Kuro5hin has been down for a few days, and will probably continue to be down for a few more for the reasons I'll reveal here. First off, we've had some colo problems. VHosting is great, but VHosting can't control it when the people who actually have the rack/cage space decide to move (without telling anyone) a hundred or so of their customer's servers to another facility. Naturally, it takes a few days for all the BGP routing to get adjusted; even longer for those whose ISPs filter BGP broadcasts out.

But it gets better! Bubba is a sensitive fellow. We've had problems before from bad ram, and an unwillingness to bootup somedays (depending on Bubba's mood). Since the hardware isn't within kicking distance, I (Inoshiro) can anly suggest things to Jason or whatever local colo tech person is handy. It's not the best situation. And it's worse since the move as whoever moved it did not take everything out carefully at one place, move it, then carefully put it back together. They just moved the entire thing while it was in one piece. So now, Bubba doesn't work. We've narrowed it down to the CPUs, but we can't do anything about it unless we get some plugs for the slots that'll let us test which CPUs are bad.

In the mean time, Jason has offered some great support. We love VHosting :) But until we can arrange for a new machine, K5 will be on a bit of a siesta. Mail and DNS are fine (those machines are at my house, so I can always slap 'em around and make them work). If we had the "username@kuro5hin.net" thing setup for people to buy, it'd still be working fine -- so don't fret about it :) Services will also be getting a secondary backup machine soon which I'll configure to mirror everything.

In a few days, all of VHosting's machines will be moving to a new colo facility/provider who won't play games with their customer's boxes.

-- Inoshiro