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
Dear customers,
Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email - it's been
sent to all active customer addresses on record, plus the users
list.
As of 18th July 2010 BitFolk is changing its pricing structure. The
details are all laid out here:
http://bitfolk.com/news/2010-pricing-update/
Please have a read of the above, including the FAQ. If you have any
further questions not covered in the FAQ then it would be good if
you could raise them on the users list (hit reply). If you'd prefer,
you can instead ask support(a)bitfolk.com.
If you are happy for your service to be migrated to a new
configuration as described then you don't need to do anything. We'll
contact you in due course if there are any problems.
If you'd like to change your configuration from your next renewal,
or if your service is going to get more expensive and you'd like to
pre-pay at current prices, it's important that you contact
support(a)bitfolk.com as soon as possible.
Thanks for your continuing custom,
Andy Smith
Director
BitFolk Ltd
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
I'm in the process of migrating to Bitfolk from another server and have
managed to delete a vital 'live' mail folder before getting my
previously sound backup regime in place on the new server. I have about
three weeks of mail lost and this is serious enough for me to offer to
pay someone with the necessary skills a commercial rate to recover the
folder/files if possible.
The server is running Debian Lenny
Any suggestions would be appreciated on-list or off-list.
Feeling really stupid. I managed in a hurry to scroll back a few
commands and edit a previous command to rm -rf /home/ when I thought I
was doing cd /home/
Martin
Hello,
While trying to upgrade my kernel and reboot to a new one, I didn’t
find 2.6.32 (the one I would like to be booted) in pyGRUB’s list.
After editing /boot/grub/menu.lst, I found that pyGRUB completely
ignores all additions and deletions, and instead it uses some older
version (even a simple change of timeout setting was ignored).
Trying to boot 2.6.32 manually (by pressing “c”) resulted in “boot
loader returned no data” errors, like if the kernel files were
missing. The same error comes up when I try to choose a kernel other
than 2.6.18-4 from the list. This suggests me that the whole /boot is
taken not from the filesystem I try to alter but from somewhere else.
I want to boot to a newer kernel until it’s too late, and I would
deeply appreciate your help with this.
My distro is Debian, and kernels are from the appropriate
linux-image-*-xen-686 packages, if that matters.
--
With apologies to Andy and maybe others annoyed by my previous
attempts of seeking help,
Kalan
I have a reasonable, if basic, understanding of DNS, i.e. the different
types of record, their functions and structure. I need to set up my own
nameserver on my vps to be the authoritative server for a domain which will
be hosted on my other bitfolk vps. I am running them on Lenny. Does anyone
know of a good guide on the web to doing this? I don't just want to go
through Google as I would trust your recommendations more.
Many thanks
Keith
--
Keith Williams
www.jogle2010.org.ukwww.westnorfolkrspca.org.uk
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're
going and hook up with them later.
- Mitch Hedberg
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark
to read.
- Groucho Marx
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Hi, folks,
Any suggestions for a reliable monitoring service?
The people at Pingdom appear to spend all their time on their blog. At least half of the alerts I get from them are false positives - though not always as hilarious as this one.
Graham Freeman
(Sent from my handheld)
Begin forwarded message:
> From: alert(a)pingdom.com
> Date: 24 June 2010 19:57:06 PDT
> To: graham.freeman(a)cernio.com
> Subject: DOWN alert: Cernio VPS LON01 DNS (cernio.com) is DOWN
> Reply-To: alert(a)pingdom.com
>
>
> PingdomAlert DOWN:
> Cernio VPS LON01 DNS (cernio.com) is down since 1969-12-31 16:33:30.
Sheesh, Andy! 40 years of downtime!
:)
Graham Freeman
(Sent from my handheld)
Begin forwarded message:
> From: alert(a)pingdom.com
> Date: 24 June 2010 20:44:56 PDT
> To: graham.freeman(a)cernio.com
> Subject: UP alert: Cernio VPS LON01 DNS (cernio.com) is UP
> Reply-To: alert(a)pingdom.com
>
>
> PingdomAlert UP:
> Cernio VPS LON01 DNS (cernio.com) is UP again at 2010-06-24 19:13:26, after 354841h 40m of downtime.
And what use is that to the vast majority of people on this list? Don't you think its a bit rude advertising a competitors product on list?
Jon
Kai Hendry <hendry(a)webconverger.com> wrote:
>I honestly use bytemark's watchdog to monitor my bitfolk machine and others.
>
>http://www.bytemark.co.uk/support/technical_documents/watchdog?tags=Watchdog
>
>Easiest thing to use.
>
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Hello,
In the past there have been a lot of good suggestions for things that the
BitFolk service should provide. I've mostly been keeping them in my
head, and occasionally in RT (support(a)bitfolk.com).
That's not very good, because (aside from my support helpers) I'm
the only one who gets to see them, I only get to talk about them
with the individual who suggested them, and having only my own
intuition to guide me it's hard to weigh up what should be worked on
first.
So, I've set up an issue tracker and put the ideas I'd recorded in
various other places into it. Please have a look:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/tracker
The credentials are your usual bitfolk ones.
If you have time I'd really appreciate if you could have a look
through and vote for the features that you personally want to see
implemented. Any additional comments or new issues you'd create
there I'd consider a bonus.
This particular piece of software is new to me and I've only been
running it for a few days so it's possible I might end up changing
it, but even if that happens the data will still be useful and can
be migrated.
Cheers,
Andy
--
"I just wanted to say to you by the way of introductory remarks that I'm
extremely miffed about today's events and in my quest to try to make you
understand the level of my unhappiness, I'm likely to use an awful lot of
what we would call violent sexual imagery and I just wanted to check that
neither of you would be terribly offended by that." -- Malcolm Tucker
Hello,
Telehouse have finished renovating TFM1 and now want the last few
rack tenants to move their racks at some point in the next 8 weeks
so they can finish off the last bits.
Our colo supplier is coordinating with Telehouse as to when this move will
take place, because the rack power will need to be switched off
while it happens. I don't know the exact date/time yet other than
"in the next 8 weeks" but I thought I would give you a heads up.
The only server in TFM1 currently is faustino.
I'll follow up again when I have more details. If the outage will be
short then I'm pushing for a week of notice.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
PS You may have seen me complain about the state of TFM1 during the
renovations. I visited yesterday and it's much nicer now, and I
would/will put machines back in there again.
