New lagniappe … secondary remote backup feature added
We already backup files from servers in Altanta to servers in Dallas, and from Dallas to Altanta, as well as local compressed (gzip’ed tarballs and vzdumps). But as of today, we’re implementing yet another remote backup feature too… The compressed backups will be pulled down from the various servers and stored in New Orleans as well. [...]
Dallas servers unreachable
The Dallas servers are currently unreachable. A ticket with the d.c. has been put in.
Servers are again reachable 5 minutes later – waiting to hear from virtbiz what happened.
Backup server
The backup server will be reconfigured this weekend… Online backups will be unavailable during that time. Afterwards, the 7 day history will not be available. Due to some permissions issues leading to a LOT of waster space we can’t get back, we’re restructuring the backup system.
VPS customers – your vzdumps will be unaffected. Your daily [...]
Drive replaced on GT24-1
The VPS node gt24-1 lost one of it’s drives early Sunday morning… On Monday we had newegg ship out a replacement drive overnight directly to the data center. On mid-day Tuesday it arrived, and Tulix replaced the failed drive for us while keeping the server up. As I write this, the replacement drive is building [...]
Migrations continue…
Shared Reseller migrations continue from linux1 to gt20-1…
How to tell if your account has been moved yet… if you lookup your ip and it ends 220.242 and not 219.242 then you’ve been moved. Or if you log into DirectAdmin and down at the bottom you see a link for Installatron, you’ve been moved.
If you haven’t [...]
Shared Reseller moves…
Shared Reseller accounts will be moved to the new server over the weekend. In preparation, we have dropped the DNS cache time to 100 seconds. This should minimize the likelyhood of a dns server holding onto the wrong ip address after the move… provided the dns server is setup properly. A recent experience inidicates not [...]
New Shared Reseller Feature: Installatron
We are pleased to announce that with the migration to the new server for the shared reseller accounts, we are now offering Installatron as a standard feature. Consider it another little bit of Lagniappe…
Installatron is the premiere auto-installer and auto-upgrade plugin for the cPanel/WHM, DirectAdmin, Plesk, and LxAdmin web-hosting control panels.
Installatron’s powerful, easy [...]
DirectAdmin upgraded
In an effort to keep current to make transitioning to the new server as painless as possible, we have upgraded DirectAdmin again. Only a few minor things were changed in this revision, but as one of them concerned backups and we’re about to use that feature extensively in the migration, we thought it best to [...]
New shared server in Dallas!
The new shared reseller server, gt20-1, has arrived in Dallas and has started it’s final configuration, hardening and check-out… Sometime this weekend we we expect to start the migration from linux1 to gt20-1.
gt20-1 on its way…
The replacement server for linux1, gt20-1, is on it’s way to Dallas… The new server should be placed in the Dallas d.c. by mid-week and left to run idle a couple of days after it’s journey. The transition from linux1 to gt20-1 will begin sometime this weekend or early next week, and will attempted to [...]