Ross Administrator
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | New Hosting! (13th Jan 11 at 1:35am UTC) | | I'm sure many of you will have noticed that your vForum may not have been running as fast recently as it used to. I blame the 30,000 registered users across the 6,000 forums we are now hosting
We have sourced and are intending to move all forums to a brand new server. Which (based on testing so far) should be more than capable of handling whatever you throw at it We're talking about something with 3x the RAM of the current server and 6x the storage space!
The plan for implementing this is as follows:
- This support forum will be moved over first. It will be the first real forum to run on there so we can check that it is all working. If everything goes according to plan, that should be later this week. This support forum may be offline during the transfer ✔
- Once I am happy the platform is working on there, all forums will be mass transferred. There will be no downtime for standard forums during this transfer (they may just run a little slower than normal). ✔ New forum signups will be disabled during this time.
- After all forums are transferred the rest of the smaller services & files will be transferred along with the main vForums websites. Once this is completed new forum signups will be re-enabled.
I'm looking forward to it, I hope you are too - Ross
Update: Tomorrow (Tuesday 25th January) at around 1:30 GMT we will transfer all forums using the vforums.us domain name as their primary address. There should be no downtime during this procedure.
Update: Today (Monday 28th February) the DNS changes for the main vforums.co.uk domain have been made. 99% of forums using this domain have already had their databases transferred to the new server. The rest will be completed shortly.
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Nick Very Senior Member
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pmwww | Re: New Hosting! (13th Jan 11 at 4:46am UTC) | | Sounds good! I have noticed somewhat of a lag, was kinda figuring it was me, but I guess not! | |
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Graham Support Administrator
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pmwww | Re: New Hosting! (13th Jan 11 at 7:48pm UTC) | | Nice work | |
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pmwww | Re: New Hosting! (13th Jan 11 at 7:55pm UTC) | | Yay!
What are the specs? | |
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pm | Re: New Hosting! (13th Jan 11 at 9:39pm UTC) | | Awesome . hopefully all the downtime / lagging comes to a stop | |
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Ross Administrator
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: New Hosting! (14th Jan 11 at 12:59pm UTC) | | Yay! What are the specs?
90GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 1TB Bandwidth CPU is a Dual Quad Core Xeon | |
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pmwww | Re: New Hosting! (14th Jan 11 at 3:07pm UTC) | | Yay! What are the specs? 90GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 1TB Bandwidth CPU is a Dual Quad Core Xeon
Mmm...can I borrow it indefinitely? | |
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Ross Administrator
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: New Hosting! (14th Jan 11 at 3:09pm UTC) | | Yay! What are the specs? 90GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 1TB Bandwidth CPU is a Dual Quad Core Xeon Mmm...can I borrow it indefinitely?
After the hours & pain setting it up, I'd rather not
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Marc vChat Developer
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pmwww | Re: New Hosting! (14th Jan 11 at 3:18pm UTC) | | 90GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 1TB Bandwidth CPU is a Dual Quad Core Xeon Mmm...can I borrow it indefinitely? After the hours & pain setting it up, I'd rather not
Haha, I suppose that makes sense.
*Slips Ross a cookie as a bribe* | |
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Ross Administrator
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: New Hosting! (15th Jan 11 at 2:17am UTC) | | A couple of teething problems (mainly due to DNS fail, although that was mainly the fault of the person changing the records - me ) but this support forum is now running on the new server
Could take a few hours for everyones DNS to update. | |
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pmwww | Re: New Hosting! (15th Jan 11 at 4:09am UTC) | | A couple of teething problems (mainly due to DNS fail, although that was mainly the fault of the person changing the records - me ) but this support forum is now running on the new server Could take a few hours for everyones DNS to update.
I'm guessing that's the reason for most of the images on VFS not appearing, haha. Hopefully everything's back to normal by the morning. | |
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pmskypemsnyahoo | Re: New Hosting! (15th Jan 11 at 8:24am UTC) | | New servers. ^_^ Yay.
I keep getting this error on the forums: An unknown error has occurred. Please contact our support forum (Log ID: 1295080009) | |
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Ross Administrator
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: New Hosting! (15th Jan 11 at 10:16am UTC) | | Thanking you. Issue fixed | |
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Nick Very Senior Member
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pmwww | Re: New Hosting! (15th Jan 11 at 7:14pm UTC) | | I had issue's with iDirectory Support forum not wanting to load, and the API being down just for iDirectory. iHosting in this case, was working 100% though. iD is working fine now, and there are no issues. | |
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Ross Administrator
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pmwwwgtalkvForum | Re: New Hosting! (15th Jan 11 at 8:45pm UTC) | | I had issue's with iDirectory Support forum not wanting to load, and the API being down just for iDirectory. iHosting in this case, was working 100% though. iD is working fine now, and there are no issues.
This support forum is the only one to be moved so far. | |
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