At Simpli we heavily invest in monitoring, maintenance, and server systems to ensure the best performance on current hardware. When a node is approaching "End Of Life" (usually 2 years after initial deployment) we look into ways how can we replace it. We deploy new equipment to give our clients a performance boost and keep on track with the latest industry standards.

During this maintenance, we are upgrading our FR-WHC-0001 which served us well with almost 100% uptime (99.9974% to be exact) since the 9th of June 2020. The server will be upgraded in all aspects. The CPU will be upgraded from the 2.00 GHz to the 3.00+ GHz model (66% increase), DDR4 RAM will be replaced with a higher clocked version, and SATA SSD disks will be replaced with M.2 NVMe SSD disks, resulting in an estimated 4-6x performance gain and lastly, we will quadruple the server port speed from 250mbps to 1000mbps. The upgrade will also include DNS server upgrades, however, we don't expect major performance boosts there, primarily the redundancy improvements. The improvements don't end here. With the new server, we will install the latest cPanel version, and make any necessary changes on the software side to provide an even better experience. Additionally, we will revamp our web hosting plans fully to provide more resources, backups, and features.

The maintenance is scheduled to take place on Thursday 15th of September, beginning at 10:00 CEST. Before the maintenance starts, we will step in contact with each client individually and assist with the migration of new files, DNS, and any other data to the new host system in order to minimize downtime down to minutes instead of days.

We have scheduled this maintenance for 48 hours to ensure everything goes as planned, however, we do not anticipate backup operations to be impacted for the whole time. The upgrade will be carried out as a rolling upgrade, meaning the impacted clients will be migrated at an agreed time throughout the maintenance window and not only at the start. You can be assured that we are doing everything possible to reduce the impact on customers.

In the upcoming days following backup server maintenance we will reach out to clients to schedule and prepare for the migration. For any questions, we encourage you to open a ticket or contact us through any official support communication channels.