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gav
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We have a new server to host all our media (audio, images, videos etc) and will be migrating to this over the next 24 hours. I will leave the site operational during this time, however it means GETting and PUTting to this server is going to fail.

This will mean broken images, failed uploads etc during this time.

Normal service will resume shortly.
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Quote by gav
We have a new server to host all our media (audio, images, videos etc) and will be migrating to this over the next 24 hours. I will leave the site operational during this time, however it means GETting and PUTting to this server is going to fail.

This will mean broken images, failed uploads etc during this time.

Normal service will resume shortly.




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Here's to smooth sailing...

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simplyjohn
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Quote by gav
however it means GETting and PUTting to this server is going to fail.


So techno!! why couldnt you just say Copy and Paste .. everyone would know what you mean then.
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Thank you, sexiest technoman.
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Quote by gav
We have a new server to host all our media (audio, images, videos etc) and will be migrating to this over the next 24 hours. I will leave the site operational during this time, however it means GETting and PUTting to this server is going to fail.

This will mean broken images, failed uploads etc during this time.

Normal service will resume shortly.




Best of luck Gav! Does this mean that the service will be faster, or will we notice no difference?

Regards, Will
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So nice to be reading about this stuff rather than doing it. Hope it's going better than a server migration I did last week (which went well at first but ...).
MarinaC
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Quote by seeker4
So nice to be reading about this stuff rather than doing it. Hope it's going better than a server migration I did last week (which went well at first but ...).


AMEN to that!
gav
Code Monkey
Quote by Will_greybeard


Best of luck Gav! Does this mean that the service will be faster, or will we notice no difference?

Regards, Will


I'm aiming for a nice consistent performance graph. At the moment we have spikes. When the site is under load everything grinds to a halt.

I'm waiting for DNS to catch up before I can really start the migration.

The forum db now has its own dedicated server so we *should* be seeing some performance benefits here.
simplyjohn
Site administrator
Quote by gav


I'm aiming for a nice consistent performance graph. At the moment we have spikes. When the site is under load everything grinds to a halt.

I'm waiting for DNS to catch up before I can really start the migration.

The forum db now has its own dedicated server so we *should* be seeing some performance benefits here.





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Domain Name System, without which we would never go anywhere in teh Intarwebs. It's like the address book for domain names so your computer can actually find the computer that runs www.lushstories.com.

(Gav's not the only geek on here)
ChrissieLecker
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Oh, and I thought Gav was talking about the Deliciously Naughty Stories here...
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I actually like your version better, Chrissie. IT would be a lot more fun with more of that kind of DNS.
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Thank you for all the effort you put in the site, Gav! You rock. Thanks for letting us know. I was starting to think it was my own computer. Guess it wasn't. biggrin
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Gallery and album pics aren't loading.
I get:

HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:27:21 GMT
Content-Length: 0


It seemed to be working yesterday.


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Oh, wait, some do, some don't. It's flaky.


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prairiedogg
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I'm basically just seeing avatars. None of the other images are appearing. It took a while for the text of the story I'm working on to show up, but it got there eventually. we just need to be patient.
gav
Code Monkey
This outage effects all media, which includes audio (stories), videos, gallery images and thumbs.

We've migrated from a Windows Server instance of Mongo to a CentOS version and having a minor hiccup restoring the database.

Shouldn't be too much longer
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Shouldn't be too much longer


Can't you just get the storm trooper to move faster? Just sayin'
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Oh Gav, you are the best smile

That and I like when you talk tech
simplyjohn
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Quote by gav
This outage effects all media, which includes audio (stories), videos, gallery images and thumbs.

We've migrated from a Windows Server instance of Mongo to a CentOS version and having a minor hiccup restoring the database.

Shouldn't be too much longer


Yep .. I had exactly that issue when I upgraded my Playstation 1 .. damn these things are so challenging I know.
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Wish I had saw this post before I sent in an email!
Mysteria27
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Thanks Gav for all you do. You're the best Techie guy ever....
nicola
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There's nothing to worry about folks, Gav has someone helping out in the server room:
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Quote by gav
This outage effects all media, which includes audio (stories), videos, gallery images and thumbs.

We've migrated from a Windows Server instance of Mongo to a CentOS version and having a minor hiccup restoring the database.

Shouldn't be too much longer


Thanks Gav for everything that you do for us, you are a champ.