Universal index

[w00t]

I have my own server, and I want to do some work on it (terminating accounte, ect but when I do this Im predicting that the server load will go high, so I dont want any of my customers trying to access the server and have it crash. So I was wondering and anyone knew if I could put up a universal index. That would say something like "Sorry but the server is under upgrades" Or what ever.

thanks

[linux-image]

terminating the account is no big a load to the server. Unless it is a major upgrade that shuts down mail , mysql etc.. u never need to put this file, and in case you wanna do that, you can always go for a script that replaces the index files at the domains as thus.

Also another easy method is to suspend all the domains and change the suspended page as "maintenence".

[w00t]

Thanks for your reply.

I guess suspending the accounts will work.

I dont know if this is unusuall but it takes over an hour for my server to terminate an account...:-/

[PWSowner]

That's not normal.

[linux-image]

absolutely.. it isnt even a minute process for a standard server .. less you have a domain 80 Gb .. it might take some time to delete the stuff..

[w00t]

These are little accounts.....

One hard drive is at 85% full and the other is at 97%, would that effect the speed of the deletion?

Could someone tell me how to fix this problem?

[chirpy]

Have you tried force updating cPanel to your current release tree, which can often fix such ills:

/scripts/upcp --force

[w00t]

Thanks for th advice!
I updated Cpane/WHM I rebooted the machine and I tryed to terminate again...

I started to delete the accounts faster, but it still takes a very loner time to completly terminate the account

[chirpy]

Do you have any local DNS resolution issues. For example, if you login to the root shell and type in:

dig www.cpanel.net

Does it come back straightaway with the reply or does it take a while?

[w00t]

It does that instantly