#arpnetworks 2012-07-09,Mon

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up_the_ironsjpalmer: you should wait. unactionable tickets will grow stale... [00:44]
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spent too much money at Disneyland today... at least it was fun :)
up_the_irons looks around
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how's it hangin' in here? [01:16]
up_the_irons guesses everyone went to sleep... [01:26]
mike-burnsOr to work.
I'm near a Disney park, too!
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up_the_ironsmike-burns: you moved abroad IIRC? [01:30]
mike-burnsYup, or in the process of it.
I'm in Paris right now. Berlin next week, then back to the US in August to pack and sell everything off.
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up_the_ironsAnnouncement: We now have an official customer VPN (OpenVPN with SSL/TLS), vpn.cust.arpnetworks.com. Not sure anyone here will have a need to use it, but it'll support the new dedicated server customers with full IPMI access and control.
mike-burns: sounds like an adventure :)
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mike-burnsNeat!
That's definitely what I'm on. :)
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up_the_ironsmike-burns: you going to be in the LA area at all? [01:32]
mike-burnsI've been following Ruby devs across Europe. Gave a talk in Amsterdam and in Paris, and next week I'm meeting a bunch of GitHub people. [01:32]
up_the_ironsSweet [01:33]
mike-burnsup_the_irons: Sadly, I won't make it to that coast for a bit. [01:33]
up_the_ironsmike-burns: Let me know if you ever do, I'll buy you lunch, beers, drinks, w/e... :) [01:33]
mike-burnsFantastic, will do, and for all the services you provide I should be the one buying! [01:33]
up_the_ironsNo, no, you're like a 3 year customer or something, it's definitely on me and I thank you for the loyalty :) [01:34]
mike-burnsOK, it's a deal. [01:34]
up_the_irons:) [01:34]
mike-burns(We'll fight this out in real life.) [01:35]
up_the_ironsI got to meet some of my customers face-to-face at the last LADevOps meetup, was pretty neat to put faces to names
hahaha
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mike-burnshttp://vimeo.com/45214727 - here's a video of my Paris talk, where you can see what a nerdy young hipster I am. [01:35]
up_the_ironshah nice :) [01:36]
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orionHi. What is the host OS on the ARP networks servers? [10:31]
toothThat's classified. [10:36]
mike-burnsIt's Linux. [10:38]
toothIt's that hip new variant called [REDACTED] [10:39]
orionOk, thanks. [10:43]
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CESSMASTERso are you telling me my freebsd vps is impure? [11:13]
Webhostbuddha
of course
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up_the_ironsUntil FreeBSD has KVM/QEMU support, it's gonna have to be Linux :) [12:45]
segvit has KQEMU atm
its alpha though
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/kqemu-kmod-devel/
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up_the_ironsyep...
famous last words -- "its alpha though"
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Webhostbuddit would be interesting to see kqemu
dunno what's up with bhyve
anyone ever tried smartos?
the concept sounds pretty awesome but i wonder how well it actually works
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up_the_ironsWebhostbudd: never tried smartos... [15:40]
Webhostbuddsounds cool but i don't think i would move away from libvirt
or try and run a solaris shop
it is cool that they ported kvm effectively to solaris, because then you get zones
and kvm
it's a shame linux really only has vserver
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jpalmerup_the_irons: you should manually kick of a centos mirror sync. 6.3 is released! and I'll be requesting you to mount an ISO, so I can pull from your mirror. [15:43]
up_the_ironsoh let me see... [15:43]
jpalmerjpalmer is hoping 6.3 works fine in kvm, without those tweaks I had to apply
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up_the_ironsjpalmer: ok, i'll probably have 6.3 when u get back
Webhostbudd: i've heard a bit about zones, but never really looked further
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jpalmerup_the_irons: I won't be doing it until tomorrow, I was kidding about manually kicking it off. didn't realize you were around ;) [15:47]
up_the_irons:) [15:47]
jpalmerI will be submitting the ISO change order tonight though [15:47]
Webhostbuddup_the_irons: neither have i, i just know they are on par or better than jails [15:47]
up_the_ironsok [15:47]
orionHi. How hard is it to grow a VPS file system? [15:48]
up_the_ironsyeah that's what i gathered too
orion: depends on the filesystem
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orionI.e., UFS on FreeBSD 9.0 [15:48]
up_the_ironsorion: it's not too bad... fdisk, disklabel, then growfs [15:48]
orionI see.
And such an operation is supported by ARP, correct? If I need more disk I can just up my plan?
(Without having to take down the old VPS)
The grow operation seems easy enough, but I don't know what qemu's limitations are.
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up_the_ironsorion: yes, totally supported. however, for those uncomfortable with growing their filesystem, extra disk space can just be added as a 2nd disk [15:54]
orionAhh, true! That might actually be a better option for me. [16:03]
up_the_ironsorion: just say so in your upgrade request when you email support@arpnetworks.com, and it'll be done [16:04]
orionYou see, I am going to be sharing a VPS with a bunch of my friends, and I need to figure out a way to split the cost based on disk space so that it's fair.
How much of a management headache is it to manage virtual drives? For example, if I bought a drive for each person, would that be annoying and time consuming?
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up_the_ironsorion: yes, we don't do that. if you want to do something like that, just create different partitions on your new second disk, or use quota(8), etc... [16:07]
orionRight, I totally understand. [16:07]
up_the_irons:) [16:10]
orionhaha, I've managed a server with this group of friends for... going on 6 years -- with no automation for anything except PowerDNS. I can only imagine how painful it must be to do VPSs for all of us. [16:11]
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up_the_ironsorion: well, there's a lot of automation that I've built over the years, by necessity. it isn't that bad [16:12]
orionCan I take a wild stab and say that you're using Ruby for automation? [16:13]
up_the_ironsorion: that's a big part of it; on the servers though it is mainly shell scripts (i'm a minimalist)
orion: the Portal is a Rails app, with arpnetworks.com being a Sinatra app
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orionI have a special place in my heart for Ruby, heh.
Sinatra is a great framework as well.
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up_the_ironsi love Sinatra
Sinatra is shell scripting for the web
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orionIt's beautiful.
Padrino is cool too.
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up_the_irons: Does ARP offer discounts for paying semi- or yearly? [16:39]
up_the_ironshttp://support.arpnetworks.com/kb/billing/is-there-a-discount-for-paying-in-advance [16:40]
orionoops, sorry. :( [16:40]
up_the_ironsno worries [16:49]
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phluxI wonder how long I've been with ARPNetworks
It might be time for me to pay semi-annually.
Looks like I started with you guys in Feb of 2010
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up_the_ironsWe thank you for your loyalty :) [19:28]
phluxThank you :)
wow
7:41PM up 352 days, 23:49, 4 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00
Over a year of uptime on that VPS
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I really either need to up my resources or migrate to a dedicated server to be honest
I know my loads are low right now, but my entire network relies heavily on my ARPNetworks VPS...If something goes wrong with it, my whole network dies.
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milkibottleneck~ [19:53]
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up_the_ironsphlux: our dedicated servers are coming online soon. I have one in beta right now.
phlux: u need a dedicated server for a 15 minute avg load of 0.00? ;)
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phluxup_the_irons: nice! [20:21]
up_the_irons(not that i'm complaining) [20:22]
milkiol
l
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up_the_ironsfail [20:22]
milki^
its ok
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up_the_ironshah [20:22]
phluxup_the_irons: lol probably not, but I like to be on the safe side [20:22]
milkii have an excuse
race conditions
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up_the_ironsphlux: roger [20:22]
phluxplus, if I make it a dedicated server, I can run more things that I have spread out right now
i.e., mail
That's the one thing that VPS isn't currently hosting for me
Anyone ever used Matt's mail toaster on FreeBSD?
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milkishouldnt it be runnign freebsd on a toaster [20:24]
up_the_ironsphlux: well, if you want one, it's $169 for: 3.4 GHz Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge, 16GB of RAM, 2x 1TB SATA, Dual PS, /29 IP block, 20TB of bandwidth, full out-of-band IPMI access with virtual media (bootable ISOs) over OpenVPN [20:25]
phluxgood lord@those specs [20:25]
up_the_ironsphlux: having things spread out is better for redundancy though :)
LOL
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phluxThat's actually an amazing price for all of that [20:25]
up_the_ironsI aim to please [20:26]
phluxI actually have a question about redundancy [20:26]
up_the_ironsThere will be dual uplink and VRRP also once I get my 6506 up and running
ask :)
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phluxHow is it that big e-mail servers (GMail, Yahoo) are able to have multiple SMTP/POP/IMAP servers that all accomplish the same tasks?
I've always wanted to have a failsafe mailserver, but I have no clue how to get all of the e-mails to deliver to multiple inboxes, and how to tell clients which one to choose
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up_the_ironsphlux: well, only one server is picked by the MTA as the final destination
phlux: oh, that's easy. you have one primary MX and then a secondary MX running as just a relay server (to the primary MX). There are several tutorials for Postfix on this (and i've set up a system like this once with Postfix)
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phluxup_the_irons: So let's assume MX1 goes down for some unforseen circumstance. Your e-mail users would never know the difference? [20:29]
up_the_ironsphlux: that part of it (client access vs. email delivery) i've not done before, but I would think something like this would work: the primary MX stores the email on some shared medium, which can be accessed by multiple IMAP/POP/whatever servers. You'd make *those* access servers redundant using the redundancy tool of your choice (RR DNS, LVS, or w/e) [20:31]
mjphaving a second mx as relay only just means the sending mta gets to deliver on first attempt instead of spooling. you would still lose pop/imap access on your mail box... [20:32]
up_the_ironsmjp: see my last comment :) [20:33]
mjpahhh yes :) [20:33]
phluxup_the_irons: That is interesting..I'm going to look into that this week and get back to you on what I did/used. Maybe I'll write a tutorial or something so others can benefit (should I get it working) [20:33]
mjpi was about to suggest shared storage/mail box syncing etc. [20:33]
phluxup_the_irons: Thanks for the point in the right direction - I hadn't thought of their being a single point to retrieve information from.
s/their/there
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up_the_ironsmjp: yeah
phlux: np
phlux: i think at the end of the day, there has to be this single point of info retrieval, and maybe that is sync'd / replicated somewhere for redundancy
brb
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phluxup_the_irons: Indeed. It makes sense. I was thinking the mail would have to be delivered to multiple servers at the same time, which didn't seem right.
Roger. I'm out for the night. Later, folks!
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