Server crashed! Upgrade coming.

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Server crashed! Upgrade coming.
« on: November 06, 2019, 10:51 »
Around 2am the server crashed and everything just went offline. By 2.30 Tom the Tech had isolated the problem to the database but what was causing the problem was unclear. He called in a specialist server management firm.
By 6.30 the cause had been identified as an automatic software upgrade and rolling back to the previous version fixed things (lots of other servers went down across the world with the same thing)
We had some corrupted files in the forum system but he sorted that by 7.45am
Unrelated - we are upgrading to a new server shortly. Faster CPUs and 6 instead of 4, double ram, solid state hard drives (about 100 times faster) and a better operating system to run everything. I'm hoping it will be very fast delivering pages.
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Re: Server crashed! Upgrade coming.
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2019, 12:45 »
All the crazy action happens when I sleep! Good luck with the server migration!

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Re: Server crashed! Upgrade coming.
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2019, 14:15 »
It won't be our first server upgrade - getting pretty good at them now. I upgraded ram and hard disk on my desktop earlier in the year and it's blistering fast now - hoping for that with the server. These SSDs are just amazing.
My main concern is changing the nameserver's IP address in the sense that it takes a little while to propagate and people will think we're offline when we're not. Faster than it used to be though.

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Re: Server crashed! Upgrade coming.
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2019, 13:54 »
Happy to report we're now on the new server and apart from a couple of minor tweaks on the email, all is running well. Never had a server change go so smoothly.  :D :D :D

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« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2019, 15:05 »
Good news, John  :D



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