Hi folks,
Some maintenance work is required to ensure that all BitFolk servers
are as power efficient as possible. This includes:
- Fitting 80plus certified high efficiency PSUs
- Making sure that server fans have speed control
- Making sure that various power management features are enabled in
the BIOS
- Re-metering servers that have already had work done
All of this requires the hardware to be switched off.
I am currently arranging a time to do this with BitFolk's colo
provider (who have to be present as it's them who need to take new
measurements). It will almost certainly be near the start of the
week commencing Monday 20th July, starting after 7pm on the chosen
evening. I'm letting you know now in order to give you as much
notice as possible, and will later confirm the exact date.
I will be shutting down every server in turn and hopefully keeping
them off for no more than about 30 minutes each. I'm not intending
to do suspend/restore, so therefore you can expect a clean shut down
and then boot up again around 30 minutes later.
I won't be able to give you an exact time of when I will do the work
on each server, so it will just be one outage some time that
evening. I will update http://twitter.com/bitfolk with my progress
giving as much warning as I can (minutes) of each server being shut
down.
If anyone has any major and non-movable event planned for this time
then I can probably reschedule this work, as long as you let me know
as soon as possible please. It does have to happen some time before
26th July, however.
Cheers,
Andy
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"I remember the first time I made love. Perhaps it was not love exactly but I
made it and it still works." -- The League Against Tedium
Hello,
If I reduced the cost of additional disk space by 20%, to £0.40 per
5 GiB per month (or £4.80 a year), would anyone buy it and if so how
much do you think you would buy?
Answers of a "yes" variety off-list please; no need to respond if
the answer is "no".
Cheers,
Andy
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"SCSI is usually fixed by remembering that it needs three terminations: One at
each end of the chain. And the goat." -- Andrew McDonald
Hi folks,
At approximately 13:15Z today, the host obstler began spewing the
following kernel message:
unregister_netdevice: waiting for v-somedev to become free. Usage count = 1
and became unable to create new network connections.
I'm not able to rescue it from this state so I am in the process of
rebooting it. I am attempting to shut all VPSes down cleanly rather
than suspend as that seems too risky at present.
I will update you later.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi folks,
VPS capacity is now generally available again. Feel free to use the
buttons on the web site to order if paying by PayPal, else drop an
email to support(a)bitfolk.com if you want to pay by one of the other
means.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi Andy,
I thought I'd post this to the list in case others find the answer
useful. I didn't realise that there were no more servers available. When
do you think that you'll have more capacity? I could do with adding a
server or two and that there aren't any available is a bummer to say the
least.
Apologies if this has been covered but when I'm busy I usually just skim
this list.
Cheers,
Chris...
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I had a similar issue around the same time which has resolved itself without
intervention.
Hosted on faustino, dns provided by 123reg
On Jun 16, 2009 3:54 PM, "Andrew Nixon" <andrewnixon0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The DNS is hosted by the .com provider, during today it all seems to have
come back online and is working correctly. I can only assume that this was a
DNS issue, as i have done nothing that would have resolved it myself.
Andrew.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Andrew Nixon <andrewnixon0(a)gmail.com>
wrote: > > I have a VPS ru...
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I have a VPS running Debian which has been fine for a while with no major
changes that has suddenly stopped responding to the domain name associated
with it, this is a registered .com domain, i can access the VPS via SSH and
the webserver by using the IP address however not by the DNS any longer. I
have done a whois on the .com and it is still valid etc and reported as
being ok. This seems to be a DNS problem i should probably be looking at the
domain name provider to solve, however i wonder if you guys have any other
thoughts. Checking the logs on the server i can see nothing that should have
caused this problem but to be honest i haven't ever had to deal with
something like this.
Thanks Andrew.
Hi folks, hopefully you can help me solve this issue by means other than
asking Andy to reprovision my VPS. Failing that hopefully you'll get a
chuckle at my 'maintainance whilst too tiered' story.
I issued "sudo chmod og= .*" whilst in /etc/skel intending to change the
permissions on the three dot files in there. It changed the permissions
on /etc instead. Now any sudo xxx command results in "sudo: can't open
/etc/sudoers: Permission denied".
I can't login as root - the account has no password set.
I can't do a "sudo passwd" to set the root password.
I can't do a "sudo chmod" on the /etc/sudoers file.
Any ideas on what to do?
I regularly get a few connection timeouts from the spamd service, it's
free and best effort so it's hardly a problem.
Today there was a period, 18:00 - 18:20, where exim couldn't connect at
all, no route to host/conn refused errors.
Since then I am seeing far more connection timeouts.
May indicate a problem on the box running that service, not sure.
Regards,
Nigel
Hi everyone,
I'm experiencing some strange network drops (or perhaps "pauses") on my
VPS. Network traffic seems to be stopped for a few seconds (~15-30 secs)
These seem to happen every few minutes. This seems to have started over the
last couple of days and affect all network traffic AFAICT. (Certainly HTTP
and SSH are disrupted.) There's no loading issues or memory issues that I
can see.
Has anyone else been experiencing similar? Next step is to run tcpdump to
"capture" one of these pauses.
Thanks,
Tony
