We have completed the network upgrade explained in our previous update.
Please email support@zfs.rent if you experience connectivity issues.
If you are interested in additional compute resource, and want to take advantage our new network peers, please consider: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, HyeHost, OVH, and iFog. Initial tests indicate high "drive-to-cloud" throughtputs.
There are definitely some interesting use cases to explore!
Happy Thanksgiving!
-- zfs.rent team
tl;dr
Customer IPv4 addresses will be renumbered to fit inside a single /24 prefix.
The migration is scheduled for 2025-11-24 (17:00 - 23:00 PST).
We will be BGP originating the new prefix, improving network reliability and speed.
Existing customers should have already received the maintenance window email.
On 2025-11-14, we will migrate an initial batch. Email support@zfs.rent to opt-in.
More background:
After the 2025-10-13 outage, we moved our network redundancy plan to high priority. The last two outages were caused by a faulty Ethernet crimp in the datacenter's patch panel (not on our side!) Basically, they kinda effed up the uplink cable during our August cabinet move. The link quality was marginal — during Ethernet auto-negotiation, it had a 50/50 chance of actually coming online (but we didn't know that). This fluke of a cable caught us off guard twice.[1]
Relying on a single transit provider made it virtually impossible to resolve the cabling issue remotely. We had no idea what the issue was — and the on-site technicians couldn't try much other than power-cycling.[2]
On the bright side, it motivated us to finalize our private interconnects and AS peering.
The new connectivity will help us resolve network issues quicker.
More importantly, customer instances will be
accessible during single-carrier outages
(such as the two mentioned above).
And last but not least, some destinations will have 10G paths!
We will be originating the new customer prefixes[3] from AS38439.
Our BGP sessions have been online for a month, and we have a few customers already using the subnet. So far, we are connected to two transit providers and two Internet Exchanges.
View our current peers here: bgp.he.net/AS38439.
Also, random side note... we now have IPv6 reachability to Cogent ISP 🙂 [4]
As always, please reach out to support@zfs.rent with any questions or comments.
Scott and I are always happy to entertain feedback / solve issues.
Last point:
I am generally not a fan of bulk IP renumbering customers —
and wouldn't make this move unless it was absolutely best for the service.
Keeping your bits safe since 2020!
Started in Sacramento, ended up in Fremont, and now we have an ASN!
-- Ryan
P.S. In other news, we also finally have functional SMART support working. Enabling support is still a manual process, so it's only active for less than 10 customers. We hope to roll it out globally by end-of-year.
We still have more update posts planned. We will create a mailing list for them, since they aren't related to customer VM maintenance.
Hello All! Small Update
Existing customers can now self-manage their billing details online. The link can be found in our website header. (For reference, here is a direct link: zfs.rent/portal/billing.)
Drives are still loaded monthly. Our next install date is July 1st, 2025.
May your bits never flip :)
Ryan & Scott
zfs.rent
Happy Pi Day! We have a few announcements.
We usually load drives on the 1st of the month— but due to logistics, we are moving this cycle's install date forward a few days.
Please ensure that drive shipments arrive by March 27th.
As always, our address can be found here: https://zfs.rent/address.txt.
We are extremely excited to announce IPv6 support! It's been a long-time coming.
Several customers have already trialed the connectivity. No issues have been reported thus far.
We plan to enable IPv6 routing for all customers on March 21st, 2025.
Each VM will be assigned a single, routable IPv6 address via SLAAC. Most systems will not require any configuration changes. Customer subdomains will be updated to include AAAA records.
Please email support@zfs.rent if:
May your bits never flip :)
Ryan & Scott
zfs.rent
Happy December everyone!
Scott and I talked recently, and it's been decided that...
We should probably make a better effort to publish some updates.
At the very least, expect a short blurb every time we load drives.
Customer drives were installed on December 2nd. No issues there.
Some of our lesser spec'd hypervisors will be decommissioned soon. In November, we communicated with a subset of users and migrated their VM + drive setups to new equipment. Everything went smoothly!
Just FYI everyone, we are still in business.
We are in the middle of revamping the website to include long-awaited management features (VNC, reboot, etc.) as well as an automatic billing system.
The goal is to keep it on the down low, until it is polished and deployed.
Yes, you can still sign-up. Visit /store.html.
The team has expanded. There are two of us working on zfs.rent now:
As always, the best way to reach out is to email support@zfs.rent.