VPS4 Node
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Saturday, 29th March, 2014
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19:47pm
Update: 1.00am
All maintenance was completed about an hour ago. Downtime was much shorter than anticipated and Virtual Machines booted up fast as we had enabled vzfastboot which restarts containers quickly initially then on quota check completion does a quick restart of the VPS's again.
Thanks for your patience this evening. We know downtime is never good and we did everything to make sure downtime was minimal.
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Update: 9.15pm
As a precaution we are going to take this server down again at 11.30pm to replace the RAID card and the SATA cables. This is a preventative measure to simply rule out some things from this crash this evening.
We thank you for your extended patience. 80% of servers are back on line now and the remaining are starting up in sequence. The maintenance at 11.30pm will last 40 mins max and we will do everything we can to bring the servers back on line quickly after it is completed.
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Update: 8.50pm
The server is now back on line and the OpenVZ Containers (in other words the virtual servers on the node) are starting up. At time of writing 3 of the containers are back and the rest are starting up.
Apologies for this outage but an fsck is a standard linux file system check that needs to run to completion. The longer than normal time frame for such a check this evening was caused by the fact we needed to perform the check manually
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Update: 8.30pm
The server requires a file system check which is a standard linux check. We are watching this now on console but unfortunately the tech who ran the command did not run it with the progress bar switch so we do not see a % completed. I apologise for that. Regardless of this missing % progress the check is running and it will be no faster or slower without this.
Once we have more information we will post it here.
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We are aware of an issue with VPS4 Node and technicians are being asked to check the hardware now at the data centre. We apologise for the inconvenience and we will post an update around 8.30pm once we have more information. Thanks for your patience.
