how often would you say arp restarts your machines without warning ?
i was thinking it's been a while with my current vps and lo and behold this weekend they did it again
Never.
Maybe once.
In ... a lot of years.
really? how long have you been with them?
2009?
4/5/2010.
and only once or only once you noticed?
I've had the os outright crash more often
Well I'd typically notice because my weechat would be disconnect.
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even scheduled reboots are rare
I suppose with thunder it'll be even more rare
Yeah I'm definitely thinking of upgrading.
one of my arp VMs: 15:42:01 up 219 days, 13:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
how often are those?
and what's thunder?
I can't remember the last time.
like once or twice in the five years or so I've been here
Yeah.
Thunder is a semi-dedicated solution (dedicated cores, RAM) with dedicated storage.
Ceph cluster so your VM can be moved around to other hardware during maintenance.
Yeah, very infrequent. The kvm host process randomly died on me once... Not ARP's fault, just a program that crashed.
karstensrage: it may be kernel oddity?
even if kvm crashes, chances are that it's due to some virtio bug or such...
and given that there aren't widespread crashes, maybe it's an uncommon kernel or OS or such
I joined just after mhoran did (or was it before?), and same experience: can't remember the last reboot that wasn't an OS crash or me upgrading.
You totally copied me. But I think you came along because I shut down the dedicated server we were using
Yeah that seems right. Thanks for finding this service, BTW.
Yeah!
karstensrage: To add to the data points, I did have my system rebooted once but I was notified as it was a support related issue and performance of the VM.
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my beef is there is nothing i can do. i need my machines up and i can't have them rebooted out from under me.
like could you wait until monday ?
lol
you're probably better off with a dedicated, bare metal machine
that way you're only taken out by equipment failures
who deals with those ?
the support staff
how often are equipment failures
you'd have to ask them. most of the folks here are just customers or freenode users.
i've been very happy with my services.
and i suspect most people here will say the same.
no service can guarantee you 100% uptime.