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AngryBox and CurmudgeonBox have been updated and are running without a hitch, though it took about five minutes longer than expected. Kernels are up to date.

At 12:57p PDT, September 15th 2007, CurmudgeonBox was born, a healthy happy baby girl who seems to have an odd attachment to the color green. We presume this has something to do with money, because our servers are all business. GuaranteedVPS is proud to add CurmudgeonBox to the family.

AngryBox will be going down briefly in eight days, in order to perform kernel and security updates and other upkeep tasks. Expected downtime is on the order of three to five minutes. We will be doing this at an hour so late that some countries don’t even have it (better known as two in the morning, Pacific Daylight Time.) This is standard housecleaning, and happens for an average server twice a year; nothing is wrong. AngryBox is, in fact, chugging along nicely. We’d just like to make sure it’s up to date.

Please make sure that any server software you’re running is set to start on boot automatically. If you are using a standard image, which almost all of you are, then Apache and SSH are already set up to boot; some servers, such as Exim, MySQL and Postfix, automatically set this up, whereas others, such as Qmail, PostgreSQL and Erlang, do not. Almost all services will be enabled/disabled through the unix command “chkconfig.” If you need help getting ready for reboot, let us know, and we’ll toss in a hand.

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It’s hard to come up with a funny byline for routine maintenance. Sorry.

At 8:19p September 8th, BelligerentBox was born, a nine pound baby P4 with “awesome” written all over its case in permanent marker. Unfortunately, my handwriting is hard to read, so it mostly looks like camouflage. GuaranteedVPS is proud to add BelligerentBox to the family.

This post is long, so I’m breaking it into pieces; follow the “read more” link to see the whole thing. Short version: we know that PayPal is having issues, and we’re not shutting off any PayPal customers who aren’t able to pay. You’re all covered. No worries. We’ve actually got some pretty strong feelings about the issue, though, so if you want to see how this particular ISP reacts to situations like these, read on.
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