The server will be down for the weekend of 30 July 2016, for a server migration. Because my host is going to close down the US data center where the server is being hosted, I am required to migrate to one of their European data centers to keep the server running.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [GANDI] Action required on your servers hosted in Baltimore Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 09:53:42 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello Gandi customer, For several years now we have been proud to maintain a datacenter on the East Coast of the United States for Cloud hosting and other hosting services. So it’s with a heavy heart that we must inform you of our decision to close the US datacenter located in Baltimore (US-BA1) on December 1, 2016. The decision was not taken lightly, and we only do so in order to be able to concentrate our efforts and commit more resources to pursuing exciting new hosting infrastructure plans which could not be deployed at the Baltimore location, notably due to compatibility issues. On December 1, 2016 all Gandi Cloud services (servers, disks, snapshots, web accelerators, private networks, IP addresses, etc.) hosted in our Baltimore datacenter will be permanently deleted. The credits that were not consumed, however, will remain available in your account. As such, we are also writing to tell you that we hope that you will take this opportunity to migrate your servers to one of our European data centers: LU-BI1, located in Bissen in Luxembourg or FR-SD2, located in Paris, France. We are acutely aware of the impact this decision might have on your operations and we would like to make it as smooth as possible to migrate your services. To that end, we would like you to have the promo code below for 150,000 hosting credits, which will allow you to recreate your servers for free in one of the European datacenters: [****] Please note, however, that this promo code is valid through December 31st, 2016. Once you’ve gotten set up in one of European datacenters, we encourage you to follow our detailed migration guide available here: https://wiki.gandi.net/en/iaas/tutorials/datacenter-migration As indicated in the migration guide, updating your DNS zone file is one of the most important steps in the migration process. - If you use Gandi’s DNS for your domain(s), you can make these updates directly from your resource management page. - If you use another provider, you can use the information provided on the resource management page to make these changes in your DNS provider’s interface And of course if you need additional help, our hosting support agents are ready to help. You can reach them - by email using the contact form here: https://www.gandi.net/support/contact/mail/ - by chat: https://www.gandi.net/support/livechat - on IRC in the #gandi Freenode channel (irc.freenode.net) Once again, we are sorry for any negative impact our decision to close the Baltimore datacenter may have for you. We hope we can make the transition as smooth as possible, which is why we wanted to give you plenty of time to do it. And finally, of course, all of this is with a view towards devoting more resources to an upcoming hosting infrastructure project we have currently in the works. So stay tuned. Sincerely, Gandi.net
