Upcoming Server Outages

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Upcoming Server Outages

Post by CraigRat » 22 February 15 8:54 am

Over the next week or so I'll be turning stuff off on the old server to perform backups and dump configurations etc preparing the new server.

Due to no longer being able to stay up till the small hours to wait until things are quiet this may now occur anytime without notice. (I am doing this whenever I find a few minutes available)

If you connect and find the website is not responding, or is timing out then that is probably why.

At most it should be less than 10 minute intervals of outage.
Thanks for your patience.

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by oldfella » 22 February 15 12:55 pm

A little bit of pain for a very big gain. Bring it on. Thanks for all your efforts and hard work.

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by crew 153 » 22 February 15 4:32 pm

Looking forward to the end result. I can live with the inconvenience (being one of the most regular users of the system).

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Post by 2y'stassies » 22 February 15 10:23 pm

Thanks for the warning CraigRat. Like others small inconveniences are by far outweighed by the final advantages. Looking forward to the updated system.

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by CraigRat » 22 February 15 10:39 pm

Tonight will be the worst of it for a while <touch wood>

Copying LOTS of files from the old to the new and it's really hurting the old girl.

Your patience is appreciated. 8-[

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Post by rogerw3 » 23 February 15 7:11 pm

:D
I am sure we are all very grateful for the time and effort you are putting in to keep us all happy and caching.
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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by crew 153 » 24 February 15 11:39 am

Will the old girl be kept as backup/off site storage or other reasons that I probably can't imagine?

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Post by caughtatwork » 24 February 15 11:56 am

Probably not. We pay about $1600 a year for the rackspace, hosting, etc, so we will be replacing old with new at cut over to avoid any unnecessary costs. The DB will be backed up off host so in the event something goes catastrophically wrong, we will be able to recover to before we did the cut over. Once the new girl is up and running, the old one will be sold for scrap and there is no going back.

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by crew 153 » 24 February 15 2:46 pm

Fair enough.

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by CraigRat » 24 February 15 5:36 pm

Someone might need a boat anchor somehwere. :twisted:

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by Laighside Legends » 24 February 15 7:08 pm

A new movable cache perhaps? :wink:

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Post by SamCarter » 24 February 15 11:13 pm

You could send it to Servers' Paradise.

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Post by caughtatwork » 25 February 15 9:19 am

SamCarter wrote:You could send it to Servers' Paradise.
Booooooo! :mrgreen:

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by caughtatwork » 25 February 15 9:20 am

Laighside Legends wrote:A new movable cache perhaps? :wink:
Actually I like that idea. The device itself is way too big and heavy, but I could pull parts from it and have multiple moveables from the old machine.

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Re: Upcoming Server Outages

Post by jusojara » 25 February 15 12:41 pm

caughtatwork wrote:
Laighside Legends wrote:A new movable cache perhaps? :wink:
Actually I like that idea. The device itself is way too big and heavy, but I could pull parts from it and have multiple moveables from the old machine.
That would be really cool to find and move a 'piece' of GCA history 8)

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