A quick note to all, the TPR site will be moving to a new server at some point before July. The exact location out of the many servers I manage is still being decided.
During the move there may be some weird dns stuff going on - I’ll also need all those with TPR domain email addresses to change settings.
I’ve already made a start moving some of the other domains that run on the server, but those are much simpler than moving the TPR database
[QUOTE=DoubleTop;440575]During the move there may be some weird dns stuff going on - I’ll also need all those with TPR domain email addresses to change settings.
DT.[/QUOTE]Okies, what needs changing… can you send us a message when anything needs doing please.
new server will be provisioned during this week, in preperation for a move one evening or during a Saturday.
I’ve pruned a few forums to make life a little easier for me, and I shall be disabling the ability to upload new attachments as then I can pre-load the new server with the attachments to split out the potential “downtime”. If you could take a look through your PM inboxes, that would be appreciated as that’s a reasonably large table.
The smaller the database can get, the less downtime we see as I can force DNS propogation, so the downtime will be all about the upload speed of my office SDSL connection.
I bet you weren’t as worried as me - the overnight backup failed as well. All good again now and just waiting for the new server to be provisioned and we can move.
For those techy based, which I guess is most of us :lol:
Nameservers are set for the domain to be the dedicated hosting box we have been running on for ages. That box is where requests will come to, and I can control the cname records on there to point to the IP address of the new server, which forces a pretty much instant DNS change. Once that is done and confirmed it all works, I’ll move the nameservers to the new VPS server, using a DNS glue record for the ns records this time.
I’ve already done this with three other domains that were on the dedicated box, no downtime at all with those as they were fixed content. The downtime this time will be the time it takes to transfer the 180Mb worth of database, as during that time I will close the forums. The attachments are stored in filesystem, so those are being moved at the moment, and hence why they have been disabled early.
The fun at the moment is remembering the various chmod commands that I’ll need to run on the directory structure :lol:
At the moment, the main website is being moved over as is - I plan to move that to be Drupal based and update it as it looks a bit crap. That’s about it for now, my net connection is taking a right hammering
I am going to take a break from having to argue with the faltering instance of mysql and have something to eat.
Enjoy your Friday nights all, I’m out to a party tonight so if thinks don’t go right first time - things could get interesting :lol:
Rough estimate, forums on this server will be switched off between 17:30 and 18:00. The database will take an hour or so to move, then I’ve an hour to get it all working before I’m off out to get :wasted:
www.teamphoenixrising.net has moved with success DNS not all moved accross due to the zone way I do the subdomains, but the move has worked and the site still displays - but boy does it show that it needs an update :eek: