Technical Downtime / Server Move

Was away during the downtime, but thanks for heads up

 

Oh so glad to find all are here ...

Scared me when AA was not only offline, but scary notices made it look like the site was nuked somehow, someway. I checked twitter but didn't see a notice. What if it just never appeared again ???

Suggestion for AA management ... since unexpected blips are part of the internet, AA have a back-up communications plan such as twitter that they make everyone aware of. A place to check for an update should the site disappear.

My site has a yahoo group we have had many members bookmark where we post updates about unplanned outages, and even updates on scheduled downtime. Most of those who have bookmarked it have set it to send them an email when there is an update. The group is read-only to all but our forum admins and we make sure any posts are substantive updates, and not spam for people's inboxes. (It has made members happy to get an email that the forum is back up earlier than announced.)

Just an idea for you. It's the internet, a jungle full of tigers and pythons, things happen. :speechless: :killpc2:

So glad you are back and all is well again! I hope!

 

1 - The "message board is closed" notice included a link to an off-site chatbox that I set up.

2 - I replied to your Direct Message on Twitter.

3 - I also posted public updates on Twitter. Down, and back up.

 

My impression is that you moved from a dedicated server, with dedicated ip, which was broken, to a different server. How could you have a page up with a link to chatbox? I thought it took much time for an ip to propagate around the globe.

This is important to me at the moment, I'm trying to map out a strategy for my site.

 

Umm, it did take tome for the IP to propagate. I was one, maybe the only one, that ISP took time to change so I saw the message continuously for a while.

 

LOL.... What I mean is, how did that message get seen at all if the old server was down? I am really dumb about these things.

 

Ohh, otaiii! Gomen!

 

I kinda gave a rundown here. Hopefully Nick will share his secret though.

 

The old server wasn't down. It was still accessible. We closed the board before we made the transition; then we made the transition and updated the nameservers. Anybody whose IPS hadn't propagated was taken to the old instance of the site, which had the board closed message.

Once Chris or myself were on the new instance of the site (thanks to prompt propagation by our ISPs), we opened the board. Therefore, visitors to the old instance saw the board closed message, while those whose ISP had propagated would see the open board.

 

One of you should have edited your hosts file for instant access

 

That was the answer I was expecting. It probably takes few resources to serve up a static page. If the server at that IP was down completely that would have been a different situation.

I'm curious about this as well. I just got out of a meeting about these types of things.

 

I've had to do that before for something else, and was instructed as to what to put in the file. But I don't know exactly what to enter, for use at my leisure. :shrug:

 

Just add something like this in the future

Code:

server IP www.yoursite.com
server IP http://yoursite.com

 

who do you guys use for a host?
glad everything is back up and running

 

WiredTree.

 

Excellent web host i use them as well for one of my servers