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Folks, we're back up and running again. If you find any issues, please report them here.
Last weekend we encountered a hardware failure on the old server that hosted the site. I won't go too deep into the matter, but this weeks delay was due to the hardware being in another state and being out of support.
Sooooo, as of today, we're on the NEW server.
Our new server is a bit different from our old one. The old server was a physical server that really exists like the PC you're using. That leads to problems when hardware fails.
So our new server is actually a "virtual" server within a physical server. The physical server is owned by our hosting company and is their responsibility to maintain. In the event of a hardware failure, they should be able to spin up our "virtual" image onto another host server in a timely manner.
I was able to get the database copied over as well as attachments this afternoon after we got the old server back up and running.
I had been working on this prior to the GA rally and pretty much had it ready to go on the new server. But I didn't want to work on it the night before I was leaving town. (I knew the internet stinks at the GA rally) As my typical luck would have it, the server decided to croak last Saturday while I was hours away from home and severely lacking in internet and phone connection.
I had us up an on the VM host earlier this week. But I delayed bringing us online until I could get the data we needed. The working copy I had of the forum was dated back to 9/19/13. So if we brought that up, everyone could get on, but when I restored the data, any new threads or PMs made would be lost when I applied the backup from the old server.
I still have more things to address on the site/server. But at least we're functional now. I've been on call with my main job this week and had about 3hrs sleep since thursday morning. So I'm a little tired, but I'm glad this is working.
Sorry again for the delay.
Last weekend we encountered a hardware failure on the old server that hosted the site. I won't go too deep into the matter, but this weeks delay was due to the hardware being in another state and being out of support.
Sooooo, as of today, we're on the NEW server.
Our new server is a bit different from our old one. The old server was a physical server that really exists like the PC you're using. That leads to problems when hardware fails.
So our new server is actually a "virtual" server within a physical server. The physical server is owned by our hosting company and is their responsibility to maintain. In the event of a hardware failure, they should be able to spin up our "virtual" image onto another host server in a timely manner.
I was able to get the database copied over as well as attachments this afternoon after we got the old server back up and running.
I had been working on this prior to the GA rally and pretty much had it ready to go on the new server. But I didn't want to work on it the night before I was leaving town. (I knew the internet stinks at the GA rally) As my typical luck would have it, the server decided to croak last Saturday while I was hours away from home and severely lacking in internet and phone connection.
I had us up an on the VM host earlier this week. But I delayed bringing us online until I could get the data we needed. The working copy I had of the forum was dated back to 9/19/13. So if we brought that up, everyone could get on, but when I restored the data, any new threads or PMs made would be lost when I applied the backup from the old server.
I still have more things to address on the site/server. But at least we're functional now. I've been on call with my main job this week and had about 3hrs sleep since thursday morning. So I'm a little tired, but I'm glad this is working.
Sorry again for the delay.
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Great work. 
