Important - New Server - Downtime Tonight 9pm

[Grant]

SGL is getting a shiny new server - double the memory, more processors and all SSD space so it should be even faster than what we currently have.

We are also moving to a different host run by people who we've used before - our current host was brought out quietly by GoDaddy some time back and the support / response / quality hasn't been the same hence the decision to move.

This also gives us chance to refresh the operating system as well as the hardware.

The site will be down from 9pm tonight (9th May) for hopefully only a couple of hours.

Once we are back, please give everything chance to settle back down and the search indexes / caches to rebuild but I am confident SGL will be zipping along faster than ever in no time.

Cheers,

Grant

[kirkster501]

What server and OS does it run on currently Grant?

[upahill]

Good luck May the power of root be with you!
 

[Grant]

11 minutes ago, kirkster501 said:

What server and OS does it run on currently Grant?

Cent OS but moving to Cloud Linux.

Moving from 32gb to 64gb of memory and 12x CPU to 16x CPU with full SSD drive (currently only the database sits on an SSD drive).

[kirkster501]

Interesting,. thanks Grant.

Are you going to run the two simultaneously then cut off the existing server at 9 after a DB snapshot ?  I've done many of these over the years in my job.

[Grant]

Just now, kirkster501 said:

Interesting,. thanks Grant.

Are you going to run the two simultaneously then cut off the existing server at 9 after a DB snapshot ?  I've done many of these over the years in my job.

Exactly - a copy of SGL is technically already running on the new server. We will do a final sync and db transfer later so hopefully, it should be less than an hour but you never know.

[kirkster501]

1 hour ago, Grant said:

Exactly - a copy of SGL is technically already running on the new server. We will do a final sync and db transfer later so hopefully, it should be less than an hour but you never know.

Yes indeed, "you never know"!    How many times have I said that before.... ?

Do you know which geographical data centre runs the SGL server or no idea and it is just hosted in the cloud somewhere?

Edited May 9, 2019 by kirkster501

[Mr Spock]

See you on the flip side

I'm sure a lot of people here don't see what goes into running SGL and all the work you put into it. So a big thank you from me and everyone else for doing a fantastic job ?

[Saganite]

4 hours ago, Grant said:

SGL is getting a shiny new server - double the memory, more processors and all SSD space so it should be even faster than what we currently have.

We are also moving to a different host run by people who we've used before - our current host was brought out quietly by GoDaddy some time back and the support / response / quality hasn't been the same hence the decision to move.

This also gives us chance to refresh the operating system as well as the hardware.

The site will be down from 9pm tonight (9th May) for hopefully only a couple of hours.

Once we are back, please give everything chance to settle back down and the search indexes / caches to rebuild but I am confident SGL will be zipping along faster than ever in no time.

Cheers,

Grant

Many thanks in advance to you all.

 

Edited May 9, 2019 by Saganite

[Ruud]

Oh wow, and it's already a very responsive website.

But more of everything is the way to go! Good luck with the switch over.

[R26 oldtimer]

And at 8:59, an ad for a mint Takahashi at 10% of the retail price appears....

 

Good luck with the upgrade SGL!

[Grant]

Welcome to the new server 🙂

Everything looks good so far - the search index is rebuilding so may be slower than normal and you may get some odd results in your activity field until it completes.

Otherwise, any problems please let me know.

[Stu]

All seeming good at the moment Grant, glad it all went smoothly! 👍👍

[Star101]

Welcome back

[kirkster501]

All running well and logins working.

[Steve]

Thank-you Grant. Looks good 🙂

[fozzybear]

a lot faster from here in France....

[Geoff Barnes]

😉 My psychoanalyst assured me everything would be okay and I just needed to be patient.....

Edited May 9, 2019 by Geoff Barnes

[fozzybear]

life is restored I had panic attacks for 2 hours had to watch the tv...… so boring

[Ruud]

Quite happy here. Thanks for all the work.

[John]

Thanks for your hard work Grant. Very much appreciated

 

[JamesF]

Hosting is at Digital Ocean now?  I may have to re-evaluate my opinion of them.  On the basis of almost no information whatsoever I have had quite a downer on them due to the level of abusive spidering and page scraping directed at a group of servers I look after from their cloud hosting environment, to the point where I have just been shutting out their netblocks entirely.  Perhaps I have been excessively hasty.

James

[upahill]

Seems like the move went well. Congrats, site working great for me.

Edited May 9, 2019 by upahill
Other reply removed as common courtesy.

[Pompey Monkey]

47 minutes ago, John said:

Thanks for your hard work Grant. Very much appreciated

 

Seconded!

[Paul M]

The downtime flew by. I used it to chat with the wife.

She seems quite nice.... 😁