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Title: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: dschwab9 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.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Tristan Perry 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?
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Fustrate 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.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: CountryLady on May 14, 2009, 05:24:37 PM
Thanks for the heads up. :D
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: phpMyTony on May 14, 2009, 05:25:39 PM
QuoteWill there be food rations or emergency flashlights? We need to be prepared if we're going to survive these times of trouble.


food... (http://forum.expressobeans.com/images/smilies/drool3.gif)
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: N3RVE on May 14, 2009, 05:29:53 PM
Thanks for letting everyone know, Derek ;)

-[n3rve]
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: JBlaze 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.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on May 14, 2009, 07:37:59 PM
Derek, does that mean no site at all or the forum in maintenance mode?
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: dschwab9 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
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Joshua Dickerson 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?
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Trekkie101 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


Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Han on May 14, 2009, 09:03:31 PM
Best of luck today on the migration!
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: candidosa2 on May 15, 2009, 03:45:06 AM
thank you
good like
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on May 15, 2009, 03:49:23 AM
Good to know in advance  ;)

So thanks for the heads up, and hope everything goes well.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Spiritwarrior on May 15, 2009, 07:50:27 AM
Thanks, and good luck with the server migration.  :)
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: 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 :)
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen 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. :)


Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Dzonny 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... :)
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Blind Bandit 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.

Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: dschwab9 on May 16, 2009, 12:45:02 AM
I have plans to implement a light weight http server on a separate machine to serve static content (images, css, etc). I don't see us migrating away from apache for the dynamic content though.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Blind Bandit on May 16, 2009, 01:39:02 AM
Quote from: dschwab9 on May 16, 2009, 12:45:02 AM
I have plans to implement a light weight http server on a separate machine to serve static content (images, css, etc). I don't see us migrating away from apache for the dynamic content though.

Understandable.  Thanks for all the hard work.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Ashdaw on May 16, 2009, 07:25:20 AM
Thanks for the heads up. :) Nice to see that the site is looked after by such dedicated people
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Kenny01 on May 16, 2009, 12:04:26 PM
Good job guys.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Vaѕh on May 16, 2009, 05:58:51 PM
Quote from: dschwab9 on May 14, 2009, 08:05:58 PM
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

If it's a few miles you'd be limited to.. what.. 300 feet anyway? :p  *gives dschab9 a fiber cable and some repeaters*
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Andrew0493 on May 16, 2009, 08:44:55 PM
Excellent work.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: vbgamer45 on May 17, 2009, 08:58:32 AM
Great work! That was fast and smooth.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: uberjon on May 17, 2009, 09:12:00 PM
Quote from: Blind Bandit 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.

well in my opinion, doing that on the SMF site while apache is still so popular isn't the best of ideas.. afterall the SMF home site is the last place a "build" is tested on the teams side, before closed beta etc..

doing so could perhaps leave a bug or something for a larger population?

or if i have things mixed up (like what kind of issues a different webserver software could cause) it could at the least trick the team into thinking there is a bug when its really lightspeed?
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Blind Bandit on May 17, 2009, 11:47:31 PM
Quote from: uberjon on May 17, 2009, 09:12:00 PM
Quote from: Blind Bandit 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.

well in my opinion, doing that on the SMF site while apache is still so popular isn't the best of ideas.. afterall the SMF home site is the last place a "build" is tested on the teams side, before closed beta etc..

doing so could perhaps leave a bug or something for a larger population?

or if i have things mixed up (like what kind of issues a different webserver software could cause) it could at the least trick the team into thinking there is a bug when its really lightspeed?


The issue wouldn't be bugs.  The issue would be if something wasn't available as an option in litespeed.  Such as a module or option.  But litespeed can reduce load.  And resoruce usage.  There also other free options too.  But I don't want to drag this topic off course.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: tooman on May 18, 2009, 06:07:25 AM
good luck

i love smf :)
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Stallyon on May 19, 2009, 01:16:12 PM
Duuh...We moved? I didn't even notice. I was asleep.
Title: Re: Server Maintenance Friday, 05/15/09
Post by: Sudhakar Arjunan on May 21, 2009, 06:48:17 AM
Quote from: dschwab9 on May 16, 2009, 12:45:02 AM
I have plans to implement a light weight http server on a separate machine to serve static content (images, css, etc). I don't see us migrating away from apache for the dynamic content though.

Good work, is it separated dschwab9.