ThePlanet schedules maintenance
On Sunday, August 3rd, our hosting company ThePlanet.com will perform a data center upgrade. This time we are affected by the upgrade and that could lead to unavailable machines in that time.
The window for that was choosen well: Sunday, August 3rd between 12:01am and 5:00am. That will hurt but not too much.
I hope the outages will be minimal for that incident.
The second system note is due for our overall cluster upgrade, which will take place around a week later. At that time it could be, that we are offline for 2-3 hours. I will update you as soon as I know more.
Here is an excerpt from the customer support group:
Dear Valued Customer:
Over the past few months, The Planet’s network and technology teams have been working to upgrade all of our data centers and network connections to consolidate our network footprint into a single autonomous system (AS). To facilitate this project, we have increased the bandwidth capacity between all of our data centers, and we’ve run a second 10Gbps network connection between our Houston and Dallas locations to further improve the network’s redundancy. By uniting into one AS, our six data centers will be recognized as a single entity for Internet routing purposes. This consolidation enables us to leverage our network’s size to provide you more bandwidth at a lower cost, it gives you (as a customer) the ability to seamlessly spread your infrastructure between all of our data centers in both cities, and it allows us to route bandwidth and traffic to you in a much more efficient manner.
One of the final steps in completing this AS consolidation requires a scheduled maintenance window for our H2 data center on Sunday, August 3, 2008, between 12:01am and 5:00am. The entire data center will be migrated to our new network hardware infrastructure during the maintenance window, so our team has designed the maintenance process to minimize the impact the network changes have on your servers in H2. Your IP addresses will not change, your server will not need to be powered down, and you will not need to update anything on your servers or racks following this maintenance.
At the end of August tradebit.com should be much much faster and (even more) stable than ever before. The network will be faster and with our new (incredible fast) hardware we will have reached a milestone. My only fear is that we mess it up by upgrading… (note to myself: back-ups are my friends 
).
