cpanel26 upgrade on March 30th

[AndrewT]

ATTN ALL customers located on cpanel26, please read and understand this entire thread thoroughly. If you have any questions please post here: http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread...2590#post12590

On March 30th, cpanel26 will be upgraded to our new platform. More information on this can be found here: http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=2094

Instead of being on cpanel26, users will now be on cpanel40.

Server: cpanel40.gzo.com - 70.87.73.66
DNS #1: dns79.gzo.com - 70.87.73.68
DNS #2: dns80.gzo.com - 70.87.74.8

IMPORTANT
Anyone that has custom nameservers or that has used the cpanel26 DNS IP addresses (69.56.176.100 and 69.56.176.101) for anything will need to update their entries to the new nameservers and IPs listed above.

To avoid all possible downtime on your domains, do not make any DNS changes until we have confirmed here in the forums that the cpanel26 account transfers have been completed.

Those that are using the cpanel26 gzo.com nameservers (dns51/dns52) without IPs, do not need to change anything. They will be updated to the new IPs automatically.

Beginning at 3:00PM CST on March 30th, we also advise all users to disable anything involving MySQL updates (order forms, forums, CMS, etc.) until it is running on the new servers. This will avoid updates being lost during the transfer and ending up with a database that is a few hours old. If this is not an option, you can leave everything active, cpanel26 will still be online for a few days following the upgrade. But you will be responsible for transfering any database updates that might be needed.

Once again, if you have any questions or comments, please post in the forum thread that is linked above.

[AndrewT]

Note that during this upgrade any domain usernames that have dashes or underscores in them will be renamed to exclude these symbols. Customer usernames with dashes in them will remain the same.

[AndrewT]

Later today we will begin transfering the actual dis#### reseller accounts, when each one is done you will no longer be able to access WHM on cpanel26. We have to do this so that we can get them properly transfered to the new server with the appropriate permissions prior to the actual domain accounts being transfered. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We will begin transfering the domain accounts as early as we can today so that we can go ahead and get this move completed. First, we will be manually transfering the accounts that are bigger than 500MB to ensure that no problems occur. Then we will proceed with all other accounts.

Updates on our current progress will be posted in this thread throughout the entire process.

[AndrewT]

WHM accounts are now disabled on cpanel26 and are transfering to cpanel40.

[AndrewT]

All cpanel26 customers should now be able to login to WHM on cpanel40 with the same login information as they used for cpanel26. Please do not do anything with this yet, however, as the domain accounts have not been transfered yet.

If you login to the customer control panel and view your welcome e-mail, it should now list cpanel40 as your server.

Domain accounts that have disk usage > 500MBs are now being manually transfered from cpanel26 to cpanel40, this is only 12 accounts.

[AndrewT]

The remaining domain accounts are now being transfered. The larger ones simply took a while to transfer due to cpanel26 not performing quite up to par.

[AndrewT]

cpanel26 is turning this into a very slow process. We're about half way done with the remaining accounts and we're transfering them as quickly as possible.

Rest assured that cpanel40 will be a huge improvement!

[AndrewT]

The transfer process is currently a bit over 80% done, things are moving a bit faster now and we hope to have all accounts transfered by sometime this afternoon.

[AndrewT]

All accounts have now been transfered. You should now change your DNS/nameservers to the new cpanel40 nameservers if necessary.

[AndrewT]

An uptime report link for cpanel40 has been posted.

[AndrewT]

HTTP on cpanel26 will be disabled on Friday (4/7/06). Please be sure that all DNS updates are made prior to that.

[AndrewT]

HTTP has been disabled on cpanel26. cpanel26 will be taken offline entirely next Friday (4/14/06).

[AndrewT]

cpanel26 has now been taken offline entirely.