Expirence of moving from newark to london
I have two linode 360's and support said it takes about 15 mins a gig to transfer. I watched the transfer for a bit and I was getting between 1.0mbps to 1.2mbps for the whole data transfer which in the end took about 3 1/2 hours.
The linodes are back up with the changed IP addresses and everything is working perfectly. The sites I am running are still yet to go live so the downtime was no problem and really was amazed at how well it worked..
Hats off to linode and its staff the service really is top notch.
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I was already renting a VPS from a UK provider (10TBvps.com, not knowing any better), which I've been kinda dissatisfied with, and I was paying the painful amount of £33.50 (almost $55) per month for it as well. But since I needed a European-based VPS outside of Norway for geographical spread, I had limited options.
The second I saw that Linode.com had started a presence in London, I immediately signed up for my third Linode (1 year billing right off the bat – and my other two are both in Dallas), placed it in London, transferred some files over to my Linode and cancelled my contract at 10TBvps without hesitating. My most recent invoice with them was on the 10th, which I had yet to pay, and I'm kinda relieved that I don't have to pay for it after all.
Thankfully, I had yet to actually put the VPS to any use in live production, so I only had to move over some files and update my DNS pointers with the new IP address.
Kudos, Linode!
Update the name servers in /etc/resolv.conf
Update the static ip's in /etc/network/interfaces
Update the apache configuration
Update the firewall to allow servers to commuinicate on new IP's
The only other item I was looking at changing was to make the package repository to be in the UK instead of the US to allow updates to download faster.
I've shut down the machine, started migration (11Gb of data at 2.5Mb/s). While waiting for data to transfer I've changed the DNS's too, and once I booted the linode everything worked fine. It took around 1:30h to complete. No other changes have been made.
My target audience is in Europe, but I've decided to give Linode a go anyway. And I can say that I haven't mistaken!
I really wasn't expecting this to happen, but it made me even more content. I'm really happy with the service!
After migrating linode to London, response times are half the time than when linode was in Newark! Splendid!
BTW, checked the machine - it has the same Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520.
Maybe it's wrong time and links between California and the UK overloaded but why the speed is so low in comparison with other?
@mrgall:
I started migration from Fremont to London 5 hours ago and now it's only 26% completed (the speed is ~220KB/s and going down).
This happens from time to time on that specific trip (round-trip Fremont > London). We're working on making it better, but there is a plethora of Internet from A to B.
about 2.8 MB/s during migration, dns managed by linode must be updated manually.
Latency: from 105ms to 52ms
Overall: very nice:D