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
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello,
I was alerted that urquell was unresponsive. I connected to the
serial console and found no useful info, and no response, so had no
choice but to power cycle. There was nothing in the BIOS event log
either.
Obviously I'm concerned that there might be a hardware problem here,
especially since I added 12GiB of RAM only last Saturday, but I
don't want to cause more disruption by moving VPSes to spare
hardware just yet. I will keep a close eye on it for now.
Apologies for the disruption,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello all,
I'm new to VPS admin, and even more so to DNS, so I apologize in advance
if my questions are naive.
I currently have a Bitfolk VPS that rsyncs a zone file to Bitfolk's name
servers. Migrating to a new VPS running Ubuntu 10.04, I understand that
rsyncing is being discouraged in favor of setting up a DNS server of my
own. I'm under the impression that setting up a DNS server will
similarly carry the information in the zone file to Bitfolks servers,
but I'm unfamiliar with how this process works. I've look at the Ubuntu
documentation for bind9, but I'm not sure if I need a caching server, a
DNS primary, or a DNS secondary.
Can anyone who's done this give me some pointers?
Hello,
Please forgive the intrusion, but I suspect there may be some
overlap as three BitFolk customers are directors of this
organisation. :)
If you're in/near London and into making things, come to the London
Hackspace spacewarming party to celebrate the lease of new premises!
http://london.hackspace.org.uk/http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Laboratory_24
It's on Sunday 1st August and starts at 2pm, at Laboratory 24, 37
Cremer Street, E2 8HD. Directions:
http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Laboratory_24#Getting_There
The membership fee is nominally £40/month (or whatever you can
afford), but all are welcome to the party to check out the space and
the facilities available.
It's early days but the space already has a bewildering range of
equipment from lathes to dremels to sewing machines, and -- more
importantly -- a community of enthusiastic people to learn from.
http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Equipment
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
I've had an interesting time fo far today since I realised that I had an
empty Inbox this morning.
This is Debian Lenny with Postfix/Amavis
Investigation revealed the following:
Jul 28 06:30:31 vs1 amavis[5509]: (05509-11) (!)ClamAV-clamd: Can't
connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: 2, retrying (2)
Jul 28 06:30:31 vs1 amavis[5505]: (05505-11) (!)ClamAV-clamd: Can't
connect to UNIX socket /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl: 2, retrying (2)
Jul 28 06:30:37 vs1 amavis[5509]: (05509-11) (!!)ClamAV-clamd av-scanner
FAILED: run_av error: Too many retries to talk to
/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl (Can't con$
Jul 28 06:30:37 vs1 amavis[5509]: (05509-11) (!!)WARN: all primary virus
scanners failed, considering backups
Jul 28 06:30:37 vs1 amavis[5509]: (05509-11) (!!)ClamAV-clamscan
av-scanner FAILED: /usr/bin/clamscan DIED on signal 11 (000b) at (eval
88) line 527.
Jul 28 06:30:37 vs1 kernel: [24637.644098] clamscan[5963]: segfault at 1
ip b753ba17 sp bfff4018 error 4 in libc-2.7.so[b74c5000+158000]
Jul 28 06:30:37 vs1 amavis[5509]: (05509-11) (!!)TROUBLE in check_mail:
virus_scan FAILED: virus_scan: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED: ClamAV-clamd
av-scanner FAILE$
Jul 28 06:30:37 vs1 amavis[5509]: (05509-11) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in
/var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20100728T063030-05509
The solution was to upgrade clamav-daemon which I did from the
lenny/volatile repositories.
All the held e-mails have now come rushing through.
I'm not sure what triggered this problem, because I've not been
tinkering with the server for a while now?
Regards, Martin
Hello,
Hopefully you recall the scheduled maintenance coming up on Friday
night / Saturday morning for faustino:
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20100614.062104.ec347682.en.html
I'm going to have to bring it forward by about 15 minutes, so at
approximately 2245Z (quarter to midnight UK time) all VPSes on
faustino will be shut down. The machine will then be moved to a
different suite and powered up again. This should take less than
half an hour.
After that, from 0000Z (1am UK time) I shall be shutting down
urquell to put some more RAM in it. This should also take less than
30 minutes.
Cheers,
Andy
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Courtesy forward for Stuart
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stuart C <stuart.criddle(a)gmail.com>
Date: 26 July 2010 22:01
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] DNS in place of rsync
To: James Gregory <jgxenite(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Corliss <michaeljcorliss(a)gmail.com>
I would have thought the reverse was more likely, where the big ISP
server provides the DNS to the world on your behalf, but that you
control the content from a local file.
This is often done for performance and resilience reasons, frequently
an ISP will have multiple world visible secondary servers that all
pick up the master zone record from your local primary server.
If this is the case, then installing BIND and pointing it at your
existing zone file should get you 90% of the way there
Cheers
Stuart
Sent from my iPhone
On 26 Jul 2010, at 21:51, James Gregory <jgxenite(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I presume by this you mean that Bitfolk host your DNS, but that you
> hold the zone file for the DNS. In this case, you need a secondary DNS
> server that will host the zone information, but allow the Bitfolk DNS
> servers to replicate from.
>
> If that's correct, and you need more help, feel free to give me a
> shout!
>
> James
>
> On 26 July 2010 21:42, Michael Corliss <michaeljcorliss(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I'm new to VPS admin, and even more so to DNS, so I apologize in
>> advance if
>> my questions are naive.
>>
>> I currently have a Bitfolk VPS that rsyncs a zone file to Bitfolk's
>> name
>> servers. Migrating to a new VPS running Ubuntu 10.04, I understand
>> that
>> rsyncing is being discouraged in favor of setting up a DNS server
>> of my own.
>> I'm under the impression that setting up a DNS server will
>> similarly carry
>> the information in the zone file to Bitfolks servers, but I'm
>> unfamiliar
>> with how this process works. I've look at the Ubuntu documentation
>> for
>> bind9, but I'm not sure if I need a caching server, a DNS primary,
>> or a DNS
>> secondary.
>>
>> Can anyone who's done this give me some pointers?
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
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Hi,
As of around 1305Z, faustino dropped offline. Investigation suggests
the entire rack is offline so I am taking this up with the upstream
provider at the moment.
Updates as I have them.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hello,
The new pricing scheme is now in place, and some of you will have
already been notified that your VPS has been reconfigured.
If anyone wants to upgrade their config, please have a look at
http://bitfolk.com/plans.html and then drop us an email to
support(a)bitfolk.com with the details.
Now that the different plans are gone, the referral scheme got
simplified too. It's now just a straight 8% for service credit or
one-off 30% for donations.
Full disclosure: this got slightly less generous. It used to be
~8.75% for service credit and ~40% for donations.
Details: http://bitfolk.com/referrals.html
The referral scheme needs some work for integration into the panel.
I'm thinking that the order process needs a dedicated input field
for a referral code, which could also be automatically filled in
when someone arrives through a referral URL.
https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/30
Once such an order is made you should be notified, and the referral
appear in the panel for you to choose whether it will be a service
credit or donation, so as to avoid the awkwardness of us having to
ask. :)
https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/9
Cheers,
Andy
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
As of about half an hour ago, it was discovered that it wasn't
possible to start new Xen domains on obstler. This means that anyone
who shuts down their VPS won't be able to start it again.
I can't work out what the problem is so unfortunately I'm going to
have to try rebooting it, which I'm going to start in a couple of
minutes. All running VPSes will be cleanly shut down first.
Apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
