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The old virtual server, which ran ddscentral.org (and a number of other sites and services) will be shut down today. Although, it’s just an OpenVZ container running on someone else’s Linux box, it’s still a bit sad for me to shut down a server that I have maintained for nearly 10 years. It was the first ever VPS that I’ve ever maintained.
However, times have changed since and continuing to rent that server at the same price no longer makes economical sense when I can get a KVM with more memory, disk space and (best of all) freedom for less.

KVM offers much more freedom compared to OpenVZ. For example, I have bought a secondary IP for the KVM server and… assigned it to another KVM server which runs on a different machine. How did I do it ? I’ll tell you in the next post.

New server up !

If you can read this, ddscentral.org is now live on a new server !
The old server will be decommissioned on September 1st.

UPDATE: IP changed once again, from test server to main one.

Zebra is down – power issues

Zebra server is down due to a power failure.

UPDATE: 4:00 PM EET: back online.

Raspis is offline, most likely due to a hardware failure. I will need to get to the server physically to fix it, so the server will remain down until tomorrow evening at the very least.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

UPDATE: Oct 8th, 20:30 EEST: Back online.

Raspis maintenance

Raspis will be shut down for maintenance. Expected downtime: 20-30 minutes.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

EDIT: Back up, finished sooner than I expected.

Blog downtime

ddscentral.org was knocked offline by a massive DDoS attack on my provider’s network which lasted from approx 12 AM EEST until about 7 PM EEST.
My eMail and DNS are hosted by different providers and were were not affected.
Everything seems to work now. Sorry for inconvenience caused.

Raspis is down again, ISP issues

Raspis is having issues with ISP, traceroute shows no response at all from intermediate routers. Let’s hope they’ll resolve their issues soon.

Update: issues have been resolved, back online.

Raspis is offline

Raspis just went offline, reasons unknown. Unfortunately, it’s late night where I am and I won’t be able to fix the issue until tomorrow (12th).
Will update when the system is back online. Very sorry for inconvenience caused.
If you need any Android builds or any other material from Raspis, post a comment in Requests.

UPDATE: Came back online. By itself. How, I don’t know, but the uptime is zero so it has definitely rebooted.

UPDATE 17th. Down again. Again no reason. Let’s hope it comes the same way as it did before.
These crashes are getting annoying.

UPDATE: System was power-cycled physically, back online. Likely cause of crashes was the second RAM stick, I had to remove it.
Those little J1900 systems seem to be extremely memory picky.

Happy new year

Don’t have a lot to post, just wanted to say happy new year.
2010s is now the past.
Boy, time sure moves fast…

Raspis is down

Raspis server is down due to ISP maintenance work. Should be back shortly.
Sorry for inconvenience.

EDIT: Back up.

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