What the hell's with the site?

[Aaron Hulett]

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

[Aaron Hulett]

The server move is happening in the next few hours.  Most of you won't even notice ;)

[Aaron Hulett]

Hopefully you didn't notice? ;)

[Aaron Hulett]

Removing the sticky on this topic given I've completely moved everything to the new server and we've been rolling along.

[R-C]

good job! nope never even noticed.
Thanks for what you do Aaron :goodie: :thanks: :thanks:

[GR@PH;<'S]

Aaron Hulett - MSFT,
as R-C said

good job! nope never even noticed.

GR@PH;<'S   :Hammys pint: