Z+ Hosting Migrations - Free upgrades to Ryzen 9 9900x

ZizzyDizzyMC · July 25

Just sent this out to all clients on the original hardware we did black friday sales with last year. Everyone's getting a free upgrade to Ryzen 9900x from E5-2690v4's.

"Hello,

This migration impacts all clients who are using 2TB, 3.5TB and 5TB Storage VM services.

Good news:

Everyone gets to keep the same specs (CPU cores, RAM, Storage space) in addition to getting upgraded from Xeon E5-2690v4 to Ryzen 9900x CPU.
There is no need to migrate data manually across servers - I will handle this in a specific set of steps outlined below, note that action needs to be taken.
You get a month or so of free service as compensation for the inevitable downtime.

Bad news:

Your IP addresses will change, due to the newer system being on a different sub-block in the network.
You will have to purchase the new plan yourself, and submit a ticket once you've done so, and it's clear for me to migrate your VM's disks to the new VM.

Our software doesn't let me transfer clients from one host to another host since our hosts are not linked using a cluster. This obviously complicates things, but it's really just an inconvenience, and tearing down a cluster is surprisingly hard.

To repurchase see the list below for link and 1 month free code:
[list removed for posting here on LES]
Add to cart, and finish purchasing using the provided promo code. If you wanted to take this chance to get a bigger VM, that's fine too. Please don't share this outside of the ticket however as this is limited to only active clients. Thank you.
After purchasing, please create a ticket once you're ready to have your original VM shut down, and the vm disks moved to the new server.
Please note that by default all servers have cloud-init enabled so on boot they'll receive the new IP address automatically. Those with static configurations for any reason will need to login to their new VM through console after migration to set the new IP inside of their vm.
Upon completion the VM will be started, when this happens the migration for that VM is done.
If you don't want your VM auto started, please let me know in the ticket you send in.

There will be three expected downtimes set for this weekend and the upcoming weekend for maintenance of the system, and of the disk storage system that is backing everything.

VM's not migrated before August the 8th will be turned off. However, billing will be suspended for them and the disk data will be held for 3 months before removal. I understand some clients may not be able to migrate in time and wish not to cause undue stress. Canceling your service is also an option, if you wish not to be migrated. For that please follow the normal service cancelation procedure in your control panel.

I appreciate your patronage, and I hope the migration to a much better CPU is helpful in the end."

I hope the month of free service is a good enough compensation for the few minutes it'll take to re-purchase. I was told this is a pretty good way to go about things, let me know if I did it all wrong I guess :^)