is very
> very expensive.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
> Singapore
> 27 Oct 2025 Monday 3.54 pm
>
> On Monday, October 27th, 2025 at 3:12 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Good Morning,
>>
>> To me it seems like your machine doesnt meet the required specifications
>> suggested by zabbix.
>>
>> https://link.edgepilot.com/s/daf51df1/0VtVd13zVEyTckbLBqiXEQ?u=https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/en/manual/installation/requirements
>>
>> Is there anything in mariadb logs? I am suspecting this is a ram issue. I
>> had the case on a web hosting server where one client would send out massive
>> email shots and in doing so the db would collapse due to not having enough
>> ram available on the server. Increased the ram on the vps and that solved
>> the issue for me as everything is now stable when this client sends out
>> their massive mailshots.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> From: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via discuss <[email protected]>
>> Sent: 27 October 2025 06:17
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [MariaDB discuss] MariaDB Database Server on Ubuntu keeps shutting
>> down
>>
>> Subject: MariaDB Database Server on Ubuntu keeps shutting down
>>
>> Good day from Singapore,
>>
>> Recently I have just installed Zabbix 7.4 network monitoring tool on Ubuntu
>> 24.04.3 LTS Linux server.
>>
>> My Virtual Private Server (VPS) in Tokyo, Japan has 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM and 25
>> GB SSD storage.
>>
>> The 1st time, MariaDB server shuts down after about 11 hours.
>>
>> The 2nd time, MariaDB server shuts down after about 23 hours.
>>
>> Is it because my VPS doesn't have enough resources and need to upgrade to a
>> better VPS with higher specs?
>>
>> Please refer to the MariaDB server output below.
>>
>> root@zabbix:~# systemctl status mariadb
>> ○ mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.11.13 database server
>> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; preset:
>> enabled)
>> Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2025-10-24 06:39:30 UTC; 2 days ago
>> Duration: 23h 29min 16.074s
>> Docs: man:mariadbd(8)
>> https://link.edgepilot.com/s/08ef0649/TGal6bPiEEOyLAs3nqSLWg?u=https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/
>> Process: 1128 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mariadbd $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER
>> $_WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>> Main PID: 1128 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>> Status: "MariaDB server is down"
>> CPU: 5min 2.242s
>>
>> Oct 24 06:39:29 zabbix mariadbd[1128]: 2025-10-24 6:39:29 0 [Note] InnoDB:
>> Starting shutdown...
>> Oct 24 06:39:29 zabbix mariadbd[1128]: 2025-10-24 6:39:29 0 [Note] InnoDB:
>> Dumping buffer pool(s) to /var/lib/mysql/ib_buffer_pool
>> Oct 24 06:39:29 zabbix mariadbd[1128]: 2025-10-24 6:39:29 0 [Note] InnoDB:
>> Restricted to 2028 pages due to innodb_buf_pool_dump_pct=25
>> Oct 24 06:39:29 zabbix mariadbd[1128]: 2025-10-24 6:39:29 0 [Note] InnoDB:
>> Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 251024 6:39:29
>> Oct 24 06:39:30 zabbix mariadbd[1128]: 2025-10-24 6:39:30 0 [Note] InnoDB:
>> Removed temporary tablespace data file: "./ibtmp1"
>> Oct 24 06:39:30 zabbix mariadbd[1128]: 2025-10-24 6:39:30 0 [Note] InnoDB:
>> Shutdown completed; log sequence number 227021262; transaction id 418034
>> Oct 24 06:39:30 zabbix mariadbd[1128]: 2025-10-24 6:39:30 0 [Note]
>> /usr/sbin/mariadbd: Shutdown complete
>> Oct 24 06:39:30 zabbix systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Deactivated successfully.
>> Oct 24 06:39:30 zabbix systemd[1]: Stopped mariadb.service - MariaDB
>> 10.11.13 database server.
>> Oct 24 06:39:30 zabbix systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Consumed 5min 2.242s CPU
>> time, 198.6M memory peak, 125.7M memory swap peak.
>>
>> I need to reboot my Ubuntu VPS every time before my Zabbix server will run.
>>
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Looking forward to your reply.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
>> Singapore 27 Oct 2025 Monday 11.17 am
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