Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer
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« on: February 05, 2011, 02:46:04 PM +0000 » |
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Today's migration dry run went well so I'm going to pencil in this coming Friday for the actual migration of the site as it gives me Saturday the 12th as a day's contingency with no races scheduled, although I'm expecting everything to be complete by Friday afternoon. It'll take 4 hours for the DNS updates to propagate so that's the absolute minimum time for everyone to be back up and running.
That means I'll be setting the current HostICan site into maintenance mode early on Friday morning, after which you won't be able to access the forums, SRou home page or UKGPL home page (or any other part of the site, although the replay archive may be available for some of this time as it's already been migrated) at all until the migration is complete; if things go badly and I have to revert to HostICan it may take up to 4 hours for the DNS to switch back again. Let's hope that doesn't happen!
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« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 03:03:06 PM +0000 » |
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Good luck Dave, may the force be with you. Thanks for all the effort, we really do appreciate it  |
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« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2011, 03:09:30 PM +0000 » |
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Good luck Dave, may the force be with you. Thanks for all the effort, we really do appreciate it x2 |
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« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2011, 03:25:54 PM +0000 » |
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2011, 04:18:33 PM +0000 » |
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Hope it goes well. Just a minor point i started reading it and thought 'this coming friday', would be the 11th!
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Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2011, 11:28:32 PM +0000 » |
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Hope it goes well. Just a minor point i started reading it and thought 'this coming friday', would be the 11th!
Good spot - I must've been staring at the screen for way too long this morning.  It is meant to be the 11th with the 12th as contingency. I don't want to leave it too long as the risk that we have to change something that then breaks the migration increases the longer after the dry run I leave it. |
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2011, 07:21:37 AM +0000 » |
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Good luck Dave!! And thanks for letting us know.
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2011, 12:58:11 PM +0000 » |
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Thanks for your efforts Dave, they are much appreciated. |
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2011, 05:37:30 PM +0000 » |
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Since you are planning a migration it makes sense to change the TTL's to minutes instead of hours. Do you have access to the TTL numbers?
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2011, 09:01:54 PM +0000 » |
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Since you are planning a migration it makes sense to change the TTL's to minutes instead of hours. Do you have access to the TTL numbers?
I do but I don't want to go nuts with the DNS or the hosts will probably object. It'll take me most of he morning to move the data and files across again in any case. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2011, 09:07:59 PM +0000 » |
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If you guys want to communicate during this, you are welcome to join my forum and use it. I could even make a section there if you like, a kinda' "Emergency SROU". Heehee.
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2011, 04:54:35 PM +0000 » |
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I see you've changed the forum footer before moving? lol
Was going to say i noticed we are on the new provider and it felt quicker!
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« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2011, 09:01:59 PM +0000 » |
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Just a little reminder that they'll be some (or possibly a lot of!) disruption tomorrow morning when I migrate the site.
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« Reply #13 on: February 11, 2011, 10:32:48 AM +0000 » |
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Looks like it's all up and running again. In the process I've discovered that F*rd's HTTP proxies don't respect the TTL set on DNS records.  Good job I'm more cunning than they are... Now we cross our fingers and hope everything's okay... |
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« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2011, 11:20:11 AM +0000 » |
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Good stuff, nice going Dave |
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