Server work overnite: Feb 4-5

[woody]

After last nights disaster, I've pulled the trigger on a major change.

Simply put, it's time for a new server and a new datacenter...the current setup will be offline this evening for some final sync's and will be back online with a new location at Softlayer in Dallas TX.

The 'old' boxes (which are not really that old) will be relocated to my kitchen in a few weeks...believe there is a kewl Ikea design for home server setups, so watch for that bit of geek tech

This same server setup runs another major forum with 113k posts weekly and 32m posts total...it should be fine for our needs.

 

[yooper]

 

[retrofive]

Good luck with the migration

 

[cruiser88]

This place is smoking fast right now woody

 

[Off Duty]

Good to hear and good to see the site back up. I don't "Facebook" and I was having withdrawls!

Needed a MUD - fix.

Good luck on the move.

 

[bpassmore]

Smokin'

 

[GLTHFJ60]

I guess I'm glad I didn't try to get on last night,

Good luck on the transition Woody!

 

[Anthony.L]

Excellent choice! I co-own a online company that is hosted with SoftLayer and they are EXTREMELY fast!

Glad to see you are making changes, the slowness and outages were making me have junkie itch!

 

[jjbodean1970]

good luck with the switch

 

[96r50]

Thanks for all your hard work Woody

 

[Tapage]

by the time ( maybe a in a couple of years ) we will need a complete blade chasis ..

 

[calstyl2]

Dont put the servers under the sink.................

 

[eleblanc]

Migrating a forum database is a pain and mostly long, i know what you are up to..

Good luck!

 

[jonharis]

Thanks for keeping us out of the dark!

 

[Appolyon]

You rock Woody!

 

[-Spike-]

So, what happened? Tried to find details elsewhere, sorry if I missed 'em.

 

[woody]

a long and frustrating story....7 hours before the datacenter techs even READ the support ticket, and 3 hours to fix after that.

I have not had a good day...but I'm only 14-1/2 hours in so far, so it may get better...

 

[Tapage]

was a hardware problem or comunication problem . .? I don't much about the size that you need but did you think in VMware .. have few nice tricks in the new ( relative ) 4.0 version ..

 

[rusty_tlc]

a long and frustrating story....7 hours before the datacenter techs even READ the support ticket, and 3 hours to fix after that.

I have not had a good day...but I'm only 14-1/2 hours in so far, so it may get better...

The Reno technology vortex strikes again.
Any where else and the trouble ticket would have automatically generated a page to someone in tech support.

Something big must have hit the force here, our network data drive host took a digger last night too.

 

[-Spike-]

a long and frustrating story....7 hours before the datacenter techs even READ the support ticket, and 3 hours to fix after that.

That's enough of the story for me. I can understand you being pissed and ready to make changes. Good luck with the transition.