How often do outages occur? How reliable is the myhosting VPS environment?

[jeremya]

Hi Karl,

I'm not sure what our support team meant by that, but we do use Dynamic Memory as of http://myhosting.com/statusblog/2011...ervice-update/.

We heavily monitor our servers in general and for RAM usage and if there were any concerns that purchased RAM levels couldn't be met this would be addressed well in advance.

[karlos349]

Hi Jeremy,

That makes sense, I didn't see that mentioned anywhere else on the site.

Funny timing, as I was reading that article I got a notification that Node 31 (Which my server is hosted on apparently) will be down for about 90 minutes to replace a faulty memory chip (http://myhosting.com/statusblog/2012...p-replacement/).

This sort of conflicts with the statement made in the post you mentioned:

HA (High Availability) Clustered Environment – Whether by routine maintenance on the host machine, or a hardware failure, client Hyper-V virtual servers will remain available during such outages as they’re automatically moved to another host machine as soon as a problem is detected. This can result in as little as a single ping loss during transition!

[jeremya]

Hi Karl,

This is true unfortunately, our cluster has been having considerable problems in the last while that we have been unable to resolve with Microsoft support to a degree we are satisfied with. As a result, we have begun migrating users off of the cluster until those issues can be addressed. We had been running Hyper-V servers with an incredible deal of success prior to making use of the clustered environment so it was decided best to revert this for the current time.

[greenmatter]

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