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I did lol I posted it here as well because canreef was having DNS issues again and the PM functions weren't working at 1 in the morning when I posted it.
Also maybe someone else needs something? you never know who's looking haha.
~Aysha
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Okay I hear you. However, the only real DNS issues we've had since inception over a decade ago was during the following periods:
1) Migration to new data center on dedicated servers under a controlled process where the old servers were powered down, data migrated, followed by a DNS remap pointing to the new boxes. All the while plenty of notice was given before this took place. So this really can't be counted but I'm listing it here anyway.
2) Failure of a hard drive, followed by the RAID card, requiring an immediate need to migrate to new boxes requiring new IPs as they are on a different rack. Even if we have DNS servers located across multiple continents it won't help in this case as there'd always be outage for some of the population during DNS propagation.
3) The recent DNS issue over the last weekend. I saw Brad's e-mail (thanks Brad) while I was in China. Immediately remoted in via VPN to investigate, and rushed back home to spend the remaining weekend on this. This pretty much has been confirmed to be an issue not originated from within the infrastructure in the data centre as all the servers (DNS inclusive) were operational. Believe it was a network issue over UDP port 53 reaching from Internet to the infrastructure.
The web site design is for my boss at work and I have passed all of your details to them. If Canreef ever requires any facelift it'd be the following long due items:
1) Upgrade to vBulletin 4.x.
2) Re-enabling the reference library.
3) Upgrade to new e-mail infrastructure. No one knows about this but I get over a 100 e-mails a day telling me about someone having a wrong address entered at sign up.
4) Better infrastructure such as multiple servers across different continents though I doubt we need that anytime soon. At least for now data is being backed up at three locatoins across both North America and Asia in periodic intervals.
Titus