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There's been a slight change of plan. Instead of putting ya'll onto one server, we are going to have two. Domania will be on it's own server as it uses the most resources. We will move Jasper", "Mabel", "Boojum", and "Ides", onto our first server, then later we will move "Craig" onto it's own new server.
The first server moves will start sometime early next week. We'll try to schedule them in the wee hours to limit any effect. There should be no downtime with these moves. We've done several of these moves in the past and they are really quite painless for the users. The only adverse effect can be some DNS issues with folks who's ISP's are slow to update their DNS cache. But that is something that is of course out of our hands.
The new server will be named "Capricorn". The new Domania server will of course be named "Craig".
Are ya gettin excited yet???
Bert
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Geek stuff. For all of ya'll that could care less about this stuff, skip this post.
Capricorn
Cpu: dual quad core Intel Cpu's. A total of 8 cores.
Ram: 12 gigs of ram
Hard Drives: 4 hard drives in a raid 10 array. The hard drives are fully hot swapable. If a drive fails, the techs pull it and replace it. No downtime.
Datacenter: Downtown Chicago. Previously we were going with a company that had their datacenter in Lansing Michigan. We scrapped that plan. The Chicago Datacenter will provide us with connectivity through Level (3), RCN, and Global Crossing. The datacenter is fully security enabled. Everyone must have keycards for entrance, and the entire datacenter has full video monitoring. And in addition to all of that, they have full fire suppresion systems, and two enterprise class generators to run the datacenter in case of a power outage.
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Geek stuff. For all of ya'll that could care less about this stuff, skip this post. Capricorn Cpu: dual quad core Intel Cpu's. A total of 8 cores. Ram: 12 gigs of ram Hard Drives: 4 hard drives in a raid 10 array. The hard drives are fully hot swapable. If a drive fails, the techs pull it and replace it. No downtime. Datacenter: Downtown Chicago. Previously we were going with a company that had their datacenter in Lansing Michigan. We scrapped that plan. The Chicago Datacenter will provide us with connectivity through Level (3), RCN, and Global Crossing. The datacenter is fully security enabled. Everyone must have keycards for entrance, and the entire datacenter has full video monitoring. And in addition to all of that, they have full fire suppresion systems, and two enterprise class generators to run the datacenter in case of a power outage. Bert
At this point it looks like the server moves for boojum, ides, mabel, and jasper will happen Wednesday night. We could split it up to two nights depending on how it goes on the first night. More info asap!
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Bert
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Ok, we are going to start moving at 9:00 PM Central time on Wednesday the 26th of March. We are lowering the DNS refresh time so that it will all update quick. But, that being said, it's advisable that you DO NOT update any pages during the move. Because of the way DNS propagation happens your update could get lost. Post this around the Webtv ng's folks. If the Webtv ng is somewhere you go and you know of others that are using our service, post about the move. Let's get everyone informed.
Thanks,
Bert
P.S.
Just as an aid:
9:00 PM central translates to:
10:00 PM Eastern
8:00 PM Mountain
7:00 PM Pacific
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Just to make things a little more clear. For you folks who don't know what server you are on. domania.us and d21c.com will NOT be affected by this move. We will be moving both d21c.com and domania.us aka the "craig" server to a different server at a later date.
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Bert
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texun
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Thanks for the Update.
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Bert,
Please pardon my ignorance!
There is a post in the "offworld-" alt.discuss newsgroup, with the subject "Amish & PDHomes server info", which quotes your Reply #3 above. However, I don't see any reference in this thread to "Amish" or PDHomes". Does this server move affect PDHomes accounts?
Thanks.
Edited for spelling.
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texun
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What will happen to our PDHomes and Amish Logins once the two are moved to a new server? Right now I have both on FKeys. Will they be null and void after the move?
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texun
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Thanks, my friends and I have been worried about that because all we have is the logins on Fkeys.
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We are currently working on boojum. Trying to optimize it before the move. The main hard drive had a lot of old stuff on it and we are transferring all of that over to the backup drive in case we need it later. More info as this progresses. But yes, we have started.
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Just an update. The transfers are progressing nicely albeit slowly due to the slowness of the old servers. This is going to take a while and there most likely won't be any new info until morning. I'll keep ya'll abreast of the situation as it progresses.
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Still working on the transfer for boojum. If you have work to do in your accounts go ahead. We are going to sync the data between the two servers so any changes you make will be reflected on both servers.
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The consensus is that the transfer from boojum should wrap up tonight. So we'll probably not do another transfer tonight. I'll post if we do.
Bert
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I trust you Bert,always have.Thanks for keeping us updated.The new server sounds Fantastic! 
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The move for boojum is progressing nicely. We think we have figured out a way to get this done. It will probably take all night, same as yesterday, I'll post the results in the morning. I'm going to go and get some much needed sleep. The rest of the move will be monitored overnight and I will be automatically contacted if it fails again.
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The move for boojum is still ongoing. Might be late this afternoon before I have the results. I'll let ya'll know more then.
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Well on the plus side the transfer is going good. The accounts are showing up just fine. The bad news is that it's slow. Real slow. Could be another 10 to 12 hours before completion. Also the transfer has timed out several times. However, it's resuming as it should be without giving up. Frankly I am not used to servers that are this slow and with such poor connections. Neither are our sysadmins. "Holy crap!" has been uttered several times by all of us LOL! We will get this done.
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Bert
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Who is next Jasper, Mabel or Ides?
Oh and just to give you a warning, Jasper was a lot slower than Boojam was for me. If it wasn't for the PHP5. I would have been asked to move back
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