Ubuntu 9 Released on our VPS Plans

We have made Ubuntu 9 available on our VPS plans, you can rebuild your current VPS with the image, or order a new VPS via our website to take advantage of the new OS: http://www.crucialp.com/virtual-dedicated-servers-vds/index.php

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XenServer VM/VPS Will Not Reboot/How to force a shutdown

We have had an issue on a number of occasions where a VPS will not shutdown while using XenCenter, and just appears to freeze.  Even using the xe vm-shtudown command via the console does not work.

If you are having this issue you can run the following command:

xe vm-shutdown vm=[uuid] --force

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 12:47 am

XenServer VM/VPS Will Not Reboot/How to force a shutdown

We have had an issue on a number of occasions where a VPS will not shutdown while using XenCenter, and just appears to freeze.  Even using the xe vm-shtudown command via the console does not work.

If you are having this issue you can run the following command:

xe vm-shutdown vm=[uuid] –force

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 1:08 am

REVOLUTIONARY XEN VPS Plans! Starting at $20/month – Upto 4GB RAM, 400GB Storage

After a very popular intial release of our VPS plans, Crucial Paradigm has significantly upgraded our new VPS plans!

Our new plans utilize the following MONSTER servers:

2 x Intel Xeon 5420 (8 x 2.5Ghz Cores, 24MB Cache)
32GB FB-DIMM DDR2 RAM
8+ Drives RAID 10
Dual Redundant Power Supplies

Link: http://www.crucialp.com/virtual-dedicated-servers-vds/index.php

Plans:

* All plans come with a web based control panel, and ability to remotely console/KVM into the server.

VPS 256
256MB RAM
25GB Storage
150GB Bandwidth
$20/month


VPS 512
512MB RAM
50GB Storage
300 Bandwidth
$37/month


VPS 1024
1024MB RAM
100GB Storage
600GB Bandwidth
$75/month


VPS 2048
2048MB RAM
200GB Storage
1200GB Bandwidth
$150/month


VPS 4096
4096MB RAM
400GB Storage
2400GB Bandwidth
$300/month


Order Links:

VPS 256: https://www.crucialp.com/client/order.php?step=2&pid=382
VPS 512: https://www.crucialp.com/client/order.php?step=2&pid=383
VPS 1024: https://www.crucialp.com/client/order.php?step=2&pid=384
VPS 2048: https://www.crucialp.com/client/order.php?step=2&pid=385
VPS 4096: https://www.crucialp.com/client/order.php?step=2&pid=386


Operating Systems Supported (64bit!):
* CentOS 5
* Debian 4
* Ubuntu 8
* Fedora Core 9
* Gentoo 2008 (Coming soon!)


Add-ons:

1. Additional IPs – $3/IP/month
2. Full VPS Management – $30/month
3. cPanel/WHM – $12/month
4. Backups:
256 Plan: $10/month
512 Plan: $15/month
1024 Plan: $25/month
2048 Plan: $50/month
4096 Plan: $100/month


Notes:
* All plans include swap space, the same size as the RAM.
* 1 IP included, additional IPs $3/IP/month


Why Crucial Paradigm:

• Established Company, in our 5th year of operation.
  
• We offset our emissions using Green Electricity and by planting trees (so far 1000+!).
• We put customers before profit.
• We are always looking for ways to improve, and offer improved services to our clients.
• Friendly support with fast responses

Feel free to contact us at sales@crucialparadigm.com if you have any questions!

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Problems accessing Console on Xen virtual server

If you are having trouble accessing all virtual server’s (DomUs) via their consoles on a Xen server, you can easily resolve this by restarting xenconsoled. For example:

# xenconsoled –log=all –log-dir=/var/log/xen/console/

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 3:05 am

What is HVM?

HVM stands for Hardware Virtual Machine, and is usually used in reference to AMD’s and Intel’s Virtualization technology included in their new processors (Intel VT and AMD Pacifica).

The XenSource website has listed some of the processors which are compatible with this technology: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HVM_Compatible_Processors

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 5:46 pm

HyperVM Error: sessionname_not_client []

If you are receive this error, you can check a number of ways to resolve it:

1. rm /usr/local/lxlabs/hypervm/session/*
2. Check / is not full on the server
3. chown lxlabs:lxlabs /usr/local/lxlabs/hypervm/session/

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 8:07 pm

HyperVM: VM creation has failed. Reason: Could not download __path_program_ or no_template_and_could_not_download []

HyperVM with Xen Error when trying to rebuild a VDS, or when trying to setup a new VDS:

VM creation has failed. Reason: Could not download __path_program_

Or

no_template_and_could_not_download []

Solutions:

1.  Ensure firewall is not running on slave, or incoming and outgoing port 8889 is allowed.
2. Set the permissions to 644 to the template (which is creating the error message) on the master server in the /home/hypervm/xen/template directory.
3. Ensure that the FQDN (fully qualified domain name) for the HyperVM master server (Servers -> localhost -> Information) is resolving to the correct IP.

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 10:12 pm

Lxadmin Documentation and Useful Info

Having recently starting offering Virtual Dedicated Servers, and offering Lxadmin for free on all our Virtual Dedicated Server plans – the following details may be useful:

What is Lxadmin?

“LxAdmin is the world’s lightest control panel, using lighttpd and djbdns and only consumes 9MB RSS and 15MB memory usage on bootup on the OpenVZ (or Xen) platform. Lxadmin allows you to run either lighttpd/apache or djbdns/bind and also provides graphical interface to switch between these programs on a live server, without losing any data. Lxadmin Enterprise can transparently move web/mail/dns from one server running apache to another running lighttpd, again transparently and without causing any downtime.”

Useful Links:

1. Login Url: http://demo.lxadmin.com:7778/

2. Default Login Details:
Username: admin
Password: admin

3. Lxadmin Documentation: http://doc.lxlabs.com/lxadmin/admin/

Lxadmin integrates with our VDS control panel, and you can easily access and manage your VDS along with Lxadmin.

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 4:22 pm

Where are the Xen log files?

The Xen/Xend/xm log files can be found: /var/log/xen

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 10:22 pm