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How long does it take for your VPS to reboot?
I recently bought a cheap VPS from RackNerd. I have a few VPSs from Hetzner and DO. Rebooting Hetzner and DO VPSs takes about 20-30 seconds (the time between when I press enter after typing "reboot" in SSH and the time I'm able to SSH into the VPS again) while my $1.5/month RackNerd VPS takes about 150 seconds.
Curious to hear how long it takes on other low end hosts.
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Go check dmesg. Possibly a failed service blocked your booting process.
Wow thanks!! Found https://askubuntu.com/questions/949713/systemd-networkd-wait-online-service-causing-artful-to-take-over-2-minutes-to-bo and based on a suggestion there, added a timeout to
systemd-networkd-wait-online.service, now boot takes around 30 seconds!systemd-analyze blamewas showing thatsystemd-networkd-wait-online.servicewas taking over 2 minutes.I still recommend investigating why it failed in the first place. Maybe DHCP issue or wrong interface name, but in case it is a server, you can just configure static address and route.
It's not uncommon for cheaper VPS providers to have longer reboot times due to potentially slower hardware or shared resources.
The Windows OS may occasionally take longer to load because of updates, but in Linux, it should not exceed 20 seconds.
If the longer reboot time is causing issues for you, it may be worth reaching out to RackNerd's support team to see if there are any optimizations.
I actually wanna know, when that shows up on hetrix, do I reboot it or let it be?
cuz idk what to do about this
nah nothing to worry about
17 seconds here (Hetzner) until I get a ping. Tested using a while loop that checks every second from another server terminal so it's anywhere between 16-17 seconds
Advanced idler never reboot their VPS.
Buy - install - YABS - UptimeRobot - idle until expire or sold.
Most of the problems I've had with slow reboots have actually been on shutdown. Things like database servers not quitting for a minute and then being kill -9'd and the actual reboot taking 5-10 seconds.
so if you never reboot are you live patching the kernel or just not updating it ?
Is there free live patching for Debian ?
Racknerd has VNC viewer, you can view the boot process in real time there, it can be very helpful.
Just 5s
No
Ubuntu’s free plan comes with LivePatch though, up to 5 machines for free I believe
thanks for the reply. just remembered why I went back to Debian
sudo snap install canonical-livepatchI highly doubt a snap install will make LivePatch work on a non-Canonical kernel
@totally_not_banned you know this?
I agree. rebooting isnt a big issue for me. Was just curious about the long uptimes if they were forgoing kernel updates to keep the service up
You mean LivePatch working with non-Ubuntu kernels? No, it 99% won't. That 1% is Cononical playing Mother Theresa and actually supplying patch sets for Debian (or whatever other kernel build) and saying that's highly unlikely is probably already a bit of an understatement.
I'm a bit surprised that noone took up the task of hosting the patches for Debian yet. I mean at least for a single arch (probably amd64) it shouldn't be that much of a hassle, should it? At least when i read up on it building the patches seemed pretty straight forward.
In addition to the fact that installing snap packages on Debian is blasphemy