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Over the past couple of months it has become clear to me that xc-host is growing pretty fast, added 3 new and big clients just last month. It is at sometimes crippling the current server.

Last week I got an email from my current host with a new server that was for sale. Since then I have contacted ayksolutions via msn and asked about the server. It was only for “new servers” but the owner said that if I still wanted it and could wait a week (this was last tuesday) it would be mine. Since tuesday is today I have gotten the server. They are installing cPanel on it as I type this and I’ll start moving accounts tomorrow. I need tonight and some of tomorrow to get it ready to go. Have a long night of installing and configuring to do..

I will be moving accounts in alphabetical order. Unless you want yours moved to the end. If you do either leave a comment or email me. Include in the email which account it is (domain preferably).

During the move it would be good not to update your website unless your one of the last accounts to be copied over.  Once everyone is on the new server I’ll update the nameservers for all the domains. It would be good if you have your nameservers set to xchost.net or xchost.biz to change them to ns1.xc-host.com and ns2.xc-host.com. When xchost.biz comes up for renewal this year I won’t be renewing it. xchost.net I will keep forever but I’d prefer it if everyone was on xc-host.com’s nameservers.

Just before I go here are the specs for the new server:

Dual Xeon 3.0Ghz HT
4GB RAM
250GB HD
2000GB of Bandwidth on 100mbit dedicated port
cPanel 11

This is about 6x faster than what we currently have. And it only cost me an extra 40 a month. So it was an offer I could not turn down

I will do my best to keep everything as smooth as possible during the transfer. I’ll update this post as the accounts transfer and with any other updates. Might be one soon, just have to think about it first…

Right now this is the last response I got from ayk: “We’ll be beginning on this shortly. First we’ll get cpanel installed on your new server on the primary drive. After that’s done, we’ll go ahead and move the backup drive to it and you should be all set.” There will be a little downtime while they move the backup drive, it won’t be that much. So its nothing much to worry about

EDIT: Been asked about downtime. The only downtime that will occur is when the backup drive is moved and when the ips are changed. I don’t see it being much, registrars today are pretty good at updating information pretty fast. For the most part it will be individual isp’s that I will have most of the problem with, I just hope they update their information pretty fast. Rogers (my isp) is shitty at doing that lol, proxy ftw!

EDIT2: I will be moving accounts during off peak times. Some of the smaller accounts I will move anytime but the bigger ones for sure will be done during off peak times.

– JoeM