27 Jul
2010
27 Jul
'10
1:33 a.m.
Hi Mathew,
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 09:28:20PM +0100, Mathew Newton wrote:
Just to clarify, are you saying that the VPS's on
Faustino were shutdown
then restarted... then later on you did a suspend/restore?
The people working in the rack that evening accidentally caused a
power outage shortly before I arrived at Telehouse. :(
In light of what happened I'd prefer a normal
shutdown/boot given the more
predictable effects.
I agree; having thought about it some more, I cannot hope to inform
everyone of what might happen and given the unsociable hours that
people generally prefer such work to be done at, it's not reasonable
to expect people to be around to fix their clocks/ntpd.
The effect is neat (everything appears to survive through a reboot
of the host machine), but the clock side effects cause too much
surprise to people not aware.
So, I won't be attempting that again.
I've added a feature request to the tracker for people to be able to
choose whether their VPS is suspended or shut down:
https://tools.bitfolk.com/redmine/issues/32
Anyone who is particularly wanting that feature should feel free to
vote it up.
Cheers,
Andy
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