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Announcements => Site Announcements => Topic started by: kitz on January 30, 2009, 11:42:54 AM

Title: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan @ 11 pm +
Post by: kitz on January 30, 2009, 11:42:54 AM: Heads up

The site will experience some downtime tonight after 9pm for maintenance.

Nothing of major concern - Its renewal time and I'm moving over to a new account that will be more suitable for the site requirements.
Big thanks to the guys at Vidahost for their help and support in arranging something to meet my needs... and even offering to do all the work for me tonight.

[edited to change date and time]
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: oldfogy on January 30, 2009, 01:20:31 PM: Thanks for the warning and hope it all goes smoothly. :fingers:
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: scottiesmum on January 30, 2009, 01:24:45 PM: Thanks Kitz ..good luck with it all ! :)
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: jeffbb on January 30, 2009, 03:55:22 PM: looking after us again Thanks :)
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: jazz on January 30, 2009, 04:08:04 PM: Good luck with it all Kitz - and thanks for all the work :)
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: UncleUB on January 30, 2009, 04:12:09 PM: While UB snores the new server roars.

Good luck Kitz. :) :fingers:
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: jid on January 30, 2009, 04:20:03 PM: Quote from: oldfogy on January 30, 2009, 01:20:31 PM
Thanks for the warning and hope it all goes smoothly. :fingers:

Same here :)
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: jazz on January 31, 2009, 09:42:13 AM: Everything seems to be working this morning so has it all gone ok? Can we come out from under the stairs now?? :-\
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: kitz on January 31, 2009, 10:55:22 AM: They didnt get chance to do it last night - or rather it was late when they tried to contact me and I'd already gone to bed by 2am when they contacted me to ask if to go ahead at that time.

We're currently arranging another time for tonight - details of which I'll post up when we can arrange a mutual time.
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: jid on January 31, 2009, 11:34:36 AM: Yes I noticed that the site was online all last night...
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: kitz on January 31, 2009, 12:12:06 PM: PS

Ive got quite a few PMs over the past day or so about a few things.
Can I just point out that I am aware of them all, but I really do need to get something sorted for the main site today... and I will respond ASAP.
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: kitz on January 31, 2009, 08:06:48 PM: Rescheduled for sometime shortly after 11pm tonight.
Downtime should be minimal whilst all the files are transferred over :fingers:
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: kitz on January 31, 2009, 11:37:46 PM: Starting any minute now
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: Yorkie on February 01, 2009, 01:29:41 AM: errr something not quite right at the top there.
Bring back our Logo (actually your Logo) but you know what I mean.
Title: Re: Site downtime Fri 30th Jan @ 9pm
Post by: kitz on February 01, 2009, 01:55:27 AM: Still working on it atm Yorkie.

Trying to make sure the main site is up and running. DNS is still propogating (http://webhosting.devshed.com/c/a/Web-Hosting-Articles/What-is-DNS-propagation-and-why-does-it-take-so-long/)for some people.
Touch wood everything is going ok for the main site.

Hopefully will get the directory structure sorted for the forum part as soon as we can.
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31 Jan
Post by: kitz on February 01, 2009, 02:30:48 AM: Getting there :)
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan
Post by: kitz on February 01, 2009, 06:45:32 AM: G'nite all.. or should that be good morning. :o

Hopefully everything should be up and running.
Still have some tweaks to do and some things to sort.. but everything should function.

Any probs please let me know.
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan @ 11 pm +
Post by: roseway on February 01, 2009, 07:19:53 AM: All seems to be working properly here, so well done, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your night's sleep. :)
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan @ 11 pm +
Post by: jazz on February 01, 2009, 10:56:43 AM: And to think I slept through it all and didn't hear a thing :o
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan @ 11 pm +
Post by: oldfogy on February 01, 2009, 12:34:15 PM: Hi Kitz.

Seems to be opening ok now.

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edit.
No need to respond to my email, I can imagine how busy you are.
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan @ 11 pm +
Post by: kitz on February 01, 2009, 01:50:51 PM: Thanks

Some of the delay last night was due to DNS propogation during which time I myself couldnt even access the forum to get to the control panel for a short while because of DNS. The new account has a slightly different layout/file structure, so there were a few things that I had to move/edit last night before everything was up and running properly.

When I went to bed this am there was still a few minor things that needed doing so Ive just spent a while doing those.
To ensure that things got moving asap last night we've temp left the databases pointing to the old server site and whilst Ive now just moved the main site databases over - I still need to do the forum one, but I will need to close the forums whilst I do that - so I'll wait until late tonight.

Why do these things always take longer than expected lol.

@ OF
I did get your mail thanks :)... but during the t/fr even my mail was down for a short time until I reconfigured that too.
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan @ 11 pm +
Post by: oldfogy on February 01, 2009, 01:57:38 PM: > Why do these things always take longer than expected lol.

It's a conspiracy, it's all designed to stop you from going out at night on the pop and drowning your body in natures nectar. :drunk:
Title: Re: Site downtime Sat 31st Jan @ 11 pm +
Post by: kitz on February 08, 2009, 04:24:21 PM: Last of the databases were all transferred in the wee-small hours this morning, so if any of you saw the forum closed or weird error messages last night that was me.

I'm also tweaking some site pages that are database related over today and possibly over the next few days, so if you do very briefly see strange messages - Im the guilty party.