Hi,
is there an API endpoint I can query for current & predicted traffic
usage?
I know of https://panel.bitfolk.com/xfer/ but rather not scrape ;)
Conrad
Hello,
I'm having some issues upgrading software on my Bitfolk-hosted Debian 10.2
server. I ran 'sudo apt --fix-broken install' after being told to do so to
fix unmet dependencies.
Running this gives the following error:
"This version of the GNU libc requires kernel version 3.2 or later. Please
upgrade your kernel before installing glibc."
Is there an easy answer to the obvious question what kernel to upgrade to?
And would this even solve my issues? I currently appear to be running
2.6.32-5-686-bigmem.
I've had this server for years and I might have added one quick fix for a
specific problem too many over the years.
Here's the content of /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
stable main contrib
deb-src http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
stable main contrib
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
stable-updates main contrib
deb http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/security.debian.org/
stable/updates main contrib
Thanks!
Martijn
Hello all,
This is more of a ramble than anything else so feel free to simply
ignore it.
I have been thinking about what to do with my machine recently. I run
some small websites, db and email server.
Currently this is all setup via puppet. Every now and again I get the
VPS reinstalled to a more recent LTS distribution and go about updating
puppet to to use this and switch to a new VPS with the updated setup.
I have recently been thinking about whether or not it might be easier to
have a much more stripped down machine and use docker to run my services
on top of.
Not sure how I would do this with rails websites, I currently use
Phusion passenger to service them all.
Wondering if anyone has experience running docker on a VPS within
BitFolk. I'm not sure if there are any virtulisation limitations that
would stop this either.
I am going to be upgrading my machine to a more recent LTS version
soonish since my current distribution is going EOL this year.
So, yes, I will probabyl end up doing what I normally do but considering
dockerising my services and not even sure if it would work on a VPS or
whether it would just be more trouble than its worth.
n
Hi,
I noticed that as of at least yesterday, BitFolk's DNS resolvers are
blocked from querying URIBL¹.
URIBL is a DNS-based blocklist of URIs mentioned in email spam. It
is used by default in SpamAssassin and other anti-spam products.
The usual reason for being blocked from querying URIBL is excessive
query volume. Their web site mentions a figure of 100k queries per
day.
I've had a look at the usage from BitFOlk's SpamAssassin service²
and the cluster is only checking about 7k emails per day. Possibly
7k emails expands to over 100k URIs to query, or possibly other
customers are doing excessive DNS queries - anyone using BitFolk's
resolvers to query will add to the count. I have asked URIBL for
clarification of what the issue is.
If the issue is query load then we will pay for a feed.
Until that is sorted out you will unfortunately be unable to query
URIBL usefully. It returns a value that SpamAssassin recognises as
"query blocked".
Cheers,
Andy
¹ https://uribl.com/
² https://www.bitfolk.com/customer_information.html#toc_2_SpamAssassin
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I've just done a pretty standard update on my VPS, which is still on a
32 bit install running Ubuntu 18.04. Unfortunately for the first time I
can think of there was an issue with the kernel version. It upgraded to
the linux-image-5.3.0-26-generic package (I'm on the HWE path) and it
failed to reboot.
Not an issue for me as it was easy enough to use the console to boot off
the previous kernel, but I thought it worth noting in case anyone else
was impacted. Another good reason for me to get sorted with my upgrade
to 64 bit!
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Hi,
A customer sent me some instructions for installing Fedora Linux on
a BitFolk VM via the Rescue VM. I followed them myself to verify
they worked and shoved them in a wiki article as I went:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Installing_Fedora
I'm not a Fedora user so I don't know if that is the best guide, but
it did appear to work!
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
TL;DR: Bitcoin payments are broken, hopefully fixed today or
tomorrow. If you need to make a payment that way please wait a
little bit. If your service will be terminated for non-payment
please contact support for an extension until it's fixed.
More detail:
It seems that our bitcoind is crashing, I think because I made the
mistake of running it as 32-bit (see repeated threads about the
death of 32-bit) and it now needs to allocate more memory than a
32-bit process can.
I could give it a 64-bit kernel but the bitcoind itself would still
be 32-bit so I'd have to recompile it as well. I'm instead going to
rebuild that host.
Cheers,
Andy
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>
> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 21:46:57 +0000
> From: Conrad Wood <cnw(a)conradwood.net>
> It never ceases to amaze me how Andy can provide 24/7 all hours every
> day of the year 5-star support and maintenance.
> (I hope I am forgiven to suspect a 50-people strong support team, all
> called "Andy" :) )
>
Obviously you don't know that Andy is Chuck Norris's twin brother.
https://www.lifewire.com/best-chuck-norris-memes-4162016
Steve
>
Hi,
At some point between 16:00Z and 17:00Z today I'm going to upgrade
the rescue VM¹ image from Debian 9 (stretch, oldstable) to Debian 10
(buster, stable).
This will only take a few seconds, but as the rescue VM is an
NFS-mounted squashfs image, replacing the image will prevent all
currently running copies of the rescue VM from functioning.
If you are using the rescue VM at the time, you will start to see
I/O errors on its on root filesystem and will have to kill it and
start it again. At its next boot a new image based on Debian 10 will
load.
If you are or expect to be in the middle of something important with
the rescue VM between 16:00 and 17:00 then let us know and we'll
postpone the work.
Cheers,
Andy
¹ https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Rescue
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