@jclambert said in Vultr will finally start charging for Snapshot storage:

Interesting that BackBlaze is now integrated with Vultr. No egress fees. This may prove useful

Very. I plan to use this combination of features soon.

@jaredbusch said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

@jaredbusch said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

@dashrender said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

yeah, in my case that's not working much, because most calls are getting to the PBX, but there is a ton of dead air and dropped calls.

Yes, that is the issue with intermittent connectivity. usually up enough for the trunks not to be failed.

For me it was < 30 minutes for any one customer to be having issues.

Things seem to have normalized, but Vultr still has the issue open.

And Chicago is marked cleared now.

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I didn't see what it said before seeing the "resolved issues" at the top...

@scottalanmiller said in VULTR NJ location: Partial Power failure.:

But how did you determine that? I just looked at my servers and their specs only match server class Xeon processors (Skylake 16MB L3) so not sure how it is possible for them to be consumer.

I don't remember exactly. A couple of years ago you could determine that there was actually no xeon of that architecture that would fit with the GHz. Since they are obscuring the actual CPU in their linux kernel you can't read the model number outright. I going from memory here, but that was the gist of it.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Vultr Firewall added Cloudflare:

As I said - we do have FQDN.
I was just suprised when @Dashrender said they are free from Cloudflare

I misspoke, I never meant that registered domains themselves were free. What I meant was free was DNS hosting and base level proxying from CF.

You can trying using auditd to audit the file.

sudo apt-get install auditd

Running sudo auditctl -l by default show no rules

Create a temporary rule to audit changes to index.php

sudo auditctl -w /var/www/html/index.php -p rwxa # -p = read, write, execute, attributes

Run sudo auditctl -l will show the rule that was created.
Now run sudo ausearch -f index.php | more to show what's touching index.php
or sudo tail -f /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep index.php.

Still down.

https://status.vultr.com

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@gjacobse said in pi-Hole: Client and Recursive DNS:

And since i'm running this now, I get a notification on recursive DNS -

Yup, just ignore them.

@scottalanmiller said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@marcinozga said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@stacksofplates said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@stacksofplates said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@marcinozga said in pi-hole: Group Management:

@stacksofplates said in pi-hole: Group Management:

I just use CloudFlare for families. If I need to, I can change DNS on whatever to view something.

That only blocks malware and porn if you choose to. What about ads, marketing crap, tracking, etc.?

I leverage what's in the browser for that stuff.

That might not be 100% the best way to handle it, but I don' thave to manage and pay for a server to do it.

No Raspberry Pi lying around?

Who has an unused computer lying around? lol

I don’t, this old box of mine is hitting its last legs...

@marcinozga said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7:

@scottalanmiller said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7:

@marcinozga said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7:

@black3dynamite said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7:

Still preferred fallocate instead of dd to create a swap file?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=4096 bs=1MiB && chmod 600 /swapfile && mkswap /swapfile && swapon /swapfile && echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0">>/etc/fstab

Still using swap file? Memory is cheap. I don't recall a server where I created swap partition or swap file.

Memory is NOT cheap, not at all.

It is if you own it. If you rent your hardware, yeah, it adds up.

Even if I own it, throwing away 2-3GB of RAM makes no sense. Now, if I own it, I can easily assign 4GB of RAM then remove it once installed, by why? That's harder to script and still no benefit.

It's a bad habit to see resources as cheap and so waste them just because you can. Extra memory doesn't improve performance, it hurts it (just the tiniest bit). And it's not free, if you always apply twice as much RAM as you use (or four times, here), that gets costly one way or another. Either you wasted money overspeccing in the beginning, or you are stuck buying more now.

@gjacobse said in Vultr Mobile App:

I can update, even rescan the files to update the file dB all from ssh- which I do via Termius.

These aren't things that the app would allow anyway. It's a Vultr app, not an SSH app.

@black3dynamite the "dd" command is so great and flexible. It can do so much.

Been using Wasabi for several months now. Was using AWS S3 for several years prior. Haven't had any issue with Wasabi. Using the same tools, as it is S3 compatible.

To add to this- I have an error that started appearing after updating their Fedora 29 and 30 instances. Further testing found that the error appears in different regions using their server type template installers or even a custom iso option that I used with net install. All I have to do is deploy, run dnf update and reboot. The error is present in every boot after the update.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19903/fedora-29-and-30-edac-skx-can-t-get-tolm-tohm-error-on-vultr

Vultr got back to me last week with an email -

"Hello,

We apologize for the delayed response to this ticket, while we investigated this matter further.

We are continuing to review our OS template and application images, and should be applying comprehensive changes across all available deploy images in the near future.

Your continued patience and understanding is appreciated in the meantime.

If you have any followup questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out."

@JaredBusch said in Building VitalPBX on Vultr Automatically:

@scottalanmiller said in Building VitalPBX on Vultr Automatically:

and be fully updated.

I noticed that the defualt CentOS 7 image was pretty much fully up to date before I ran the install script. Only thing that came down when I ran yum update -y was wget.

Yeah, it is more of a "just in case" something is out of date. I almost never see it not fully up to date when I fire it up.

@FATeknollogee said in Vultr backups:

This isn't exactly related to OP's post...
It would be nice if there was a "clean & easy" way to "migrate" your vm's from Vultr to say a co-lo.

If you use a DevOps system, then there always is. If you use normal backups like Veeam, it's easy, too. Same with any platform, platforms don't make lock in, that comes from how it is set up. It's as easy to go from Vultr to colo as from anything else to colo.

@JaredBusch said in Resolved - Postfix on Fedora 29 - Why Can't I Send Mail?:

@wrx7m said in Resolved - Postfix on Fedora 29 - Why Can't I Send Mail?:

It applied to the instance (multiple servers)

FFS no. That is not what anything is.

It applied to the Account. Which contains multiple instances.
Instances that could be servers or desktops or WTF ever.

My apologies. I meant to put account.

@bnrstnr said in Vultr Node Failure - VPS Recovery Unsuccessful:

@JaredBusch said in Vultr Node Failure - VPS Recovery Unsuccessful:

And you have a 2 month credit coming.

If you paid the $1/month for automatic backups you could be online in an hour or less.

Yeah, it was for testing, so I wasn't going to pay more. Not too worried about it.

Just sharing the experience. Not sure if anybody else has encountered this yet with Vultr.

1 host erasure with recovery of my VM (luckier than you) plus a number of networking issues at DC level in 6 months (Amsterdam data center).