Site Migration - 3-5 Sep 10

[titus]

Hello,

A site migration is planned to take place over the weekend of 3 - 5 Sep 10. Part of a tech refresh project to facilitate growth of planned software releases and site traffic, the whole site will be migrated off to a different data center to an entirely new infrastructure platform.

The site will be closed beginning at 03:00 EST 3 Sep 10 and if all goes well, be opened by 12:00 EST 3 Sep 10. However, since a DNS change is involved, it may take up to a day or two for you to reach to the new servers.

Testing has been in place for some time now and everything looks stable. If you experiences any problems by Saturday 4 Sep 10, please send an e-mail to support@canreef.com.

Titus

[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.

Good luck with the transfer.

Cheers!

[mark]

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

[StirCrazy]

which software you changing to Titus?

Steve

[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