heh, I am client since 1 year today. Great service and stability up_the_irons. deppyz: Glad to hear! hehe heh, I recommand it :> recommend++ 13:05:38 up 273 days, 10:31, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00. well I see you host the nameserver for a nice sized .au ISP so :) never got problm :> speaking of being a client.. I need to update my CC info. CC expired, and I got the email today that if I don't update it, they are going to lock me in the dungeon with a perfect 10 woman, and she's gonna have her way with me. see, even their threatening emails.. aren't :P haha dang, I want that email now Can I just submit a new expiration date, if nothing else has changed? jpalmer: yup, but then you don't get the 10 woman I've been a client for 20-ish months maybe more like 23 time flies RandalSchwartz: hard to believe it has been that long! wait - am I off by a year? maybe it just feels like almost two years. :) i don't think so the last year has gone by like lightning yeah, since before oversee oversee was most of last year and now I've been at (mt) nearly 10 months wow definitely two years, cuz now i remember us talking about links on your site and stuff; that was when the product was still new as long as we're sharing uptimes... $ uptime 11:57:21 up 741 days, 20:55, 2 users, load average: 2.14, 1.80, 1.69 $ I keep installing my security patches. :) gotta reboot eventually for those right sup guys howdy up_the_irons, anything special I need to know for compiling a kernel on fbsd vps's? I also recommend the service. pjs: not that i know of i customized my kernel w/o any issues up_the_irons ok cool.. I didn't think so, just want to double check I've referred several people to arp networks as well.. highly recommend! :) lemme paste up the tweaks i made. i think they make it clear that GENERIC is pretty happy up_the_irons: I sent in an order, but don't know if you saw that yet? wallshot cool.. thx.. I remember when I first setup my VPS's there was an issue I ran into but ended up just keeping generic for now.. but I'm gonna rebuild world on my VPS's this week and figured I'd customize the kernel a bit gotta run real fast guys, bbl arenlor: will get back toya *to ya http://pastebin.com/t2Gsi9er+ oops no + http://pastebin.com/t2Gsi9er i created that conf file just to add the pf+altq to the kernel builds off of GENERIC hmm its probably about time to upgrade to 8.2 Man, I've had this since ~when RandalSchwartz did, didn't realize it was that long. oh but the commented XENHVM crap is old shit (i stole XENHVM conf file to get the inclusion of GENERIC example) I've had maybe ten minutes of down time total when up_the_irons rebooted once. Yea, I added pf stuff to my kernel but it was basically generic.. I remember the issue was with settings around tuning for postgresql Anyone have experience with virtualmin? aside from adding pf/altq to generic, i haven't tested other non-generic features on the vps wallshot, cool.. thx yup arenlor: btw, i did see your order and it'll be set up tonight sorry for the delay, the days following the 1st of every month are busy (billing) up_the_irons: No problem, just wanted to make sure it didn't get lost in billing. nope, it's safe up_the_irons I realize this is a long shot, but is there any work being done to automate the creation of vps instances? he'll put himself out of a job! ;) pjs: yeah that's a long shot. i think it is not going to be worth rolling my own solution to that. i should incorporate something like openstack into a newer service offering and use the functionality already provided. that would in effect give ARP Networks a "cloud" service that you could buy, if you want on-demand vps instances oooooh, the cloud opennebula i would need to provide some glue between the Portal and OpenStack, put some polish on it, etc... (mt) is looking at that and it has openstack and ec2 compat interfaces seems more mature than openstack too CloudGlue(TM) it can burst over to any other opennebula or ec2 or openstack solution too with pass through credentials etc ok i'll have to look into that also (mt) might burst to ec2 to handle demand, for example (mt)? media temple media temple current client ugh current biggest client up_the_irons cool.. Yea, it'd be awesome to be able to load an instance on command.. ... http://opennebula.org/ virtual datacenters too pjs: isn't that what ec2, slicehost, etc. are for? so you can resell, and the resellers use the identical tools to manage them up_the_irons what about backing up images? Be nice to be able to create a new instance from an existing image jlgaddis do they support freebsd? last time I checked, they didn't RandalSchwartz: burst to ec2? as in, they'd just resell ec2 instances if they were out of room? yes pjs: yeah, on demand backups have been a frequently requested item takes time to provision machines in the datacenter pjs: the 9.0 rc is supported by amazon, yes. colin percival is working on that. jlgaddis nice.. but that doesn't mean arp networks wouldn't benefit from having instances on demand i think the latest 8.x may be supported as well pjs: *shrug* garry's call, i suppose jlgaddis I use arp for 3 major reasons.. 1. service is excellent! 2. freebsd support 3. price :) 4: see #3 wallshot :) yah #2 and #3 make up for the lack of on-the-fly automation of service management i played with linode and ec2, and the ability to go tweak things on a whim at the moment you want to is great, but it definitely comes at a cost plus neither was FreeBSD-friendly which is a fairly big deal-breaker for me wallshot and honestly, I rarely need a new one on the fly.. mainly just for playing with something and I can use rackspace or ec2 for that.. I mainly would like to order a new instance from an image template on-the-fly provisioning would be ARP Networks into the next generation playing field, where a lot of the competition is already. albeit they don't have FreeBSD, which is probably why I have a business model here... ;) s/be/move/ but is that somewhere you want to go? i imagine maintenance, support requests, etc., would consume a lot more time jlgaddis: i tend to focus on the features that touch the revenue line. having on-demand provisioning would certainly boost sales. but it may be too big of a bite to chew so smaller things, like on-demand backups, may be a better focus Ooh, backups. :) is it possible to see what host my VPS's are on? I'm running buildworld but dont want to run it on more than one on the same host.. friendly to my neighbors and what not :) it's in the control panel somewhere, gimme a sec log in, click on the vps, look for the vnc server, e.g. "VNC Server: kvr04.arpnetworks.com Port: 6032", under out of band access jlgaddis cool, thx kvr04 being the physical host, btw np remember that you're only using one core out of the physical box anyway (i asked a similar question a week or two ago) hah, well it's all good.. they're all on diff hosts up_the_irons: I've used lots of competition, main reason I stick with you is that you know what you're talking about. arenlor: w00t, I need that quote on the website ;) It's yours. thanks! up_the_irons: seperate database instances would probably be a bonus, too. if you ran a dedicated DB server, and let users get their rdbms systems off of their limited RAM installations, and into a beefy machine.. users who want to run DB driven sites or applications might be driven to your model. jpalmer: oh, interesting. so like offer cloud-based database infrastructure just for vps customers can't say i've heard anyone request that though yeah, something like that. for instance, lets say I want to run drupal in my vps.. I also need mysql or pgsql, which don't generally perform well in limited RAM well, thats because most VPS's dont offer it, so people who need "higher demand" DB setups.. don't generally use VPS's i c even a moderately busy CMS would be substantially impacted by having the webserver AND db system on a 768m host. up_the_irons: Ever checked on the *min stuff? anyway, just an idea. if you've never had the request, I dunno if it'd be a marketable/profitable deal OK, if anyone wants this, email support@arpnetworks.com. let's see what the demand is. jpalmer: if it solves problems, i can make it profitable dunno how many in my current / future customer base have this "problem", so we'll see arenlor: *min stuff? up_the_irons: Virtualmin, Cloudmin up_the_irons: depending on how much effort it'd be to make it so customers can control/maintain their own DB instances.. it may be worth a try. even if it doesn't market/sell well, you could always remove the service and turn the machine into another KVM host jpalmer: yeah arenlor: i have not up_the_irons: It could solve some of the stuff. arenlor: integrating those things nicely with the current Portal is always a challenge maybe it's time to REST-ify the portal :P Time for me to run for a bit, bbl hah, I expected that line from garry after the REST comment :P jpalmer: REST'ify the Portal is a challenge as well ;) I was mostly joking. I have no clue what that whole part of your infra looks like well i like that idea anyway, b/c it leads to a way to offer an API I wonder though, if you could use something like puppet, and paramaterized classes. order comes in, DB entry gets made. it's served as ENC data to puppet, puppet provisions.. that might be a possibility with a DB acting as ENC, that would also give users the ability to do things like specify their own ISO media for the cdrom.. switch between linux and BSD optimized settings, etc s/would/could/ there are issues with libvirt and persistency across reboots, but in theory that could work the author of theforman is working on a full integration of libvirt https://github.com/ohadlevy/virt LOL, theforman uses Pledgie (I co-authored that site) err, I guess I wasn't clear.. integrating of libvirt/ruby yeah yeah? I'm one of the people that've donated to theforeman using pledgie! small small world btw, I don't think theforeman would help you much.. so I don't think I'd spend too much time looking at that particular project roger hah! watching a mythbusters episode on "bedliner" and.. it's pretty interesting I'm getting intrigued by KVM. I wanted to get certified for VMware, but I may just persue the RH virtualization cert instead. op wars? KVM is the open source future of virtualization. VMware is there for the corporate types that need that have no faith in anything unless a large corporation is charging them a lot of money *and have up_the_irons: http://memegenerator.net/instance/11117356 speaking of large corps, anyone following the occupy wall st. stuff? I'm finding it interesting... heavysixer: shoulda been "Y U DEOP ME?" ha ha up_the_irons: They're using our service to stream the occupations. We've got a few of the streams up in our office. Plus it's happening right in town. Walked by the otherday. up_the_irons: there are several occupy campaigns on pledgie too mhoran: oh yeah, which service? heavysixer: cool, did they raise anything? i heard the main one got $500K up_the_irons: livestream.com (but not on pledgie) mhoran: nice up_the_irons: no but that marine who got hurt is a pledgie member too heavysixer: scott olsen, no shit? up_the_irons: yup SMALL world heavysixer: can't find the account, which username? up_the_irons: http://pledgie.com/accounts/solsen230 myth confirmed. coating yur house in bedliner makes it bombproof! jpalmer: unless they bomb the inside heavysixer: don't get technical! heavysixer: too bad he didn't get any donations; wasn't aware he hated the marine corp ;) ha yeah apparently so jpalmer: what if a mortor comes in through the roof? (I re-watched The Hurt Locker recently...) up_the_irons: look at RVM these days http://pledgie.com/campaigns/9822 heavysixer: fucking hell nice ha i know right he's fee exempt too ;-) hrm, nobody donated to his pledgie. and ihatethemarinecorps.com is down. heavysixer: LOL dood I'll host that for free up_the_irons: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13790 look at that one apparently a Linode customer up_the_irons: he works for engineyard weird right? hah http://pledgie.com/campaigns/9946 heavysixer: who? Yamazaki-kun: wayne errr up_the_irons wayne jpalmer: yeah that's what i said b4, foreman uses pledgie :) everyone uses pledgie that's what i heard haha heavysixer: i musta missed something.. who's wayne? heavysixer: LOL up_the_irons: wrote rvm and sm heavysixer: ah cool ... May I ask what Pledgie is? arenlor: it's a crowd funding site Is it restricted to anything like Kickstarter? arenlor: nope it's the wild west :-) just no blatant spam or hate campaigns. up_the_irons: seem this? https://github.com/sm/sm heavysixer: i think i saw it once; i'm not a fan of DSLs up_the_irons: DSLs are not a fan of you Yet Another Language to Learn up_the_irons: it's perl :-) YALL haha YALL awesome i'll have to remember that heavysixer: right, and Capistrano is Ruby but not Oh no, careful with that word up_the_irons: http://memegenerator.net/instance/11117709 oh no LOL nice this is the most i've participated in #arpnetworks ever being de-opt'd makes me more approachable I don't like being approachable lol. and lately, me too 11:44 ::: asm2pizza [~adamm@c-71-232-132-109.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: g'bye] bdha 11:45 ::: Netsplit *.net <-> *.split quits: davewongillies, simmel beddari 11:45 ::: Netsplit over, joins: simmel benchMark 11:47 ::: davewongillies [~daveg@ppp59-167-135-142.static.internode.on.net] has joined ##infra-talk beorn_ 11:55 ::: BryanWB_ [~BryanWB@host83-209-dynamic.19-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it] has joined ##infra-talk bhenerey 11:59 ::: BryanWB__ [~BryanWB@host31-209-dynamic.33-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it] has quit [Ping timeout: 248 seconds] binarydig~ 11:59 ::: io_syl [~io_syl@70-36-146-245.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net] has joined ##infra-talk bjaspan 12:00 ::: nitram_macair [~nitram_ma@66.201.45.226] has left ##infra-talk [] bje eh? someone hit paste in the wrong window 12:00 ::: cwebber_ [~cwebber@rrcs-24-43-64-2.west.biz.rr.com] has joined ##infra-talk bleything~ 12:00 ::: mjeanson [mjeanson@conference/ubuntudevelopersummit/x-mbtbpgfbqitkmozg] has quit [Ping timeout: 276 seconds] BLZbubba_ 12:03 ::: the_ramink [~the_ramin@173-8-169-73-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 252 seconds] bob2 up_the_irons: i know who that someone is 12:04 ::: natacado [~paradise@dsl081-160-163.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 260 seconds] bobw 12:17 ::: adamauden [~Adium@99-127-168-243.lightspeed.nsvltn.sbcglobal.net] has joined ##infra-talk bodgit 12:29 ::: rcrowley [~rcrowley@c-71-202-44-233.hsd1.ca.comcast.net] has joined ##infra-talk bosszaru Yikes. 12:34 ::: the_ramink [~the_ramin@76.14.87.66] has joined ##infra-talk BryanWB_ 12:36 ::: alequoc [~textual@rrcs-24-103-45-130.nyc.biz.rr.com] has quit [Quit: Computer has gone to sleep.] carxwol >_< Nice 12:38 ::: joe-mac1 [~mickysanc@c-24-128-49-54.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has joined ##infra-talk chadh 12:39 ::: dan__t_ [~danq@ip72-208-225-53.ph.ph.cox.net] has joined ##infra-talk chasmo 12:40 ::: steph021 [~steph021@unaffiliated/steph021] has quit [Quit: Leaving] chrisa2 12:40 ::: io_syl [~io_syl@70-36-146-245.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net] has quit [Quit: Computer has gone to sleep.] chrisred 12:44 ::: mconigliaro [~anonymous@71-208-192-239.hlrn.qwest.net] has quit [Quit: mconigliaro] chrizz_ Luckily I'm on anti-histamines for a cold, so it was funny to me. Hm, what are the names at the end of each line... Oh, probably a nicklist mjp: :) leaving the office, bbl arenlor: if you're around, just sent ya an email