Dated: July 30, 2003
We have taken the step of shifting our servers from our Atlanta Datacenter (GlobalCompass) to a datacenter located in Pennsylvania .
We began last weekend by doing a test migration. We identified some issues, corrected them and began the first synchronization on Tuesday. Since there is so much data, this will take until Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. It will then be tested again to ensure ALL information has been moved over and that all sites are up and working within the Hsphere cluster. Once this testing is done we will begin a real time synchronization of data. This will ensure that current information is carried over to the new servers from the old ones. Finally everything will be pointed to the new servers at the PA datacenter. This is expected to be done by late Friday or early Saturday so Saturday is when we are expecting the migration to be completed
For most of you the impact will be very little. You will need to change the ip addresses that are associated with your name servers. This too only if your domain wasn't registered with us and your domain registrar required you to enter in IP addresses. Dedicated IPs purchases by customers will also change along with the IP addresses for all our servers. When the new cluster is running, we will be emailing all our customers the new IP addresses.
We have put redirect scripts in place so all requests from our old servers will be carried to the new servers for a period of one week after the migration is complete. This will ensure that there is 0% downtime during this period
There are some customizations that will not transfer over. Most of these are Windows related and will have to be recreated. Here is a short list of what may not transfer over:
Enabled Parent Paths
Specific directory permissions ie (ASP.Net, Anonymous Access Removed)
These are easy to recreate. Customers that have such customizations enabled on their domain/account are requested to open a ticket with us after the migration is complete and we will re-enable them
It should be noted that we successfully completed a similar migration back in February with little or no problems. We are hoping for the same. Once the migration is completed hopefully by Saturday, both the problems with our IP addresses being blacklisted and the error caused while creating new MS SQL logins will be solved. Further updates will be posted here.
We have taken the step of shifting our servers from our Atlanta Datacenter (GlobalCompass) to a datacenter located in Pennsylvania .
We began last weekend by doing a test migration. We identified some issues, corrected them and began the first synchronization on Tuesday. Since there is so much data, this will take until Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. It will then be tested again to ensure ALL information has been moved over and that all sites are up and working within the Hsphere cluster. Once this testing is done we will begin a real time synchronization of data. This will ensure that current information is carried over to the new servers from the old ones. Finally everything will be pointed to the new servers at the PA datacenter. This is expected to be done by late Friday or early Saturday so Saturday is when we are expecting the migration to be completed
For most of you the impact will be very little. You will need to change the ip addresses that are associated with your name servers. This too only if your domain wasn't registered with us and your domain registrar required you to enter in IP addresses. Dedicated IPs purchases by customers will also change along with the IP addresses for all our servers. When the new cluster is running, we will be emailing all our customers the new IP addresses.
We have put redirect scripts in place so all requests from our old servers will be carried to the new servers for a period of one week after the migration is complete. This will ensure that there is 0% downtime during this period
There are some customizations that will not transfer over. Most of these are Windows related and will have to be recreated. Here is a short list of what may not transfer over:
Enabled Parent Paths
Specific directory permissions ie (ASP.Net, Anonymous Access Removed)
These are easy to recreate. Customers that have such customizations enabled on their domain/account are requested to open a ticket with us after the migration is complete and we will re-enable them
It should be noted that we successfully completed a similar migration back in February with little or no problems. We are hoping for the same. Once the migration is completed hopefully by Saturday, both the problems with our IP addresses being blacklisted and the error caused while creating new MS SQL logins will be solved. Further updates will be posted here.