[jola]

As you might have noticed the entire CFD Online site has been down since yesterday evening. It is now finally up and running again. I apologize about the down-time.

Before going to bed yesterday I was just going to run a quick OS-update on the servers. I have done this hundreds of times before, without any problems, but this time the virtual KVM-server running CFD Online refused to start.

Virtual servers are fantastic when they work. You can move your site between hardware nodes and it is easy to update things and create failover servers. But when a virtual KVM server does not start it is very frustrating.... your entire server is just a file, which it is difficult to do anything with.

I was unable to get the site up and running yesterday. But after a few hours of sleep I was finally able to get the server to boot today. It required some manual steps in the boot process. However, once the virtual server had come up everything went back to normal, and now it boots automatically when the hardware node is restarted, as it should.

I apologize about the down-time and the frequent re-boots this morning to debug this. But now I think everything works as it should again, and I am not planning any more reboots today.

If you notice anything that is not working as it should please report it here or via email to webmaster@cfd-online.com. If the site is down please report it as replies to our Twitter or Facebook pages.