Yesterday I contacted our ISP (http://leaseweb.com) since the DRAC card on our dedicated server couldn't obtain a KVM signal anymore. To my amazement technical support reacted within minutes and upgraded the firmware of the card almost instantly. After that, I was confident again to embark on upgrading Gentoo Linux to the most recent Portage version. You never know what can go wrong, and having true remote KVM makes it a breeze to correct any possible error that happens.

First, however, I looked over the logs of the Drac card and noticed that it had detected a checksum error with the DIMM memory in bank 1. Again, I mailed tech support and 10 minutes later they had shut down the machine, replaced the faulty chip, and booted up the server again. Now that's what I call amazing support!

Everything has now been upgraded and I suspect that the core dumps I often got from FishEye with JRockit were related to the faulty memory since I don't get them anymore. I warmly recommend LeaseWeb to anyone looking for dedicated hosting and next week I'll contact their sales team to inquire if we can make a discount deal for RIFE users and include them on our hosting page.