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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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months

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