We’re doing a server migration this weekend (9th June 2012) to some bigger, faster (and meaner!) servers. These servers have much more storage and capacity, and will allow us to scale better in the future.

To be able to do this, we need to take the platform down for 4 hours starting at 9am London BST. In all our trial migration, the switch over was done in just over 2 hours. So, we’re adding another couple of hours as a contingency.

One thing to note: our IP address will change from 85.13.251.44 to 176.9.141.73. We’ve added a page on our documentation site about this:

http://docs.xp-dev.com/user-guide/ip-address-change.html

As our IP address is changing, all SSH users will need to re-verify our SSH key fingerprint (which remains the same): ca:3f:90:8c:b0:93:c0:bd:00:ad:76:37:fb:8c:65:f4

This migration does not affect dedicated instance users, only those who use our main platform.

If you have any concerns about this, please do raise a ticket.

We’ll be on Twitter posting updates as we go through the migration: https://twitter.com/#!/xpdev