Server replacement (UK)

[Staff 9749]

Hello!

We inform you that all of our VPN servers in Maidenhead will cease operations on 03 September 2021. They will be replaced by servers in London featuring more modern hardware. Unfortunately, both technical and non-technical reasons force us to leave the current dc in Maidenhead.

Servers in London are anyway located just 40 Km from Maidenhead and they will be announced and available in the next days.

The new machines will keep the same names in order to support the old FQDN used by OpenVPN client profiles. Since the datacenter seems to have put offline already a server before the natural expiration date, we could put the new servers online before the mentioned 03 September date. When new servers are turned on, older ones with the same name will be disconnected from the infrastructure. This thread will be updated, if necessary, accordingly.

The replacement servers are five, while the replaced ones are six. That's because we might be adding in the future another datacenter in UK in a different location.

Kind regards
AirVPN Staff

[Staff 9749]

UPDATE 27 Aug 2021

VPN servers Alathfar and Carinae switch has been completed.

Minkar will not be replaced at the moment and will cease operations on 03 Sep 2021.

Kind regards
 

[Staff 9749]

UPDATE 3 Sep 2021

Replacement has been completed.

Kind regards