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Rackspace has been patching their Xen stuff for a little over a week now.

It's nice having a multi-region / multi-provider setup otherwise the typical Rackspace reboot window (much like UPS deliveries or the cable guy) would've been a pain in the ass.

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We deploy to a single region. This maintenance was a major pain in the ass. We got a notice 72 hours ahead of time (only 1 business day ahead of time) that around 60% of all of our hosts failed live migration and would be rebooted.

@gibsonje - similar experience here. Except Rackspace gave notice about a week ahead. The day maintenance was scheduled for it was postponed but without notice. Then the reboots happened across 3 days as opposed to 1 day. Glad they are patching but that's not really fanatical support.

What's your general setup to achieve the multi-provider redundancy?

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