DirectAdmin change!
The www.lagniappeinternet.com website has changed servers.
Please note if you are logging into DirectAdmin please use http://linux1.lagniappeinternet.com:2222/ or http://yourdomain.com:2222/ to log in! http://www.lagniappeinternet.com:2222/ will no longer work!
Moving lagniappeinternet.com website and members support site
We’re in the process of moving the www.lagniappeinternet.com including the members support website (http://www.lagniappeinternet.com/members/) to a virtual server of it’s own and off the linux1 server.
This is designed to:
1) provide the customer with a better support experience as it won’t be tied to any customer servers.
2) the support site will be able to stay up during [...]
Dallas outage
Our provider, virtbiz, appears to have a connectivity issue. Will update as we get information back from them.
Update – an electrical problem led to the outage… Virtbiz has corrected the issue.
VPS backups suspended for 1 day
To help a customer out we’re suspending backups for VPS accounts for 1 day… We’re doing a whole vps restore for them, and don’t want to risk the backup removing files that don’t exist at the moment. VPS backups will resume tonight (Wednesday) at 10pm Central time.
Your input please… Installatron?
We have been asked a couple of times about “automatic install scripts”. There’s really only one we’d consider – Installatron as it is one of the best at being kept current. We’re considering if this is a worthwhile option and would like to hear from you. With the new server coming online in the next couple [...]
Dallas Servers PDU Change over
All servers in Dallas are being moved over to the new PDU and will experience momentary outages while the power is re-routed. Each server should only be unavailable for a few minutes while the server is shutdown, power re-routed, and restarted.
Sorry for the inconvenience, however this will be a much better scenario for control of the [...]
New replacement server for Linux1 (Dallas)
A replacement for Linux1 is coming soon. The current Linux1 server (a Supermicro 1U server with single Pentium4 2.4GHz, 2GB of RAM and two 300GB drives in RAID1) will be replaced with a Tyan GT20 Dual Xeon 3.0 processors, 4GB of RAM and 4 drives in RAID10) . While the load on the current Linux1 [...]
A series of unfortunate events…
Sorry to borrow the title from the book series, but it seemed to fit.
We’ve been attempting to actually improve automatic monitoring and problem resolution and it has a negative impact… The other day we started swapping the Power Distribution Unit (PDU) out in Dallas to one that actively monitors and can restart servers if one [...]
Replacing PDU @ Dallas
A PDU is a power distribution unit (a glorified power strip) while the one there was much nicer than what you would find in any hardware store, or even most computer stores, it still had few features other than monitoring total amperage draw and being rack mounted.
The new unit is an intelligent device and allows [...]
Dallas servers experiencing connectivity issues (Updated)
The servers themselves are running fine, however the upstream provider is working on a connectivity issue. We should hear word from them shortly.
Update:
Good morning,
The reason that you briefly lost connectivity earlier this morning is because the switch that connects your equipment to our network was rebooted by error. We found that the power feeds to [...]