Forums Moving To New Server - Completed

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Forums Moving To New Server - Completed

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Due to ongoing issues with this by our transit provider we have brought a new server online and will be migrating the forums to the new server in the next day or two, the outage will be approximately 15 minutes as we'll need to put the forums into maintenance to protect the database during the move.

If you try and access the forums in this downtime you'll see either the maintenance page or a blank page or possibly a site not found, but this will correct itself in a few minutes so please check back soon.

We try and keep any downtime to an absolute minimum but it's the internet and we only have a certain amount of control over what happens :)
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OH NO!

15 minutes of down time.

Imagine all of the posts we will miss.
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It's okay we'll try and do it in the middle of the night :lol:
Turns out I wasn't just old and grumpy - I was right to be pissed right off!
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Move completed, if you had tried accessing and got a not found or similar error it was due to a glitch in DNS propagation where it reverted to the old server for some unknown reason, most likely a rogue entry somewhere.
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I was a bit concerned when the "15 minute" outage extended to all day.

Thought we may have lost the forum.
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IP addresses get recycled something rotten so there was no way the server was getting fresh new ones (that and the fact IPv4 addresses are all but used up), an old DNS entry somewhere kept overriding the new DNS for the server and it was up and down like a yo-yo, sort of now you see me now you don't :)
Flushed out now though so shouldn't have that problem again...
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