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Charlottezweb Hosting => Server Updates & Outages => Topic started by: Jason on September 27, 2014, 03:14:18 PM

Title: Jetstream & Monsoon :: It's time to upgrade!
Post by: Jason on September 27, 2014, 03:14:18 PM
Greetings from Charlottezweb,

I'm very excited to announce that we're launching a new project to retire and migrate accounts from our two oldest servers (Jetstream and Monsoon) to a newer, much more powerful configuration. 

We setup the new server this week -- Landslide (http://www.charlottezweb.com/forums/index.php?topic=1999.0) -- which should be incredibly powerful.  I'm hoping you'll see a positive improvement in response times from your sites after transfer.  In addition to better hardware, it is running newer software and has improved security measures to protect your data.

I would like to schedule site moves to occur next weekend (October 3-5) or the following (October 10-12) to handle your move if you have an account on one of these servers. 

I will handle the migration for you but I will need your help in the following areas:

What's needed from you?

1.  If you have a specific timeframe requirement, please contact me immediately so we can work on scheduling it.

2.  If you run a dynamic site (such as a forum or database-driven site where it's updated constantly), contact me so we can figure out a gameplan to minimize impact.

3.  If your site is using custom code or scripts that haven't been updated in several years, it may not function properly on current versions of PHP and/or MySQL.  Please contact me asap to discuss if this may be the case.

4.  If you manage your domain name(s), you will need to update your nameservers to the new ones after the move is complete to ensure your site doesn't go offline once Jetstream and Monsoon are retired.

Please reach out to me if you're flexible with your move day and/or to coordinate any specifics you need.  I'll do my best to accommodate everyone's needs.

The current plan is to power down Jetstream and Monsoon on October 22, 2014 so I need your assistance asap.    Revised and posted on Oct 11 for the weekend of Oct 17.

As always, thank you for your business and I look forward to your feedback on the improved service you should see from Landslide!

Cheers,
Jason

Edit:  Marking thread as completed.
Title: Re: Jetstream & Monsoon :: It's time to upgrade!
Post by: Jason on September 27, 2014, 03:39:14 PM
An email was just sent to all customers on Jetstream and Monsoon alerting them to this thread:

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Greetings from Charlottezweb!

I'm excited to announce that we'll be retiring our two oldest servers (Jetstream and Monsoon) and migrating the accounts on them to our newest server Landslide.

Landslide was setup this past week and features a powerful processor, incredibly fast hard drives (SSD) in RAID 10 along with a lot of memory (32gb RAM), newer software and security features. If you'd like specifics, please reach out to me.

The account you have that's impacted is:

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Please visit this thread on our forum for details:

http://www.charlottezweb.com/forums/index.php?topic=2002.0

I will need to hear back from you on your preferred migration time. We need to complete all moves over next weekend or the following to ensure nobody experiences any service disruption when the old servers are turned off on October 22.

As always - thank you for choosing Charlottezweb! I hope this upgrade takes your site to the next level!

Cheers,

Jason Saunders
Title: Re: Jetstream & Monsoon :: It's time to upgrade!
Post by: Jason on October 04, 2014, 01:00:32 PM
A second email was sent earlier today to all customers on Jetstream and Monsoon alerting them to this thread:

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Greetings from Charlottezweb!

This is a follow-up to an email I sent last weekend. We're migrating all accounts on our two oldest servers (Jetstream and Monsoon) over the next two weekends to a much more powerful solution. I need to hear from you on when I should move your account(s).

Your server is: xxx
Your account is: xxx

Please visit this thread for full details:

http://www.charlottezweb.com/forums/index.php?topic=2002.0

I need to hear from you on when to proceed. If I don't hear back, I will migrate you next weekend however without your involvement your site(s) may go offline when your old server is shut down. I'm hoping to migrate as many accounts as possible this weekend so we are ahead of schedule so please let me know if we can move you today or tomorrow. Thanks!

(If you've already reached out to me to schedule your move, please disregard this notice - thank you!)

Regards,
Jason

Thank you to everyone who has replied!  We're on track to be half-way done by tonight.

Cheers,
Jason
Title: Re: Jetstream & Monsoon :: It's time to upgrade!
Post by: Jason on October 07, 2014, 08:29:29 AM
A third email is being manually sent (external from our billing system) to the remaining customers now.

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This is a third reminder that this is the last week that I will be moving hosting accounts prior to shutting down Monsoon and Jetstream next week related to this announcement:

http://www.charlottezweb.com/forums/index.php?topic=2002.0

If I haven't heard from you by the end of the week, I will move your files however your site may go down next week when your old server is decommissioned if your domain(s) haven't been updated.

I need to hear back from you as soon as possible.

If I can move your account one evening this week, please let me know.  If you think you may have any code-related issues, the sooner we can test this the better in case other arrangements are required.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the upgraded server!
Title: Re: Jetstream & Monsoon :: It's time to upgrade!
Post by: Jason on October 11, 2014, 07:38:59 PM
Thank you everyone for your assistance during this migration project.

All clients have been migrated as of today.  The plan is to turn these servers off next week.

Please update your nameservers per the emails sent if you haven't already.

Thank you and enjoy the new server!

Cheers,
Jason
Title: Re: Jetstream & Monsoon :: It's time to upgrade!
Post by: Jason on October 12, 2014, 05:52:55 PM
A final email has just been sent to all customers who were migrated to Landslide reminding them to check their nameservers before Jetstream and Monsoon are retired this coming week:

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This is a follow-up email regarding your site: _ _ _ _

Thanks to everyones' replies, we've physically migrated all accounts from Jetsream and Monsoon as of this weekend.

This is a final notice that these two servers will be erased and shut down later this coming week -- likely on Wednesday or Thursday.

If you haven't yet updated your domain name(s) to point to the new server, your site may go offline when that occurs.

If you were previously using ns3/ns4 (Monsoon) or ns25/ns26 (Jetstream), that needs to be changed as soon as possible to Landslide's nameservers:

ns1.charlottezweb.com
ns2.charlottezweb.com


Please reach out to me if you have any questions.

http://www.charlottezweb.com/forums/index.php?topic=2002.0

I hope you're enjoying the new server! It seems to be quite quick according to the feedback I've received thus far.

Thank you!

-Jason