Got word from my server guy that the domain moves to the new server will take place either later today or early tomorrow. I'll be shutting down this site right before the database move needs to happen. Sorry, I won't have very much warning myself, so this is about as much warning as you are going to get about it.

Try to make any posts you make short and sweet so you don't lose them if I shut down the forum while you are composing your words.

Sorry, there is really no completely pleasant way to do this....

Thanks RichZ for the update:thumbsup:

:thumbsup:Good luck bro:thumbsup:

And thanks for everything you do for us to make this place better:thumbsup::thumbsup:

See ya on the other side:lmao:

Gordon

Sigh..... I'm not sure when this is going to take place now. Having some problems transferring my main sites on my other server over to the new server. Since the lease on that server comes up for renewal before this one does, my server guy is working on that one first. But a couple are BIG sites and they have always been a hassle to transfer. And every time I do a server move it gets worse because they are even bigger later on. Eventually I guess I won't be able to do server moves because the time it would take would be longer than it takes for the current hardware I'm using to go obsolete before the moves are done.

Not sure what the heck I will do then.

Anyway, I'm glad I hired a guy to do most of this crap for me. I used to do it all by myself and nearly became computercidal (the inclination to kill computers). I actually got close to feeling that way today when I couldn't reach my server guy for hours. :toetap05:

Anyway, when this site comes due, you'll simply see a message when you come here saying that it is locked down during the transfer. Or maybe not. Not enough traffic here for me to be really overly concerned with locking the database so nothing is lost in the transfer. I'll have to see when it takes place. Later on at night or early morning, not likely anyone would be posting anything anyway, and that would certainly streamline things by not having to go that extra step.

Good luck with the move Rich. Thanks for the warning, and I hope it all pans out for the good on the other side.....:thumbsup:
Andy :wavey:
Alrightie then.........3..........2........1.......
MOVE!
Followed immediately by ^$**# miserable $#*&# God&@*# piece of $H!t:lmao:
AHHHHHHHH......I can hear it now.......:rofl1:
<<--- You'll probably look like this before it's all done. :rofl1::rofl1:

Andy,

I'm like that almost everyday...just trying to get my computer, file box, typewriter, boat anchor combination to function!:mad::lmao:

I'm just thinking ... what are you running on this system? More than just this board? Have you profiled it? What can you separate out? Are you using vBulletin for other sites too?

Furthermore, you don't always need to build'em huge, like this 8Px12G and with 15Krpm disks. You can fit a lot in 2.5" bays with 5400-7200rpm disks these days, and then just bump up your RAM to compensate the reduced spindle. There are 2.5"x9.5mm drives at 640GB (5400rpm) and 500GB (7200rpm), as well as 2.5"x12mm drives at 1TB (5400rpm). You can fit a nice 4Px8G with four (4) 2.5" drives in Mini-ITX/Micro-ATX these days, several systems for the same space as a single, larger system.

Also consider virtualizing. Since you run CentOS (a rebuild of my employer's Red Hat Enterprise Linux, of which we release all source code), consider Xen paravirtualization. Xen paravirtualization has so little overhead. And once you virtualize the instance, you can move it to new hardware without issue.

This is what I've done on Wall Street (15,000 servers) as well as at my current, large Federal client outside of DC (with peta-bytes of data).

That move never did take place. The server move of my main server was such a drain that I just didn't have the willpower to tackle another one. Got to happen, though, as this site isn't bringing in enough money to pay for a server. I've just got this site, CorvetteInternational, and a few utility sites on this one server. None of which are able to pay the bills.

This will probably take place sometime in the next month. Since I retired my business, I've really got to watch these monthly recurring expenses.