cpwhm1 php being reconfigured
… to add the zip module at a customer’s request. Shouldn’t be long… ~ 1 hour. Most of the time the server will be available… occassionally WHM will take apache offline a couple of times.
1:30 pm – Done
LI.com website offline for a bit…
… while we resize the filesystem for the new server. It shouldn’t be offline for long, expected to be less than 30 minutes.
Step 1 – Stop container – done
Step 2 – Unmount filesystem – done
Step 3 – check fs – Done
Step 4 – Resize filesystem – done
Step 5 - Resize logical volume – done
Step 6 – [...]
VPS customers… FluidVM coming!
To our VPS customers,
Since the troubles with HyperVM/LXAdmin, we’ve been busy looking at alternatives. By far the most promising is turning out to be FluidVM from a company called Binary Karma. Many of the features are very similar, and some are signifigant improvements, such as the ability to use iSCSI/SAN storage as drives for virtual [...]
cpwhm1 live migrate to x335
We’re doing a live migrate on cpwhm1… this isn’t changing platforms or anything else just moving nodes. This is to clear off a node to begin the process of moving to the new platform. We need a couple of clean nodes to work with on testing, but we’re excited to find and test out Binary Karma’s [...]
VPS Customers please read this!
You may have heard, the future of our provider of our virtualization management software, LXLabs, is in serious doubt at this point. The founder and developer has taken his own life, and there are several known vulernabilities in the software that have been made public recently. Some were fixed others remain in question. In response, [...]
Reverting cpwhm1 back to previous server node (cPanel/WHM down)
cPanel/WHM is not liking the kernel change after the move. It was running however when it went to update cPanel/WHM errors started showing up. We’re restoring the previous environment, and will be moving the data over shortly. During the data move the virtual server including website will not be available (estimated @ 15-30 minutes).
The new [...]
Virtual server cpwhm1 migrating to GT24-2 node
Later on this evening we will be migrating the cpwhm1 virtual server to the GT24-2 node. During that time, the virtual server will be down on 2 occassions. The first to take a final backup in preparation for the move and then again during the move. The first downtime should be short … less than [...]
VPS customers: Please upgrade your LXAdmin version
We just received this email from LXLabs:
Dear Customers,
Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in hyperVM and Lxadmin/Kloxo. It is recommended that you update your hyperVM/Kloxo systems to the latest version, as soon as possible.
Details of the vulnerabilities will be posted in the coming days in our forum.
On hyperVM or Kloxo master, Run:
/script/upcp
Lxlabs Support Team
We are updating [...]
www.lagniappeinternet.com vps migrated to new server
In an effort to further stress test the new server, we’re moving our own site there… This will result in a brief downtime while the vps is migrated. Should be back up in 30 minutes or so.
GT24-2 ‘go live’ delayed
As sometimes happens with new equipment, it fails… Even to the best equipment. This wasn’t a drive you’d buy at the local office supply or big box electrnics store. This was one of the 4 Western Digital Enterprise class RAID Edition 2 (RE2) drives that failed shortly after being placed in the rack and left to burn in… [...]