Site Migration - 3-5 Sep 10

[titus]

Originally Posted by robert

Titus - change the TTL to something short like couple of hours couple days before the swap if you can. It will expedite the DNS propagation and limit the downtime for users.

Thanks. Am thinking about that also.

Originally Posted by mark

thanks for the heads up, I've gotten a little anxious before on those rare times the sites gone down (weird)

Yes it's time due for an upgrade. We'll also be implementing a separate hardware to do proper monitoring for the just in case. Overall platform has a much higher capacity. There will also be multiple redundancy for backups to keep the data safe.

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

which software you changing to Titus?

Upgrade on vBulletin's software. And a few other items mainly to add functionality and customizations. Unfortunately the infrastructure aspect has taken much longer than initially planned because everything is new and the scope is also much broader than the typical community sites. As such, I don't anticipate to be able to do all the software releases by end of year. This is a long term plan.

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