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Looks like I got Flying Fish and Polar Bear on the same old node with E5-2650 (not v2). At the same time, normal disks look better than SSD
I'll wait until mass deploys and benchmarking are finished.
SSD like old disk
v2 is coming.
I did another round of YABS moments ago, and now it's similar to yours. There are improvements, as compared to some time earlier when I did the first round of YABS.
Obvious the Disk IO improved, and compared with yours, the network speed is super stable. I mean we both generated very similar outputs.
first round below
Second round below.
Same story as on Black Friday. Guys, just give all some time to bench and populate VPS disks with data. Time of good IO will come.
@servarica_hani - stock is still available. May we abandon that rule of 1 per customer?
Same question here. Don't leave money on the table.
OK since we managed to have stock for 1 day , I think most people waiting already got their VPS
from now you are allowed to order more than once but max is 3 please
Thanks
Hi, I took the Polar Bear offer. Thank you for the good deal!
3 new orders? or 3 in total with Black Friday included?
Plot twist: they provisioned the 2TB on the SSD.
The latter makes more sense.
3 orders of the same plan in total regardless of when you got it
So if you got 1 polar in BF and one yesterday you still can get 3rd today
the control panel doesn't provide vnc access info.
also, any way to switch boot order, if I want to boot frm netboot.xyz?
Ubuntu 20 seems to fail update as
apt upgradethrows out some dpkg error code.It could be great that ServaRica provides self assistant reinstalling & customization to a higher level.
Didn't notice VNC in the CP either.
Although their Ubuntu 18.04 image works perfectly for me. Maybe try installing it and upgrade to 20.04 from inside 18.04.
Fantastic, got 2 more Polar Bears. Thank you for this amazing deal!
You got UltraVPS, HostHatch and now ServaRica great deals.
@aRNoLD @ernie88 VNC is in the client area, it's called "Console" - it's a full blown VNC, not a serial console like the name may suggest.
Thanks for figuring that for me
Yes, seen it but you were faster than me.
frankly, not an easy-to-use console, not as much as that with Virtualizor or Solusvm. It's inside the webpage, hard to press any keys, esp. when rebooting the machine. I actually wanted to locate the VNC's info so that I could use some external, separate apps, such as VNC Viewer to connect as I always did with other host mgmt systems. I then realized this is a new platform, not KVM, not OpenVZ, but Xenica. I've never tried it before.
Thank you @its420somewhere and @ernie88
Ahh yes, you're right. I see there's no way to get those details either through the client area.
By the way, you may not know this but if it comes up in trivia one day perhaps you'll thank me: Xenica is actually created by Servarica themselves.
They run their servers on the Xen platform, which is basically the same as KVM except that it's apparently more prem in some way - but that's probably a Linux vs FreeBSD type of argument.
CANNOT believe that! ServaRica is the creator? I never imagined this. Their OS templates look so un-polished. Some are cloned, some caused error msg after VM created and machine rebooting. So from an amateur's perspective, tech gurus like ServaRica won't always allow these happen.
update:
You are right, and I just located their home.
https://xenmodule.com/
Thought it is a VPS provider, and now find out they are developers.
https://xenmodule.com/#features
http://wiki.xenmodule.com/doku.php?id=console_instructions
http://wiki.xenmodule.com/doku.php?id=linux_template_creation
http://wiki.xenmodule.com/doku.php?id=iso_repository
various features, some of which are not seen in my panel, say root pwd change, graph/stats, and esp. mounting ISO/CDs. ServaRica may allow more features on client side panel.
The manual is written in detailed manner.
Is it possible to order two Polar Bear Storage Offer and have it provisioned on two separate servers?
Well, you kinda need to note the exact dpkg error...
Today, my Centos 8 update failed due to insufficient space in /boot. I got around it by manually removing old kernels and then update succeeded. Default configuration will likely run into this for others.
@servarica_hani Centos 8 tells me it only knows about kernel 4.x versions, but in /boot there is a 3.10 el7 kernel. Do you know if that is there for a Xen host thing, or I can probably delete it as a leftover Centos 7 to 8 upgrade remnant? Though, I thought I installed from centos 8 template, but can't quite remember.
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 also encountered the same problem, /boot partition space is a bit small, so you must ensure that no non-essential to keep the old kernel before updating the kernel.
Thank you for mentioning this which I may have neglected. I still have no idea how to handle the template-born issue. If ServaRica can investigate or have a work-around, that would be much better.
You're right -- the space in /boot is uncomfortably tight.
One workaround for CentOS 8 is to limit the number of kernels retained. This lets you avoid having to clean them up manually.
In /etc/dnf/dnf.conf, edit the option:
installonly_limit=Setting this to 1 saved a bit of space for me.
Still, I'd be happier seeing /boot set to something bigger. I usually give it a GB in my installations, which is probably overkill.
Happy with my new Polar Bear
I guess the members here answered this already
you can have the iso and ask us to mount it for you
also I am sure there is a way to boot it without iso as some of our users do it but never tried to do it
I assume from the console you have really small window after reboot to choose to switch bot method
wrote my answers before seeing yours Thanks
There is 2 limitations here
1- We run internal network for the management of our servers and this network is never exposed externally for security reasons , so even if the xenserver can expose the vnc info you will not be able to reach it
2- xenserver and xcp-ng dont expose the typical VNC with ip and port , instead they expose vnc as a url and the vnc traffic is encoded in different manner than what vnc clients can read
yes I agree we need to work more on our templates
expect to see changes regarding them soon
we enabled graphs for all new plans
pwd change is disabled intentionally for security reasons , we dont want anyone who have access to the client area to be able to reset the vm password
mounting ISO is not enables as mostly you will need to contact us to upload your iso , but we should look into it
yes , we do that usually without even asking but add it as order note to make sure it is done
yes you can delete it , xen does not need any old kernel so it is safe to be removed
the reason it is there is that the centos 8 template is created by upgrading older template as when it was created xenserver didnt fully support centos8 (now it does)
will ask the team to recreate the template with older kernels removed
Hmm... plans are still available. People were making so much noise that they did not get to buy, and now they don't want to buy.
@servarica_hani - how many plans have sold since refill? How many are still available?