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Hi @rickey!
Your VPS has been rebuilt. Same IP addresses, ssh keys, and password as previously.
This VPS build is with the full Ubuntu OS directly present inside your qcow2 file. No backing store.
Please post here in this thread to let us know if you get in and if everything seems okay to you.
Yabs shown below.
Hope you enjoy your newly rebuilt VPS! Any issues, please let me know, and I will try to help.
If you have time to post about your VPS adventures, that would be great!
Thanks to Alexhost!
Best wishes!
Tom
already install some programs in the VPS, and it works fine atm
I'm curious, have y'all ever tried the Omarchy distro? I'm thinking about installing it on an old laptop
@BasToTheMax
I've never tried Omarchy. I watched most of the intro video on https://omarchy.org/. Omarchy seems like a lot of fun and DHH is amazing! If you try Omarchy, please let me know how it goes.
Best!
Tom
Sure
Hi @Not_Oles,
Thank you! I've successfully logged into the server, and everything seems to be working fine. I will now proceed to install the open source hetrix tools agent, so I can continue to comfortably monitor the VPS.
On the weekend, I'll try test out as many of the things I've wanted on this server and post them here, as currently I'm a bit busy with some other work.
@BreakaWD You are next!
@thenet Are you around?
Best!
Maintenance at Alexhost
Alexhost says:
Dear customers.
We would like to inform you that our Data Center will undergo scheduled maintenance on the power infrastructure in order to enhance reliability and future-proof our systems.
@BreakaWD
Your VPS has been rebuilt! Hope it works great for you for a long time!
Login should be the same as before. Please post here to let us know whether you get in and if everything looks okay. If you have time, please post about what you are doing on your VPS -- your VPS adventures!
My ssh keys are in there along with yours. Please remove mine if you want. And change the password.
Yabs from inside your new VPS is below. Thanks again and best wishes!
Tom
Thank you @alexhost
Thank you @Not_Oles
Thanks. Server is operational
Hi!
Delighted to meet you and to give you a VPS!
There are a couple of questions. Can you work with IPv6 only or do you need IPv4?
Also, no Debian at the moment, because it isn't booting until I figure out why not. For now, would Ubuntu work for you? (People have tried changing to Debian internally with a script. So far, that hasn't worked here. I have had to rebuild the VPSes.)
If we go ahead, I will need your key.
Thanks for your request!
Tom
My Debian install works just fine, anything happened? Can I be of assistance?
@zejjnt
Thanks for asking! What a nice guy you are!
There was a node software update a few weeks ago. Following the update, it seemed that newly made Debian VPSes no longer booted. They seem to start booting but stick at an early phase of the boot process.
Mysteriously, the previously installed Debian VPSes continue to work fine. Like yours! And mine.
I bet its something really simple, like a package was divided, and I need to install another package. Or there is a new option in a config file that I need to enable.
One of these days soon I will invest some time and figure it out, or, if not, post specific info about versions and configurations to see if you can help.
Thanks very much!
Tom
Hi @Not_Oles ,
Can I request a free VPS? I am testing a global headscale infrastructure and a distributed private Raft log, and would love to have a free one. If approved, I would prefer Ubuntu 24.04.03.
Github: https://github.com/nirmit
@i_am_batman
Thanks for your request! You can see the list of pending requests at https://fossvps.org/list.html.
Do you need IPv4 or is IPv6-only okay since you refer to "infrastructure?"
I took a quick look at your Github link. It seemed that the most recent update was metabase in 2021. If you dont mind my asking, where are you putting your projects nowadays? And, do you have a blog or a website?
Thanks! And best wishes for sure!
Tom
IP> @Not_Oles said:
IPv6 is totally ok. IPv4 is just an added edge for my tests. Moved my stuff to a self-hosted Gitea and only push them when they are ready for critics. I am a bit careful with my code these days
@i_am_batman How should I understand what you are saying about being a bit careful? It seems like nothing from your code has been open source since 2021. But I guess I am wrong? May we please have a link to the self-hosted Gitea? Thanks!
i have Dm'ed my key
Ubuntu and v6 are fine
Thank you
Hi @MeMyselfandLinux!
Sounds excellent! Thanks for your key via PM.
Tomorrow I need to update your entry on https://fossvps.org/list.html to Accepted.
It will be great to have you with us on the server!
Best!
Tom
Hello!
FOSSVPS.org has been updated to add a link to the Second Month Report.
The Request List has been updated to separate Accepted, Pending, and Assigned Requests. Hopefully the list is clearer this way.
Thanks to @R3M1NE for an additional $5 contribution!
Thanks to Alexhost, OnlyServers, and @fmxm!
Next up is assigning a VPS to @千狐 (@ThousandFoxes).
Best wishes!
Tom
@Not_Oles just make a spectacular noob mistake!
During the process of rebuilding vm2 I went to remove the qcow2 image and the vm-seed.iso for vm2.
Heres what went wrong:
It is not too hard to rebuild all the VPSes numbered beginning with 2. There is a directory with scripts for each VPS, so I have to go through that directory, rerun the scripts, and double check.
I will post more as events progress.
But it will take a while.
Sorry!
Wow!
Tom
Unexpected discovery!
virsh seems to think that some of the VPSes whose qcow2 files were deleted are still running.
I logged in to one VPS where the client apparently had not deleted my ssh key. I did nothing except log out immediately, but it seems people still could log in to their VPSes even though the .qcow2 files are gone.
I dont know what use it would be to log in, but maybe I ought not to rebuild VPSes until clients have had a chance to log in if they want to do so.
Clients who are affected are those with Alexhost VPSes numbered vm2*. If you are in the vm2* group, please let me know if I should go ahead and rebuild your VPS.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Tom
A suggestion has been received to try copying the deleted .qcow2 and .iso files out of /proc. Thanks @cmeerw!
Apparently, when, as here, deleted files were being used by an ongoing process prior to deletion, the deleted files persist in /proc until the ongoing process completes or is disrupted.
If someone in the affected Chisinau vm2* group wants me to try restoring their files by copying from /proc, please let me know. Alternatively, just rebuilding is fine.
Since I could log in to one of the affected VPSes, the VPSes might still be responding as expected to monitoring. Maybe nobody knows of the issue unless they are following this thread, or the threads at OGF and Nodeseek?
Reminder about Chisinau maintenance coming up soon! If the power to our server is interrupted during the maintenance, we might lose any vm2* qcow2 and iso files still alive in /proc. So, if anyone wants to copy their files out of /proc, it might be best to do that before the maintenance.
Thanks for the heads up!
One of the Nodeseek guys reported that he can log into his VPS and can install software.
But his qcow2 file is gone!
Amazing! As @cmeerw says, the VPS persists inside /proc. Wow!
In case anyone might be interested, I posted the steps I took to possibly recover a VPS from /proc at https://fossvps.org/recover.html. A few comments are posted at https://www.nodeseek.com/post-431916-36#359.
Best wishes!
That's actually pretty interesting, not sure it would have occurred to me.
Hopefully you learned something about being logged in as root and rm and wildcards.
Wow! The VPS which was restored using @cmeerw's brilliant method of copying the deleted qcow2 file out of /proc seems to have worked! At the least, the VPS now is running again, and it responds to ping and ping6. I'm waiting to hear from the client about whether he can log in and if everything looks good. Command line output posted at https://www.nodeseek.com/post-431916-37#365. Double wow if the VPS looks good from inside!!