Why does it take so long to start a server

[RichText]

Sometimes it takes over 20 minutes to start a server! What is Flexiscale doing during this time!? :confused:

[dagoaty]

Hi RichText,

There is a problem we are aware of within FlexiScale with regards to the time it sometimes takes to process a start or stop request.

Basically, when you submit a job for a server the job is placed into a queue. Unfortunately this queue is processed one item at a time. If you have the only job in the queue at that time it should be actioned within a few minutes of minutes. If there are a number of jobs in front of you then you have to wait until each preceding job completes.

As I mentioned above, this is a limitation that we are working hard to remove but the main problem lies within our virtualisation platform not being able to handle multiple jobs at the same time.

Cheers,
Iain

[RichText]

OK - thanks for the response.