I'm going to start providing updates here as we go, please note all these updates should be taken with a grain of salt, it hasn't fallen in place together to where we can make official announcements with confidence yet.
PHX is confirmed as close to 100% as possible safe, we've already spoken with Path. They stated they would not shut off services and are assisting us with moving to them directly.
Dedicated servers will receive an email very soon, we already winded down most of these but a few are left, we were going to continue those for another month as we split it off into multiple batches based on contract durations. We're going to wind up space for all dedicated servers so they can take backups as available, but probably only a dozen customers affected.
The majority of services were already backed up a month ago, pre-emptively in case something like this should occur. The backups are being updated and more thoroughly checked. I had a long wall of text written about all our plans that I decided not to post as it was very convoluted. As @Jab stated we're probably the best company you can be with right now as we have a lot of experience.
Need not panic, at the time my best guess is that everyone will be more cooperative than the first time we did something like this, and we have a ton of code prepared for all types of migrations everywhere. We also have some providers on standby that can provide us extra space, and we have extra servers, about 30 of them that we can deploy quickly. The most we're anticipating at this time would be up to maybe one day outage in emergency scenarios mostly related to switching over IPv4 blocks. Of course it could get worse in which case it'd go into loading from backups we have already taken or are updating/taking now.
Sorry for not updating you earlier, rest assured every hour spent since I woke up this morning has been dedicated to this situation and I definitely will be around for at least the next 2-3 days. We have a pretty good espresso machine at the office now.
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