Site issues update as of 4/19 - Migration plan ...

[Leon]

The last outage had nothing to do with the site migration away from the current hosting company. We are literally, technically right in the middle of the project as I type this. We hope to be off the current companies servers in under 48 hours, and we are trying for 24 hours. Until that time we just hope the current company can keep us up long enough to leave them (though it might not matter, depends on the way the servers are configured.) All of the down time has had to do with the current company. The new company we are working with actually communicates....We might have a small hiccup or two, concerning being able to post but that is about it......see below...

WE are fortunate to have some really great guys on the site who have pitched in to help. Chris Brow.ne helped a ton and now Steve Freed.man is helping, along with Brian McQueen ready to help too....Steve is part of the hobby renowned Simple Auction Site (and I found out today he is a type card collector too, how cool is that!!). They do fabulous work in the hobby and I am proud to be associated with them. Here is a blurb on the migration, from Steve-


What to expect from the migration:

Once the new server comes online (expected to be tomorrow, 4/18), we will begin the migration of the data. Starting around midnight tomorrow, we will be locking down the current system so that no new posts can occur. We will then begin copying the data from the old system to the new one. This should take 8 hours or less given the amount of data that needs to be moved. After that, we will unlock the new system for new posts. If you come to the system anytime after the morning of 4/19 and the system is still locked out to new posts, you can assume that your DNS has not been updated to point to the new system. DNS propagation can take anywhere from 24-48 hours, but we have found that it occurs for most people in 15-60 minutes.




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[Ronnie73]

My DNS changes usually update in 10 to 15 minutes but thats with domains with Network Solutions. Not sure what company net54baseball.com was bought from. Looking forward to the better up time. Thank you Leon for all the updates and looking out for all of us on the forum.

[FrankWakefield]

Wish you well with the move. Thank you for taking care of this, and us. Seems the outages rivaled Uncle Sam; the latter was taxing dollars, the former taxed your patience.

[Cat]

Can you leave Archive's posts on the old server? His posts always came off a bit snarky. Heck, one board member had to threaten legal action.

Just a suggestion...

[barrysloate]

Will the technologically(sp) challenged posters have any issues getting on the new site, or will we not notice the difference?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Will the technologically(sp) challenged posters have any issues getting on the new site, or will we not notice the difference?

There are 0 changes to the site. As it says above the only issue could be when we are downloading the data from the current server to the new one you might not be able to login for a few hours. I will try to have a note on the board about it. But nothing is changing functionally or aesthetically with this move except reliability. It is purely because of us going down so often AND the fact the current company doesn't return emails, can't be called (they are in the UK but I hear they don't answer their phones anyway), and can't do what they promised on migrating to our own server within their company. In my opinion, and keeping somewhat on topic, they are maroons. (sic) Their Facebook page is quite funny to read.....there are several customers of theirs on it that are as frustrated, or more, than I am. I guess Facebook can be a two edged sword. Anyone currently reading their page won't become a customer of theirs.

[gorrister]

Migration is almost finished

[gorrister]

If you see this message, then you are on the new server - congratulations!

[Republicaninmass]

Hopefully Archive has made it over as well

[mr2686]

There seems to be some missing posts since this morning...hopefully those will come over too.

[gorrister]

Unfortunately, all posts after about 9:10AM ET this morning until the new server went live (about 3PM) were lost. We did not know that the new server company made a copy of the database it was too late.

[mr2686]

Thanks for the info. Odd that they would make a copy while the database was up and being written to, but it's not the end of the world.

[frankbmd]

One of my posts is missing too, but I can't remember what I said. I'm sure it must have been insightful and cogent. Damn that Altzheimer's.

[e107collector]

Unless it's me, the new site seems very fast.

Great job Leon!

Tony

[batsballsbases]

How do I stop having to put my user name and pass word on everytime. I remember I had this problem before but was able to fix it with some kind of change. But I forgot how. Thanks

[atx840]

Great job guys!

[buymycards]

The site seems to be working well with IE, but not with Google Chrome. With Chrome, I can get to the opening page, but nothing will come up after that and no threads are available.

Rick

[baseballart]

The site is working on my mac, but on my ipad, it is not, getting a message "Safari cannot open the page. The error was "cannot decode raw data."

Max

[ullmandds]

same problem with me on my iphone...cannot decode raw data?

[gorrister]

We are working on fixing the issues with Chrome and Safari.

[pgellis]

Just a heads up that the chat room is not working at all. Just wanted to make you guys aware of that.

[Leon]

It looks at though everything is working now (knock on wood),.....and I am happy this moment. More later....thanks for everyone's patience.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by pgellis

Just a heads up that the chat room is not working at all. Just wanted to make you guys aware of that.

Thanks for the heads up. I don't want to deal with the chat room for a few days. It is a whole different animal hosted by another company. I want to be stable for a few days. I am going out of town today and will be back Monday....will have very limited access during that time. Thanks again to Steve Freed.man of SimpleAuctionSite. He is solely responsible for helping and fixing this issue. I can't thank him enough!!

[barrysloate]

I'm finally in...hope everyone else is too.

[Leon]

We are aware that the links section, the alterations section and the archive section (I hate that guy) are not working yet. We are also aware that a few people are still having some issues with the forums that are working. We believe, but are not 100% sure, that those are caching issues attributed to individual users and are not system wide. If you are having any issues with the board operations, besides what has been stated today, please post here so we can look into them. We also know we lost about 4 hours of info yesterday. The database download had started and once it started anything posted after that was lost when we changed to the new servers. That was my fault as I didn't realize the actual file migration had started. Sorry about that. thanks for everyone's patience

[gorrister]

Originally Posted by Leon

We are aware that the links section, the alterations section and the archive section (I hate that guy) are not working yet. We are also aware that a few people are still having some issues with the forums that are working. We believe, but are not 100% sure, that those are caching issues attributed to individual users and are not system wide. If you are having any issues with the board operations, besides what has been stated today, please post here so we can look into them. We also know we lost about 4 hours of info yesterday. The database download had started and once it started anything posted after that was lost when we changed to the new servers. That was my fault as I didn't realize the actual file migration had started. Sorry about that. thanks for everyone's patience

I have resolved the issues with the links, alterations and archive section. Any other outstanding issues?

[Leon]

Originally Posted by gorrister

I have resolved the issues with the links, alterations and archive section. Any other outstanding issues?

Thanks Steve- A couple of isolated user issues of what was happening yesterday but I am instructed those folks to clear their caches and let me know. There are a few private emails on that, which you will see. thanks again