FIRE0002 Backups Postponed

Due to the performance issues, we had to stop the backups earlier this morning around 10AM EST. We will rerun the backups tonight to ensure we have a weekly copy of each VPS that is eligible to be backed up. Sorry again about this, we hope that our new OpenVZ Performance node will help to get such issues resolved.

-The Secure Dragon Staff

7th Set 2011
Temporary FIRE0002 performance degradation.

Due to a scheduling issue with our backup server we are a few hours behind on backups which is causing low disk IO (when the RAID card setup a check and resync job we didn't notice it ran exactly when our FIRE0002 backups ran... Oops!). We have tweaked the script to play nice in the future but as of 6:52AM EST today, the backups are still moving ... Leia mais... »

7th Set 2011
Issues with data center DNS servers.

Hello,We have noticed a major slowness lately with our websites and nodes that host a lot of VPSs running active webservers. We found out today, while troubleshooting a completely unrelated, that the DNS servers at GoRACK were not resolving correctly and while we did use multiple DNS servers, it was taking up to 90 seconds to failover to the 2nd ... Leia mais... »

6th Set 2011
Webserver moved!

We have moved our webserver for SecureDragon.net to it's own server. This will hopefully fix any slowness issues that have been occuring lately. The new IP for the website is 8.22.203.8 (in case your DNS has not updated you can add this to your hosts file). The change should be completely transparent but we wanted to inform you anyways in case any ... Leia mais... »

4th Set 2011