Hi,
Due to what I believe is a software bug in the version of Xen
hypervisor running on urquell.bitfolk.com, it has become impossible
to boot some VPSes.
This will require a reboot to recover from, so I intend to perform a
clean shut down and boot again at 0100Z Friday 9th May (2am tonight
UK time). This is necessary in order to regain manageability.
At the same time I will apply updates that should fix the problem.
Customers on urquell should expect to see a clean shutdown followed
by a boot again. I should expect the outage to take no more than 30
minutes.
Apologies for the disruption and short notice this has entailed.
urquell currently has an uptime of 1166 days.
If you are unsure which piece of hardware your VPS currently resides
on, you can work it out in a number of ways. Please see:
https://bitfolk.com/customer_information.html#toc_3_Which_piece_of_actual_h…http://is.gd/16wUTV
Cheers,
Andy
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
Last night I added Ubuntu 14.04.x LTS (Trusty Tahr) to the
self-installer. It appears to work fine in my limited tests.
If you intend to make use of it just do a self-install by the usual
procedure:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Using_the_self-serve_net_installer
I am not yet aware of any customers who have upgraded to 14.04
though so while I do not expect any issues, you may want to
exercise some caution.
Upgrades from the previous LTS (12.04.x LTS) are of course supported
by Ubuntu and I know of no reason why that also would not work, but
again I am not yet aware of any customer who has done one.
Installers for:
11.04 (Natty Narwhal)
11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
13.04 (Raring Ringtail)
were removed as these distributions are now EOL for security
updates.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
