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The virtual machines running on this rackable computer have been brought back online. Please write support if you're still unable to access your instance and if you were impacted will have that follow-up email and credit applied here in a bit.

One of our rackable computers hosting virtual machines is offline this morning. Customer services on that host are not available until we resolve the issue. Everyone impacted by the downtime will receive an email follow-up.

. @OpenBSD 7.2 is now available as a netboot install. tornadovps.com/blog/2022/12/o…

. @FreeBSD 13.1 is now available as a prebuilt image and netboot install. tornadovps.com/blog/2022/12/f…

. @netbsd 9.3 is available as a netboot install: tornadovps.com/blog/2022/12/n…

. @alpinelinux 3.16.1 is available as a netboot install: tornadovps.com/blog/2022/12/a…

. @ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) is available as a prebuilt image and netboot install tornadovps.com/blog/2022/12/u…

Prgmr[.]com is now Tornado VPS: tornadovps.com/blog/2022/03/1… We will continue to host virtual private servers as we have since 2005. Please follow @TornadoVPS our new Twitter account.

Website and VPS console are back up, maintenance window is closed.

We're doing some maintenance on our website and management console. They'll be offline for the next several hours. Your VPS services will remain active and online.

We had an IPv4 network outage starting around 2021-03-09 21:15:00 UTC and lasting until 2021-03-10 00:45:00 UTC. All customers have been issued credit for the downtime. prgmr.com/blog/2021/03/0…

We are investigating a network outage impacting customer VPSes.

We have updated our @alpinelinux netboot installer to 3.13.0. prgmr.com/blog/2021/02/1…

We have updated our @fedora distribution image and netboot installer to 33. prgmr.com/blog/2021/02/1…

We have updated our @freebsd distribution image and netboot installer to 12.2. prgmr.com/blog/2021/02/1…

We have updated our @nixos_org netobok installer to 20.09. prgmr.com/blog/2021/02/1…

Thanks @prgmrcom for the comp upgrade! Their Xen patching etc postmortems are second to none. Cannot recommend more highly. timdoug@optie:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name model name: AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor timdoug@optie:~$

Announcing Diffspeak - Blindly Viewing Diffs This script annotates diff-format files with changes of leading indentation, which allows efficient perusal by a user of a screen reader. prgmr.com/blog/2020/10/0…

Python ate my log message -- debugging an object lifetime bug. prgmr.com/blog/2020/08/2…