[deanhills]

I've decided to let go of my VPS 9.  I don't have the time to struggle through issues that I think came through the upgrade automatic process.  I don't think the outcome is perfect.

For VPS 9 Phoenix the IP was changed to a German IP.  However, the networking of it got configured for a Phoenix IP, and I think somewhere around this kind of Networking, the speed of my VPS with the new IP vs the old Phoenix IP got reduced significantly.  My ISP is in South Africa and traditionally Germany is the best location for my ISP.  

Here is the Speed of my current new KVM upgraded VPS taken today:



This is the speed of my IP prior to the upgrade with my OpenVZ VPS.  It was taken in August this year from the same ISP:



And this is the speed of my Contabo VPS that is a more realistic speed I usually get from my ISP with an IP from Germany:



So that is number 1 reason.

Second reason is that with the upgrade something has gone wrong with how CentOS behaves.  For example when I tried to load VIM so I could change my port number, it came up with a message along these lines:

Another app is currently holding the yum lock waiting for it to exit

Then when I went for exit, and back in, then yum started to work.

After I changed the port number, initially everything was working perfectly for the first time round as I expected it to do - I had also changed the SSH number and Firewall everything according to the rules.  I could get into my VPS with SSH perfectly for the first time round.  However, after doing lots of hard work in loading a panel, I no longer was able to get in with SSH.  That is in contrast with how easy it was to change my port number with the previous OpenVZ version of my Virmach VPS.  It was still working after months of having made the change.  

I'm not an expert by a long shot, but I get the feeling that an upgraded KVM virtualization can never be as good as a KVM VPS that was KVM from the start.  I think those technicians must have found a copy mechanism like they explained in their notes, along automatic lines, and it has created all kinds of conflicts.  Such as Ubuntu also having SSH issues.  Like you fix it the first round and the next round something gets overwritten and the SSH is broken.

This is probably an ideal VPS now for testing.   @"Hidden Refuge"f you would like to test it you're most welcome.

But unfortunately I don't have the time so have decided to let go of VPS 9 Phoenix for now. I will add it to the Giveaway during January. Unless some magic has happened to get it completely fixed.