Hello,

If you use our Shared SQL services you must make changes to your service! Please continue reading this email!

We’re happy to announce the availability of isolated Private Networking LANs at BuyVM! These networks are isolated to you and your KVM Slice instances and allows you to use any IP addresses you want over the interface, run multicast services (for “keepalived” or services like that), or even run your own DHCP servers for VPNs. This feature also means you can provision a KVM Slice and treat it as a router, NAT’ing traffic to other servers on your LAN.

LANs are currently limited to services within the same location and don’t span locations. This might change in the future but as of now we’re keeping things simple. Private Networking is disabled by default and requires you follow the following steps to enable it.

1) Login to Stallion at https://manage.buyvm.net/
2) Click the instance you want to enable it on
3) Click Networking
4) Click “Private Networking”
5) Click the “On” button on the right
6) Click “Save Changes” at the bottom
7) Power off and Power on your service

There is no DHCP in place to automagically assign your LAN IP address. You must manually configure your choice of IP subnet. We recommend using a block from 192.168.0.0/16, 172.16.0.0/12, or 10.0.0.0/8, as these are reserved for private usage.

If you’re using our Shared SQL services you must update your IP from 172.16.0.51 to one of the following:

Las Vegas -> 205.185.112.51
New York -> 199.195.255.51

You will also have to update your “Hosts” list inside of DirectAdmin to allow your public IP address.

Please don’t hesitate to open a support ticket if you need assistance with any of this!

We hope you and your loved ones are safe & healthy throughout the holiday season.

As always, we thank you for your patronage over the years.

Francisco

Mass email going out to everyone so I figured I'd drop it here.

Hello,

We’re pleased to announce the availability of both Automatic Backups as well as Snapshots for our KVM Slice product line in our Las Vegas facility!

Automatic Backups are taken every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at midnight PST. We keep a total of 6 backups active, meaning you have around 2 weeks of restore points to work from. Automatic Backups are priced at 10% of your base KVM Slice plan, exceptions for the 512MB & 1GB plans which are a flat $0.50/month. As an example, a user on a 4GB KVM Slice that costs $15.00/month would be paying just $1.50/month for the peace of mind of automatic backups. An 8GB $30.00/month Slice would be just $3.00/month.

If you’re wishing to enroll in Automatic Backups you can log in to https://my.frantech.ca, pick the service in question, click “Upgrade/Downgrade Options”, and pick “Yes” for “Automatic Backups”.

We also include 5 free Snapshots with every account to allow users to make their own instant backups at any time. This is great if you’re wanting to do a large software update but aren’t sure if it’ll burst into flames (Trademark Frantech Solutions 2020). Fear not, if it does burst into flames you can issue a restore and be rolled back to where you were. Snapshots also provide a great way to create your own templates in the off chance you need many virtual servers all running the same software configuration.

Snapshots are currently region locked and can only be restored within the location they were created in. In time we may look to set up some sort of global syncing, but with this only available in Las Vegas at the moment, this is low priority.

Both Backups and Snapshots are taken while your virtual server is live, meaning there's no downtime or pausing while the backup is taken. This is extremely important and useful for busy database servers where you'd need to schedule downtime so mysqldump can lock your tables from changes.

We thank you for your patronage over the years!

Francisco