23 Feb
2010
23 Feb
'10
4:14 p.m.
Hello,
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:30:00PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
I can see no reason and nothing logged to explain this
power outage.
It also happened before on 2010-01-12 and 2009-10-07 so I suspect a
faulty PSU. A loose cable also a slim possibility. I'll be
scheduling a visit to the colo to check and replace in the next
week, and a short downtime will be associated with this.
I'll follow up soon with the planned date/time.
I will be shutting this server down starting from 0630Z 2010-02-26
i.e. this Friday morning UK time. I will attempt to do a suspend to
disk, so it may be some minutes before your VPS is shut down.
If that doesn't work, a full shutdown/boot of your VPS will be
required. Please try to make sure your VPS does shut down and start
up again cleanly with all the services you expect to be running. If
you block ping, then allowing it from 212.13.194.71 would be a big
help to me in determining whether your VPS is working or not.
I intend to change the power cable (slim possibility of loose pins)
and the PSU (small possibility of some intermittent fault) and
generally check that all components are secure. Based on past
results we potentially won't know for many months if that has fixed
things, but if it doesn't then the next step is motherboard swap.
I expect Friday's work to take less than 1 hour.
Cheers,
Andy
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