fyi- APUG Server Upgrade This Week

[Sean]

***UPDATE*** SERVER MIGRATION THURS. NIGHT AFTER 9PM USA TIME ***

Hi All,

Our server has been struggling at times for a while now. Luckily as technology advances it also becomes cheaper. Thanks to this we will be migrating to a beast of a server for roughly the same expense. The migration will take place possibly later this week. I'll keep everyone posted as there could be several hours of down time.

-for the geeks out there we will be going from a 2.4ghz 4 core 4gb ram, raid1 box to a 3ghz 8core, 6gb ram, raid10 box. It's really gonna fly and at peak times shouldn't even break a sweat

Thanks,
Sean

 

[Curt]

Are you feeling better these days?
Curt

 

[Sean]

Hi Curt, yes much better as of 3 days ago thanks. The cipro has killed the chest infection and now I'm getting back on track.

 

[mikebarger]

Good to hear your doing better!

Mike

 

[moouers]

Your description of a "beast" sure seems accurate by those specs. Thanks for the update.

 

[Richard Wasserman]

Glad you're feeling better, and thanks for taking such good care of us!

 

[Curt]

Great to hear, hope you fully recover very soon.
Curt

 

[Sean]

***UPDATE*** SERVER MIGRATION WED. NIGHT AFTER 9PM USA TIME ***

-could be a couple hours of downtime.

Thanks,
Sean

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Heh. "USA TIME."

 

[Sean]

Heh. "USA TIME."

Yeah, I got lazy

 

[Sean]

Ok, we're delayed by 1 day. Migration will be tomorrow night instead.. (basically at the mercy of the data center, but tomorrow is looking good)

 

[photomem]

Wow.. working on a server migration on Christmas Eve? This is why I fled the IT field after 10 years.

 

[Sean]

Ok, we're back and on the new server. Any issues let me know. The server has not been optimized yet but the thing is such a beast it will probably not matter

Sean

 

[Dennis S]

Ok, we're back and on the new server. Any issues let me know. The server has not been optimized yet but the thing is such a beast it will probably not matter

Sean

Thanks for the break. I had to do something to deal with analogue photography so I change light seals in two of my cameras, The new FTb N (got yesterday) was really gummy and my AE1p was a breeze. Had been putting it off for months. It is kind of late for people in NA but I am west coast and I like the solitude of late nights.

 

[Sean]

Finally home from the in-laws (dialup modem) and back on my broadband, server is really flying! I had one search that said it took 0.00 seconds hehe. Good stuff

 

[Andy K]

Hi Sean, I have only noticed one minor issue since the migration: I no longer receive topic reply notice emails. I've checked my account settings, it is set for 'instant notification'.

Glad you're feeling better fella! Hope you had a great holiday.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Sean, I also don't receive email notifications any more, I've checked my settings and the same as Andy, but nothing has happened since for me as well.

I agree it appears to be faster, although faster is subjective with my modem speed probably being the bottleneck.

Glad you're over your malaise.

Mick.

 

[Sean]

It does appear we are blacklisted by a few ISPs and only 90% or so of mails are getting out. Will notify you and Andy's ISP in the morning. Thanks for the info

 

[Mick Fagan]

Sean, I still don't get any email notifications, is there anything I can do at my end about this?

Mick.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Sean, the notifications now appear to be working as of about 30 minutes ago, which is around midnight your time.

Many thanks for your efforts.

Mick.

 

[Sean]

Thanks Mick, turned out to be the new server and an obscure off the wall vbulletin setting not playing well together.

 

[No Digital]

Hi Sean.
Just a question: where did we migrated?
I'm planning to move a forum from the actual server to a new service and I'm looking around...
Of courese you can answer me in private.
Many thanks.

 

[Sean]

We have a dedicated server at wiredtree.com if you have a smaller site you could go for a VPS account. Not as cheap as other deals out there but you get what you pay for..

 

[No Digital]

Really thanks ;-)