hybrid 1043 Report post Posted February 9, 2013 Hi guys, Currently doing some server work, it will be restarting on and off through out this weekend. Expect the site to be on line and off line often. Cheers Bimmersport Admins Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 Josh is handling this ho Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 it may be a little slow while the backup runs Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 ok its f**ked - will need to find a better solution. more downtime! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hybrid 1043 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 Fisted Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cliff 0 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 Hokay ... sites now on a NEW server! Lets hope this one holds up a little better We're missing about an hours worth of posts, as the old server popped it's clogs before I could get the last DB dump - still, an hours not too bad considering! There's still a couple of back end things I need to crack up still, but the majority of it all should be working. An probs, I'm sure you'll all let me ono Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nobimmer 694 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 Lag Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 ORLY? how slow? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Silver Fox 43 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 No probs for me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cliffdunedin 8 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 Fine for me too, great job getting it back up and running boys! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
huff3r 347 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 Yeah, mine's as quick, or quicker than before. Practically instant. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffbebe 1559 Report post Posted February 11, 2013 All good here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2132 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 that was the toughest weekend to get through in a long time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qube 3570 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 ^ word Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5amchris 45 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 That website update sounds good right about now =) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nipe 1 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 Yessss....it was so hard, agreed to Andy, felt quite empty without it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
polley 916 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 quality redirect skills. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
central3 31 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 Well done guys - like a few other comments my daily visit to the site is habitual now and when down I was geting withdrawl syptoms - all good now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hybrid 1043 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 took ages to get meatspin.com out of my DNS cache on my phone ... thanks cliff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
allan 295 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 If you don't mind interested to know what happened??? but not all to technical thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hybrid 1043 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 The server it was running on was nearly 10 years old. In its time it has run some of New Zealands top ten websites and while other servers have come and gone .. 'h2' has been the one to stick around.. It seems memory failure as everytime we tried to copy any decent file size .. it would literally hang. This is the main reason it took so long to come back on line. This was after a pretty decent effort to use electrical cleaner clean and compressed air / reseat the ram and CPU. Another issue potentially was the powersupply had just got old and was under volting the main board. Unfortunately the PSU was bespoke so couldnt be tested. Anyways, its now sitting on some pretty grunty apple servers in a VM. Still has fibre connected etc. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cliff 0 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 took ages to get meatspin.com out of my DNS cache on my phone ... thanks cliff You loved it Just had to explain to the wife what meatspin was .... told her it was better to 'experience' it. ....I think I'm getting a divorce now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Neal 540 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 Will done guys. Done more than my share of all nighters and data centre recoveries. Thought about running on VMware in the Clould ? Can make it easy to turn up performance when needed and scale back when demand is low. Providers like rackspace.com can be quite cost effective. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hybrid 1043 Report post Posted February 12, 2013 This is what its on now Not just any old one either .. hence the speed increase. Im strongly against hosting big sites (busy forums) on overseas DCs. NZ international pipe makes it quite latent .. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
