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Crissic - Jacksonville location migrating to Miami
DATACENTER MIGRATION - SERVICE IMPACTING
Location: Jacksonville, FL (JAX)
Date: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015
Start Time: 5:00PM EDT
End Time: 3:00AM EDT
Description:
In order to offer better connectivity and to offer an improved level of hands-on support, your equipment is being moved to QuadraNet’s Miami facility. You should expect a total of one outage, up to 10 hours in length. Each hypervisor will be shut down gracefully at the start of the migration.
In order to minimize the risk of extended downtime, and ensure that equipment is safely and securely transported to the new facility, QuadraNet staff members will be on-site to complete this migration. The new facility is located in Miami, FL and has substantial cross-connect capacity to all major Miami internet exchanges and meet-me-rooms. If you have any problems with your connection after the maintenance window, or if you have any questions regarding the maintenance at any point, please contact our support department at [email protected].
We appreciate your understanding and patience during this maintenance and welcome all feedback.
Thank You,
Crissic Management Team
[email protected]
Well...4 days notice for such a big migration / maintenance. Guess QuadraNet can't live on the costs anymore.
Thanked by 1inthecloudblog
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sell to gvh now
why crissic? quadranet no buy?
It's was easy to predict. Normal move to be honest.
Quadranet own Datacenter. Why host their service and sister company inside a competitor DC?
More time would be nice. Especially since they're suggesting a 10 hour downtime.
Not being funny I know it's a lowend host but come on they are a big company and want to take 10 hours to migrate to their own datacenter...?
RackSpace did it in 6 hours (if that) to box the servers, fly by plane to the new location, unpack them and set them up and they did in the correct timeframe.
Quadranet want to do it in PEAK times from 5pm until 3am... What the hell?
http://www.rackspace.com/blog/servers-take-to-the-sky-for-data-center-migration/
Quadranet is going the EIG way...
Worst case scenario?
Don't think there is a worse case the main point is in Peak hours. People with common sense would have planned it to be off peak hours.
Can't say I didn't see this coming. Jacksonville was a good ride with Crissic, but the time has come for me to make the switch to something closer
This was to be expected.
Why not a .to ? .to whois only displays the NS which is basically how any registrar whois should look like.
What's off peak though? With global buyers perhaps it is off peak for their majority of customers. Hard to say.
why live no migrate?
Because they moved the hypervisor completely, not only the VM...
During one mans peak, another man sleeps.
Are there any IPV4 and IPV6 changes?
I was surprised when this wasn't part of the welcome letter from QuadraNet.
I dont have Jacksonville location with them, is this news only listed on their site announcements? i dont received any email yet
If you dont have a VPS in that location you probably wont get the mail.
guwe juga, udah pindah ke la bbrp waktu lalu
Good question - No IPv4 or IPv6 changes will occur.
Confirmed - thank you!
Quadranet be like...
Was crissic colocating their own hardware? I thought they were just renting servers.
Is Quadranet Miami still basically shitty Cogent bandwidth to everywhere?
I might have messed up, this comment was meant for another topic.
You clearly have no experience in the operations of a datacenter and server provider (I'm not saying I do either, but I've been involved in some smaller moves). Even without experience it's easy to realise that nothing ever goes to plan, so to be safe, you should always extend the maintenance period as long as you can even if the downtime will not last that long. Secondly, I don't think you've thought of everything involved in moving DC's, Quadranet is a relatively big company but doesn't have anywhere near the resources of Rackspace. It's easy to sit behind a keyboard and forget about everything that goes into physically deracking, decabling, getting the network equipment ready before, packing it into the transport, racking it again and cabling it again, all keeping to schedule, getting it according to the rack diagrams and leaving margin for errors. As for peak time, I'm sure they won't be travelling at 5pm, they still need time to derack, but there is no peak time really for Crissic customers, as they probably are all over the world, there'd be disruption at any time.
Let's also not forget that Crissic doesn't really mean much to them either, had it been a different company I'm sure they'd invest more in this move.
Just because I haven't worked in a datacenter doesn't mean I don't know how to manage a hosting business I did run one, I have got mates in the industry from medium business who own servers and co-locate them.
If they can't have a team in the datacenter to prepare the racks and equipment and a team de-racking and packing the servers on the other end they aren't as big as they sound.
I only know Dennis from Quadranet who is in sales, doesn't matter where the customers are, you do it in the datacenter / company time. So if you are in the USA you do it at 12am - 7am for maintenance so it causes less issues and less traffic to the servers.
Migration same Location downtown LA took 5 hours to get everything up and running. And that was only moving 7 machines.
Yes, as far as I know they owned the hardware, including network equipment, and IP space.