New Xen server
We’re finalizing a Xen VPS server. It’s in Dallas – has 2 Quad Core AMD Opteron processors, 16GB of ECC RAM and 4x 750 WD Raid Edition (RE2) Enterprise class drives connected to a Dell/LSI PERC RAID controller in HARDWARE RAID-10 for speed and reliability.
Xen VPSes have a greater isolation level than OpenVZ and allow [...]
Atlanta cPanel/WHM Reseller accounts available
We now have a cPanel/WHM reseller vServer available in Atlanta. Same prices as Dallas, but use this link to sign up: http://www.lagniappeinternet.com/members/signup.php?clienttype=16
Network outage @ Dallas
This is the latest update (original at the bottom):
Subject: [#MAU-767967]: Network outages – still happening
As a follow-up, I would like to share with you a postmortem of the
routing event you experienced this morning.
At about 6:30AM we received a preliminary alarm of a failure on one of
our customer gateway routers. The event was logged and the [...]
New Tyan GT24 server on its way
It’s upgrade time again… Time to retire one of the older servers. The new server is another Tyan GT24. We’ve been really pleased with them. This one will have 2 Quad Core AMD Opteron processors, 16GB of RAM, and 4x drives in RAID-10. Can’t say what size drives will be yet. At least 500GB each, [...]
Dallas experiencing intermittent issues
We’ve asked Virtbiz to look into the issue and are waiting on word back.
Early the morning, GT24-2 experienced an issue, we remotely reset the machine and brought it back up. About an hour later, it happened a second time. The about 1pm we lost connectivity to all equipment there. Servers are coming back online and [...]
cpwhm1 migrated to faster node
We have migrated the cpwhm1 (reseller cpanel) virtual server to a faster node… The new node will have access to faster drives, more memory and additional cpu cores.
gt24-2 4am issue
The gt24-2 node had an issue starting at apx 4:20am Central time. The load started spiking and the node and all vm’s started slowing down, until the point they became unresponsive. We’ve run updates on the OS and are still investigating what happened.
As the /var/log/messages shows nothing out of the ordinary up until it [...]
Robert passed CIW Database Design Specialist certifcation
Lagniappe Internet’s founder Robert Porter has passed the Certified Internet Web Professional, aka CIW, Database Design Specialist exam today.
CIW descibes this exam…
CIW v5 Database Design Specialists have mastered the knowledge and theory of database design that applies to the most popular database platforms. These professionals help solve the problem of poorly designed databases. Aimed at [...]
Short downtime while migrating vm’s
We’ll be experiencing some short downtimes while migrating some virtual machines – the largest of which is our own lagniappeinternet.com website. It was down for 9 minutes while migrating. Most others should see no more than a few seconds of downtime. The vm’s that are being migrated will be housed on faster nodes… so this [...]
GT20-1 issues
Since the Christmas eve event where all servers, pdu, switches, etc briefly lost power in Dallas, the GT20-1 server has not been behaving well. Virtbiz in Dallas worked hard to get the server back up and going, but it’s simply not reliable. Any change to CMOS settings and it doesn’t want to boot… So we [...]