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What's nice is that simply turning the server on and off allows you to move the faster machines :-)

Except that you may suddenly encounter that servers were out of stock, someone just got lucky with the slot you've freed and now you can't power your server back on. ;-)

Not sure about VPSes, but this had happened to me once with a C1 server.

Did it happen to you on a VC1 (now Start-XXX) ? These are virtual servers.

No, I've only ever used their baremetal offerings (C1 and C2s). Sans the few oddities, I think they're quite good for the price, at least for various toy/sandbox stuff. It could be that this kind of situation can't happen on VC1 (Start-XXX) - as I wrote, I'm not sure.

More details are needed, it looks like a good story.

Well, I don't exactly remember what I was doing (it was, like, an year ago or so), but I've de-provisioned a C1 to temporarily release its system volume as I wanted to attach it to another server (to make changes there). IIRC, I've messed up my root partition a little bit, had some nbd issues with recovery kernel, and decided to just reattach the volume to another C1 instead. And then, basically, what I wrote - someone got lucky and got the computing resources I've freed, so I wasn't able to spin things up.

I tried doing this to my AMS1 region VC1L server but after powering off/on the server it was still using the old hypervisor (C2xxx atom). I noticed that the Start Range servers are all out of stock so I suppose they did fallback to old ones.

(I've already opened a ticket with them).

Edit: Just received a second message from them. Turns out I a missed part of their blog post that says that the update is not yet available in AMS1 region.

How?

See the end of the blog post:

> All VC1 users can upgrade to Start servers without any price change.

> To upgrade your existing VC1 server, simply do a power off and a power on your server. Your server will start on a Next-Gen Start Hypervisor with increased performances and for the same price as before. You may already be running on a new hypervisor if you created your server recently. New hypervisors are powered by Intel Denverton CPUs instead of Avoton.

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