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Server Move to Cause Forum Downtime (June 20 or 21 2016)
« on: June 20, 2016, 07:51:27 am »
Linode is giving all their VPSs more RAM memory -- 2 gigs more in our case -- in a free upgrade. This is a great thing, but we have to move to a different physical server to take advantage of it. Sometime (hopefully today, but it could be tomorrow), I will kick this move off. The estimated down time is 3-4 hours. I hope it will be less as server moves in the past have only taken 1-2 hours.

As usual, chat will probably not be up nearly as fast as the rest of the site -- but we could be lucky and the restarting the required security server for the web client could be easier than usual
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Re: Server Move to Cause Forum Downtime (June 20 or 21 2016)
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2016, 09:21:00 am »
Quote from: RandallS;192754
Linode is giving all their VPSs more RAM memory -- 2 gigs more in are case -- in a free upgrade. This is a great thing, but we have to move to a different physical server to take advantage of it. Sometime (hopefully today, but it could be tomorrow), I will kick this move off. The estimated down time is 3-4 hours. I hope it will be less as server moves in the past have only taken 1-2 hours.

As usual, chat will probably not be up nearly as fast as the rest of the site -- but we could be lucky and the restarting the required security server for the web client could be easier than usual

 
sounds good

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Re: Server Move to Cause Forum Downtime (June 20 or 21 2016)
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2016, 12:41:06 pm »
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sounds good

And its done! Linode's predicted times were way too long. Of course, I'd rather them terll me its going to take 3-4 hours and it end up taking 40 minutes than be told it'll take 40 minutes and eend up taking 4 hours. :) Even the security server for the flash chat client co-operated so everything should be back up.
 
The extra two gigs of memory will be used for cache space for the database server which should make things a bit faster (although probably not something most people will notice). Of course, it'll take a couple of days to fill all that cache space.
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