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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11116 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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Link Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2016 6:10 pm Post subject: We've moved! (TheElectricBrewery.com is now in the cloud...) |
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As of Feb 28, 2016 at 10AM CST, we are now hosted on a different server in a cloud environment that brings many enhancements, redundancies, and higher performance.
There is nothing to do on your end. If you're seeing this post, you're on the new server.
The address (DNS) change is currently propaging its way across the internet so some people will get on the new server before others.
The forum on the old server was locked before being copied over to avoid missing any posts or changes.
If anyone notices anything odd, please let me know!
The tech details:
- We set the time to live (TTL) to 60 minutes so that the new address would be picked up quickly, but some internet service providers (ISPs) may choose to ignore these broadcasts and update their lists less often. (Usually smaller mom and pop shops trying to save on bandwidth).
- Before we were on a dedicated physical box with 1 GB of Ram, 1 dual core processor, and a single 7200 RPM drive. The new environment is a virtual machine running in a cloud environment where we have 2 CPUs dedicated to us along with 1 GB of Ram and enough SAN (storage area network) disk space for everything we need.
- The new cloud environment is all run within a large 8 server array running the cloud environment with a dedicated SAN. Any 3 servers can fail and the other 5 have the capacity to handle the load from the failed servers. The nimble SAN uses a RAID 6 array with redundant switches and power supplies. Power is fed from 2 different ups units in case 1 fails, the environment will stay online. Even though everything was backed up daily on the old setup, the new cloud based / SAN setup brings a large number of redundancies.
- Just like before, we're completely isolated from other websites/customers so we are not at the whim of service provider forcing updates on us in terms of software like php or MySQL. (The forum is pretty 'old school' and requires a earlier version of php. Updating it and the 80+ custom mods to be more 'future friendly' is on my todo list...)
Cheers,
Kal
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kal Forum Administrator
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Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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LBussy
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It's so fast the page loaded before I opened my web browser!
_________________ -- Lee in KC
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kal Forum Administrator
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Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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LBussy
Joined: 26 Feb 2016 Posts: 11 Location: Kansas City, MO, USA
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I noticed that! I'm younger now but it jumped back to before my avatar pic was taken so I had to re-upload.
_________________ -- Lee in KC
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Ben58
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Much faster page loads.
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Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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