CloudLinux 7 issues with cPanel Updates

The Elflord
Yesterday was dominated by the fact that CloudLinux had released a bad iproutes package which was incompatible with the older kernels. They went through and fixed that one pretty quickly. However the new kernel is still broken (under Xen). Luckily the new iproute package (.cloudlinux.1) appears to have resolved it…
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New work, new changes – but still tech!

The Elflord
It's been a flash change for this year. Taking more changes for positive changes. New Double-glazed windows/doors complete (April), better management of health (blood sugar), new job (Woo!) which scored me even more gear for my home lab now. Got a quad-chassis Supermicro, and 4 blades (1 faulty, replaced). Some…
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Migrating to Cloud

The Elflord
Yes, a lot of disruptions. After lamenting over the state of the Australian NBN (Fraudband) - and realizing it would take 4 days to just copy my mailserver up, I've decided to drag it all to a hard disk and bring it to somewhere where I can upload 10x the…
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Faerie.CX goes back to the Cloud

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Yes, I broke down on costs and stuff - and decided to get a hosted server :) Cost me a mint, but still a good deal from my old folks I used to work for (Web24). Too bad for our backwater Australian Internet (read:ADSL2+) for the really slow uploads. Having…
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Quick roundup for Mar-Apr

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Packages of note in the Internet worlds: pfSense (2.3 release) Runs off Bootstrap front end now, FreeBSD to 10.3 base. Looks very 'slick'. I did break the upgrade, cos the 'RX-offload' bug with Xen still exists in this release. Has to be turned off from the host. Code snippet given…
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Solar Output so far

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Just had the first day with solar output and charted. At this time of the day, I have gotten solar from 0800-1700. That's at least 1/3 of the day generating. The timeline will be as follows: 08:00 : Solar starts generating (Battery ~19%) 09:00 : Battery starts charging 09:45 :…
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Big Techie week

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BananaPi arrived * Tested with Fedora Core 20 image. Works great, but kinda bloated * Tested with Bananian. Loaded fine * Read up on how to create own images (might be next on list), to base something off Kali Linux (aka. BT5) Solar power was installed into home (13/5/15) *…
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Project fever

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Ok, got a few things on the excitement list * Solar power for next Wednesday to the house! Going to set up a 4.5 KWh hybrid system with storage (phase 2). * Ordered a BananaPi Pro kit today from GPIO Aus. .. minus the SD Card * Set up some…
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