Unplanned reboot of FIRE0001 due to high CPU loads.

We noticed extremely high CPU loads today at around 1000% and due to the extremely high loads we were forced to reboot the server because we were unable to navigate the CLI to find the underlying cause. We will closely monitor the situation and have a few possible cuplrits in mind. We apologize for the minor downtime this reboot has caused ... Read More »

16th Jul 2011
A taste of what's to come... KVM and Xen

Our new hardware has arrived today and has been installed so we are in the process of testing both Xen and KVM as possible future service that Secure Dragon will be offering, with luck you'll see both of them available shortly! Stay tuned!

11th Jul 2011
The rebuild of the rebuild (updates about the past and the future).

It's been a crazy week at Secure Dragon but it looks like things are calming down a bit. Our big build last week didn't go as well as we had planned so we spent all last weekend doing as much as we could to fix it remotely but unfortunately all of the band-aids we applied were very very temporary.It was decided earlier this week that one of our ... Read More »

8th Jul 2011
New SAN testing is underway and we are blown away by the disk I/O speeds!

We were sad to see such inconsistent disk I/O performance with our SAN after we did quite a bit of testing before releasing it but we believe we found the problem (combination of driver, OS, and network issues) and while we still have one minor hurdle to get over, we are pleased with the testing we have done thus far.Of course our current tests ... Read More »

3rd Jul 2011