Current Status:
The Maintenance has been completed with the longest outage being 18 minutes. Thanks for your patience while we completed this work.
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Purpose of maintenance:
Network Planning and Future Growth Planning
Summary of Maintenance:
All IPs ranges are being moved to the same VLAN so they can move freely between server
Older servers need moved to the same network zone in the data centre
Benefit for Clients:
IPs can move between servers
HA (higher availability) cloud/cluster services will be possible in this facility as IPs can move freely
The maintenance starts at midnight on Friday 2 May 2014. Our senior server admin is working with the techs at the data centre to have all our servers moved onto the same network zone and onto the same VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).
One server needs to move location in the data centre to achieve this goal. Downtime will be 15 minutes extra for this server.
This maintenance is an essential part of our planning for growth in this facility and we thank you for your patience. All work will be carried out overnight UK time so as to cause least inconvenience and all senior staff will be working during this time window. We are allowing a 30 minute time frame per server but this is a very long estimate. The downtime on each server should be nowhere near that estimate.
We are just awaiting confirmation from our data centre network admins as to when they can move the servers and we can then update this post with an exact time frame.
Affected servers will be:
VPS9
VPS10
VPS11
VPS12
Shared Server 12
Shared Server 14
Shared Server 18
Please note the majority of our servers are in the Maidstone Kent facility (Custodian Data Centre) and are not affected. Server 35 and server 36 are in Maidenhead but with another network provider so are not affected. Our USA servers in Orlando and Dallas are also not affected.
If you need to know what server your service is located on just ask.
