http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Server Migration Tonight (Things might be slow for a bit) en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:46:00 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27703 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:37:12 +0000 ScottW 27703@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>And now, my DNS servers are updated:</p> <p>&gt;ping howtogeek.com</p> <p>Pinging howtogeek.com [208.43.115.82] with 32 bytes of data:<br /> Reply from 208.43.115.82: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=54 </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27702 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:20:36 +0000 The Geek 27702@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I sure hope this is the last time for a long time... hopefully no more data centers explode on us! </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27701 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:10:59 +0000 whs 27701@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>June 5, 2PM EST - response time excellent and I don't loose any postings any more (took the habit of copying them so that I could paste them back several times). Thank you Geek. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27631 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:44:36 +0000 ScottW 27631@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>It fooled me though, because I tried using <a href="http://208.43.115.82" rel="nofollow">http://208.43.115.82</a> and it resolved back to howtogeek.com, so I thought my DNS servers had updated. Anyway, it doesn't feel slow. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27630 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:34:42 +0000 The Geek 27630@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Yeah, that's the old server IP... I imagine loading the forum is pretty slow :) </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27629 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:32:33 +0000 ScottW 27629@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Aha! I see what's going on here:</p> <p>&gt;ping howtogeek.com</p> <p>Pinging howtogeek.com [64.13.232.106] with 32 bytes of data:<br /> Reply from 64.13.232.106: bytes=32 time=48ms TTL=52 </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27626 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:16:43 +0000 The Geek 27626@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Well the reverse DNS has been in place for a few days now... what happens if you do a DNS lookup on howtogeek.com ? </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27625 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:15:17 +0000 ScottW 27625@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>So, the 2 minute blackout is over? When I do a reverse DNS lookup on 208.43.115.82, it says this is howtogeek.com. So, I guess my DNS servers, at AT&#38;T Yahoo, are already updated. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27623 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:05:30 +0000 The Geek 27623@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>The new server IP is 208.43.115.82</p> <p>If you feel like it, you can add that to your hosts file. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27622 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:03:30 +0000 The Geek 27622@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Test Post </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/server-migration-tonight-things-might-be-slow-for-a-bit#post-27618 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:37:18 +0000 The Geek 27618@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I realize the middle of the week isn't the greatest time to migrate servers, but it needs to get done... this temporary server can be extremely slow, especially at peak loads.</p> <p>Nothing will go down, other than for about 2 minutes at 3AM EST time (about 26 minutes from now) while I make the switch.</p> <p>The forum's just gonna be a bit slow(er) for a few hours until the DNS propagates, since it will be accessing the database on the new server from over the interwebs. </p>