Server time drifted back by approximately 90 mins
Hello,
It appears that my cPanel server time drifted back by approximately 90 minutes which started causing problems for mail delivery.
I had the correct timezone set in "Server Configuration" > "Server Time".
Once I was made aware of the problem, I clicked the button "Sync Time with Time Server" and all was back to normal.
What could cause this to occur? What can I check to ensure it doesn't happen again?
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I believe this is VPS. Clock drift is common issue in VPS. You should contact your service provider. Depending on the virtulization environment, they should be able to help you to fix this. 0 -
While this can happen on a dedicated server, this is likely a VPS, correct. Unfortunately, if it is a vps, you likely won't be able to resolve this issue on your own due to hardware/software restrictions. Try to run the following inside SSH as root. If it works, great. If not, you'll need to contact your provider rdate -s rdate.cpanel.net0 -
Hello, Yes, as mentioned, this often happens on a VPS when the hardware node time is out of sync. Check with your hosting provider to ensure this is addressed. Thank you. 0 -
Thanks for the comments! My VPS went through a live migration between hardware nodes, apparently a few clients noticed on certain Linux kernels that their system clock drifted after this event. As a short term measure I set up a cron to sync the time every minute until I could restart the server at an appropriate time. Everything is okay now :) 0 -
Are you sure that the time synced appropriately? I would double check, since VPS' have problems in most cases running rdate 0 -
Hi @twhiting9275 Yeah as mentioned in my previous post, everything is fine now. A restart of the VPS was required and has been in sync for a number of days. 0 -
fair enough, you got an easy VPS then ;) . Consider yourself lucky :) 0 -
I'm happy to see the issue is now resolved. Thank you for updating us with the outcome. 0
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