Security reboot needed, likely to be weekend of 5/6/7 May - BitFolk Users

24 Apr 2018

Hello,

Sadly today we've been made aware of another security issue that's
going to have to be patched, which means once again we have to
reboot everything.

It is a pity they couldn't have held the last one back for a week in
which case we'd have been able to roll the two patches together, but
they have a schedule for disclosure that they have to stick to.

So, this set of reboots is most likely to take place in the early
hours of the morning on 5/6/7 May. In the next couple of days we
will send out direct mails to all customers to let you know exactly
when your one hour maintenance window will be.

We should be able to use suspend/restore on this one so those who
have indicated that they want that should see that happen. You can
set that from:

    <https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/config/>

For the benefit of new customers joining us what all this means is
that some time during the one hour maintenance window that you'll be
informed of individually by direct email, we will:

- Suspend to disk all the VPSes that have opted for that

- Shut down the rest cleanly

- Reboot the server into the patched hypervisor

- Restore the suspended VPSes

- Boot the rest

Although the maintenance window for each server is one hour long,
the work generally takes about 15 minutes.

Cheers,
Andy

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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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