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Upcoming site downtimes
« on: October 18, 2010, 02:22:15 am »
We will be experiencing sporadic website downtimes during the next week, as we relocate to a new hosting provider. Aside from a few exceptions, those downtimes, if they occur, should happen at night or during morning, so not too many people are affected at once. Normally, downtimes should be minimal, except when we will point the domain name to the new server.

Until the move is finished, we will not accept new files in the download section anymore and attachment uploads made after this news article is posted will be lost, so keep backups of them.

During the database transfer phase of our hosting move, the board will be disabled temporary.

Sorry in advance for the inconveniences this might cause.
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2010, 12:47:36 pm »
does that mean we can no longer post?  D:
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2010, 01:55:31 pm »
Of course you can still post. Just not during the final phases of the downtime. Hopefully they should not last too long. One nice thing is that if the domain name takes a while to propagate through the world (normally takes between 5 minutes and 72 hours) I got the IP address of the new host so I can point this copy of the board there.
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2010, 04:23:56 pm »
this won't result in something like the maxcoderz move, will it?
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2010, 04:29:18 pm »
send an email to each member? that might work a bit :)
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2010, 04:54:37 pm »
yay i hope this move goes over well ^_^ and any assistance is needed fell free to ask ( were moving to a vps right ???)
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2010, 05:20:45 pm »
Quote from: yunhua98 on October 18, 2010, 04:23:56 pm
this won't result in something like the maxcoderz move, will it?
Nope. We keep the same URL. During the domain name transfer some people may experience some downtimes that may last a few hours, though, but I'll try to start such transfer at night during week days so it won't affect too much people. What I hope is to see no downtimes like on UTI last year. If I notice DNS takes too long to propagate, I will simply use this 1and1 copy of the board as a temporary board, then once DNS propagated, I'll redo another DB backup and update the new board so we do not lose posts.
Quote from: Geekboy1011 on October 18, 2010, 04:54:37 pm
yay i hope this move goes over well ^_^ and any assistance is needed fell free to ask ( were moving to a vps right ???)

Not anymore. It turns out that we'll be better with a high quality shared hosting than a low quality VPS.
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2010, 07:15:08 pm »
I just ran a db test to see if this forum install appears to work properly on the new host. It seems to work fine. I will just need to change some URLs/file paths. The database tested dated back in March 2010, when the site had 25700 posts, so it takes less time to test :P
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2010, 07:40:52 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 18, 2010, 05:20:45 pm
Quote from: yunhua98 on October 18, 2010, 04:23:56 pm
this won't result in something like the maxcoderz move, will it?
Nope. We keep the same URL. During the domain name transfer some people may experience some downtimes that may last a few hours, though, but I'll try to start such transfer at night during week days so it won't affect too much people. What I hope is to see no downtimes like on UTI last year. If I notice DNS takes too long to propagate, I will simply use this 1and1 copy of the board as a temporary board, then once DNS propagated, I'll redo another DB backup and update the new board so we do not lose posts.
Quote from: Geekboy1011 on October 18, 2010, 04:54:37 pm
yay i hope this move goes over well ^_^ and any assistance is needed fell free to ask ( were moving to a vps right ???)

Not anymore. It turns out that we'll be better with a high quality shared hosting than a low quality VPS.
Glad to hear. ;D
I just hope it won't be down for as long as UTI was.
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2010, 07:55:17 pm »
Yeah it would suck. Normally it shouldn't, but I'll make sure to check everytthing first to make sure I am doing the changes right.
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2010, 01:22:54 pm »
Hey, it's done! Are there any features that won't work, though?
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2010, 01:26:11 pm »
Nope everything should be functional, except maybe OmnomIRC if it didn't finish updating for you. netham45 couldn't use OmnomIRC for a few hours after he started being able to access the site, for some reasons.

For now, there are still people and search bots that cannot access the new site because the DNS propagation isn't finished for their ISP/country yet, so those people may not be able to access Omni for about 2-3 days. Fortunately the domain nameserver changes did not go as bad as with United-TI last November, where their registrars totally messed up X.x.
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2010, 01:29:47 pm »
I'm pretty happy with how smooth this went :)
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2010, 01:33:47 pm »
Yeah me too, at first I was scared by 1and1 because the domain name settings seemed to be limited and I feared I would have to setup the domain name to redirect, which would have forced me to transfer it to a new registrar, but finally the way the new host is setup we had no issues. It was just a matter of switching nameservers then waiting for DNS propagation update. Another challenging part was importing the database. It is 59 MB large and the new host lets me upload 50 MB large files (which is good, though, considering the old host only allowed 20 MB files). I was forced to use Bigdump to import the database. Uploading everything also took 8 hours but that occured the day before the final move, which is why attachments got disabled for a bit.
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Re: Upcoming site downtimes
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2010, 01:36:38 pm »
Wow, it's completely done! Guess it went pretty well :)
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