Hello,
This weekend I'm off to OggCamp - http://oggcamp.org/
- if you're there too then do say hello! :)
Whilst there will be support cover and I should be available in
emergencies, this is also awkward timing because the next Ubuntu LTS
release is due for tomorrow.
Firstly I would say if you do have a support issue you need doing
before next week you should put it in now.
Secondly, if you are considering upgrading an Ubuntu VPS to 10.04 I
would recommend waiting until after the weekend. I haven't tried it
yet myself, though I do hope to do so. I think it should work, but
there might be some gotchas, and a lot of people breaking their
VPSes at once will stretch things this weekend. Plus if it does
break all I'll likely be able to do is put you back to 8.04 or
Debian.
Don't forget that I can snapshot your filesystem before you do a
major upgrade so if it all goes wrong we can roll it back to before
you started fairly easily. But you have to ask first.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
I'm just considering deploying a Trixbox SIP phone exchange within a
Bitfolk VPS. I was wondering if anybody else has used their VPS for
either Trixbox or Asterisk. If so, how did it perform please and how
many users do you think it would scale to before I hit the limits of the
VPS please?
Thanks,
Paul.
Hi,
At approximately 0047Z this morning I was alerted that a customer
VPS on obstler could not be started. I investigated and was unable
to start the VPS myself. I attempted to start a test VPS on this
server and this failed in the same way.
At this point it seemed inevitable that a server reboot would be
required, so I tried restarting a few Xen-related services that I
normally wouldn't touch on a production server, in the hope that
this might fix things. Unfortunately it did not and only led to an
inability to cleanly shut down the VPSes that were still running.
So, at approximately 0110Z I rebooted obstler, and all VPSes on it
will have experienced equivalent of power off and boot again. Boot
and start of all VPSes was completed by 0123Z, but a few VPSes were
still running fsck at that point. As of now, BitFolk's Nagios shows
no more red than it was before the reboot.
I still do not know the root cause of the problem, though it seems
likely to be a bug in Xen. The server obstler is in need of upgrade
to a newer version of Xen; this is scheduled for some time in
January, and I would think it unlikely that this will reoccur before
then (last reboot for this server was in July, under similar
circumstances).
Apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello,
As you may be aware, Ubuntu 10.10 has just been released.
BitFolk will be offering it as a supported VPS image, but it's not
ready yet.
You should be able to upgrade to it, but I would urge caution.
Ubuntu's support of Xen has not historically been that great and
something unexpected could happen. If you are going to try this then
I would strongly urge you to email support and ask for a snapshot to
first be made of your block devices. If all goes wrong then it can
be quickly and easily rolled back.
When the 10.10 image is ready we should also in most cases be able
to provide you with a new VPS running 10.10 concurrently with your
existing VPS for two weeks at no additional charge, for you to
migrate to. You would need to pick a new account name, and IP
addresses will change. Please contact support if you wish to do that.
Please note the support schedule for Ubuntu releases and that 10.04
as currently offered by BitFolk is an LTS release, unlike 10.10. If
you upgrade to 10.10 then you're most likely going to also have to
upgrade to every other release in turn, to get to the next LTS.
If there is no external requirement to upgrade to 10.10 then you
might consider it prudent to wait until the next LTS is released
instead.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
"I am the permanent milk monitor of all hobbies!" -- Simon Quinlank
Hi all,
I am hosting a public asterisk box as backup support for some clients.
Most annoyingly since a few days I get hundreds of sip register probes
per minute.
I have fail2ban active which bans the ip, but it seems to be some sort
of bot network which immediately switches to another IP.
Needless to say, it is a pain.
As clients' phones register against the server (coming from dynamic ips)
I can't easily move to a different port or so ;(
Has anyone got any good suggestions?
Conrad
