UKC

Server Relocation (Scheduled) 14-15 November

MICROLITE13 Server Relocation (Scheduled)

Affecting Server – M13 | Priority – Critical

UK Cheapest has experienced tremendous growth over the last decade and we couldn’t have done this without you. With the growth which we have experienced year over year, it has come to the stage where we have utilised most of our existing data centre space resulting in us needing to prepare ourselves for the future.

Throughout the November 2013, we will be migrating our data centre hardware to a larger data centre in Reading and your server(s) hardware will need to be moved to our new data centre space.The migration of your server is scheduled to commence on 14-11-2013 and will be completed between 10 PM UK time on 14-11-2013 and 6 AM UK time on 15-11-2013. We regret to inform you that your service will be unavailable during this migration process.

We will take a complete backup of your server before migrating it to the new data centre. If you have any questions regarding your server migration we encourage you to respond to this ticket where one of our senior technicians will be happy to answer any questions or concerns you may have.

We would like to take this opportunity to apologies in advance for the disruption and inconvenience this migration may cause you and we will do everything we can to minimise it.

Yours sincerely,

Support Team

Date – 14/11/2013 22:00 – 15/11/2013 06:00

Last Updated – 31/10/2013 10:56

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Linux Performance: Remount EXT3 partitions using ‘noatime’

Increase Drive Performance by 40% using noatime

Are you feeling the heat on your dedicated server, getting high I/O wait times?

If you are using EXT3 partitions then it is worth checking to see if they are mounted using ‘noatime’. If they are not, then every read to your partition is also a write which can massively reduce hard drive performance.

First, find all partitions mounted as EXT3 mount without noatime:

# mount | grep ext3
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sdb1 on /backup type ext3 (rw)

Any not showing the noatime attribute, simply remount like so:

# mount -o remount,noatime /backup

You can do this without a server reboot, you can do this with the server live and with the partitions already mounted.

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