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by Andy Smith

Hello, In the last few months there's been an increase in the number of notices of claimed infringement we have received from various companies acting on behalf of rights owners such as Columbia Pictures, CBS, etc.. A number of times this has been traced back to customers running TOR exit nodes. Assuming that you do not wish to trigger these allegations, I would suggest that those operating TOR exit nodes at BitFolk might like to consider whether they want to all people to be using BitTorrent through their node. Or indeed whether they want to be running an exit node at all (as opposed to a routing node which only talks to other TOR nodes). Some further information: http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2006/07/09/why-you-shouldnt-run-bittorrent-over… Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

13 years, 3 months

Backups source IP and NFS host changed

by Andy Smith

Hello, As of last night, the backups source IP and NFS host address which were both formerly 212.13.194.71 have been changed to 85.119.80.241 [*]. Only a couple of customers appear to have restricted the IP that the backups can be done from, and I'll be contacting them directly today. Those of you who access your backups over read-only NFS will need to mount them from 85.119.80.241 instead of 212.13.194.71 (look in your /etc/fstab). Cheers, Andy [*] This is an IP from our new allocation: http://is.gd/kmhx8 Despite looking nothing like the other one it is actually still in the same facility. We will be trying to keep all BitFolk infrastructure inside 85.119.80.0/23. -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

13 years, 4 months

2011-01-06 17:30Z - "at risk" notification for faustino.bitfolk.com

by Andy Smith

Hello, faustino.bitfolk.com has a hard disk on its way to death and so I will be replacing it tomorrow sometime between 17:30 and 18:30. Rebuild will take a few hours after that. I'm not expecting there to be any down time or disruption. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

13 years, 4 months

2011-01-03 - Network incident affected multiple servers

by Andy Smith

Hello, Between about 23:39 and 23:46Z last night, 3rd January, multiple servers became unreachable or suffered extremely poor networking performance. Servers particularly affected were: barbar kahlua obstler urquell But all networking was affected to some extent, if only through increased latency. It appears to have been a denial of service attack of around 350Mbps / 250Kpps. Source IPs were spoofed and multiple destination IPs were targeted. I am continuing to work with our upstream network provider on this. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting You dont have to be illiterate to use the Internet, but it help's. -- Mike Bristow

13 years, 4 months

Heavy load on DNS resolver caused poor performance earlier today

by Andy Smith

Hi, Intermittently between approximately 16:00 and 21:00Z today (2nd Jan), a host which runs one of BitFolk's caching DNS resolvers (212.13.194.71) was overloaded, causing poor performance for many of you. The cause was recent changes in the data transfer monitoring scripts as previously discussed and detailed in: https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/15 It seems that the more heavyweight method of estimating data transfer is in some cases slow enough to still be running when the next scheduled invocation of the script runs, causing both to run slower, and the problem to spiral. Since no hosts or critical services were actually reported down, we weren't made aware of the issue as quickly as might have been desired. I have now made some modifications: - It's now not possible for multiple copies of these scripts to run at once. - If system load is too high then the expensive checks will now be skipped entirely. There is also the fact that this host is simply doing too much - it shouldn't be running these scripts in addition to being a resolver. In the next few days I will be provisioning an additional resolver and eventually this one will be retired. Apologies for any disruption this may have caused for you. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

13 years, 4 months

New read-only announcements list now available

by Andy Smith

Hi, There's been a request for a read-only announcements list for BitFolk, so I have decided to try this out. I've created the "announce" list: https://lists.bitfolk.com/mailman/listinfo/announce In future any sort of announcement that I would normally send to the "users" list will instead be directed to "announce", and automatically copied to the "users" list. The "announce" list will not accept any discussion, and posts sent through it will have Reply-To set to the "users" list. Therefore if you're happy with the content and level of traffic on the "users" list you need not do anything, as all announcements will continue to end up there. If on the other hand you would prefer to only see announcements from BitFolk and not any user issues, following comments or debate, you may wish to subscribe to "announce" and remove yourself from "users". Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

13 years, 4 months

No more flip-flopping data transfer warnings

by Andy Smith

Hello, As customers who use a larger amount of bandwidth will be aware, the predictive data transfer warnings we offer have had a tendency to rapidly cycle between "warning" and "recovery" state just after the reporting period starts. This was reported here: https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/15 I'm happy to report that I believe this issue is now fixed. As a reminder you can manage your data transfer warning settings here: https://panel.bitfolk.com/xfer/ including switching between predictive or "percentage used" warnings, or disabling warnings entirely. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

13 years, 4 months

Xen Shell "disks" command, CentOS installer (Was: Re: [bitfolk] To partition or not - ease of install vs. ease of resize)

by Andy Smith

Hello, On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:30:39PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 02:00:16PM +0000, Andy Bennett wrote: > > Assumptions: > > + Most customers will want 1 Linux partition and 1 swap partition. [...] > I think you are right that it will be best to just do one partition > per block device. This will still leave it possible to resize > easily and it will make all the installers happy. To make this transition less painful I have added a "disks" command to the Xen Shell. As described here: https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/51 it will enable you to divide your allocated disk space between as many disk devices as you like. It will also allow you to reset your exported disks to conform to the standard described above, without you having to ask support to do it for you. You don't need to do that until/unless you want to reinstall your VPS of course, but most of you will need to do it if you do want to use one of the installers. I've also added the CentOS 5.x installer, so now the available installers are: Debian - lenny (5.x) - squeeze (6.x) Ubuntu - Lucid (10.04.x LTS) Centos - 5.x Gentoo doesn't have an installer as such, but installing Gentoo from an existing Linux installation is a fairly normal way to do it, do that can be done from the rescue environment: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 Now that these installers are available we aren't going to be doing any reimaging for customers anymore, as long as you're wanting a distribution that actually has an installer. Supported distributions that don't currently have an installer: - Debian sid - Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) They will be added at a later date. Naturally if you have any problems using any of this please do open a support ticket. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "Xandros's low-level support for the Eee mostly seemed to consist of a pile of shell scripts made of cheese and failure." -- Matthew Garrett

13 years, 4 months

test

by Andy Smith

Testing 1 2 3 -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting * MurkyGoth sends an email to Channel 5 suggesting a reality TV show with GWB, Ging and Robert <spb> Three Men in a Failboat

13 years, 4 months

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