DigitalOcean Migration

[MannDude]

Received this email earlier:

Hey there,

We have some good news! We are upgrading your Droplet to the latest version of our cloud, so we can bring you the latest features on the DigitalOcean platform.

This message is to inform you that in between Jul 20, 2015 04:00 UTC and Jul 20, 2015 22:00 UTC, your Droplet's hypervisor will begin the migration process. During a period of approximately 18 hours all of the Droplets on the hypervisor where your Droplet resides will be migrated to a new host. We spread out the migrations to ensure that each runs in a timely manner and completes successfully.

When your Droplet is queued for migration it will be powered off and you can expect about 1 minute of downtime per GB of your Droplet's disk size. We understand that you may be running services that are mission critical, so of course you have the option to upgrade your Droplet on your own at a time that is more convenient.

You can read more about how to complete this upgrade on your own by following the link below:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manually-initiate-droplet-upgrade-to-latest-digitalocean-cloud

Once the upgrade is complete, please check that all your services are running as expected. If you have any issues please check your configuration as specific services you are running may need to be restarted.

Please feel free to reply to this email if you have any questions, and we'll make sure this process is as simple as possible.

For your convenience, we're listing the affected Droplets below:

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Thank you,
The DigitalOcean Team

The impacted droplet was located in their "New York 1" location.

I do like that they allow you to initiate the migration/upgrade manually.

 

[rds100]

Migration speed of 1 minute per GB? That's 16 megabytes per second disk transfer or 128Mbps network transfer - quite slow.

 

[trewq]

Migration speed of 1 minute per GB? That's 16 megabytes per second disk transfer or 128Mbps network transfer - quite slow.

I imagine it will be much quicker, this is just to give people a timeframe for the downtime.

 

[bauhaus]

Yep. Actually it took like about 5min to complete the upgrade.

 

[Hxxx]

DO is the boss.

 

[Vega]

Shame they don't offer managed VPS.

 

[HBAndrei]

Shame they don't offer managed VPS.

DO is targeting a particular branch of the market, aka developers.

And developers don't really need managed services.

 

[William]

>2015

>not using live migration and/or KVM suspend

 

[danielm]

These migrations have been on-going. I've had to migrate a few droplets over the past few months. I would suggest initiating it yourself, that way you know when it will happen.

 

[ChrisM]

Shame they don't offer managed VPS.

I am pretty sure @jarland or any other of the DO staff won't mind helping you out on some issues some hosts may claim as managed only. 

 

[jarland]

Shame they don't offer managed VPS.

I am pretty sure @jarland or any other of the DO staff won't mind helping you out on some issues some hosts may claim as managed only. 

Well, at least offer the best advice that I can

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Shame they don't offer managed VPS.

I am pretty sure @jarland or any other of the DO staff won't mind helping you out on some issues some hosts may claim as managed only. 

Well, at least offer the best advice that I can

Eww gross Jarland's here!  

Kidding!  Welcome back mate!