Page.ly signs deal with Firehost.com to manage and secure server infrastructure.
Posted on March 22nd, 2010 in Page.ly News, Page.ly Service Updates by Joshua Strebel | 9 Comments »
We’re Movin on up.
Our customers have told us we are the best thing since sliced bread when it comes to Managed WordPress Hosting and we are about to get even better. We are happy to report we have been growing rapidly this Q1 and with growth has come a few growing pains. We had planned a datacenter move for mid-summer but are accelerating those plans and found the perfect partner to help.
Our good friends at Firehost.com have built their business by providing unparalleled server security and reliability to some of the web’s biggest websites. Our customers have come to expect the best from us so we found the best datacenter provider to manage our server iron.
What does this mean for Page.ly customers?
A bucket full of awesome!
- The BEST security available.
- Much Faster website performance and response times (vs. our current environment)
- Mucho Grande Better up-time (vs. our current environment)
We do not expect any significant downtime while we make the move, yet please be patient as there may be intermittent outages on a per site basis as we migrate it and the new DNS resolves. Please check your email midweek for more information. And of course a big thank you is in order to our current customers for their trust they have shown in choosing page.ly, and for their patience as we have had a few hiccups in the last week.
The move is tentatively planned to begin Friday April 2nd and finish by the evening of April 3rd.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2010 in Page.ly News, Page.ly Service Updates by Joshua Strebel9 Comments You should leave one too. »
AWESOME! Firehost is awesome and so is Pagely.
Thank you for always innovating and making Pagely better (even if it is great!)
~joe
Thanks for the kind words.
Great move and congrat’s on the booming business – you deserve it!
so, question about the tech behind the transition: i’m operating under the assumption that the new servers are already up at firehost, and the ‘transition’ is going to be:
a) service shutdown at old-datacenter
b) start the DNS propagation
c) filesystem copy to new datacenter
d) database import to new datacenter
e) start the services, by which time the DB import should be caught up
I’m sure there’s more to it; but knowing the core of the operation can inform on the estimated downtime – the email says ‘intermittent downtime, starting wednesday night’ – but i’m trying to manage expectations with management.
thanks
Yeah that is about it.
DNS would be anywhere from 1-10 hours to propagate.
And It will take about an hour to move everything. Should be done and over with shortly after we start. Just allowing lots of time in case any issues pop up.
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