With many hosts your account will remain on a particular server until it fails in some way or another. That’s not the way we do things here at Dathorn. We like to be proactive with upgrading or replacing our servers to help avoid failures that happen more frequently as hardware ages. This also gives us a great opportunity to deploy new configurations, operating system versions, etc. so that we can continue adding value to our services.
Over the next several months we will be going through this process once again. All of our existing shared and reseller hosting servers will be upgraded by means of migrating to a new server. You will receive a ticket notification via our client portal once your particular server has been scheduled. Aside from announcing this I wanted to quickly highlight some of the more important changes that will take place as a part of these migrations.
First up are the hardware changes and the most important of these concerns the local storage. Over the past 13 years we’ve gone from SATA storage to SAS drives to our current hybrid SSD / SATA arrays. Now we’re very excited to be migrating to pure SSD storage. All servers will be utilizing new 12Gbps LSI RAID controllers with a minimum of six 1TB SSDs in RAID 10. The performance that we’ve been able to get from these new systems is simply amazing. While other providers may charge extra for (or not even offer) such high speed storage, all of our clients are being upgraded to it free of charge.