We will be migrating the accounts on the Neptune server starting on Friday November 27th and this will last until Tuesday December 1st. The reason for this upgrade is our continued commitment to having exceptional quality of service.
For the migration process we will be moving accounts in sections based on IP address. We anticipate no more than 5 minutes of down time per account in order to make the switch. We migrate the account data then re-route the IP address to the new server. Thus there is no down time associated with the upgrade.
The specifications of the server will be a Dual Xeon 5520 with 12GB ram and four 300GB SAS drives in raid-10.
Current Neptune:
Xeon 5430
4GB RAM
4x250GB SATA II Raid-10New Neptune:
Dual Xeon 5520
12GB RAM
4x300GB SAS Raid-10
You’ll notice three times as much memory and SAS drives which are significantly faster than the SATA counterparts. It’ll also have twice as many CPU’s and will be using the newer 5520 CPU.
If you have any concerns about this migration please do not hesitate to contact us.
Start Date: 11/27/2009
End Date: 12/01/2009
Estimated Down Time: less than 5 minutes
Duration: 4 days
