Slight mayhem with the server move, but it's finished.

Sean · Jul 16, 2006

Hi All,

Due to a technical glitch at the host the planned server move for tomorrow night basically kicked in today without anyone knowing until the site got weird. There was a problem at the host with an incorrect nameserver change directing us to the new server prematurely. The host is working on the finishing changes right now eventhough it's 4am for him.

Some data has been lost but not as much as would be lost if we re-copied the old data back to the new server, so it's best we just keep going with the new server. Your cookies may also be out of whack so you may want to logout and back in + use the items in the menu bar under "Member Links" -> view posts in last x hours.

We're almost 100% normal and I'll post when we have everything ironed out. Thanks!

Sean

*update
Things may be sluggish for 15more mins as we transfer over all of the apughosting accounts (40 in total and 30 have been transferred).

other known issues: -image uploads, working on it now.

If you have other problems please post them to this thread. Thanks

Sean · Jul 16, 2006

gallery and classifieds are open again.

Sean · Jul 16, 2006

ok, the server should be 100% now. There should be a noticable difference in performance and response (it's flying pretty good here). Once again apologies for the lost data. I'll be around for a while so any issues just post them here. Thanks

naturephoto1 · Jul 16, 2006

Sean,

I sent you a PM. All my postings including my Poll on Film from yesterday are gone. Is this recoverable? Do I have to post the Poll again?????

Thanks.

Rich

Sean · Jul 16, 2006

naturephoto1 said:
Sean,

I sent you a PM. All my postings including my Poll on Film from yesterday are gone. Is this recoverable? Do I have to post the Poll again?????

Thanks.

Rich

I'll see what I can do and let you know soon. Thanks

naturephoto1 · Jul 16, 2006

Sean,

I have also noted that I have lost PMs from yesterday (I will send you another PM) and we appear to have lost new members. When I signed off yesterday, I believe APUG had 14006?? members, we stand at 14002.

Rich

pandino · Jul 16, 2006

Great work Sean. It's been a pretty seamless switch, all things considered.

The new server seems to respond significantly faster. Pages were frequently timing out before getting served prior to the switch, although that may have been my ISP or something in-between.

Neal · Jul 16, 2006

A quick thanks to all the APUG staff for your efforts.

Neal Wydra

Les McLean · Jul 16, 2006

Access has speeded up enormously and I have only lost two PM's that were sent around lunchtime UK time. Thanks again Sean.

Andy K · Jul 16, 2006

Les McLean said:
Access has speeded up enormously and I have only lost two PM's that were sent around lunchtime UK time. Thanks again Sean.

For those not acquainted with the English clock, Lunchtime is about an hour after Elevenses and tends to coincide with Tiffin (or Luncheon). Not to be confused with Dinnertime, Afternoon Tea or Teatime.

naturephoto1 · Jul 16, 2006

Andy K said:
For those not acquainted with the English clock, Lunchtime is about an hour after Elevenses and tends to coincide with Tiffin. Not to be confused with Dinnertime, Afternoon Tea or Teatime.

Gee Andy,

I believe we have a fan of The Lord of the Rings in our midsts.

Rich

Andy K · Jul 16, 2006

Nothing to do with LOTR, those are all real English terms for having a bite to eat or a cuppa.

naturephoto1 · Jul 16, 2006

Andy K said:
Nothing to do with LOTR, those are all real English terms for having a bite to eat or a cuppa.

Sorry Andy, the Elevenses struck a chord.

Rich

Andy K · Jul 16, 2006

naturephoto1 said:
Sorry Andy, the Elevenses struck a chord.

Rich

I'm not surprised, Tolkien based the culture of the Hobbits on the rural English life he knew and lived as a child. Put very simply the LOTR is based on his dislike of the new industrial age and it's destruction of rural culture. (Mordor being the new industrial/urban way of life and the rest of Middle Earth being the Old World).

Anyway, back on topic, the server migration seems to have gone quite smoothly, kudos to Sean!

Kino · Jul 16, 2006

Yea! That was relatively painless.

NOT like the migration to the newest Microsoft Exchange Server where I work -- we lost email for 5 full working days to about 5,000 people with about 1 hour of working access each day!

What a disaster... They will be cleaning up that mess for the next year.

johnnywalker · Jul 16, 2006

It sure is a lot faster!

roteague · Jul 16, 2006

Thanks Sean. I know how difficult it can be to sync up these things, especially the database.

Sean · Jul 16, 2006

I'm glad to see the improved performance for everyone. Not only should it be faster but the timeout issues should also be history now.

As for any lost data it looks like we're out of luck. I tried to ensure this would not happen but certain things were out of my control. Luckily that was the only major issue we had. 4 new accounts were lost and 3 of the individuals have contacted me so that will be corrected soon.

Onto the site upgrades. I had a coder doing a few critical modifications for me on the dev site and he vanished. I find it odd that we were in daily contact for weeks then he disappeared and there has been no response for 2 weeks (not like this guy at all because he was very professional). I fear something bad has happened to him. Yesterday I found a new coder to finish up his work and he'll be able to start in 3 days. He should have things finished a day or so after that. So the new target date for the site upgrades will be the week of the 24th (hopefully early week).

Thanks,
Sean

DBP · Jul 16, 2006

Sean said:
We're almost 100% normal ...

I presume you mean the system, not the members.

pentaxuser · Jul 18, 2006

I haven't noticed any real improvement but I can't rule out that my ISP ( Tiscali) seems to have been playing up. In the last 2 days I have been logged on at 1.1 Mbps whereas previously it always showed 2.3 although I have been told that this means up to 2.3. I find myself randomly logged out and having to reconnect.

Any of you out there use Tiscali? If so are you experiencing a problem? Trying Tiscali itself for an answer is hopeless. I wish I were more broadband literate.

pentaxuser

Andy K · Jul 18, 2006

I haven't had any topic reply notifications since the move. Anyone else affected?

Jerevan · Jul 19, 2006

For the past 48 hours or so, I have seen a site without anyone posting, and at most 2 users logged in, me included... I guess that has to do with the server move, but two whole days without anyone posting is tough on my nerves. I am an APUG addict. Server response seems to be as good as usual.

glbeas · Jul 19, 2006

I see everything toddling along as usual but it gets annoyingly slow at times.

resummerfield · Jul 19, 2006

Ill have to agree with Gary about this Everything seems to be working fine, but I dont see any improvement over the old server. Then there are periods during the day when for no reason things slow to a crawl on APUG. No other sites slow down, only APUG.

MattKing · Jul 19, 2006

I agree with Gary and Eric - it was fast right after the change in servers, but all today (July 19, 2006 - 9:30 a.m. to 2:55 p.m., PDT) it has been incredibly slow.

Other sites are normal.

Matt

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