We would like to update you on a few changes that
will happen in September 2012 as well as some useful information.
1) [All Customers]
Datacentre Move & Adding of 2 Network Providers
We are in the final
phase of planning to move to Epsilon Datacentre (Singapore)
around end of September. There will be no IP changes as we have
full control over the network at all our datacentres. All
current network providers (SingTel, PCCW, NTT) will stay, thus
other than a scheduled downtime of about 2 hours to physically
relocated the servers, there will not be degradation of your
service or network performance in any way. We will update you
again when we have a fixed date/time for the downtime.
With the migration
will be an network upgrade for our customers as we will be
adding on connectivity via Deutsche Telekom as well as Hurricane
Electric. Both providers compliment our current network
connectivity which is mainly Asia-centric, and extend our
network reach further into Europe (via Deutsche Telekom) as well
as USA (Hurricane Electric). We believe this will strengthen our
position as one of Asia's best connected VPS provider.
2) [All Customers] Restocked
OVZ-128 and OVZ-256 packages
We just restocked OVZ-128 and OVZ-256 packages, if you
require one or have friends who require one feel free to let them
know we have stock again. We're keeping a tight control on the
stock for lower plans at the moment to ensure that all our
customers continue to have the best experience with us.
3) [KVM VPS] Windows ISO
added to KVM-512, KVM-1024, KVM-2048 packages
We have added Windows 2008 SP2 and Windows 2008 R2 SP1 ISO
for our KVM packages with at least 512MB RAM. Unfortunately we
decided not to include the Windows ISO for VPSes below 512MB
because Windows 2008 uses about 400MB RAM actively, 256MB or less
RAM would mean heavy disk swapping and would affect disk
performance for our other KVM VPS customers.
Our customised Windows ISOs comes integrated with virtio
drivers for best performance, so please set your Network Card and
Disk Driver to virtio before installation. You can use your own
Windows licence, or purchase one from us at a monthly fee of $5.
The Windows License addon is available on WHMCS, just place an
order from WHMCS.
4) [KVM VPS] Please Restart and Consider Using virtio
We have disabled KVM's
disk cache (default was write-through) on our KVM servers.
Please perform a restart via SolusVM (Important! Must be via
SolusVM) as soon as you are able to, your disk performance will
be improved after you restart.
We have also received
feedback from customers about slow network performance on our
KVM VPSes. This is because virtio was not used for Network Card
and Disk Driver. virtio for KVM provides a major performance
improvement to your VPS and we highly recommend that you switch
to virtio if your Linux kernel supports it.
CentOS 6.x, Scientific
Linux 6.x, Debian 6.x, Ubuntu 11.x & 12.x have stock kernel
support for virtio, rename /dev/sda to /dev/vda in /etc/fstab
then reboot with virtio enabled in SolusVM
FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0
supports virtio via the package/port virtio-kmod, refer to
package instructions.
Windows 2008/2008 R2 support virtio via our customised
ISOs, install with virtio enabled in SolusVM
5) [OVZ/KVM VPS] SSD Caching
& Hardware Upgrade for OpenVZ VPS, SSD-based OpenVZ/KVM VPS
We're currently testing SSD Caching for OpenVZ on our test
servers, as well as some new hardware (Dual E5-2620) for our OVZ
VPS. If the testing goes well we will introduce this to all our
OVZ nodes sometime mid to end of September. There'll be no
additional costs to customers for this upgrade, and we'll likely
perform the upgrade during the datacentre migration.
At the same time we're also considering to provide
SSD-based OpenVZ/KVM VPSes. We intend to keep the pricing the same
and only reduce the disk space so that our customers still enjoy
our low pricing. We'll publish details when these are released.
We appreciate your continued support and hope to
be able to serve you better. Feel free to contact us via our
ticketing system if you have any queries.
Kenshin
OneAsiaHost
Sunday, September 2, 2012
