[Terry Myers]

Hey Everyone,

We've put our two new Atlanta Clouds D & E online. Both of these clouds feature our new SAN 2.0 infrastructure, which represents both a significant improvement in reliability over the older infrastructure by using 2 SAN units for each VPS, but also improved speeds through the utilization of new operating system on the SAN units, improved hardware and other tweaks we've learned over the past 2 years.

At this time a migration utility is not available, however one is being developed. It's not critical to move your data at this time, however this infrastructure is a dramatic improvement in our cloud vps hosting product. If you wish to migrate clouds at this time it will need to be done manually.

Please feel free to have fun creating VPS' on the new clouds!

[vlugo]

Terry,

This is great news, do you know when the migration utility will be ready for us? 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, etc..
I realize you can't give a definite ETA, but an estimation would be much appreciated.

[anthonysomerset]

nice work guys, last i heard about migration tool was dont hold breath... my interpretation of that was wait at least a month if not more, i suspect they want to get chicago on SAN2.0 first?

[Wrhector]

Is there any chance we could get some of the templates which were on the old clouds, like the optimized images?

[nickn]

Wrhector said:

Is there any chance we could get some of the templates which were on the old clouds, like the optimized images?

Each has to be recreated. A lot of those templates were a mess, so if there's one you wish to have, let us know which and we'll be happy to put it on the list..but there's no reason to rebuild all those optimized ones...as a lot are now outdated/etc.

[Wrhector]

nickn said:

Each has to be recreated. A lot of those templates were a mess, so if there's one you wish to have, let us know which and we'll be happy to put it on the list..but there's no reason to rebuild all those optimized ones...as a lot are now outdated/etc.

The optimized centos 5.4 images used less ram and space than the defualt install, but I suppose as you said they are outdated.

For loadbalencers they only need 1 node so I need the smallest footprint.

Any chance of some minimized installs for small vpses more in the pipeline?

This post has been edited by Wrhector: 12 October 2010 - 12:08 PM

[Spiral]

In regard to outdated images ....

I very frequently build my own updated images with up the minute updates so that is really not too much of a problem.

What is very much needed is a tool to migrate custom template images between clouds. It can be a royal pain having to rebuild the same image over and over again on each cloud or waiting for support to manually migrate a template over on request. If there were some way to initiate a template transfer automatically, that would save a tremendous amount of time and effort for everyone all around.

The above kind of goes twice with more and more clouds opening up now :spinny:

[Steve]

What would also be hugely welcome (but possibly impossible to implement?) would be the ability to share templates. So that Spiral could share an awesome template he's built with me, for example.

[Wrhector]

Steve said:

What would also be hugely welcome (but possibly impossible to implement?) would be the ability to share templates. So that Spiral could share an awesome template he's built with me, for example.

How about a community template section? Or a campagian to create templates?

[Sparrow-Sean]

I just bought new nodes and just realized the new locations do not support CloudLinux :(

I will not be choosing other locations as this is not what I wanted, oh well.

[nickn]

Sparrow-Sean said:

I just bought new nodes and just realized the new locations do not support CloudLinux :(

I will not be choosing other locations as this is not what I wanted, oh well.

All locations should support CloudLinux - which one do you think doesn't?

Note that you have to buy a CloudLinux license before it'll show up..

[Sparrow-Sean]

Hell Nick,

I was advised by your technicians that Zone D and E do not support this CloudLinux option. I have already bought the nodes and have already bought CloudLinux, in the setup options you support it on all other servers but the one I desperately need.

I can see the "CloudLinux" option in SL and the UK, Chicago, but none for Atlanta....:(

[boeki]

i think if you buy the cloudlinux license first then select from the template options it would be there.

[Sparrow-Sean]

boeki said:

i think if you buy the cloudlinux license first then select from the template options it would be there.

As of above, I have already bought CloudLinux and it shows on all other locations but the one I want :(

[nickn]

Spoke to the team, they are putting CloudLinux on this cloud now. Not sure why it wasn't already there.

[Sparrow-Sean]

Hello Nick,

Thank you,

I appreciate your support, I heavily rely on CloudLinux - It's great and we have now over 4 servers with you and this will now be the 5th, all contain cloudlinux.

I was quite frazzled and was quite upset that I had bought the nodes and was not able to check to previous if they were on there, I find it annoying that I need to buy the nodes prior to seeing the location and setups.

I do not mind buying CloudLinux during the process, though, I like the see the locations and actual OS systems avaiable at the present moment when ordering :D

[Spiral]

Sparrow-Sean said:

I just bought new nodes and just realized the new locations do not support CloudLinux :(

Where exactly did you get that idea from? :huh:

If you found a new location that doesn't yet have the CloudLinux images setup, you could just simply deploy CentOS and then install CloudLinux manually which is actually very simple to do.

I've done this on a number servers most in particular where clients had an established server and wanted to switch to CloudLinux so instead of reloading the server or moving to another, just simply upgraded the existing CentOS to CloudLinux.

(Yes, some of those have been on the San 2.0 servers as well)

[Terry Myers]

FYI the Cloud Linux images have been deployed to all locations as of this afternoon.

[Sparrow-Sean]

Hello Terry,

Apparently this was showing yesterday, unless this was officially just me I do not see it in the list on Atlanta E.

To give you an idea, this is all I see:
http://www.screen-sh...43493645464.png

[Fuitad]

I've built 2 servers on Atlanta D and 2 servers on Atlanta E and neither of those 4 come back online after a command line reboot. I have to log into vps.net and do a graceful reboot.

All 4 servers are using the "Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) x64 Basic Installation" template.

Is anybody else experiencing these issues?