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Offline dschwab9

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Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« on: May 14, 2009, 04:35:44 PM »
Hey guys, just a heads up about some upcoming server maintenance.

Tomorrow, 05/15/09, beginning around 10:00AM EDT, we will be migrating our servers to a new rack in a different building a few miles away. During the same window, I will be bringing online another web server and doing some updates and maintenance on the existing machines. The site will be unavailable for a couple of periods of probably 30-60 minutes each.
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2009, 05:17:27 PM »
Sounds good, best of luck with the move :)

Out of interest, why the DC move? Or - simply - who is the new DC?
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2009, 05:19:52 PM »
Will there be food rations or emergency flashlights? We need to be prepared if we're going to survive these times of trouble.
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2009, 05:24:37 PM »
Thanks for the heads up. :D
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2009, 05:25:39 PM »
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Will there be food rations or emergency flashlights? We need to be prepared if we're going to survive these times of trouble.


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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2009, 05:29:53 PM »
Thanks for letting everyone know, Derek ;)

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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2009, 05:48:32 PM »
Thanks for the heads up. Now I gotta find something to do during that time...

Great work on the server man. It's really appreciated.
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2009, 07:37:59 PM »
Derek, does that mean no site at all or the forum in maintenance mode?
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2009, 08:05:58 PM »
Quote from: Tristan Perry on May 14, 2009, 05:17:27 PM
Out of interest, why the DC move? Or - simply - who is the new DC?

We are not actually changing companies. Our colo provider is moving to a new facility.

Quote from: groundup on May 14, 2009, 07:37:59 PM
Derek, does that mean no site at all or the forum in maintenance mode?

No site at all. The servers will be physically in my car being moved, and I don't have a cat5 cable long enough to move them running  ;D
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2009, 08:33:48 PM »
Ah okay. That sucks. I would send you one but I don't think it will get there in time. Could DNS be switched to a backup server?
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2009, 08:35:32 PM »
Quote from: groundup on May 14, 2009, 08:33:48 PM
Ah okay. That sucks. I would send you one but I don't think it will get there in time. Could DNS be switched to a backup server?

It's ok now, we have the situation resolved.

I'm bringing a 12v car battery, a TMobile G1 with web and walk, and a bluetooth adapter, you will see no downtime :P


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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2009, 09:03:31 PM »
Best of luck today on the migration!
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2009, 03:45:06 AM »
thank you
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2009, 03:49:23 AM »
Good to know in advance  ;)

So thanks for the heads up, and hope everything goes well.
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2009, 07:50:27 AM »
Thanks, and good luck with the server migration.  :)
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2009, 12:28:46 PM »
Server migration is complete. I'll be bringing online the second web server shortly. I don't expect any more downtime, but there might be a glitch or two the next couple of hours.
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2009, 01:02:40 PM »
Quote from: dschwab9 on May 15, 2009, 12:28:46 PM
Server migration is complete. I'll be bringing online the second web server shortly. I don't expect any more downtime, but there might be a glitch or two the next couple of hours.

Nice work :)
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #17 on: May 15, 2009, 02:13:39 PM »
dschwab9 , a HUGE thanks for lettings us know in advance this time :)
And I hope everything went fine and smooth. :)
 
 
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2009, 03:59:40 PM »
Quote from: StarWars Fan on May 15, 2009, 01:02:40 PM
Quote from: dschwab9 on May 15, 2009, 12:28:46 PM
Server migration is complete. I'll be bringing online the second web server shortly. I don't expect any more downtime, but there might be a glitch or two the next couple of hours.

Nice work :)
I'm glad everything is ok now... :)
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Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2009, 12:41:39 AM »
Just out of curiosity has SMF thought about using lightspeed web sever to reduce load?

Also I hope you didn't have to much work to do.

Do all that by yourself seems rather hard.

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