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WINDOWS 2003 SERVER MIGRATION on Oct 05, 2007 [Updated]

Dear Clients,

In order to provide you with better performance & more stable our Windows 2003 server would be upgraded to heavy duty server with Dual Xeon CORE Processors & minimum 2 GB Ram, The migration details for the servers are given below :

Servers Impacted: OWL.DNSRACKS.COM

Why the need of Migration ? : As a part of the Quality assurance policy our services are regularly upgraded to meet the Industry standards & to protect the servers from any possible sign of crashes/downtimes. Since hard drive of the servers are mechanical devices hence there is a time frame of upgrading the hardware the moment it reaches its 3 years running phase. The Windoes 2003 Server have nearly completed their three years of operations and hence it felt that its right time to move them to heavy duty servers which would not only improve the overall performance but also offer the latest hardware to meet the industry standards.

Migration Description: During this time data & sites are to be will be migrated to a new & powerful server with the following configuration :

Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.4 or above Processors
4 Gb Initial Install Ram
2 X 250 Gb HDD
100 MBPS Port

Migration Date : Friday 05 Oct 2007

Migration Time : The Migration would start at Morning 11.30 AM GMT 5.30 + (IST) time and would be completed by evening 5:00 PM.

Maintenance Impact: As a result of this move, you should expect the sites to be down during a significant portion of the above noted maintenance windows.

Actual amounts of downtime will vary from site to site due to the large number of sites we would be migrating.

We would be providing an exact time frame in next 24 hours, along with that our resellers are to be required to change the IP's for your DNS Service as these would be changed as well. Please check the instruction set that would be followed in the next mail.

Communications Plan: Our helpdesk will be fully functional and staffed during the migrations. We will also be posting periodic updates in the announcements section to keep you fully informed of the status of all migrations. Please do not use our emergency contact numbers during the migration, as this will just slow our work.

We appreciate your business and will do everything in our power to minimize downtime while safely and securely moving server.


Posted on: Wednesday, 3rd October 2007 11:29 AM

# Update: Saturday, 6th October 2007 8:46 AM


We have postponed the OWL server migration for next 24 hours because it’s taking more time to copy data on new server than expected. Now we will do this Migration on Oct 06, 2007 (+ 5:30 IST). The Migration would start at Morning 11.30 AM (+ 5:30 IST) and would be completed by evening 5:00 PM.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

# Update: Thursday, 11th October 2007 8:40 AM


The server migration of OWL Server had to be again postponed on 6th October 2007 due to some unavoidable circumstances. Now we shall migrate our Owl Server to New Server on 12th October 2007.

The Migration would start at Morning 11.30 AM GMT 5.30 + (IST) time and would be completed by evening 5:00 PM on 12th October 2007.

We appreciate your business and will do everything in our power to minimize downtime while safely and securely moving servers. Looking forward to your kind co-operation as always.

# Update: Saturday, 13th October 2007 7:31 AM


We would like to inform you that the scheduled migration of our Windows 2003 server was completed successfully. The server is activated but there are some issues regarding DNS propagation due to which your sites may not open for a while. We are working on the problem and hopefully the issues will be resolved within 2-3 hours.

We shall update appropriately as soon as all the issues are resolved. Expecting your kind co-operation as always.