Site move
WoS is changing ISP (and hence IP address) this month. While at it, I bought a shiny new server, which is being installed right now. I aim to make the switch in the next 2 to 3 weeks.
Since there's quite some work involved, you may see less frequent updates in the mean time. I'll keep you posted!
Since there's quite some work involved, you may see less frequent updates in the mean time. I'll keep you posted!
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oooh, does this mean an end to the router woes then?
Do I need to put a paper bag over my head or anything?
Only if beanz is planning on reading you some of his poetry
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee
That mordiously hath bitled out
Its earted jurtles
Into a rancid festering [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts
And living glupules frart and slipulate
Like jowling meated liverslime
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon
See if I don't.
That problem already stopped from happening when they replaced said router a while ago...
Yes, hence why I posted the message. The switch will be made in DNS (both servers will be running at that time), and it will take up to 24 hours for DNS to be refreshed for everyone with a Windows box (as Windows ignores the time-to-live values). During that time, you won't be able to access the forums on the "old" server, as I have to shut these down to retain consistency.
Everything else will continue to work during the switch, though. Or it should, at any rate. :razz:
Just a suggestion.
Set up www2.worldofspectrum.org pointing to the new address ahead of the switch over, and allow the new site to be accessed via that name also.
At switch over, have the old server do a redirect temporary to www2 for any requests hitting it (in the apache conf or .htaccess file) or worse case the /forums paths.
Any stale DNS info causing the old site to be hit will get temporarily redirected to the new site, until everyones DNS catches up.
A trick I've used a lot when failing over or migrating/upgrading large sites.
Chris
....and to add to that if we do have another 'Great WOS Outage', will the live chat still be up?
Do I need to bone up on my knowledge of bridges so they aren't so confusing this time?
...it does? Although I dislike Windows, I can't say that's a fault I've found with it - usually what fails to respect DNS TTL values are ISP's caching nameservers (which I consider bad behaviour on their part).
Somtimes I find when I try to make a post, it takes a while to the message entry system to appear. Other times it takes ages to submit my post.
Yes, definitely.
We go from a single 1 GHz Pentium 3 Celeron with 500 Mb of memory to a 2.83 GHz QuadCore with 4 Gb of memory.
The difference should be quite noticeable. ;-)
Does this mean Spud will get a speed-boost then???
Almost enough firepower to run a Spectrum emulator under Vista. :razz:
signed
Everything is looking good. The new server has been installed and was moved to the datacentre yesterday afternoon (after 8 years, WoS will be back in Amsterdam).
You may have noticed very sluggish access for the past hour and a half - I'm pumping data to the new server, which maxes out the connection to this server - 2.1 Megabyte per second, nice! :D
I'll be making a start moving sites to the new server this weekend; simple ones first, to see if Apache works at all, then sites requiring PHP, perl and/or MySQL support.
I'll let you know when WoS itself will move as soon as the picture is clear. Hopefully in the next 7 or 8 days (could be sooner).
The final operation, moving WoS and The Tipshop, is scheduled for this Friday.
just make sure you're careful when transferring the forums we wouldn't want any of the really useful ;) and informative threads ;) like the three word story to get accidentally ;);) deleted ;)
/me runs off to hide from mile, boozy, and znorxy
:grin:
Small (forced) change of plan: it will be done this Wednesday evening instead.
No, it is not correct at all, at least not on systems newer than perhaps windows 95/98.
Easy to check from a command prompt with:
> ipconfig /displaydns
where the TTL for each resolved dns record is noted in seconds and is counted down and removed when the TTL expires.
Anyway, a big thanks to Martjin for all your work! And good luck tonight!
If anything whatsoever doesn't work, please let me know.
Oh, and I also upgraded the forum software (which didn't quite go as planned, hence the long delay). I don't yet know all new stuff, so please bear with me. :-)
Keeps directing me to an infoseek page when I link from a game in the alphabetical list...
???
Ah, yes, the new Apache uses full paths rather than relative to the site.
Now fixed.
Thanks for reporting this!
Well done Martijn :)
That's probably the security settings (mod_security). I enlarged the request-in-memory value and could upload a 750k file myself.
Could it be because the file I'm uploading is 19MB?