BuyVM company wide node upgrades

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Posted by DeltaAnime, 11-20-2010, 04:32 PM
Hello everyone, Starting November 20th, 12:00 PM GMT -8, We are scheduling rolling updates & reboots to all but node11. The updates will address the following issues/features: - Speedup VPS bootups incase of any sort of node issues - Upgrade to a newer kernel to help address IO performance & stuck kernel thread issues - Introduce support for Ubuntu 10.10 & Fedora 14 - Update all of our official templates to the latest versions, cutting down the amount of upgrades required on a (re)install - Introduce additional abuse monitoring systems - Introduce some additional tunings to hopefully improve download speeds for our European users Users may find out what node they're on by logging into SolusVM and viewing their container details. Node reboots are scheduled to follow this timeline: November 20th *already completed* - Node 02, 03, 04, 20 November 21st - Node 05, 06, 07, 08 November 22nd - Node 09, 10, 11, 12 November 23rd - Node 13, 14, 15, 16 November 24th - Node 17, 18, 19, 21 Thanks! Francisco
Posted by craig joe, 11-20-2010, 04:35 PM
i think this's a great progress. i knew you guys really taking care of your clients btw, may i know how much time needed for vps'es to be offline for that process ? and would you like to enlighten me about "additional abuse monitoring systems" ?
Posted by tanfwc, 11-20-2010, 04:38 PM
Should be a few mins due to reboot
Posted by DeltaAnime, 11-20-2010, 05:23 PM
The reboots will take a few minutes generally We wrote some scripts to assist in speeding up shutdowns. The monitoring is more on our end so we can trace more abuse. We already have systems that monitor for CPU abuse and applies adjustments as needed. Thanks! Francisco
Posted by DeltaAnime, 11-21-2010, 01:49 AM
Since FMT1 just had a complete site power outage, all of the nodes powering back on will have their updates already applied, meaning the posted reboots will not be happening. Please see the following thread about this: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showth...40#post7128540 Francisco