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.

Titus

[titus]

Hello,

It appears that the site migration was successful. In fact, there was a DoS attack on the old data center on September 3, 2010 between 17:35 ET and 17:45 ET. Glad we were out of there before that happens.

Please let me know if you encounter any issues.

Titus

[MitchM]

I tried a FTOTM link that doesn't seem to work:

http://canreef.com/ftotm/nov08/index.php

Mitch

[Mandosh]

Banner links don't look like they're working yet

[titus]

Hello,

Thanks. Just tried the FTOTM link and it's working. The banners from what I understand have always worked. Just tried to reload the page and clicked on them. All appears to be in order. I can't see why both the FTOTM and banner links would fail as both the new and old site are up in parallel so regardless of DNS issues you should be able to retrieve something.

Anyway, can you guys try again?

There was a mailing issue however. Notification e-mails were not being delivered. They're now being delivered but I'm seeing rejections from a few mail servers stating that my IP has a poor reputation. I suspect this is because there isn't a PTR record for the mail server. Need to fix this.

Mails to titus@canreef.com and support@canreef.com are still down also.

Titus

[reefwars]

banner ads dont work for me either i just tried

[titus]

Hello,

Can you please kindly let me know if it's the graphics not displaying, or when you clicked on it it doesn't direct you to the vendor's site? If the graphics is not displaying, can you right click on it and see what file it is attempting to load? For Firefox, it's right click -> Copy Image Location. For Internet Explorer, it's right click -> Properties -> Address.

I'm also seeing a bunch of mail bounce back. Some are because the member's e-mail is not valid. Some are because our IP is being blocked. If you have a shaw.ca address, then you'll most likely not able to receive e-mails from the site. Shaw.ca believes our mail server has a poor reputation.

Titus