Knights Reborn

Jawfin wrote:Zab's fault (as per usual)

Due to a recently identified serious security concern, we will need to reboot most of the machines hosting our VDSes early on September 30. These reboots will begin at 11pm PDT / midnight MDT / 1am CDT / 2am EDT / 06:00 CEST, occurring at different times for each timezone as we handle them individually (starting with our Frankfurt machines and then moving west to the NYC machines and so on). We expect all reboots to be finished by approximately 3am PDT.

For the reboot, your VDS will need to be shut down for approximately 15-30 minutes. We will attempt to gracefully shut it down on our end through Xen, but sometimes this doesn't work perfectly, so we advise that you turn off unnecessary applications that might write to disk before the maintenance event, if possible. We also recommend backing up critical files, just to be safe in the case of a problem with the machine post-boot.


Also, please note that Windows 2012 R2 has a bug that causes it to sometimes not boot properly, then go to a recovery screen. If you are running a Windows 2012 R2-based VDS, you may need to log in with the VNC console to check for a recovery message and cancel out of it to try again. Eventually the OS will boot properly, and there are no further symptoms after the boot succeeds.