mv /easynet/* /databarn
Today I got home and found a letter on the doorstep, addressed to me, which appeared to come from my hosting provider. I already received the bill for this month’s colocation, and to my knowledge there’s nothing illegal on the server (or at least not that they would bother about), so I was wondering what it could possibly be. So the logical action to take is to open the envelope and read the letter.
So far this server has been doing it’s thing from the Easynet datacenter, and so far that’s been going pretty well. Okay, a day or so ago the AMS-IX went unstable (apparantly they were doing maintenance in one half of the redundant network but a failover triggered, switching links to the part of the network that was down for maintenance) causing packetloss and slow links for most of the world, but that affected about every Ducth datacenter and probably a major part of the world (as you may know, the AMS-IX is by far the largest internet exchange in the world). But that was pretty much the only issue in several months, we even seemed to escape from the wave of power outages in data centers that has been going on for the last couple of months. Many data centers suffered blackouts, including LCL in Diegem (Belgium), which - up to now - had a zero uptime reputation of which they were kinda proud.
The point is that, starting June 1st, the server won’t be doing it’s thing from Easynet anymore, but move to Databarn. The choice to move was made by the colocation provider. The lack of oil is affecting datacenters badly, because energy prices are rising. And if there’s one thing a data center needs lots of, it’s power. Easynet has apparantly raised the price for electricity by a whopping 87%, up to 72 euros per ampere, whereas other datacenters usually charge about half that. Of course this rise is considered ridiculous, and since the costs in having a cage in a DC isn’t about the space but the power usage, the decision has been made to move to Databarn.
Naturally that will mean downtime, however I’m going to see if I can combine moving equipemt with the already planned maintenance to reduce it as much as possible. More info to come.
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