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1and1 Dynamic Cloud Server Disk Allocation

Posted by: on Jun 11, 2011 | 5 Comments Tags: , , , ,

I have a Dynamic Cloud Server with 1 and 1 which should have 100GB of disk space. Imagine my surprise when after a few days I was getting alerts telling me that I was already out of space!

Checking the server it turned out that I only had 4GB assigned to /var!!!!

A quick call to 1 and 1 revealed why. Although I did have 100GB available to me the retards at 1 and 1 decided that us server owners should work out ourselves how to use LVM to increase our partitions from the devices ourselves! NO WARNING, NO NOTES NO NOTHING!

So after speaking to a server tech (who agreed that it was bloody stupid that customers weren’t warned about this) I was pointed to a useful FAQ that helped me increase my partition sizes.

It is also worth noting that if you increase your available disk space form the cloud server menu you need to follow a seperate FAQ to get your server to use it!

How can I increase a Logical Volume
How do I assign additional disk space on a Linux DCS?

If you goto faq.1and1.co.uk and search for LVM these articles come up.


4 Comments

  1. Jonathan
    May 4, 2012

    I’m having this same problem…and I’m not an administrator. Its a shame the 1and1 wouldn’t offer to help me do this. Were you able to make the adjustments without losing site data?

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    • MojoWill
      May 5, 2012

      I don’t think it affected any data but it was a while ago I did it. I’ve completely left all 1and1 services now as their lack of support and money grabbing business model just pissed me off

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  2. Melvyn Perez
    June 13, 2011

    Do you recommend their DCS service? Stability? Power failures? Network speed?

    Thank you!

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    • MojoWill
      June 13, 2011

      I’ve had a couple of DCS now and have never had any problems, although have not yet really put much strain on them. This new one is really the first production server. Network speeds seem to be fine certainly comparable with the dedicated servers, never had a power failure but wouldn’t expect to. I’m assuming that they are using a blade server infrastructure which means that each chassis probably has around 6-10 power supplies split across multiple feeds with UPS and generator backups, a full power failure would be very unlikely!

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