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Posts from February 2010

Emergency Reboot and File System Check for Z95 Headhunter

Our Canadian node Z95 Headhunter went into “read only mode” a few minutes ago. We are running a reboot and a file system check on the node now. This node has been performing daily offsite backups so if there is any data loss it is going to be extremely minimal If you have any questions [...]


SolusVM Emergency Maintenance

We are performing some emergency maintenance of the vps.kerplunchosting.com control panel. It shouldn’t take any longer then 15 minutes. Sorry folks!


Daily Offsite Backups!

We are proud to announce that all of our VPS servers will soon be performing daily offsite backups for ALL VPS servers! It will be deployed across all of our nodes over the next two weeks


New UK Node – Nubian

We have just launched a new UK node, Nubian. It is located in a new datacenter, Spectrum House. All future orders for our UK locations well be going to this new datacenter.


Ksplice Uptrack

We are proud to announce that all of our nodes now run Ksplice’s fantastic Uptrack software. This enables us to keep all of our servers completely up to date with security patches without requiring reboots!


Emergency Network Maintenance – Canadian Location

One of our major upstream providers will be undergoing an emergency maintenance window tonight starting at 12:01AM and ending at 6:00AM. During this time, our other upstream providers will be picking up the excess bandwidth loads caused by this, however there may be some increased latency and packet loss while connections converge. If you have [...]


Time Syncing – Network Time Protocol

We have now installed NTP across all of our nodes. This will ensure that date and time will be properly updated across all of our nodes. If you are experiencing any issues with time lag please let us know and we will look into it


VPS Control Panel is now HTTPS only

Due to concerns from a few users as well as our own security concerns we have made our VPS Control Panel at vps.kerplunchosting.com HTTPS only. If you go to the unsecure version of the site you will automatically be redirected.