Due to recent changes in prices and resourcing our current data center has decided to increase their prices quoting an increase in power costs and their main justification. Given we have had a few issues recently with on-site power and that the increase was of the order of 350% we have decided to relocate all servers to an alternate data center.

This should take place the week beginning the 7th of January with completion by the 14th.

As part of the upgrade we are taking the opportunity to upgrade the servers and move to a more robust cluster-based system which is flexible and attuned to providing scalable hosted services.

All processes are moving across to XEN instances running on XEN 3.1 hypervisors while all data is being moved to the Gluster clustered filesystem.

Although we can't give the exact times services will migrate, there should hopefully be no noticeable downtime on any core services are we are running duplicate sets of kit in each physical location. (down time should be limited to service restarts)

If you do spot any problems over the next week, please let us know asap and we will investigate.