SERVER MOVE HAPPENING SOON - PLEASE READ

[frostfire 1,279]

Hi Guys. Sorry for the late reply on this, but this website will be changing homes in the next couple days and due to the extreme number of things I have to do there will be little to no warning before it happens. I am going to do everything I can to minimize the downtime, but there will be some. 

I will give a longer explanation as to why later, but the short version is the datacenter I have hosted my dozen servers with for the last 15 years is closing down on short notice and I must move all my servers to a new datacenter... and while this website is personally important to me, the other sites and services hosted on the other servers are what makes me the money I need to keep living the good life... so I have to prioritize those ? 

Once I start moving this site it will go offline and stay offline until the transfer is complete. If I had to estimate I would say 4 hours? But that is just a "pull it out your ass" number as I have no idea what the network on the new servers is like yet... I wont know until they are online sometime in the next 48 hours. AS soon as they re online I will be moving sites over in the order they come up in my server list, which is kinda random. Bear with me and ill have it done as quickly as I can ?

[frostfire 1,279]

UPDATE: Server move is happening today. Will start in about 30-60 minutes. Downtime unknown. Will get it back up as soon as possible. 

[frostfire 1,279]

Server move is in progress, but the forum is live for posting... I will briefly take it offline again to re-sync data in a few hours once the large file base is transferred (its taking a very long time). 

[jacko 8,786]

In the interim, it looks good. 

[frostfire 1,279]

16 minutes ago, jacko said:

In the interim, it looks good. 

Ya, this is still the old server. Next time it goes offline ill change DNS and sync up changes... the initial data copy is still happening in the background. Takes a minute to transfer 250GB of shit lol.

[frostfire 1,279]

ok guys. Last update on this one. 

The transfer took a LOT longer than expected... not entirely sure why. But it appears that I will need to take the site down during the sync as changes made here are messing with the restore over there. So in a moment I am going to take the forum offline and it will be offline until its up 100% at the new server... and I am sorry to say that the process could well take 12 hours. I will try to make it faster this time, but its kinda out of my hands - it takes as long as it takes. but the results will be worth it ?

[frostfire 1,279]

Move is complete. for now. 

I already do not like this new server... The rushiness of this (yes, I just made that word up) forced my hand... but its up and working, and while it may be a bit slow - that part is temporary. Once I secure all my data (still have a dozen servers to go) I will post a longer explanation of why this move was necessary and my plan going forward - there will be another move at some point - back to my own hardware, but it will take several weeks I think. The hardware has to be shipped from its current location (Michigan) to California, where a good friend is going to revamp the servers and re-rack them in a new datacenter... at which point I can move all my shit back to them. The story is a fun one and ill tell it when time allows ?

 

For now... we are back! Albeit a little slower. For now. I WILL fix that ?

[jacko 8,786]

@frostfireGetting a lot of the following incidences... even losing posts. 

Resource Limit Is Reached

The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.

[frostfire 1,279]

Oh that's not good. Let me see if I can fix that. 

[frostfire 1,279]

@jacko is this still happening? Do you know a way to reproduce it reliably?>

[jacko 8,786]

3 hours ago, frostfire said:

@jacko is this still happening? Do you know a way to reproduce it reliably?>

Seems to occur for short spells only.... and then all okay for a while..... mostly seen when I 'submit reply'

(But not this time).

Edited October 25, 2021 by jacko

[frostfire 1,279]

Ok guys I know we have an issue here... I am trying to find a workaround. Give me some time please. 

[jacko 8,786]

@frostfireHaving some issues uploading large pic files (JPG-15MB)   Message

Sorry, an unknown server error occurred when uploading this file. (Error code: -200)

Def a file size issue..... OK when file is 4MB.... have to see if I can drop resolution on my phone.

 

Edited October 31, 2021 by jacko