Category Archives: Announcements
Plan Upgrades
Date published: January 16th, 2008
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We have made disk space upgrades on the two lowest (and most popular) VPS Plans:
- Iota VPS ($19.97/mo) is upgraded from 5GB disk to 10GB disk
- Lambda VPS ($29.97/mo) is upgraded from 15GB to 20GB disk
All customers that are currently on either of these plans will see the upgrade immediately. Enjoy!
Check your VPS memory and disk usage
Date published: October 31st, 2007
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Hey everyone. Just getting an announcement out there about some new scripts that have been added to the jails of all our VPS users. We have added scripts to view memory usage, view disk usage, reboot, and halt from within the jail (i.e. on the command line). All of this has been available through the web-based RootCP but now it is even easier to check if you are logged in to a shell. The reboot and halt scripts have actually been around for a while but it seems that we never got around to announcing them before.
Reboot
The binaries for the scripts are called “reboot”, “halt” (these are direct replacements for their normal counterparts). Once you halt your VPS, you will need to login to RootCP to start it up again since you will be, well, locked out of your shell.
Resource Usage
To see your RAM usage: jmemstat
To see your disk usage: jdiskstat
Do you have ideas for other improvements we could make? Send them to us! Have a problem? Drop an email to [email protected] and let us know.
Updates to RootCP
Date published: October 16th, 2007
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Today we upgraded RootCP, our FreeBSD VPS management tool to version 1.5. This is the first major update we have made to RootCP and it should run noticeably faster for our users. Here are the main changes implemented in this update:
- Major speed improvements The processes that check on status variables for VPSs are streamlined to run a lot faster. This should result in faster page loading times.
- Other behind-the-scenes stuff like security enhancements and more account management functions.
- Standards compliant with XHTML 1.0 strict. Woohoo!
- Real Hostname support – The hostnames for VPSs are updated from the running environment so when you change your hostname it will trickle over to the control panel.
