13 Dec
2016
13 Dec
'16
3:17 a.m.
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 06:00:35AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Rather disappointingly there's been another round
of security
advisories for Xen, some of which affect the configuration in use at
BitFolk:
The maintenance work to patch against this bug (XSA-200) has now
been completed, without incident. During the embargo for XSA-200
more security bugs were found so fixes for these were deployed also.
As per:
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
the embargo for XSA-200 ends in just under 9 hours, and the embargo
for the others ends at 2016-12-21 12:00Z.
Thanks for your patience during this work.
I am going to try to get a checkbox added to the panel
website so
that those of you who are brave enough to try it can indicate that
you'd prefer for your VPS to be suspended and restored rather than
shutdown and booted.
In the end customers chose for 22 of their VPSes to be suspended and
restored and as far as I am aware¹ there was a 100% success rate in
this.
If you would like to enable suspend and restore for your VPS you can
do so from:
https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/config/#prefs
Cheers,
Andy
¹ We added Nagios ping checks for every one of these VPSes, if they
didn't exist already, and all of those checks failed then recovered
as expected. In the failure modes I have seen network connectivity
does not return.
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