The dreaded scenario.

    Well about a week ago I got an email from one of my host’s that they were discontinuing their VPS offerings.  It also stated that I had until March 20th to move somewhere else.  That was pretty much the gist of the email.  I had filed a support ticket back in December stating that the Virtuozzo backup system was not working.  They said they’d have it fixed in a day or two.. well it’s March and it still isn’t working.  Not to mention, they no longer answered support calls and always seemed to be “away” at the Live Chat screen on their website.  Before they had Excellent customer service but I believe they truly dropped the ball on this one.

Trying to find a solution to my situation I called my other host (the one I use for my web hosting clients) to see if they could set me up a VPS running Cent OS in which they said they hope to have that capability someday but for now they only offer Fedora.  So then, I had to try and find a new host, however, this time I decided to get a powerful enough package to handle my Nagios installation as well as all of my webhosting clients.

I was able to find a fairly decent price with a reputable (I hope) host.  My next journey was trying to consolidate two servers and get them to actually work together.  At first transferring all my clients over seemed like a hard task and then I realized that going from Cpanel/WHM to Cpanel/WHM was about the easiest thing in the world.  So far, I have everything working better than before with one exception.  I could not get Cricket to work on my new VPS which I believe has something to do with some crazy suexec details that I finally gave up on.

Also,  when I transferred over my Nagios installation I decided not to try and get NagiosGrapher set back up as it was such a pain the last time.  I know quite a few people have stopped on this site looking for guidance on installing it and now I finally have some to give. RUN AWAY FROM IT!  I decided on an alternative this time called PNP (PNP is not PerfParse).  It was very simple to install, seems to be updated reguarly, and has plenty of support behind it.  I have not mettled with the customizing the graph displays but they support all of the regular RRD details so it shouldn’t be a problem.  Installation was a breeze!  I suggest that you try it and I believe that you will be impressed as I was as well.  Other notes, would be that you should grab the -CURRENT branch of Nagios as it has some great improvements as well.