We are excited to announce that all of our older Plesk boxes (Plesk 7, 7.5, and 8.0) will be moved to one of the latest version of Plesk. We have acquired all of the hardware, and have done a vigorous hardware q/a check. We expect to have these all done within the next three weeks.
Servers On the list to be migrated:
b52
barracuda
colts
condor
falcon
firebird
gto
hercules
jupiter
kyle
mars
p51
raiders
saturn
viper
web1
web2
These servers have worked great for years, but we need to upgrade them so we can integrate them with our new automated billing system. This will permit you to manage your account more efficiently, and free us up from most of the billing challenges we face as a company today. Each control panel also comes with new features that you can use and enjoy. Spam Filtering is also upgraded so you should enjoy reading your email in the mornings instead of spending your time filtering spam.
Some of the machines listed above have been in service for 8 years, and some are as old as the Pentium III days. Most of them are P4 3.0 GHZ. The servers are moving to multi-core processors, with 4 Gigs of ram to start. This will allow us to bump up the number of apache processes so we can get faster performance out of our servers. These servers also are running some of the fastest SATA disks available on the planet today, and running in a Mirrored (RAID1) configuration for reliability and prevention of loss of data.
We will be posting the day of the server that we decide to move. We plan to move three servers a day, but that may change based on support volumes, and any issues that may come up during the process of migrations.
When you log into your control panel and see Plesk 8.2, then you know you have migrated.
Windows 3 is a different story. Windows 3 is harder to migrate, and we will be performing an upgrade on it. We also are going to get Windows 3 into some new, faster hardware. We once tried to do some hardware upgrades and it failed miserably.
Keep watching our blog for updates on servers. We are excited to deploy these new servers and provide you with an automated management system to manage your account.
Sincerely,
Travis Whidden