Migrating to a new VPS

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If you're contemplating a major OS upgrade or re-installation, BitFolk may be able to offer you a new VPS temporarily running concurrently with your existing VPS, for you to migrate to.

Motivation

It is normally possible to upgrade a VPS in the same way that you would upgrade a normal server, and via the rescue VPS you could theoretically install anything that boots under Xen, but sometimes this may not be convenient. It will take some time to set up your services again on a clean install.

For this reason, in most cases it is possible for BitFolk Support to provision you a new VPS account to run concurrently with your existing VPS, for you to install and migrate onto.

Requirements

  • The additional VPS can be provided for free for a maximum of two weeks. After this time BitFolk will need to charge you for it.
  • You will need to pick a new account name for the new VPS that you will migrate to. Changing account names is quite hard, so you'll need to keep the new account name afterwards.
  • Your new VPS will require new IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Migrating IP addresses over to a new VPS

Customers often request their old IP addresses to be migrated over to the new VPS afterwards. This is possible but is less useful than you may think:

  • You will need new IP addresses anyway while you are running the two VPSes concurrently.
  • As soon as BitFolk takes your old IP addresses away from your old VPS, your services will be unavailable until you have them configured on your new VPS, which will require coordination of your work with BitFolk's.

You may find it easier to ensure that your services are working correctly on the new IP addresses that you've been assigned, and then change any DNS records so that users are pointed to your new VPS. If there is a problem you can then change the DNS records back.

On the other hand, if there are many DNS records or other uses of your old IP addresses that you can't control then it may indeed be easier to bring your old IP addresses over. You'll need to coordinate a time to do this with Support.

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