To our VPS customers,

Since the troubles with HyperVM/LXAdmin, we’ve been busy looking at alternatives. By far the most promising is turning out to be FluidVM from a company called Binary Karma.  Many of the features are very similar, and some are signifigant improvements, such as the ability to use iSCSI/SAN storage as drives for virtual machines. This is something we’ve wanted to move to anyway. And while technically it was possible with HyperVM, it wasn’t as integrated into the environment.

Backup procedures will be changing. All the Compute Nodes need to be reformatted anyway, and LVM installed on a couple that it wasn’t before. This will enable us to do backups without interrupting the virtual machines.

Dallas servers are going to be first to migrate to the new environment. Existing virtual machines will be migrated to new servers with little downtime. Occassionally, we do see issues with quotas and cpanel licensing but in both cases the fixes so far have been quick and easy.

Atlanta will take a little longer and will require some downtime while the OS gets re-installed and vm’s restored.  Customers wishing to migrate to Dallas will be given the option to do so beforehand. Though ip address changes will have to happen to migrate.  A date has not been set for this to occur…

All VPS customers hypervm/fluidvm, will receive new instructions with login details as they’re migrated.

Robert

Robert Porter is the founder and managing member of Lagniappe Internet LLC. Robert holds multiple certifications incluging Oracle Certified Professional-Java 6 SE (OCP-J6), MCSE, A+, Net+, Project+, Security+, and multiple CIW certifications. He has been in the hosting industry for more than a decade and is founded Lagniappe Internet L.L.C. as a privately owned, completely debt free, hosting company based out of New Orleans. Robert's background includes 25+ years in programming, databases, networking and systems administration.

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