Reaper-x.com Website Review

Over the last weekend, this blog was down for a few days before it finally got back up and running last sunday. The source of the problem was because of CentOS 7 just recently been updated to 7.1 and the problem was caused by the initscripts package. While there’s nothing important here because this is just a personal blog and not a mission critical site, but seeing it was inaccessible for a few days irks me. I found out the site was inaccessible on April 3. I was unable to connect at all and so i was thinking that maybe the node where i was at was down and so i sent a ticket to the provider. When they replied saying there’s nothing wrong on their side, then i started thinking was there a misconfiguration somewhere? but the day before it was working. So it began, the troubleshooting game. Unfortunately because the network is down and the provider didn’t give me access to any other console so it’s kinda hard to check on things because i have to tell them the command first by sending them tickets and then they would execute it and report back. At the same time i don’t like bothering them like this because this is an unmanaged service so asking them like this feels like i was bothering them. After numerous messages and failed attempts. They offered me to create a full backup of my container and then rebuild the vps the OS and then put the backup file later on the freshly installed vps so i can do what i want with it later. I was still hesitant on doing that mainly because well let’s just say i don’t want to reconfigure the whole thing again and i’m thinking the problem wasn’t related to configurations and so i asked them to execute one more command, and that is to install packages using yum. To my surprise they reported that yum failed and they couldn’t even ping the machine from the host node. So just as i thought this problem was caused by something else and so i ask them to try to re-add my ip address, move to another ip temporarily, and all of them ended up in