Tony Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Starting on Saturday January 22nd we will be migrating Jupiter shared hosting accounts over to a new shared hosting specific server Panther. The reason for this is currently Jupiter is one of our mixed servers which over the next 12 months we hope to migrate all mixed servers to act as strictly one specific service rather than being for both shared and reseller. The one major advantage is once migrated over shared hosting users will have access to the shared hosting specific features that are currently not available on our mixed servers. It also means no longer will reseller users be able to affect services with their user accounts. Since all our IP addresses are routed to our VLAN's rather than a specific server we can make this migration very seamless. We will migrate data then re-route the IP address over to the new server. This dramatically reduces the chances of data sync issues which are usually associated with server moves due to IP addresses changing. That is not to say it cannot happen but we are available to assist with any issues users may run into if for whatever reason their data does go out of sync. As for any downtime associated with the migration we estimate it'll be about 1 minute at most as we need to remove the IP from the old server and route it to the new one which can take us about a minute. How the migration will work is we will start migrating users on dedicated IP's first starting on Saturday. After that is completed we will move onto users with shared IP addresses. We hope that this entire migration will only last the weekend but we've given ourselves a window to Wednesday just in case it does not go as fast as our typical migrations. The only thing to keep in mind is once migrated it is not advised to be connecting to the jupiter hostname if you currently are. While the data will stay there for now eventually all shared hosting user data will be removed from the Jupiter server as it will be fully converted to a shared hosting only server. If you have any questions regarding the maintenance do not hesitate to contact us. Our system administration department is available to answer any questions regarding this. Start Date: 01/22/2011 End Date: 01/26/2011 Estimated Down Time: less than 5 minutes Duration: 4 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 The migration has started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted January 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 This has been completed. All shared hosting users are now on the Panther server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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