dsource.org Planned Outage Friday, March 2

[Brad Anderson]

Justin C Calvarese wrote:
> Brad Anderson wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> dsource.org will have a planned outage tomorrow, Friday, March 2.
>>
>>  * The site will be down most of the day, starting at 9am EST (GMT -5)
>>
>>  * Duration is unknown, but I would expect 8 hours.  Hopefully it will
>> be shorter.
>>
>>  * We are transferring to slicehost.com hosting, so the result should be
>> stupid-fast everything and tons of bandwidth.  Also, the db locking
>> problem
>> has been back the past week or two and I hope this move takes care of
>> whatever
>> software package on the current server is causing it.
>>
>>  * Unfortunately, this process is bound by the upstream bandwidth from
>> the
>> current server to the slice.
>>
>>  * To prevent write activities while doing the transfer (wiki, svn,
>> forums,
>> tickets, etc.), the entire site needs to be down.  I am going to
>> attempt some
>> configuration things, so the site possibly will be up read-only, but
>> if that
>> doesn't work, the entire thing will be inaccessible.
>>
>>  * I will be on Freenode IRC in #d as *boorad* for the /occasional/
>> status check.
>>
>>  * I apologize if this message sounds like I'm treating you all as
>> crack-addict fiends who can't bear to be 'without' for any period of
>> time.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> BA
> 
> Congrats, Brad! It looks like the transfer was successful. And
> everything does seem faster.
> 

some rough edges to finish off, but overall it went okay.

BA