The data-center where BOINCstats and Primegrid are located is closing its doors. This means the servers have to be moved to another location (from the same company) which unfortunately is farther away than the current location. During the move there will be an extended downtime, but if all goes well we should not miss a daily update.

I'm not really happy about the move. It's farther away, we have downtime, and even worse, we're breaking something down that works. Moving servers and equipment is asking for trouble.

The exact date is not set yet, I'll keep you informed.

If there is somebody in the area of Rotterdam/Capelle aan den IJssel/Alphen aan den Rijn who's willing to help me move the servers please contact me.

Do you have plans in the same direction?

No.

I already investigated moving BOINCstats to the "cloud", like for example Amazon. However, the kind of computing power BOINCstats needs is very expensive on Amazon. It would be more expensive than having own servers and hiring rackspace.

Of course, for Primegrid this may be different. Should they decide to stop sharing rackspace with BOINCstats it would mean that the whole rack-rent will have to be paid solely by me. We already hire the smallest unit so downsizing doesn't help reducing costs.

The move will still occur before March 1st, Primegrid leaving or not.

In preparation of the move I purchased two Dell servers to act as firewall/load balancers. These servers were paid from the Adsense income so there won't be a donation item for this.

It seems that the Primegrid people have decided to stop sharing the rack with us, which is why from March and on the monthly rack fee will be €300. I'm looking into ways to rent some rack space to others (maybe another project or one of the larger teams) to reduce the costs.

I also expect the electric bill for 2012 to hit my mailbox at any time. Fingers crossed the new servers did not eat up too much.

According to PGs news page: the server move is ... COMPLETE!

That's just the PG move. No BOINCstats servers have been moved.

The move is planned for Thursday February 14th.

Good luck for tomorrow, Willy!