Undoubetly you've seen the site come and go, especially more the last week or so. So what's happening? Well, the server this site is on is almost 6 years old. It's survived my administration skills over that time
along with a datacenter explosion
. It's had a good run.
For the last, oh what's it been, roughly 6 months, the box has 'hinted' that it wanted some attention, and in the beginning it'd go down once every month to month-and-a-half. When it'd stop serving the website, I'd log on and issue a restart command, and everything would come back.
Fast forwarding to now, it's much angrier than before, going down every few days, with one time requiring me to open a support ticket to reboot the box given I couldn't reach it, and this last time needing a ticket to reboot as the box crashed after my restart command. It's way overdue, but now begins the move to another server.
I just put in the order for a new box and I'm waiting to get login details and such after it's done coming online. Unforunately this isn't a simple copy things over and keep going from there. This will take some time to plan, text and execute, and the site will be unavailable for a little while (somewhere between a few hours to two days) as things migrate over, both site files and changes to DNS information.
I'll let you know more as things progress.
//A
