This email is just a quick reminder that we will be leaving the Buffalo datacentre and physically moving all hardware over to Choopa in New Jersey. On Saturday, 09 November at 0900h EST (GMT-5) we will start preperations for bringing the gear offline. By 1000h we will have most of the hardware unracked, and loaded up to make the drive over to Choopa in New Jersey. Mapping software estimates this to be a 6-7 hour drive - to compensate for potential traffic and weather conditions, we're operating under the assumption that it's going to take 8-9 hours to make the drive to Choopa. This puts us at roughly 1800-1900h on arrival; racking the hardware back up and bringing the nodes online shouldn't take very long at all, as we're having the network prepped beforehand in Choopa to be ready for our arrival. In total, we're looking at a rough ETA of 2000h (8pm EST) before gear starts coming back online - in reality, it will likely be sooner than this as we're intentionally overestimating travel and rack time to anticipate any unforseen trouble.
We are also pulling all available NY stock for the remainder of the week - after some internal discussion, we decided it wouldn't be fair to have people sign up potentially unknowing of the move, and be caught by surprise by the downtime. Once we have everything setup and running smoothly in the new DC, I will refill east-cost stock.
There will be no changes to any assigned IPs for this move, DDoS-Filtered or regular. We own our IP space, and are simply re-racking with the same configuration. As an added bonus, this will decrease latency for the Filtered IPs, as Staminus will be less than a few ms away (as opposed to the current 20-30ms to Buffalo).
On behalf of everyone at Frantech/BuyVM, thank you for your support and patience! We look forward to being able to provide even better service for all of your hosting needs.
