Hello,
A patch removing support for 32-bit Xen PV mode guests was merged
into what will be Linux kernel version 5.9:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/0520058d0578c2924b1571c16281f873cb4a3d2b
We hope to have switched to PVH mode before any distribution you use
makes it to the 5.9 kernel, but if you are still using 32-bit it
would be a good idea to consider a reinstall or upgrade to 64-bit.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
It's come to my attention that customers haven't been receiving
backups usage alerts as described here:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Backups#Usage
I have been receiving copies of them, but customers haven't. This
was first reported today and seems to have been the case since we
switched from Nagios to Icinga2 in December 2018. Sorry about that.
I expect to have it fixed shortly. There are currently 7 customers
who are over their backup quota so when it's fixed you'll start
receiving those alerts again.
Backups not happening leads to "backups age" alerts, and they have
always been working. Those 7 customers have been receiving those
ones.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
For those who have backups hosted on backup4, you will have today
received some alerts like this:
[PROBLEM] backup age ruminant on backup4.bitfolk.com is CRITICAL!
(or it may have said WARNING instead of CRITICAL)
This was caused by me doing some work on that host that reset
timestamps on the backup directories leading to false positive
alerts, until the next backup run.
The work is finished now so by now you should have received a
corresponding "OK" recovery notification. If you did not then
there is an actual problem.
You can check at:
https://mon.bitfolk.com/
as all customers with backups do have monitoring set up.
Apologies for the confusion; I will try to remember to set such
monitoring into downtime mode in future.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
is there a way to get a private, secure connection between two VPSs?
I currently use ipsec and openvpn but it does seem a bit wasteful as it
uses a ton of CPU of route traffic through.
If they both are/were on the same host, a bridge would so much more
efficient. Otherwise maybe some sort of VLAN?
Conrad
Hi,
Due to a problem with one of our payments providers our billing
processes were stuck for a couple of days. As a result we haven't
been sending invoices out as much ahead of time as usual.
Things are caught up again now but as a side effect some invoices
have just been created that are due today or in a day or two,
instead of giving you the usual week of notice.
We still allow 30 days for payment, but it does mean that some
reminders will go out from tomorrow. Those paying by automated means
are not going to be affected. In the unlikely event that anyone
reaches the 30 days of non-payment we will of course give a couple
more days of leniency in light of this hiccup.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hello all,
Long shot probably, but have any of you had any success migrating away from
wordpress to a static site generator? I really want to ditch wordpress.
The guides on the hugo website are useful, but Ideally I'd like something
that can slurp in the whole site images and well as text and dump out a
directory structure with images and the posts they belong to together. If
it can be made to preserve relative URLs too that would be great.
Failing there being some tool I've overlooked, does anyone have suggestions
for a paid solution?
cheers,
David
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and
beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about
hundreds of things. ~Saki
Hi
This is puzzling me. I have been on a server attempting to set up radicale but nothing to interfere with the networking function of the server - as far as I knew.
On purging the installation and attempting to download the apt version I found that it couldn't connect to apt-catcher.
DNS was obviously foobarred, as was the internet with no pings or traceroute.
Logged in via the console and got internet back up and running by re-adding the gateway to ip route.
I'm then attempted to get DNS working. The configuration at /etc/network/interfaces looked ok.
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 85.119.83.xx
netmask 255.255.248.0
gateway 85.119.80.1
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 85.119.80.232 85.119.80.233
Nothing in /etc/resolv.conf.
I've tried reloading interfaces by installing resolvconf and -d and -a with no joy.
I could dig using the Bitfolk DNS on the command line, i.e. dig @85.119.80.232 www.google.com, but standard DNS queries timed out.
I then added the Bitfolk DNS manually to resolv.conf, rebooted and I was still without name resolution as resolvconf is now controlling the file and had deleted my entries!
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
I fixed this by adding nameserver entries to the resolv.conf.d/head, rebooted and DNS working but no internet.
Added the gateway again and everything is finally working - fingers crossed.
Thank goodness for console access!
Any ideas as to the best approach to fix this properly please and any idea what I could have done to wreak such havoc?
TIA
Steve
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 06:30:07PM +0100, Steve Harriss wrote:
> On 03/06/2020 17:38, Andy Smith wrote:
> >Hi Steve,
> >
> >On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 05:30:55PM +0100, Steve Harriss wrote:
> >>Any ideas as to the best approach to fix this properly please and
> >>any idea what I could have done to wreak such havoc?
> >I'm finding it hard to identify what is your actual concrete problem
> >at present. Would I be right in saying that it's:
> >
> >1) resolvconf doesn't put the nameserver IPs that you listed in
> > /etc/network/interfaces into the /etc/resolv.conf file, so you
> > have to put them in some other file that resolvconf reads
> Precisely
> >and
> >
> >2) Your VM boots with no default route set?
> Strangely, yes
> >
> >resolvconf seems not useful on a server so the first thing I would
> >do is remove it and put the nameserver IPs statically in
> >/etc/resolv.conf.
>
> That's the sort of advice I was after. I'll remove resolvconf and see how
> that goes.
>
> I was more concerned with how the installation, configuration and removal of
> one program could cause such alterations to a working server setup and was
> looking for any ideas and to avoid it again.
Well installing resolvconf messes about with your /etc/resolv.conf
and any syntax error in /etc/network/interfaces can prevent
interfaces and routes being brought up correctly. But they're just
guesses and I could easily be wrong.
Cheers,
Andy
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HI All,
I was attempting to free up some space, (/boot is over full) and I fear
I have damaged my Ubuntu 18/04 installation.
When I run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
the following errors are flagged up in the middle on the
results.
WARNING: missing /lib/modules/4.15.0-101-generic
Ensure all necessary drivers are built into the linux image!
depmod: ERROR: could not open directory /lib/modules/4.15.0-101-generic:
No such file or directory
depmod: FATAL: could not search modules: No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open
/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_vr26f3/lib/modules/4.15.0-101-generic/modules.order:
No such file or directory
depmod: WARNING: could not open
/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_vr26f3/lib/modules/4.15.0-101-generic/modules.builtin:
No such file or directory
The system does boot, and appears to serve its web sites properly.
If it helps uname -r gives
4.15.0-88-generic
There are no ubuntu updates to apply.
How can I recover? I feel right out of my depth!
Thanks
Ian
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A hosting customer on my VM on talisker was having speed problems with
his new WordPress web site about a month ago. Now he says it's going
faster, and a cacheing plugin that he installed to mitigate the delays
no longer makes much difference (but in a good way!)
As far as I could tell, the site's slow response time was likely due to
an extension that loaded megabytes of font data and icons.
I haven't changed anything that is likely to account for this speed-up.
I seem to remember that a new version of the Xen hypervisor has been
installed recently on Bitfolk hosts. Could this (or any other system
changes made in the last month) result in faster response?
(Posted to the users list in case anyone else has noticed a bump in speed
and would care to comment.)
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