Migrating PF to New Host: Minimal Downtime Expected

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Astro & Astro, and Cosmology HAD (PAST TENSE) slowed down to a crawl for me, and 'tis no longer the case. Dunno if "The Move" gets the credit or not, but ain't complaining.
 
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Did I miss something?
 
No problems here in Southern California. Got on for a bit around (local times) 2pm, 5pm, 9:30pm. (UTC-7)
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
We're going to hop on a zippy professional DNS server so the downtime should be only a few hours compared to the usual 24hrs wait on propagation.

What was the TTL setting? Verizon's DNS was giving me the old IP until just a few minutes ago.
 
Vanadium 50 said:
What was the TTL setting? Verizon's DNS was giving me the old IP until just a few minutes ago.
Yesterday it was 60 for much of the day, but it's apparent some ISPs cache for much longer. Hopefully everyone is over now because I put into cancel the old server tomorrow.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
Yesterday it was 60 for much of the day, but it's apparent some ISPs cache for much longer. Hopefully everyone is over now because I put into cancel the old server tomorrow.
I've been looking at the usage on the old server, and it's completely dropped off now, so it would appear everyone is now on the new server.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
How long was your downtime? For most people it should have been very quick. We switched around 6:30am this morning.
It was more than 24 hours before I was able to get back on.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Executive Summary:
PF is moving to a new host with better hardware and prices. The move will happen sometime this week. Expect a few hours downtime.

More Detail:
Our current host has told me the datacenter that holds PF's server is closing within the next couple months. Instead of moving to a new datacenter with the same host we're going to move to a new host with better hardware and better pricing. A win-win! Because the busy school season is right around the corner we've decided to expedite this process to this coming week and as soon as Tuesday. The process hasn't been fully mapped yet, but the switch could happen either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. I'll of course update this thread once that is figured out. We're going to hop on a zippy professional DNS server so the downtime should be only a few hours compared to the usual 24hrs wait on propagation. So expect this week that you may receive an error when visiting PF, but don't panic. Try again in a few hours.

Disclaimer:
I've always been correct about downtimes in the past. It's never been more than I've said. :nb):biggrin:
Thanks sir...…..i hope son i get answer, have a nice day……...:oldlaugh::bow::oldbiggrin:
 
fresh_42 said:
I landed already yesterday in the middle of hurricane seasons ...
For me things were really simple. No "hurricanes", no take-off, no landing either. It seems "I slept" thoughout the whole thing! ...
devadmin said:
I've been looking at the usage on the old server, and it's completely dropped off now, so it would appear everyone is now on the new server.
Looks the same to me (so far) ...
And so far so good.
By the way, I didn't know there was another Staff Administrator other than @Greg Bernhardt !? ...
 
Stavros Kiri said:
For me things were really simple. No "hurricanes", no take-off, no landing either. It seems "I slept" thoughout the whole thing! ...

Looks the same to me (so far) ...
And so far so good.
By the way, I didn't know there was another Staff Administrator other than @Greg Bernhardt !? ...

Let me introduce you to Matt. He helps with some of the highly technical aspects of the server.
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
Let me introduce you to Matt. He helps with some of the highly technical aspects of the server.
Hi Matt! Seems you guys have been doing quite a work. Our congratulations and admiration! ... :smile:
 
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Has the time zone changed for the day shown on post? e.g. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/random-thoughts-part-6.875108/page-209#post-6042044
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It's Wednesday here Central standard time zone. Wasn't the old server located in this time zone?
 

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Greg Bernhardt said:
Server is on the east coast now
That explains it. Thanks Greg.
 
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Is it just my impression (on my end) or red alerts take longer to appear? (without refreshing ...)
 
mfb said:
Live updates of alerts without refreshing are a gold membership feature.
" Live Update
The Live Update feature is very exciting and useful. This feature polls the database every 10 seconds for any new alerts or conversations regardless of refreshing or if you are even viewing the browser tab. You could be writing a post and get an alert or be checking your email and see the browser icon change to alert you of a message. I love this! "

That's different! [I don't have those yet]
I meant just by "viewing the browser tab" (without refr...).

Let me investigate this further on my end, before I bring this back (e.g. to Greg or Matt), to make sure it wasn't temporary. It's not a big deal anyway. No other changes noticed so far, everything's great, the forum still superfast everything else otherwise ! ...
 
got bumped off mid post maybe thirty minutes ago. Got a 'security error' message when tried to log back on.
I don't know how i got back on, i think 'back arrow' on browser
but thank goodness my long long post in progress hadn't disappeared

it was the recent transformer thread inquiring about 5- & 60 hz in EE.
old jim

ps @ still won't autocomplete
 
jim hardy said:
Computers are just that way, ever since @Microsoft
EDIT oops i see we have a user by that name. Sorry , fellow, not you personally.
May be it's Microsoft itself with a robot account or something ... (I see no activity ...)
jim hardy said:
but thank goodness my long long post in progress hadn't disappeared
Draft gets saved fast in the system always anyway.
 
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