Hi,
On the afternoon of the 5th September a customer on curacao
attempted to reboot their VPS and encountered an error. They were
then unable to start their VPS at all.
We were also unable to start the VPS, with a very generic "failed"
error message coming back from Xen. Being unable to start the
customer's service, the customer's VPS was eventually moved to
another server.
On further investigation it's proving impossible to create any new
virtual machine on curacao and I believe it's going to require a
reboot to get back into a working state. This needs to be carried
out ASAP since any customer on curacao who shuts down or reboots
their VPS will currently be unable to start it again.
I am therefore about to reboot curacao, starting at 0030Z (01:30am
UK time). Customer VPSes will experience a clean shut down and later
start up again.
I believe the root cause will be a bug in Xen, and curacao is
already scheduled for a major OS upgrade, which will be
accomplished at a later date by moving all of its customers to new
hardware.
The current uptime is 410 days.
Please accept my apologies for the disruption.
Cheers,
Andy
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