How to verify server configuration?

when i asked this question to many hosting companies live support team most of them couldnt answer this and some escaped saying when you have an account you will know that

How can you verify that you are having a hosting account on server which has the configuration specified by hosting provider ???

configuration includes RAm ,Processors,etc not just php version ,SQL version

Many say we have Xeon DUal and 8gb RAm but we cant blindly believe them how can this be verified???

and
Is there any way to find out if a hosting provider is a Reseller or has a server



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Hi harsha2kiran,

Maybe ask them to send you a screenshot of the server spec?

 

All hosting providers should have ssh login with few commands u can get all server information

 

Some hosts allow SSH access. If yours does, you can try these but some hosts may limit the commands you can execute.

Shows processor information:
cat /proc/cpuinfo

Shows RAM usage:
free -m

Shows disk usage:
df -h

Please note, the above commands assume your host is using Linux.

If you do not have shell access, you can get this same information through a PHP script depending on how strict your host's PHP security rules are.

For the reseller question, you may be able to find out if they are a reseller by checking their nameservers.

 

Something like this in PHP:

<?php
echo '<pre>';
echo `cat /proc/cpuinfo`;
echo `cat /proc/meminfo`;
?>

PHP:

That'll show CPU + Memory (RAM) details.

Jay

 

Assume this requires php to have shell access

 

It requires PHP not to have the shell_exec function disabled. If it is, you can use exec, system, proc_open, popen and others to get the data provided they haven't been disabled too. If just one is enabled, the OP can find out the information they require.

Jay

 

Yea actually meant shell_exec .. But still well explained REP Added

 

hi u can find all specification of your server by just uploading this file to your server

phpSysInfo 2.5.3 -
http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/

If u have any problem just let me knw