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Offline x4000

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Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« on: March 15, 2015, 09:24:30 am »
Hey guys, we are still hard at work on Stars Beyond Reach, and as the forumites know there have been a number of update posts there.  I'll be sure to do a bigger blog post sometime soon.

That said, this particular post is about some server stuff that we're working on.  The awesome Quinn is working on switching us over to a new host that should have vastly better performance than what we've been seeing lately on our current host.  And we'll be saving money, ironically, while having vastly better specs.  Go figure.

Anyway, repointing DNS servers will cause some of you to seemingly have the site down for a bit, even though it's not.  And there will be some brief points where literally the site is down due to being moved at those moments.  We'll keep it as brief as possible, but thanks for your patience.  Better performance awaits on the other side!
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2015, 11:51:54 am »
And then:

Two days of lost posts. ;)
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2015, 11:53:10 am »
Shh. That never happened. Your memory is just failing.
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2015, 11:56:32 am »
Yeah, for sure.  Holy smokes what a mess in the end.  I'm just glad to be back on solid ground.  I'm glad we tried this as an experiment, because it could have been a really great move.  But in the end it turned out that hostgator was... very lacking.

Incidentally we would not have lost two days of posts if the forum database had not just mysteriously disappeared off their servers.  That's just one example of the wonderful sort of experience we had with them.  Quinn here has been a real hero working with them to try to get everything straightened out, but in the end they even were not backing up that database for some reason.  Facepalm.

Those guys did not seem to have it together at all.  Maybe great for smaller sites or sites with just a single type of thing on them (a wiki or whatever), but for a site with our amount of data, our amount of load, and our number of applications (three main ones), it was just a disaster.  Plus some hacker got in on the very first or second day.  Not a good start, I should have taken that as an omen...
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2015, 11:57:50 am »
Quote from: Dominus Arbitrationis on April 01, 2015, 11:53:10 am
Shh. That never happened. Your memory is just failing.

I told you, my preposterous ego is missing!

Quote from: x4000 on April 01, 2015, 11:56:32 am
Plus some hacker got in on the very first or second day.  Not a good start, I should have taken that as an omen...

Yuck :\
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2015, 12:04:35 pm »
Yeah, pretty much.
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2015, 01:48:53 am »
Hmm, I use Hostgator as well and if that nonsense is going on, well, makes me a bit skiddish....are you guys planning on changing from them?
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2015, 02:17:12 am »
Yup, we were switching to them when this happened. So we are now with Rackspace.
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2015, 02:55:51 am »
Quote from: Dominus Arbitrationis on April 04, 2015, 02:17:12 am
Yup, we were switching to them when this happened. So we are now with Rackspace.

mk, thanks. I'll keep my eye on them for future hosting.
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2015, 10:10:42 am »
IIRC, my company hosts with Lunar Pages.  We've not had the best tech support from them and they seem very reluctant to solve problems, but they do get things done when we threaten to go somewhere else (we pay them something like $5-10,000 a month, which is passed on to our clients).
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2015, 10:30:28 am »
That is a pretty substantial difference between prices.
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2015, 12:01:20 pm »
I originally hosted the arcen site with lunarpages before switching to rackspace.  I definitely prefer rackspace for our particular needs.
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2015, 02:57:40 pm »
Quote from: Aklyon on April 04, 2015, 10:30:28 am
That is a pretty substantial difference between prices.
5000 to 10000?

And yeah. If we have continued problems with lunar pages, I'll recommend Rackspace
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2015, 03:14:36 pm »
Your post has $5 to 10000, Draco. Not 5000 unlessI read it wrong.
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Re: Server interruptions over the next day or two.
« Reply #14 on: April 04, 2015, 05:03:28 pm »
Quote from: Aklyon on April 04, 2015, 03:14:36 pm
Your post has $5 to 10000, Draco. Not 5000 unlessI read it wrong.

(5 to 10) thousand, not 5 to (10 thousand). :p
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