Firestar & Hydra IP Migration Live Blog
Posted by: Tim M. // // October 26th, 2009 // Issues: Open
Hydra:
Info: Hydra is being migrated to a new rack, this unfortunately requires an IP migration. All customers on Hydra were given 7 days notice for the migration and full instructions on what to do and expect.
02:03 Hydra has been shutdown and is currently being moved to a new rack, we have preconfigured the main IP address, purchased new cPanel and Installatron licenses.
02:20 Hydra has been pinging for some minutes, Im in the middle of reconfiguring it.
02:38 Hydra is fully running now — All clear email has been sent to customers.
Firestar:
Info: Firestar is being migrated to a new rack, this unfortunately requires an IP migration. All customers on Firestar were given 7 days notice for the migration and full instructions on what to do and expect.
00:30 – Firestar is about to be shutdown and moved to new rack, we have preconfigured the main IP address, purchased new cPanel and Installatron licenses.
00:33 – Firestar has been switched off, is now being uncabled & moved.
01:00 – Firestar is now working on new IP Range. Have run DNSreport.com against a number of domains and they’re working fine. Have also loaded a number of websites without a problem. Customers have been sent an all clear email.
Huge thanks to Berwick, Matt & Chris from BlueSquare!






















Excellent job as usal guys!
No worries Ollie, I checked and your personalised NS are working fine.
Thanks for doing the blog & the tweets Tim – totally prevents panic at this end if you’re aware of what’s what. Hope hydra & firestar play nice all the way
No worries, I know doing this is a big pain but we had no choice sadly. If you (or anyone) still has any problems please don’t hesitate to contact us at http://www.evohosting.co.uk/contact-us
All seems fine from this end, sat here up in Liverpool using a 2meg Orange ADSL broadband line & getting our site just fine, quarter past 4 in the wee smalls. Subjectively seems as if there’s a pretty huge increase in speed? Pages seem to be loading TONS quicker here now
You’re on a 1gbit connection now so maybe that has something to do with it.
Hey guys,
Are there any issues existing ? 99% of the sites I have checked so far are ok, but a few are having issues, 1 it only works if you do http://www.dom.ext not dom.ext, another seems totally dead.
I’ve just refreshed the nameserver settings incase its that
S
Hey Steve, DNS issue. You can flush your DNS cache, you can also change your dns servers on your computer to the ones for http://www.opendns.com/ – it’s pretty much instant.
Hey Tim,
I changed ns a few times and checked whois, flushed the cache etc, and one of them corrected the need for www, but neither fixed the dead domain. I have just hunted my netbook and mobile dongle down and the dead site is live but not available to my PC. I wonder why out of dozens of names just these 2 go funny ?
I wish I could use opendns but my ISP sucks, I can’t even use port 25 yet alone change the NS, well I can change them but then I get no access
Hi Steve, if you’re still having this issue feel free to contact us at http://www.evohosting.co.uk/contact-us and let us know what domain it is.
Hey Tim,
The one site only just started to come up a few hours ago, god knows why it was just that 1 affected. Pretty random isn’t it.