Posts by leadyrob 12 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2018
I've been wondering for a while if Oracle was the target here, but I'm not convinced.
Oracle are a Red Hat Certified Cloud Service Provider, which was only announced in January '23.
https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/red-hat-enterprise-linux-supported-oci
https://catalog.redhat.com/cloud/detail/216977
If Red Hat/IBM had concerns about Oracle I can't see they'd agree to them signing up to be a CCSP.
There's an implication that the UPS wasn't adequately isolated from the server racks.
UPSs fail and often quite spectacularly - I've been in the nervous position of having to flick the bypass breakers on one, when there was still smoke coming from the inverter capacitors.
The big failure here seems to be a design that allowed a failed component to have such a negative effect on the rest of the data centre.
Yes, a UPS engineer may take some of the blame, but most of it should go on the shoulders of the DC designers.
I think it's fair to say that 123-Reg's customer records are just broken.
Back in September 2017, after they increased their prices massively, I shifted all my services over to Mythic Beasts and cancelled my 123-Reg account.
Cue September 2019 and I get warning emails from 123-Reg claiming the services that they no longer host are at risk, and I need to pay them £150 to renew.
Unsurprisingly, no response to any correspondence with 123-Reg.
It's a good job my credit card had expired in those two years !
> The VM issue also rears its head with the file system which is now a VHD using the ext4 file system and configured with an initial size of 256GB.
Now I know Windows systems can get bloated but that's a tad large !
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-ux-changes
Ah - should say initial *max* size ...
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