pcmhacking.net scheduled outage after 2016-06-29 9pm ACST
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 9:21 am
I have just received this from my hosting provider so I thought I would pass it on. Hopefully it will happens late at night when site usage is low and I expect everything will go smoothly.
You are receiving this email because you have an active KVM VPS service with Ransom IT on our ADL8KVM node. This node has been running for almost 3 years without interruption and is due for a hardware upgrade. Ransom IT is moving towards purely SSD based nodes so older hardware is getting either phased out or upgraded as a result. This is to ensure continued high quality service from a performance and reliability perspective, and also to reduce our power footprint in the datacentre where power consumption is an increasing cost.
All services running here will soon be migrated to other nodes. This will result in 15 to 30 minute outage on your service.
Expected advantages include faster IO (moving from RAID10 SAS drives to RAID10 SSD arrays), faster CPU (moving from 1.8Ghz Xeon CPUs to 2.4Ghz Xeon CPUs with more cores/threads) and faster KVM performance due to upgraded versions of libvirt/qemu on the underlying destination node.
No action is required on your part and your VPS IP address will not change. The advisory is to inform of the change only and warn you of the short downtime incurred as a result.
The migration window for your VPS is (Australian Central Standard Time):
Wednesday 29th June 9PM till Thursday 30th of June 4AM
Your service will be migrated within the window above but expected downtime per service is under 30 minutes.
