Scheduled Migration on WIN1, Tuesday 04/13/2004 04:00 AM (GMT -04:00)

[FH-Dave]

This maintenance window has been scheduled and a notification email has been sent to all shared hosting customers.


Dear Valued Customers,

We have been working with PSOFT in the last two weeks preparing the planned migration of customers web accounts on one of our windows server, win1.fluidhosting.com (66.150.196.66). If your website/domain IP falls within the range of 66.150.196.166 - 66.150.196.110 and/or if you are using MSSQL, then you will be affected by this migration. This migration will not affect other windows customers hosted on win2.fluidhosting.com and other unix customers.

All customers website on win1.fluidhosting.com will be migrated to a new server, a Xeon 2.8 GHz with HyperThreading, 1.5 GB of ECC DDR memory, and SCSI3 U320 10000 rpm. The migration is meant to solve the stability issue experienced lately on the current win1.fluidhosting.com server. Once all customer website have been upgraded, we will shut down IIS on the current server and leave only MSSQL service running on it. Thus, the current server will serve as a dedicated MSSQL server. During this migration, all IPs will be migrated to the new server and MSSQL IP will be changed to 66.150.196.67. We have changed mssql1.fluidhosting.com to 66.150.196.67 so the MSSQL IP change should be transparent for you.

The new windows server will run on Windows 2003/IIS 6.0. And because of this, CDONTS mail component will no longer work; instead of CDONTS, you will need to use CDOSYS. Furthermore, shared SSL will no longer be supported under Windows 2003. You will need to purchase/install your own SSL certificate to replace your shared SSL certificate.

If you believe you will be affected because of this migration, please contact support@fluidhosting.com to plan for your migration.

The migration should start on Tuesday, 04/13/2004 at around 4 AM EDT (GMT -04:00). PSOFT will plan and execute the migration and we should be able to keep the downtime to a minimum since we foresee no further complications from this migration.

Should you have any further questions and/or concern regarding this maintenance work, please do not hesitate to contact us at support@fluidhosting.com.

Sincerely,
Administrator
Fluid Hosting LLC

[FH-Hary]

The migration on WIN1 seems to have been successfuly done. However, now that Windows 2000 server is a dedicated MSSQL, we assigned a new IP to it which is 66.150.196.67. The IP 66.150.196.66 now will point to the new Windows 2003 server. The connection string for MSSQL will need to be adjusted to 66.150.196.67 and the port # will need to be specified to 2433; the hostname should be "66.150.196.67, 2433".

If you have any problem that may related to the migration, please contact us at support[at]fluidhosting.com.

[FH-Dave]

Another thing to notice, your account on old server is located under drive E:\, whereas under the new server, it is located under drive D:\. If you use absolute path in any of your scripts, please make sure you change the drive letter too.

[FH-Hary]

For those who needs to migrates from CDONTS to CDOSYS because of the migration from Windows 2000 server to Windows 2003 server, here is a link (http://support.fluidhosting.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=82&nav=+%26gt%3B+%3Ca+href%3D%5C%5C%5C%27index.php%3F _a%3Dknowledgebase%26_j%3Dsubcat%26_i%3D9%5C%5C%5C %27%3EShared+Hosting%3C%2Fa%3E+%26gt%3B+%3Ca+href% 3D%5C%27index.php%3F_a%3Dknowledgebase%26_j%3Dsubc at%26_i%3D26%5C%27%3EScripting%3C%2Fa%3E+%26gt%3B+ %3Ca+href%3D%27index.php%3F_a%3Dknowledgebase%26_j %3Dsubcat%26_i%3D30%27%3EASP%2FASP.Net%3C%2Fa%3E&PHPSESSID=83b1007b8855937c10fdf0dc95b5ffc9) where you can learn about how to send emails using CDOSYS.

If you have questions or comments about the code, feel free to reply at this thread (http://fluidhosting.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=3832#post3832).

[jpirelli]

Here is the classic ASP string I use to make the change to this new setting. Previously I had been using a DSN which the control panel made.

objConn.Open "Driver={SQL Server};" & _
"Server=mssql1.fluidhosting.com, 2433;" & _
"Database=YourDBName;" & _
"Uid=YourUserName;" & _
"Pwd=XXXXXX"

I think you guys should have repaired the DSN's since the control panel did set all those up, but anyway, this works fine.

Thanks
Joe Pirelli

[FH-Dave]

This notification had been sent to all shared hosting customers.


Dear Valued Customers,

This is an update on the scheduled migration on WIN1 performed Tuesday, 04/13/2004.

The migration has been completed without any unexpected problems for the majority of the customers. Some unforeseen problems were experienced on some customers. Please make sure the following:
1. If you are using MSSQL server, please note that we do not open our MSSQL server on its standard port of 1433, but rather we use port 2433. Before the migration, you were connecting to this MSSQL server locally, and thus, this port number was not really an issue. However, since you are not connecting to our MSSQL (dedicated) server remotely, the port number needs to be specified on your connection string/hostname.
2. On the new server, your account resides under drive d:\ instead of drive e:\. If you use absolute path anywhere in your scripts/database connection, please make sure you change the drive letter assignment too. Whenever possible, please avoid the use of absolute paths and use relative paths if possible.
3. If you have a FrontPage problem, republishing your FrontPage should fix this problem. If not, please contact us at immediately.
4. Some people have notified us about the problem with their SSL certificate. Please contact us if you also experience this problem.
5. If you use Perl, PHP, Pear, please also check if the modules you need are installed on the new server.

Other than this, the migration has been completed. Within the next few days, we will shut down IIS on the old server and the old server will only serve MSSQL.

If you still experience any other problems/difficulties, please contact us at support@fluidhosting.com.

Sincerely,
Administrator
Fluid Hosting LLC