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Author Topic: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th  (Read 17014 times)

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Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« on: April 23, 2014, 03:40:35 pm »
Hey kids,

The server that currently hosts this site is dying and expensive to run. I'm moving it to a VPS on the evening of Monday, 28 April. I expect the site to be completely down while this is happening, although I won't transfer the DNS and database until just before it should be ready to roll.

I'll update this topic when the work is about to happen, although of course by that time you won't be able to read it.
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2014, 04:11:59 pm »
This is terrifying. Is there an appropriate deity to supplicate to ensure the success of this move?

Seriously though thanks for keeping us alive.
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2014, 04:24:00 pm »
Well, I do have an Amazon wishlist and my birthday IS on Saturday, so...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/2BIGZX73EUPWO
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2014, 05:43:48 pm »
Quote from: jough on April 23, 2014, 04:24:00 pm
Well, I do have an Amazon wishlist and my birthday IS on Saturday, so...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/2BIGZX73EUPWO

Needs a ship to address on there, daddy-o.
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2014, 05:45:12 pm »
You want an ocarina?
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2014, 06:09:13 pm »
Quote from: wombat on April 23, 2014, 05:45:12 pm
You want an ocarina?

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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2014, 08:44:32 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on April 23, 2014, 05:43:48 pm
Needs a ship to address on there, daddy-o.

Oops. Fixed. But I was (mostly) joking about the Wishlist thing.

Anyway, hopefully I won't break the boards on Monday.
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2014, 12:17:36 am »
Quote from: wombat on April 23, 2014, 05:45:12 pm
You want an ocarina?

Hubby once got an ocarina for a kid we where going to be spending Christmas with, he we a pretty impish kid to begin with, but he was disappointed with getting a weird flute thing, though he was as polite as a disappointed kid can be about such a thing.  But then later, he ran into the room my hubby and I were in, put it to his mouth went "toot, toot, toot" then farted hard and loud and ran back out. 
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2014, 03:02:31 am »
regretting getting rid of all your vinyl, huh?
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2014, 03:08:46 am »
Vinyl is fun. I actually bought my wife a record player last year and then got into vinyl collecting again myself. Plus, you know, I'm a fuck*ng hipster.
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2014, 04:26:28 am »
Quote from: jough on April 24, 2014, 03:08:46 am
fuck*ng hipster.

you mean like, youre into pube dreads?
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #11 on: April 26, 2014, 06:23:06 pm »
Oh God damn it, now I know there's a translucent blue vinyl pressing of the TRON soundtrack.
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #12 on: April 29, 2014, 04:01:56 pm »
This is going to happen tonight instead, as travels kept me away longer than expected yesterday and setting up the site was slower than expected.

Game plan is:

* Put Touamb in "maintenance mode"
* dump/restore the database
* remove maintenance mode on the new server
* switch DNS over to the new server
* profit

Just kidding. There's no profit. Anyway, with the new setup I should be able to ignore the board for many years to come, and future migrations should be faster if needed due to modern things like ansible and cloud whatever and blah blah blah.


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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #13 on: April 29, 2014, 09:02:54 pm »
Do people even use this thing anymore?

Should I even bother?

I'm fine with footing the bill since it's not much of a bill, and what I mean by "ignore the board" is just that - I need it to just run without me having to babysit it regularly, especially since I now have two actual babies to take care of.
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Re: Moving Servers - Planned Downtime evening of Monday, April 28th
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2014, 09:06:10 pm »
There's like 8 of us?  This is literally the only place on the internet I go regularly any more, so I like it? 

It runs in and runs out, ya know.
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