Planned, Sporadic Downtime between 5/26 and 6/3

[LostinGermany]

Hope the migration goes well. Good luck, Dan.

[FNG19]

Good luck with the migration, Dan. I know it's a ton of work. I hope it works out for the best! Would it be possible to get a static page served up while the forum is down so that people at least get something rather than a generic Apache error? This way, folks who don't see this will know it's a scheduled thing, not just a failure of some kind.

[wa3ra]

I'd rather have the Apache puke screen than that stupid "eff you. I have data and you can't have it!" 502 screen.

Dan, may I suggest that you start drinking. Heavily. Now.

[NuclearSociety]

I'd rather have the Apache puke screen than that stupid "eff you. I have data and you can't have it!" 502 screen.

Dan, may I suggest that you start drinking. Heavily. Now.

:O Please hold the drinking for after... the last thing we need is a spill on the physical hardware xD lmao.

GL DAN!

[mpan72]

If it dosen't work and pafoa is no more where do you guys want to meet?
I suggest DCDaultons house. He seems like a realy nice guy and I hear he has great get togethers.

JK Good luck Dan.

[God's Country]

If it dosen't work and pafoa is no more where do you guys want to meet?
I suggest DCDaultons house. He seems like a realy nice guy and I hear he has great get togethers.

JK Good luck Dan.

I loathe going to the Pocono's, but it’s a good a plan as any other.

There will be beer...right?

[andrewjs18]

good luck with the site move!

[danp]

Good luck with the transition, I hope it goes as smoothly as planned.

Are we to infer that you are leasing space in a datacenter in Philly now?

We'll actually be moving onto the Amazon cloud. I've spent the last year or so hosting all my own websites there with great success. One thing I've learned running PAFOA on co-located hardware is that I don't want to own hardware ever again.

With amazon, if a server has a bad power supply, you can have it automatically removed and replaced with a new one, I no longer have to care why a machine is mis-behaving, nor do I have to be directly involved in the fix.

Good luck with the migration, Dan. I know it's a ton of work. I hope it works out for the best! Would it be possible to get a static page served up while the forum is down so that people at least get something rather than a generic Apache error? This way, folks who don't see this will know it's a scheduled thing, not just a failure of some kind.

During these downtimes the sites will all be up, but the forum will have it's "maintenance" message up which will explain what's going on.

Thanks for your support guys, these kinds of things are rarely fun, but this at the end of all this we will have a fully automated infrastructure that should be much more resilient to failures, and much easier to fix when they do occur.

[Curmudgeon]

I'm predicting a steady diet of pizza and redbull.

[afdcomposer]

That's what I was thinking. How will I get my gun talk in if this website is down?

I predict the gun shops will have a lot more people standing around talking to each other and bitching about stuff to each other.



Cheers,
afd