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What's nice is that simply turning the server on and off allows you to move the faster machines :-)

by Aissen 9y ago

drdaeman 9y ago
Except that you may suddenly encounter that servers were out of stock, someone just got lucky with the slot you've freed and now you can't power your server back on. ;-) Not sure about VPSes, but this had happened to me once with a C1 server.
- Aissen 9y ago
  Did it happen to you on a VC1 (now Start-XXX) ? These are virtual servers.
  - drdaeman 9y ago
    No, I've only ever used their baremetal offerings (C1 and C2s). Sans the few oddities, I think they're quite good for the price, at least for various toy/sandbox stuff. It could be that this kind of situation can't happen on VC1 (Start-XXX) - as I wrote, I'm not sure.
- LaurentGh 9y ago
  More details are needed, it looks like a good story.
  - drdaeman 9y ago
    Well, I don't exactly remember what I was doing (it was, like, an year ago or so), but I've de-provisioned a C1 to temporarily release its system volume as I wanted to attach it to another server (to make changes there). IIRC, I've messed up my root partition a little bit, had some nbd issues with recovery kernel, and decided to just reattach the volume to another C1 instead. And then, basically, what I wrote - someone got lucky and got the computing resources I've freed, so I wasn't able to spin things up.
eeZah7Ux 9y ago
How?
- Spone 9y ago
  See the end of the blog post: > All VC1 users can upgrade to Start servers without any price change. > To upgrade your existing VC1 server, simply do a power off and a power on your server. Your server will start on a Next-Gen Start Hypervisor with increased performances and for the same price as before. You may already be running on a new hypervisor if you created your server recently. New hypervisors are powered by Intel Denverton CPUs instead of Avoton.
atkbrah 9y ago
I tried doing this to my AMS1 region VC1L server but after powering off/on the server it was still using the old hypervisor (C2xxx atom). I noticed that the Start Range servers are all out of stock so I suppose they did fallback to old ones. (I've already opened a ticket with them). Edit: Just received a second message from them. Turns out I a missed part of their blog post that says that the update is not yet available in AMS1 region.

What's nice is that simply turning the server on and off allows you to move the faster machines :-)

by Aissen 9y ago

What's nice is that simply turning the server on and off allows you to move the faster machines :-)

Except that you may suddenly encounter that servers were out of stock, someone just got lucky with the slot you've freed and now you can't power your server back on. ;-) Not sure about VPSes, but this had happened to me once with a C1 server.

Aissen 9y ago
Did it happen to you on a VC1 (now Start-XXX) ? These are virtual servers.
- drdaeman 9y ago
  No, I've only ever used their baremetal offerings (C1 and C2s). Sans the few oddities, I think they're quite good for the price, at least for various toy/sandbox stuff. It could be that this kind of situation can't happen on VC1 (Start-XXX) - as I wrote, I'm not sure.
LaurentGh 9y ago
More details are needed, it looks like a good story.
- drdaeman 9y ago
  Well, I don't exactly remember what I was doing (it was, like, an year ago or so), but I've de-provisioned a C1 to temporarily release its system volume as I wanted to attach it to another server (to make changes there). IIRC, I've messed up my root partition a little bit, had some nbd issues with recovery kernel, and decided to just reattach the volume to another C1 instead. And then, basically, what I wrote - someone got lucky and got the computing resources I've freed, so I wasn't able to spin things up.

eeZah7Ux 9y ago

How?

Spone 9y ago
See the end of the blog post: > All VC1 users can upgrade to Start servers without any price change. > To upgrade your existing VC1 server, simply do a power off and a power on your server. Your server will start on a Next-Gen Start Hypervisor with increased performances and for the same price as before. You may already be running on a new hypervisor if you created your server recently. New hypervisors are powered by Intel Denverton CPUs instead of Avoton.

atkbrah 9y ago

I tried doing this to my AMS1 region VC1L server but after powering off/on the server it was still using the old hypervisor (C2xxx atom). I noticed that the Start Range servers are all out of stock so I suppose they did fallback to old ones. (I've already opened a ticket with them). Edit: Just received a second message from them. Turns out I a missed part of their blog post that says that the update is not yet available in AMS1 region.