[deanhills]

@deanhills
For the situation at hand here, ie 'SELinux and virtualization', things can get really messed up if it's not configured properly at the host level, which is the responsibility of the VPS provider.

@fChk.  Thank you for the feedback.  You may not be aware but VPS 9 used to be a flagship VPS here at post4vps - I hope it can still be.  Ubuntu was the only real problem we had up to the KVM upgrade as they had an old version for loading on the VPS from the Admin Panel, and if members tried to update it, it broke the SSH.  But for the rest and particularly CentOS on VPS 9 it was flawlessly put together.

Then followed pressure on Virmach to upgrade the VPSs from OpenVZ 6 to KVM.   @"Hidden Refuge"icked up on the need for this upgrade near end of August - this is a really good thread to beef up on the background of the upgrade if you're interested:
https://post4vps.com/Thread-The-End-of-O...t4VPS-VPSs

It must have been a massive upgrade at Virmach that occupied their technicians to great exhaustion, and I'm almost certain as they progressed, they started to take short cuts.  Why I say this is if you check the progress of our 7 VPS 9 VPSs, the first two upgrades Chicago and Seattle were almost flawless.  The original disk size was maintained, and we didn't receive any negative feedback.  However then a few weeks after that when the momentum for the upgrade must have been overpowering at Virmach, we noticed that they had implemented something to discourage the large VPS disk size, and also plenty of negative feedback.  Possibly the technicians had been more hands on during the earlier upgrades than the last ones.  My VPS Phoenix was the very last one, and I've been having real issues with it to the extent I mothballed it temporarily.  

There have been a few other post4vps discussions as well during the upgrade process from November to date, but this one is probably the one that gives an overall picture of how the upgrades had gone for post4vps VPSs:
https://post4vps.com/Thread-VPS-9-Schedu...-locations

@"Hidden Refuge"  I'm going to try my VPS 9 from scratch again and see how I go with this.  And then as requested will provide more detailed info about the hickups if I experience any.  Thank you for your detailed feedback and suggestions.