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[VPS] Los Angeles Outage

null@example.com (jeremy) — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:45:14 +0000

vps1.lax.us.smart-serv.net experienced a kernel panic, we are tracking the issue and taking precautions to avoid it in future. We will monitor the situation to ensure the issue has been located and corrected. We apologize for any inconvenience.

[Email] Blockage to some domains

null@example.com (Sedorox) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:40:03 +0000

So apparently our new email server is clear on 99.5% of email block lists, however it seems one, CloudMark CSI, has us listed.
Charter, Comcast, Microsoft (live, hotmail, etc), and I'm sure many others seem to use this service.

I have submitted a request to CloudMark to re-evaluate the IP Address, since we are new 'owners' of it. Hopefully this will be resolved shortly. I will keep everyone updated.

[Maintenance] Email Service Outage and Move

null@example.com (Sedorox) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:44:38 +0000

Over the last few days there have been some issues with our email server (both incoming and outgoing).
Because of this, we will be moving our email to another server tonight, as well as switching the service that provides IMAP and POP3 service.
Starting around 18:00 EST tonight, mail will go offline. Shouldn't be offline for more then an hour or two while some moves and quick tests are performed.
If there are any problems after the move, they will be posted here, however we do not forsee any.

Sorry for the short notice, and any inconvience that may cause.

[VPS] Atlanta Outage

null@example.com (jeremy) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:20:19 +0000

At roughly 4:00PM MST vps1.atl experienced a fatal slow down that caused some VPS instances to get shutdown from the host server. We are looking into the cause and are slowly rebooting the VPSes that are still currently offline. We apologize for the inconvenience.

[VPS] Now in Los Angeles, CA, US!

null@example.com (jeremy) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:28:35 +0000

We are happy to announce we are launching a VPS host node in Los Angeles, CA, US, This server will start out in Beta mode for the weekend to iron out any potential issues with provisioning and performance, this beta length is subject to change based on feedback and reviews. Customers wishing to participate in the beta can contact us on IRC (irc.ssnet.ca #SmartServ) or open a ticket. Please note that these VPSes WILL be removed at the end of the test period to make way for production. If you wish to continue with a VPS in LA please open a ticket before the beta period has ended and we will arrange the billing.

This node is running on top of KVM (http://www.linux-kvm.org/)

Beta testing will begin early Saturday and last until Monday morning unless otherwise stated.

Thank you for choosing SmartServ Hosting and making this expansion possible. Feedback can be left on the forum and we look forward to hearing from customers.

[Shared] Apache 2.4 & PHP 5.4

null@example.com (jeremy) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:51:06 +0000

Dear Customers,

We will be preforming testing on apache 2.4 and php 5.4 this upcoming week for deployment in our production environments. We hope to make this transition by the end of March on our shared nodes. We will be posting more details on how you can prepare your websites for this move as we go forward with our testing. We will keep this thread updated as our testing progresses and affected customers that will be affected by this change will be notified by email.

Thank you for choosing SmartServ Hosting

[VPS] Linux kernel 3.2.2

null@example.com (jeremy) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:44:19 +0000

Due to recent vulnerabilities found in the Linux kernel we have compiled Linux 3.2.2 for our VPS instances. We urge any customers running a kernel newer than 2.6.38, this can be checked by issuing uname -a, to upgrade. At the time being we only have a tarball available so users will need to update grub configs by hand.

Tarball: http://www.smart-serv.net/extras/kernel … d64.tar.xz
You may extract the tarball with the following command: tar Jxf kernel-3.2.2-amd64.tar.xz -C /

If you are unable to extract the .tar.xz I have also gzipped it at http://www.smart-serv.net/extras/kernel … d64.tar.gz

We will be releasing this new kernel into our debian repository later this week.

[VPS] Linux kernel 3.1.6

null@example.com (jeremy) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:02:48 +0000

We have put together a kernel package for the recent 3.1.6 release that works correctly under our virtualization environment. This is useful for users of Debian 5 wanting to dist-upgrade to 6, and for CentOS users wanting to use CentOS 6+. We will be including this kernel in our templates.

For debian users we have put together a .deb which can be found at http://www.smart-serv.net/extras/linux- … -amd64.deb

For other distributions a compressed tar can be found at http://www.smart-serv.net/extras/linux- … 64.tar.bz2

[Maintenance] Atlanta - Sunday, December 18th, 2011

null@example.com (jeremy) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:16:18 +0000

Maintenance notice,

Ubiquity Atlanta will be conducting network maintenance at on the morning of Sunday, December 18, 2011 between midnight and 2 AM facility local (Eastern) time. During this time, we will be conducting software upgrades on our core network infrastructure and making adjustments to various memory profiles which will require the device to be restarted. While every effort will be made to minimize downtime, clients should be prepared for the possibility of increased latency or loss of service during the maintenance period. Updates will be posted here as soon as they become available.

VPS Kernel versions?

null@example.com (zEkE) — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:24:12 +0000

Hey guys,

So I'm loving this so far, I just have one concern: I'm stuck on a 3 year old kernel because it's the only one that is known to work with networking.

Is it a limitation of using stock Debian kernels on a Xen-based VM, or is there something we can work out to get more current versions to run? I'll look at building my own if I have to, but the Debian kernel works for every other VPS I have (granted, running on KVM, not Xen) - it'd be nice if this one would play the game too.

[VPS] Bandwidth increases have landed!

null@example.com (jeremy) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:38:55 +0000

We are glad to announce we have increased bandwidth limits on our VPS packages. This change is affective immediately for all existing customers and offered to new customers.

Thank you for choosing SmartServ Hosting.

[Shared] web2.smart-serv.net maintenance

null@example.com (jeremy) — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:51:32 +0000

We will be switching the MPM we currently use on web2's apache to resolve sluggish replies from the httpd daemon.

[VPS] US VPS Plans Feedback

null@example.com (jeremy) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:37:19 +0000

Attention everyone,

We are in preliminary stages of offering US based VPS packages and are looking for your feedback so we can better suite the needs of our customers and future customers. You can find our pricing at http://www.smart-serv.net/us-vps.html.

We look forward to your input. Keep in mind that its your feedback that will determine the future!

[VPS] Emergency Maintenance

null@example.com (jeremy) — Mon, 30 May 2011 07:56:42 +0000

Attention customers,

We have caught a bad disk on vps1.smart-serv.net and will need to bring it offline to change the affected disk. We are working on getting a time frame from the datacentre technicians. This outage will also affect customers on web2.smart-serv.net.

We apologize for any inconvenience and are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

UPDATE: It appears the provider has taken the server down to replace the harddrive (without warning)

Scheduled Maintenance - March 12, 2011

null@example.com (jeremy) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:40:13 +0000

Attention Customers,

We will be restarting web2.smart-serv.net March 12, 2011 for updates
including bumping network speed from 100Mbit to Gigabit to accommodate
more traffic. We suggest that customers check/create crontabs to bring
services back online after the reboot. If you are unfamiliar with how to
create a crontab please feel to contact our Technical Support. We
apologize for the inconvience this disruption may cause.

Thank you for choosing SmartServ Hosting