@VirMach said:
Okay I've spent most of today really looking into our switches and making some improvements. I broke it for a couple minutes, I'm glad no one noticed.Our monitoring system didn't catch it either.
Okay I've gotten the Debian 12 template working. Not pushed out yet, I'm going to do some more testing first but SSH works, networking works, password resets work, apt update works, everything appears to work.
@VirMach said:
Okay I've gotten the Debian 12 template working. Not pushed out yet, I'm going to do some more testing first but SSH works, networking works, password resets work, apt update works, everything appears to work.
@VirMach said:
Okay I've spent most of today really looking into our switches and making some improvements. I broke it for a couple minutes, I'm glad no one noticed.Our monitoring system didn't catch it either.
Our monitoring system was probably busy spitting out Cloudflare gateway errors.
@VirMach said:
Okay I've gotten the Debian 12 template working. Not pushed out yet, I'm going to do some more testing first but SSH works, networking works, password resets work, apt update works, everything appears to work.
The current stable distribution of Debian is version 12, codenamed bookworm. It was initially released as version 12.0 on June 10th, 2023.
More than likely we will see Debian 13.0 released between June and August of 2025
Was it even worth to fix Debian 12? Should have waited for Debian 13!
@Jab said: The current stable distribution of Debian is version 12, codenamed bookworm. It was initially released as version 12.0 on June 10th, 2023.
More than likely we will see Debian 13.0 released between June and August of 2025
Was it even worth to fix Debian 12? Should have waited for Debian 13!
It's worth it because we'll make sure to not have a Debian 13 template ready until 2027.
Okay the template's good enough. I'm marking it as "BETA" and syncing it now.
Issues noticed so far with the startup/setup script:
UFW fails to start initially. May need a restart/reboot depending on options selected.
Firewall rule setting is kind of buggy/wrong (optional, you can just manually do it as well.)
Quick installer script don't work yet (doesn't matter.)
Confirmed working:
Password initially set & reset (this may vary per node, I've only tested it on one.)
SSH connection & networking
Desktop environment installation/setup (optional)
SSH port change (optional)
SSH key gen (optional, only tested earlier on.)
You'll be asked some setup questions on login, they're optional and just meant to make it easier, you can press enter to skip. I've thought about it and I can see how it'd be annoying for some advanced users but if it bothers you as an advanced user you can also install Debian 12 from ISO instead. The script can also remove itself or what we've installed (you can also just apt remove but that's curl, clearing firewall rules, removing fail2ban.) Quick installer scripts will be added later, it's done in a way where we can update those scripts without updating the whole template, it basically will curl a script from us and run it like for installing highly requested applications that require some level of proper configuration. Maybe we'll add LAMP/LEMP, OpenVPN, and so on later, but of course again just optional obviously if you have no problem doing it yourself (just means this isn't for you.)
Moving forward whatever templates we release will basically have this startup script so let me know if you have any suggestions. I think it beats how we used to do it where you had to read the notes to see what the SSH port is set to per template and what "security hardening" we did or didn't do.
@AlwaysSkint said:
Still would like an Alamalinux 8 minimal ISO added. Sod templates; that's for amatoors!
Almalinux 8 minimal ISO is for amateurs. Now, getting Netboot to work and doing Almalinux 8 through that, that's for professionals. But yeah I've been meaning to add all the versions we replaced with "latest" being the next version. I just wanted them to be in a neat order without having to do database changes since SolusVM doesn't have sorting options for that so I wanted to make sure they all go together in the right order.
I actually don't know if anyone's noticed that, it goes a certain way. I guess I'm just insane when it comes to things that don't matter.
I'm trying to get the Rocky template going next though since it was requested. Let's see what issues we run into for that one. I'll definitely wait to hear some feedback on the startup script first.
@VirMach said: still possible I did something weird I shouldn't have but I still haven't heard back from the provider so I'm doing what I can to prevent another long outage and so we can move forward with bringing the storage connectivity back online
Do we have an idea when storage connectivity will be re-established?
@VirMach said:
Okay I've spent most of today really looking into our switches and making some improvements. I broke it for a couple minutes, I'm > glad no one noticed. Our monitoring system didn't catch it either.
Well that explains now why the IRC connection dropped while I was sleeping and I lost millions of dollars...
Just received PHXZ004 & it's alive. It wasn't a 10 second fix but it's would have been doable for QN LAX as suspected. Excited to finally use my 1Gbit upload speed from home (they also offer 5Gbit synchronous but I'm too cheap to do that right now, until I do all the network drops and figure out the power situation. Then I can pretend like we have a datacenter with 1 IPv4.)
Is it wise to have customers on a black friday server? I know it's 30% cpu usage but in terms of customers potentially causing issues, am I right that there's a no tolerance on these servers and any bother would = termination
@eb1995 said:
Is it wise to have customers on a black friday server? I know it's 30% cpu usage but in terms of customers potentially causing issues, am I right that there's a no tolerance on these servers and any bother would = termination
I'd only recommend that with AUP addon but I'm assuming you already have it.
Right now what we're trying is reducing suspension fee and being a little more lenient. Not really working out too well so far. It depends on what kind of abuse I guess? If it's insane I/O spike right now that's leading to the most suspensions and least tolerance. Everything else is okay as long as it's not something illegal on purpose.
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Okay I've gotten the Debian 12 template working. Not pushed out yet, I'm going to do some more testing first but SSH works, networking works, password resets work, apt update works, everything appears to work.
finally!
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Our monitoring system was probably busy spitting out Cloudflare gateway errors.
The current stable distribution of Debian is version 12, codenamed bookworm. It was initially released as version 12.0 on
June 10th, 2023.More than likely we will see Debian 13.0 released between
June and August of 2025Was it even worth to fix Debian 12? Should have waited for Debian 13!
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/gi/ippw0lcmqowk.png
It's worth it because we'll make sure to not have a Debian 13 template ready until 2027.
Okay the template's good enough. I'm marking it as "BETA" and syncing it now.
Issues noticed so far with the startup/setup script:
Confirmed working:
You'll be asked some setup questions on login, they're optional and just meant to make it easier, you can press enter to skip. I've thought about it and I can see how it'd be annoying for some advanced users but if it bothers you as an advanced user you can also install Debian 12 from ISO instead. The script can also remove itself or what we've installed (you can also just apt remove but that's curl, clearing firewall rules, removing fail2ban.) Quick installer scripts will be added later, it's done in a way where we can update those scripts without updating the whole template, it basically will curl a script from us and run it like for installing highly requested applications that require some level of proper configuration. Maybe we'll add LAMP/LEMP, OpenVPN, and so on later, but of course again just optional obviously if you have no problem doing it yourself (just means this isn't for you.)
Moving forward whatever templates we release will basically have this startup script so let me know if you have any suggestions. I think it beats how we used to do it where you had to read the notes to see what the SSH port is set to per template and what "security hardening" we did or didn't do.
Still would like an Alamalinux 8 minimal ISO added.
Sod templates; that's for amatoors!
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
is it a standard to have UFW in template?
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
There is no standard in templates :-D
Haven't bought a single service in VirMach Great Ryzen 2022 - 2023 Flash Sale.
https://lowendspirit.com/uploads/editor/gi/ippw0lcmqowk.png
Almalinux 8 minimal ISO is for amateurs. Now, getting Netboot to work and doing Almalinux 8 through that, that's for professionals. But yeah I've been meaning to add all the versions we replaced with "latest" being the next version. I just wanted them to be in a neat order without having to do database changes since SolusVM doesn't have sorting options for that so I wanted to make sure they all go together in the right order.
I actually don't know if anyone's noticed that, it goes a certain way. I guess I'm just insane when it comes to things that don't matter.
I'm trying to get the Rocky template going next though since it was requested. Let's see what issues we run into for that one. I'll definitely wait to hear some feedback on the startup script first.
Nice to see an update on the templates. Last time I couldn't install Debian 12 or Almalinux 9
@VirMach you definitely have to move away from Solus to something modern
Also I'm still waiting for the 1200GB NVMe server
Do we have an idea when storage connectivity will be re-established?
VPS panels from best to worst:
No hostname left!
Well that explains now why the IRC connection dropped while I was sleeping and I lost millions of dollars...
Could you add a rough approximate price for each?...
Just received PHXZ004 & it's alive. It wasn't a 10 second fix but it's would have been doable for QN LAX as suspected. Excited to finally use my 1Gbit upload speed from home (they also offer 5Gbit synchronous but I'm too cheap to do that right now, until I do all the network drops and figure out the power situation. Then I can pretend like we have a datacenter with 1 IPv4.)
Due dates will be extended and moving to LAX.
This is based off my memory so it could be completely wrong.
looks like VF is a clear winner here
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Is it wise to have customers on a black friday server? I know it's 30% cpu usage but in terms of customers potentially causing issues, am I right that there's a no tolerance on these servers and any bother would = termination
I'd only recommend that with AUP addon but I'm assuming you already have it.
Right now what we're trying is reducing suspension fee and being a little more lenient. Not really working out too well so far. It depends on what kind of abuse I guess? If it's insane I/O spike right now that's leading to the most suspensions and least tolerance. Everything else is okay as long as it's not something illegal on purpose.