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Announcements => Site Announcements => Topic started by: kitz on February 08, 2008, 02:58:41 PM
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Over the past year site traffic has grown enormously, and its that time of year when I look at my hosting requirements. Since the [main] site is now classified as pretty busy.. after discussions with my webhosts, its been decided that the site would be better hosted on a brand new Quad Xeon server with more processing power.
My webhosts are going to deal with the transfer to new server tonight, and a heads up that the site may experience a short period of downtime at around 9pm. The forums will have to be closed during this period to ensure that any data during the migration is not duplicated or lost.
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Thanks for the warning Kitz.
Now what on earth shall we do tonight, "I know, dust of that electronic picture box in the living room they call a TV and (second thoughts NO) thats just too boring.
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Oh no, that means...... #dan da daaaaa#
The pub tonight
Ho hum
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Hopefully it should only actually be down for a few mins whilst the database transfer takes place...
but I thought I best warn everyone in case you wonder whats happening. :)
No pub for me tonight Im afraid - doing stuff "behind the scenes".. but I'll make up for it on Sat night :drink:
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>> Hopefully it should only actually be down for a few mins whilst the database transfer takes place
!#!~%
More later - going to bed!
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More later - going to bed!
Huh?? I'm just getting up!
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Me too :)
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Looks like(by the time you got bed)there were a few problems.
Sleep well.
Ps,did you remember to let the cat IN :D
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On reflection, I think we should commend Kitz for her dedication in staying with it through the night. :)
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On reflection, I think we should commend Kitz for her dedication in staying with it through the night. :)
Absolutely :clap2: and here we all are so it must have been worth it :D
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Nice to see it's back up and running.
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Kitz, just in case you have overlooked it as you have been very busy, but are you going to alter or remove the Notification Site downtime tonight message above, just in case people think it's new or still relevant.
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:clap2: Kitz ....
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kitz isnt a happy bunny.
I still dont fully know what went wrong - but I believe it was something to do with anything that relied on PHP.
Ive also just had to spend some time re-writing code that run fine on the old server (such as the adsl checker) - but wouldnt work on the new server.
I use PHP5 but apparently it isnt yet installed on the new machine - hence why a lot of the dynamic content on the main site wasnt working either.
A tired kitz + coding != good combination
if ($kitz == "tired" + $kitz_is == "coding"){
$kitz = "grumpy";
}
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kitz isnt a happy bunny.
A tired kitz + coding != is not good combination
if ($kitz == "tired" + $kitz_is == "coding"){
$kitz = "grumpy";
}
A large G&T (or whatever) I think would be in order at the moment.
Good luck!
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>> but are you going to alter or remove the Notification Site downtime tonight message above, just in case people think it's new or still relevant.
Thanks for that reminder OF - but it was deliberately left there because there was still a lot of pages on the main site that werent working...
I only finished recoding some of the pages about 15 mins ago. After I'd done that.... then I removed the front page notification.
lol.. I guess non-one saw the message I had up at one point (around 3am) :blush:
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>> A large G&T (or whatever) I think would be in order at the moment.
heh - thanks - but I think I'll go get my head down for an hour or so soon...
then I at least stand half a chance of staying awake when I go out for "drinkies" tonight :)
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lol.. I guess non-one saw the message I had up at one point (around 3am) :blush:
Yes I did, and you could'nt spell then either :lol:
But I was trying to be polite and not mention it. :angel:
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>> Yes I did, and you could'nt spell then either :lol:
:lol: That was more
$kitz == "tired" + $kitz_was == "annoyed";
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>> Yes I did, and you could'nt spell then either
Pot calling the kettle black, OF :P
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And today's next deliberate mistake is !!!!!! :graduate:
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Shhh! Please keep the noise down on this site while Kitz gets her head down for a deserved rest! :-X
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Well done Kitz, now thats dedication all for every one elses benifit :comp:
I know I posted this link before, but it does seem relavent and I still find it funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmQHkdBHr0
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:D Im awake now.. although I'll be going out soon.
Love that link - its got to be one of my favs. :D
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The site is looking great kitz, the hard work has paid off and it all looks good to me :)
Gotta love those late-night c0ding sessions to make things that weren't broken work again. Nice work you!
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heeyyyy buggy!
>> Gotta love those late-night c0ding sessions
Hell yes - Youve done more than your share of those too. :lol:
lol - roll back several years and poor Clare giving up on us and going to bed.... leaving us sat at the PCs immersed in code or techy stuff.
mhwwwwah to you, BIG <HUGZ> to "the mouse" and phrsphhh to the girls ;) <hugz> xxx
/wasnt me who tought Katelyn to blow raspberries :angel:
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Any update on the ADSL checker distance from exchange function?
I find this really useful. Samknow does not do a distance by road check and is a lot more difficult to use...
Thanks
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Hi Gavin and welcome
The problem with the adslchecker distance is detailed in this thread (http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,11524.0.html).
I have made some progress, with a totally new design (which isnt yet live), Ive found a new way to calculate direct distance, but as regards to by road, there is a major problem with implementation on trying to get these figures since google changed things. I am aware of it.. but unfortunately there isnt any easy fix, and atm Ive come to a halt because the API wont let you take these figures and store them so I can output them. I need to try and devise some whole new code to attempt a work around which could take a while :/
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Forum will be offline for a short while for maintenance. Hopefully shouldnt take long. :)
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Taken back out of maintenance mode... will complete later.
That was interesting... lost my adsl connection part way through trying to do a forum upgrade (Its not been right since all the power outages yesterday) :-\