Comments on: RapidXen – $5 64MB Xen VPS in Fremont or Chicago http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/ Hosting Websites on Bare Minimum VPS/Dedicated Servers Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:12:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: William Pitcock http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-574 William Pitcock Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:18:55 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-574 @rob - Typically we don't have outages like these. The problem is that we had an ex-employee go in through credentials that he had not documented with us during his work on our cluster and erase several drives (including some drives that internal backups were on) before we could lock him out. He moved fairly quickly, and managed to wipe enough of around 3 drives/arrays within the 5 minute window that he had to make data recovery impossible. Basically, the reason why the site had such an outage, is because it was on one of the drives that was destroyed, and it's backup was destroyed as well. Ironically, I had a server backing things like that up offsite, but I gave it to a friend of mine when his computer blew up and hadn't gotten around to setting up a new backup server yet in my home. This is now rectified (well, once some drives arrive from newegg anyway). Very few customers (roughly 5-6%) were affected in the outage at all, and only 2-3% lost any data because of it (e.g. had their vps on the arrays that got wiped). Mostly the actions of this ex-employee resulted in damage to our internal stuff, but most things were becoming operational as of a few days ago. Getting network services and our pbx restored was seen as more important than getting our sales presence restored, hopefully this shows that we value our current customers over generating additional sales. Anyway, sales has reopened via our customer management system, and a proper RapidXen website will likely go online by Saturday afternoon. Kind regards, William Pitcock SystemInPlace (RapidXen) @rob – Typically we don’t have outages like these. The problem is that we had an ex-employee go in through credentials that he had not documented with us during his work on our cluster and erase several drives (including some drives that internal backups were on) before we could lock him out. He moved fairly quickly, and managed to wipe enough of around 3 drives/arrays within the 5 minute window that he had to make data recovery impossible.

Basically, the reason why the site had such an outage, is because it was on one of the drives that was destroyed, and it’s backup was destroyed as well. Ironically, I had a server backing things like that up offsite, but I gave it to a friend of mine when his computer blew up and hadn’t gotten around to setting up a new backup server yet in my home. This is now rectified (well, once some drives arrive from newegg anyway).

Very few customers (roughly 5-6%) were affected in the outage at all, and only 2-3% lost any data because of it (e.g. had their vps on the arrays that got wiped).

Mostly the actions of this ex-employee resulted in damage to our internal stuff, but most things were becoming operational as of a few days ago. Getting network services and our pbx restored was seen as more important than getting our sales presence restored, hopefully this shows that we value our current customers over generating additional sales.

Anyway, sales has reopened via our customer management system, and a proper RapidXen website will likely go online by Saturday afternoon.

Kind regards,
William Pitcock
SystemInPlace (RapidXen)

]]> By: William Pitcock http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-572 William Pitcock Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:14:26 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-572 RapidXen is alive and well, but we are in the process of rewriting the website. Right now, you can sign up through our customer management system at https://systeminplace.net/helpdesk/signup/view_packages.php?type=8 Kind regards, William Pitcock SystemInPlace (RapidXen) RapidXen is alive and well, but we are in the process of rewriting the website.

Right now, you can sign up through our customer management system at https://systeminplace.net/helpdesk/signup/view_packages.php?type=8

Kind regards,
William Pitcock
SystemInPlace (RapidXen)

]]> By: rob http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-571 rob Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:10:20 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-571 I've also was trying to sign up with rapidXen, however with the outage going so long, I've been having second thoughts. If the website is down for a few days, what does that mean when a server hosting a vps goes down? I’ve also was trying to sign up with rapidXen, however with the outage going so long, I’ve been having second thoughts. If the website is down for a few days, what does that mean when a server hosting a vps goes down?

]]> By: dakn0xv1ll3 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-569 dakn0xv1ll3 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:39:54 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-569 is rapidXen dead? i been trying to sign up, and i haven't been able to get to their site, this has been for about 3 days. I already tried with a couple of webproxys and still no luck. Anybody nows something? is rapidXen dead?
i been trying to sign up, and i haven’t been able to get to their site, this has been for about 3 days. I already tried with a couple of webproxys and still no luck. Anybody nows something?

]]> By: weakish http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-215 weakish Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:33:00 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-215 Rapidxen is now doing a promotion. Buy 1 month and get 1 month free. Rapidxen is now doing a promotion. Buy 1 month and get 1 month free.

]]> By: LowEndAdmin http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-162 LowEndAdmin Sun, 04 May 2008 23:46:34 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-162 @mighty_falcon -- it's pretty good. The new servers at Fremont are running 64bit whereas the ones at Chicago are 32bit. You programs will actually use more memory if it is compiled on 64bit (all integer and pointers are double in size). The owner (William) seems to be a great guy. I stuffed up my sign up and there were quite a lot of email exchanges between me and him trying to get issues resolved. Not often timely, but they do get resolved. @mighty_falcon — it’s pretty good. The new servers at Fremont are running 64bit whereas the ones at Chicago are 32bit. You programs will actually use more memory if it is compiled on 64bit (all integer and pointers are double in size).

The owner (William) seems to be a great guy. I stuffed up my sign up and there were quite a lot of email exchanges between me and him trying to get issues resolved. Not often timely, but they do get resolved.

]]> By: mighty_falcon http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-160 mighty_falcon Sun, 04 May 2008 17:39:50 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-160 How do you like rapidxen so far? Worth it? How do you like rapidxen so far? Worth it?

]]> By: weakish http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-157 weakish Thu, 01 May 2008 09:50:06 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-157 I heard some info about bandwidth: Below 95% of 2mbps is O.K. I heard some info about bandwidth:

Below 95% of 2mbps is O.K.

]]> By: LowEndAdmin http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-152 LowEndAdmin Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:50:59 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-152 @weakish -- thanks! Just got me a 64MB VPS there. @weakish — thanks! Just got me a 64MB VPS there.

]]> By: weakish http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-150 weakish Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:34:50 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-150 Their West Coast VPS are available now. http://rapidxen.net/plans.php Their West Coast VPS are available now.

http://rapidxen.net/plans.php

]]> By: LowEndAdmin http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-141 LowEndAdmin Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:19:21 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-141 Thanks. That sounds like a good set up. Unfortunately their West Coast VPS are still not available -- I have been waiting for a few weeks now and it is still showing "At Capacity". Thanks. That sounds like a good set up. Unfortunately their West Coast VPS are still not available — I have been waiting for a few weeks now and it is still showing “At Capacity”.

]]> By: weakish http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-140 weakish Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:26:12 +0000 http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/rapidxen-5-64mb-xen-vps-in-fremont-or-chicago/#comment-140 More info: Xen guest OS is based on LVM. In fact, you can have any OS. (You just need to provide an image file which runs on Xen 3.2) Console access is available but you have to ask. More info:

Xen guest OS is based on LVM.

In fact, you can have any OS. (You just need to provide an image file which runs on Xen 3.2)

Console access is available but you have to ask.

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