NEW SERVER - ONLINE TOMORROW

Post by **mike** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:40 pm

As of midnight the site is going to be switched to the new server.
The old site will be shutdown at midnight and the new one will come online throughout the day depending on your location.

It is pretty much ready and I imagine there will be things that need fixing so post them here.

I don't have time to test everything so would be grateful if people can report something that is not working for them, ie timezones or posting in forums, gallery uploads and such.

Cheers, hope to see you all tomorrow :wink:

Mike

DieselBoy · Post by **DieselBoy** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:22 pm

Everythings working for me so far.....................

Post by **mike** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:04 pm

guess your not a chat junkie then, just found the chatroom broken. Turoa wont be happy :roll:

Mike

turoa · Post by **turoa** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:43 pm

does that mean we can get a new chat room

Post by **mike** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:55 pm

No it means that youll get your LR fixed in time for rallywoods

Wont take much to fix. prob tomorrow though.

Mike

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:00 pm

only just saw this post... thats cool mike...

Just looked at the port stats peaked at 256kbits today... bugger all

less than my desktop PC... % utilisation wise doesn't look like much on a 1Gbit interface

Post by **mike** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:14 pm

I suspect it might go a tad higher but not much at peak times (around 6pm - 8pm ) but not today as not everyones DNS has updated so they cant see the new site and the old server spat the dummy this morning, probably sulking

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:57 pm

mike wrote:I suspect it might go a tad higher but not much at peak times (around 6pm - 8pm ) but not today as not everyones DNS has updated so they cant see the new site and the old server spat the dummy this morning, probably sulking

Why not just run up the old server with a redirect to the new using IP instead of DNS? at least they will be able to get to it then. It's what I do when customers want zero downtime transfering servers/domains etc..

Steve_t647 · Post by **Steve_t647** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:59 pm

That is cheating :shock:

Been there done that too. :lol:

Post by **mike** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:18 pm

wjw wrote:
mike wrote:I suspect it might go a tad higher but not much at peak times (around 6pm - 8pm ) but not today as not everyones DNS has updated so they cant see the new site and the old server spat the dummy this morning, probably sulking

Why not just run up the old server with a redirect to the new using IP instead of DNS? at least they will be able to get to it then. It's what I do when customers want zero downtime transfering servers/domains etc..

Well actually I was going to add that to my temp page this morning but my old server went offline early this morning and needed a reboot. But no one home till 9pm tonight so that didnt happen. Also it would work for somethings on the site(forums and reading stuff) using the ip but not for other bits of the site as they are url specific eg gallery and shop.

Mike

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:46 pm

So how does everyone think the new server is getting on??? faster???

btw mike got that server box here at home for you to pick up

toymudlux · Post by **toymudlux** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:48 pm

IF YOU BOYS COULD CHANGE TYRES THAT WELL YOUD BE IN F1

Post by **mike** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:20 pm

wjw wrote:So how does everyone think the new server is getting on??? faster???

btw mike got that server box here at home for you to pick up

Sweet, Ill be at home(chch) this weekend so will pick it up if your around.

Mike

wjw · Post by **wjw** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:50 am

Should be, have a handover meeting thing for a few hours on saturday... am maintaining his network for a month while he goes to europe... on 24 hour call again