This blog is running in a linode vps instance. I subscribed for plan Linode 360 last month and setup this site myself. The steps to setup the server can be found in previous article – Linode VPS setup. I feel like setting up everything just few days back but actually a month has gone by. Time is running so fast! :-)

So far the server is running smoothly without any problem except a particular instance. For the first few of days there was nearly no activity in the server. After two days, I got couple of alert mails from linode.

Linode Alert – disk io rate – tamilsweet (linode20561)
Your Linode, tamilsweet, has exceeded the notification threshold (300) for disk io rate by averaging 450.13 for the last 2 hours.

Linode Alert – CPU Usage – tamilsweet (linode20561)
Your Linode, tamilsweet, has exceeded the notification threshold (40) for CPU Usage by averaging 99.7% for the last 2 hours.

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