Cricket Web Server Move - Friday 14th July 2006: 11:30am New Zealand Time

[James]

We are moving servers with our hosting provider on Wednesday 12th July 2006 from 11:30am New Zealand Time. This page lists the time in your part of the world at 11:30am New Zealand time.

It is expected that the move will take 1-2 hours and there will be roughly four hours of downtime as you get re-directed to the IP Address for the new server.

Our server will be based in Atlanta rather than the current one which is in Texas and there are the following advantages which is quoted straight from our hosting provider:

We'll be running on shiny new hardware with dual dual-core Opteron 270's (vs the current dual Xeon 2.8Ghz's), 4GB of RAM in every system (with capacity for more), and faster RAID 10 arrays (vs the current RAID 5 arrays). You'll be running on Virtuozzo 3.0, which is the latest and greatest version of the software and includes *major* improvements in speed, reliability, and features.

If you have any question you are welcome to email me (james.nixon@cricketweb.net), contact me on MSN (nixonja@hotmail.com) or Google Talk (cricketweb@gmail.com).

This thread can be discussed here

 

[James]

Stop the Press!

Turns out there's a few problems with the new server that has been ordered. A diagnostic check is going to be done on the server tomorrow US time.

The server move will still go ahead but is likely to be Friday or Saturday this week now.

 

[James]

The RAM has been swapped out of the server, and we're all set to go again.

The server move will now happen Friday 14th July 2006 from 11:30am New Zealand Time. Same details apply as in my original post.

 

[James]

The server move has happened and completed successfully.

If you do happen to notice a problem, please let me know:

Email - james.nixon@cricketweb.net
MSN - nixonja@hotmail.com
Google Talk - cricketweb@gmail.com