As per below finzean needs to be moved. It is currently set up for 
suspend/restore so should only be a few seconds of down time for the move. I 
think whenever suits is fine. Anyone think otherwise?

Also, can we switch contact address for bitfolk account to something other than 
me? Maybe [email protected] to go to all directors? Or that 
might result in everybody thinking someone else will deal with it and nothing 
being done? Does someone want to volunteer to be contact?

Robert
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To: [email protected]
Subject: [bitfolk.com #11281] AutoReply: We need to move your BitFolk VPS 
'finzean' to other hardware
Date: Saturday, 5 June 2021 18:57

Greetings,

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        "We need to move your BitFolk VPS 'finzean' to other hardware", 
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This ticket has been assigned an ID of [bitfolk.com #11281].

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Dear customer,

TL;DR: We need to move your VPS to different hardware so that we can
carry out a rolling operating system upgrade. Please reply with when
we can do it and it will get done. Opt in to suspend and restore to
hopefully not even experience a reboot! If we don't hear from you
within one week then we'll do the work at a time of our choosing.

The full story:

We need to perform rolling operating system upgrades across our fleet
of servers. Rather than shut your service down while we do it which
may involve an outage of several hours, we'd like to move your service
to different hardware, which will typically take under a minute.

So, when's a good time for us to do this?

Moving your VPS will involve a clean shut down, transfer of your data
and then a boot again. You can expect the down time to be only a few
seconds, though that does not include the time it takes your VM to
shut down and boot up. You will *not* need to change your IP
address(es) or anything else about your service.

It will not require you to take any action, but you should ensure that
your VPS boots correctly in an unattended fashion including starting
all services that you expect to have running. It would also help if
you could ensure that you have allowed ICMP ping from our monitoring
IPs:

    
https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Monitoring#Which_IP_addresses_will_BitFolk.27s_monitoring_checks_come_from.3F

If you have opted in to suspend and restore then we will use this and
if all goes well you may not even notice that your VM has been moved
between hardware, as it will just appear to be a pause in execution
for a minute or so. Learn more about opting in to suspend and restore
here:

    https://tools.bitfolk.com/wiki/Suspend_and_restore

If you don't care when the work is done and don't need more than 5
minutes of notice by email, then great! Please just say so and we'll
get on with it.

    ******************************************************************
    If we don't hear back from you within one week then we'll assume
    this is the case: that we're okay to do the work at any time, with
    5 minutes of notice.
    ******************************************************************

If on the other hand you:

- do need more than 5 minutes of notice;

- would need the work to take place only within a certain time window, or;

- need to schedule a window on an exact date/time for the work to be
  done;

then please let us know what you need with as much detail as you care
to mention about when the work can be done and how much notice you
need, and we will work something out.

Thanks,
Andy Smith
BitFolk Ltd.

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