Haven't decided when exactly, but I'll be switching over to a new machine sometime tomorrow. While I was updating the OS I found a big upgrade for about the same amount of $$ so this is happening.
What will happen:
1. The board will be disabled, so no changes can be made while I copy over the files and final database.
2. Copy over the files and database, and verify its working
3. Change DNS settings. If I've done this correctly, it should take no more than 10 minutes to take effect.
If you're seeing the board disabled, then it means you're still looking at the old server. Your ISP may be caching DNS lookups, sometimes for up to 24 hours, even with my 10 minute refresh setting.... just how it is. You can close your browser or reboot, delete your cache, etc. to try and force a reload to make sure its not your machine caching it.
What should happen: You visit the site and its up and running on the new box and it should be blazing fast and stuff 😀 and you get e-mail notifications and everything works.
What could happen:
Moving to a box with 3x the RAM, and an SSD so the database should be way faster. If you find any problems, reply to this thread, PM me, e-mail me, whatever and I'll dig into it.
What will happen:
1. The board will be disabled, so no changes can be made while I copy over the files and final database.
2. Copy over the files and database, and verify its working
3. Change DNS settings. If I've done this correctly, it should take no more than 10 minutes to take effect.
If you're seeing the board disabled, then it means you're still looking at the old server. Your ISP may be caching DNS lookups, sometimes for up to 24 hours, even with my 10 minute refresh setting.... just how it is. You can close your browser or reboot, delete your cache, etc. to try and force a reload to make sure its not your machine caching it.
What should happen: You visit the site and its up and running on the new box and it should be blazing fast and stuff 😀 and you get e-mail notifications and everything works.
What could happen:
- It takes longer than 10 minutes. In which case just be patient. I'll be monitoring to make sure traffic slows and eventually stops on the old machine, and is going to the new one. Like I said this could be your machine, or your ISP caching the old address data.
- Mail starts getting blocked with the new address. The larger services like AOL and AT&T are usually jerks about this. Hopefully it doesn't happen.
- Something else breaks. I've tested things out and this shouldn't happen but you never know.
Moving to a box with 3x the RAM, and an SSD so the database should be way faster. If you find any problems, reply to this thread, PM me, e-mail me, whatever and I'll dig into it.
