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Server Move and Outage Reports / Re: Is .net down again?

« on: December 31, 2008, 02:28:37 PM »

Too many hits -

LOL, hardly. The traffic cg.net sees daily is quite a bit for a gun forum, but less than a drop in the bucket when compared against some semi-popular entertainment sites let alone the "big guys".

CG.net is supposedly on a cluster now.... And geovario.com is down too...So its most likely location wide for them.

I really am sure that between myself, and a few other CGers (BWO, etc) we could find the hardware/bandwidth to host a mirror'd version of CG.net to get through these weekly outages. Assuming the forum is hosted on mysql5 this should be relatively easy.

I'm with Ar15-barrels on this, I am glad I don't host my sites with GV based on the stability thus far.

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Announcements and Suggestions / Re: Down again, 12/03/08 @ 16:51

« on: December 04, 2008, 10:38:23 AM »

Heh, well I don't know what your experiences have been....But in my experience if one knows what they are doing they can get this done properly and quickly.

Last year I architected and executed a move of a LAMP cluster of roughly 80k domains, for 4.5TB of data, with over 30Mbit of sustained customer traffic with an average of 15GB/hour data delta on the storage volumes(non-log). The move was from Los Angeles to Chicago and took less than 8 hours of downtime. (Be sure it took longer to prepare, but there was no customer impact)

I think one should be able to move a single website, with a single DB instance (or cluster), in a day...  :-p Unless of course the architecture has inherent design flaws making it inflexible.

That being said, Calguns.net is free for us.... Until you pay the bills, don't bitch. :-)

I've said it before, and Ill offer again.... if Geovario or Kest wants another perspective on the current problem set I would be more than happy to help where I can...

I work in IT and can tell you it takes longer than you think to move a DB and make wholesale equipment changes.

Additionally making the move in stages so the site is up as long as possible between down times complicates a bit more.

I think they're doing a good job balancing down time and up time. This ain't like copying files on your home PC.

give them a chance to finish the job.

Oh come on.
You know it should never take more than a couple hours (scheduled overnight) to move a large database from one server on to another.
The outages are just WAYYYYYY too common.