Yes the new Core 2 Duo server that I moved to has been rock solid so far. Many things that I have been able to do before (compiling heavy packages for example) are now handled with ease. Yes it sucks when the hardware is having issues :(

Big thanks for getting us migrated.

We had some big hardware problems with that server, that the collocation partner we are using recommended to us. Since the beginning, we experienced many problems with the HDD controler, and even after asking and asking again, nobody either at ASUS or the hardware supplier replied to us that the problem would be fixed.

We were promised that a KVM over IP would be setup on that server that costs us a hell of a lot. This has never work either.

So we have bought a new server with the type of hardware (Supermicro PDSMI+ motherboard with Supermicro casing). All of the VMs are now migrated to it, and we believe that the issues are over now.

We also added smartd monitoring to all of our servers, so it now reports errors BEFORE it actually kills everything, so we can replace our HDDs on time.

Last thing: I really believe that you went on one of our worst server, and that this experience is not representative of our service. Let me show you this:

zigo@node0105:~$ uptime

07:28:10 up 710 days, 11:56, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.16, 0.15

try to beat it ! :)

Thomas

This stuff is all simple on its own, ie a website, step, step, step, done. but if you want to exist in the infrastructure of this then it all needs to planned out and bits put in place.

I think I probably won’t dismiss Servers Australia that quickly due to their sign up pages as I did hear some good reports about them, but I’ll say $99 for a 100GB dedicated server in Sydney is really “too cheap”. As of GPLHost, Thomas emailed me today saying they might migrate me onto other servers. We’ll see.

As of setting up the VPS, I guess that’s the pain when you want to use Gentoo. “emerge –sync && emerge world” after getting the root prompt, and then come back two days later to install apps :)

I found a pretty sweet deal for dedicated servers in Australia but I didn’t bookmark the site and I can’t find it again!! It’s pretty annoying since I’d probably sign up… At the moment I’m signing up to a few different places, its a bit pricey but oh well, do what you need to do ti get it all working properly. But its not like they are just going to be sitting there doing nothing I have uses for each one, I just don’t have enough time to set it all up . . .

I’ve just got my slice512 for 6 months today, so will need to set that up soon. . .
I have bought a 2nd VPS from VPSLand that hasn’t been setup, had that for a month and a half so far. . .

maybe I got out just intime from GPL Host :P As I mentioned to you I’ve moved node and seem to be doing all right now. Fingers crossed it stays this way.