This is a major scheduled maintenance, so please be sure that you understand exactly what this involves.
On Sunday, August 3rd at 11:59PM PDT, we will be migrating all hosting accounts on theta.vectorlevel.com to a new server in the same facility for a new RAID array setup. Unfortunately, as this will be a new machine, the IP addresses will change along with the server name. We will be transferring over all VectorLevel related files (website, client area, blog, etc.) over to the new server as well the DNS server for ns1.vectorlevel.com earlier on Sunday to make sure DNS propagation goes as smoothly as possible when we move all customer accounts later that night. You don’t need to do anything except possibly make backups, but we’ll be doing multiple checks to ensure that all of your data is transferred successfully before taking the old server offline. If your websites are powered by databases that are constantly updated (such as forums), we recommend that you put your scripts in maintenance mode for a few hours to ensure that the data on the new server is as recent as possible. We will be sending out an email notification 1 hour before the maintenance is scheduled to begin.
We are setting aside roughly 1 hour of “downtime” for this migration, although we anticipate there to be little to no downtime as our DNS settings will be modified to make the propagation period from the old server to the new server as quickly as possible. This means that you likely will not even notice the effects of this migration, which should be as seamless as possible. We will keep all customers updated as this migration is underway.
If you have any questions about this maintenance, please submit a support ticket or comment here.
We appreciate your business and thank you for your patience.