mars Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Hi I already told you the server has shown some instabilities since I upgraded it back in march. Skytrancer has been hosting the machine after I left Paris and I couldn't take care of it properly. In august I met Manu Psysurfeur http://psysurfeur.com/ and he agreed to host psynews on his own server, a proessional one. I hadn't had the time to take care of it since one month. This week the server is rebooting quite often, showing even more signs or imminent death. I'm starting to migrate it tonight. - I will do as much as possible without preventing you from posting. - At some point, posting will be disabled. You will still be able to read the forums. At that time, I'll be making the database backup and transfering the files to the new server. - Then the service will be cut, the time for the DNS servers worldwide to resynchronize "psynews.org" to the new server IP address. - And it'll be done. thanks for your comprehension. mars. Quote
Drosophila Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Good luck! could be a good few hours work?! Quote
traveller Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 *keeping fingers crossed and praying that the computer gods are willing Quote
frozen dream Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 teh almight deities of WWW, hear our plea! Quote
Agneton Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Cool. Like we're moving towards a totally different galaxy! Bring it on! Quote
reger Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 poor reger :/ what will he do when the forums are down? maybe :wank:ive never done this myself, your mom have allways been handy. /tx trav for this one Quote
Goa Bill Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 *bows for mars and psysurfeur* Joins Quote
fosku Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 *bows for mars and psysurfeur*Also joins Quote
Snapinho Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 *stands up and straightens back* I suggest Pavel and fosku do the same, cause this really starts to hurt after a while. Nevertheless: lotsa restecp! Quote
mars Posted September 21, 2007 Author Posted September 21, 2007 Ah the migration couldn't start yesterday for several reasons, it will happen tonight and tomorrow. It's urgent since we got 3 more reboots in these last 24 hours. The server logs show nothing, this is probably a major failure (memory or network card). Between the oment i'll copy the files from this server to the other and the moment the switch will be effective, all changes to the filesystem here will be lost. So please try not to update your avatar this week end. Quote
Tatsu Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Joins Joint! *oh yeah* Thanks a lot mars, once again! I hope it will work out... Quote
mars Posted September 21, 2007 Author Posted September 21, 2007 It's in progress. Files are being copied, all being backupped. I hope to move the site this night, so it's available to the public on the new location from tomorrow morning. I'll move the stats, the ftp, and all the rest nobody knows it exists in the following days. Quote
Malevol3nt Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 I'll move the stats, the ftp, and all the rest nobody knows it exists in the following days. What ftp? Quote
mars Posted September 21, 2007 Author Posted September 21, 2007 All right, moving the database now, i'm switching you guys in read only mode. Quote
mars Posted September 22, 2007 Author Posted September 22, 2007 I couldn't do it, I fucked up something on the new server, can't continue install, reverting......... Quote
mars Posted September 25, 2007 Author Posted September 25, 2007 All right, tonight (sept 25th CET) I'm stutting down the server for the migration. The bad newsis the the site may be offline for a couple of days. Actually the current server is so unstable that it can't stay up much longer and the person hosting it is fed up of this situation. Please be patient it'll be up again between tomorrow and friday. mars. Quote
exotic Posted September 25, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 ah thank god , i can focus on my college assignment now Quote
mars Posted September 26, 2007 Author Posted September 26, 2007 Ok this is done, most of it. Mailserver is yet to be done but this is a matter of hours. Please tell me if anything is screwed up. Quote
Acido Domingo Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Ok this is done, most of it. Mailserver is yet to be done but this is a matter of hours. Please tell me if anything is screwed up. Now that was quick, thanks! I was preparing for days of cold turkey Seems to be perfectly OK so far... Quote
Blaze Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Everything looks fine. And cheers for doing it so fast, I just entered the forum out of a habit, without really expecting it to be online yet :clapping: Quote
exotic Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 damn i was hoping it would stay down just a little longer j/k :wank: Quote
Malevol3nt Posted September 26, 2007 Posted September 26, 2007 Ok this is done, most of it. Mailserver is yet to be done but this is a matter of hours. Please tell me if anything is screwed up. where are these » « ? Used to be in my signature, now theyre question marks. Not that it bothers me , just wondering if everythings ok? Quote
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