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**** Latest Downtime update ****
July 24, 11pm eastern.


**** Downtime Tonight 7/23/2015 ****
Tonight as in, "early tomorrow morning", or 7/24/2015 at around 1am Eastern Time
Final sync of the data, and moving the IPs to the new server.
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**** UPDATE 7/21/2015 ****
Finally the bulk of the migration (copying files) has started, supposedly this AM. The site may act a little slow while a few hundred gigs are copied to the new server.
After copying files, we'll do a review on the new server to make sure things look ok, then there will be a brief downtime for a few minutes (hopefully tomorrow morning (eastern time, around time of this edit, but tomorrow)), as any changes get copied over, then the IPs get moved over.

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We've had pretty good uptime, but we're going to have to be down for possibly 10 hours while we transition all the data to a new server. Although we're still trying to work out a good time to do it with the hosting company, it MIGHT be as soon as tonight! (Monday July 20, starting around 2AM EST).
I've tossed around the idea of doing an online migration, then just syncing up the changes at the end, but that may prove to be more trouble than its worth, with so many "moving parts" so to speak.

Will try to update this post as I know more info. Although that won't help with people who havnt logged in to see this, or are in other countries in drastically different timezones.

WOW! It's a purple one! You guys are rare.

It's never a good time Phreddie! Lets just do this.

Thanks for making the announcement and good luck doing the transition

I'll post about it in the UKLDF, so our friends from the UK also know about this

Thanks for all your hard work

Migration is a nightmare.

Good luck with it.

Best wishes

Harem

Thanks for the heads up!

Looks like we can do it a bit easier, as my first thoughts.. move everything over, then when all looks good, take the site down, do one last quick sync of new/changed files, move the IP over, and back up and running. So downtime will be just a few minutes!

Sounds good in theory anyway. =)

Xephyr wrote:WOW! It's a purple one! You guys are rare.

A rare pókemon?

Pikachu I choose you!

Phreddie wrote:Sounds good in theory anyway. =)

I'll do my best to keep Murphy (of "Murphy's Law") occupied while you make the changeover!
Jiayi

A few minutes times three, times three again is still incredibly fast. I see you favor Geordi LaForge over Mr. Scott when it comes to estimating job times. That's no way to be known as a miracle worker!

Good luck! Hopefully the downtime is minimal

iits like ur lik t he deja touyr that chick is sex as mother ficker one withj pikachu shit

Thanks for the thread Phreddie. You're the guy(s) in the trenches we all depend on. Thank you for your service to TDF and to the doll hobby.

lovingchanj

Cool.. at least site is working again.. this morning it slowed down so much, i couldnt post...

I'm sure the site is faster now. Congratulations! And many thanks from all of us who very much enjoy the part that TDF plays in our hobby.

Best wishes

Harem