Re: Server Downtime - Server Upgrade - Site Upgrade

**Apophis** · 01-30-2010, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Acreo Aeneas

Apophis,

The links on the main forum index page (not the portal index) no longer work. They're all broken. Seems the conversion didn't go as smoothly as you had hoped (probably why it was only 12 minutes?).

No. I'm just not done yet. I did say that this was going to be a weekend long project with me working on it roughly 20 hours a day over the next couple days. Don't expect everything to be magically 100% operational right out of the gate!

**Greyed** · 01-30-2010, 12:27 AM

Hey, man, Kudos for you putting the time and effort into this. I just went through a server migration for my domain which is more personal use but i know how much of a pain that it is. I certainly haven't done anything to the scale you're undertaking solo. If you need any help or just a sounding board feel free to ping me. i hope it goes smoothly and ends far sooner so you can get some rest before the end of the weekend!

**Acreo Aeneas** · 01-30-2010, 12:47 AM

Originally Posted by Apophis

No. I'm just not done yet. I did say that this was going to be a weekend long project with me working on it roughly 20 hours a day over the next couple days. Don't expect everything to be magically 100% operational right out of the gate!

Ah, that explains. I had jumped to the conclusion that the script process did all the work for you in just 12 minutes (mind blowing).

**viper1986** · 01-30-2010, 12:49 AM

Thanks a bunch boss! Liking the new look.

**Apophis** · 01-30-2010, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Acreo Aeneas

Ah, that explains. I had jumped to the conclusion that the script process did all the work for you in just 12 minutes (mind blowing).

Noooooo.... That was ONE script that simply updated the thread tags into the new tag cloud system from the old one. There is an ENORMOUS amount of work to do and it's not done by scripts.

**Dredge** · 01-30-2010, 12:52 AM

Love the look boss! Keep up the good work to keep TG at the tip top of online communities.

**DrBeat** · 01-30-2010, 01:16 AM

Ackk! We look Web 2.0!

Anyways I know this is a lot of work Apo. I'd bring you coffee if I could.

**Ferris Bueller** · 01-30-2010, 01:20 AM

Guys, keep in mind that this is the RAW site. No template, no theme, nothing. This is why Apo said he's going to be working on it 20 hours a day. I'm sure it will look a little different when all is said and done, but I'm fairly sure we'll be back to our standard green and gray.

Global.Cooling · 01-30-2010, 01:25 AM

This is weird (not the site):

On my gaming machine it still pulls up the old site, with the upgrade notice (in FireFox & MSIE)

I installed Chrome just now and the old site comes up.

On my linux machine in FireFox the new version comes up........

**pedestrian01** · 01-30-2010, 01:34 AM

Originally Posted by Global.Cooling

This is weird (not the site):

On my gaming machine it still pulls up the old site, with the upgrade notice (in FireFox & MSIE)

I installed Chrome just now and the old site comes up.

On my linux machine in FireFox the new version comes up........

Apophis said that the ip of the site was changed. It's possible that the DNS on your gaming machine hasn't updated yet. Try opening a command prompt and entering "ipconfig /releasedns" on your gaming machine. Then check the site.

**Apophis** · 01-30-2010, 01:35 AM

Get on your gaming machine, close ALL browser windows, open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdns"

See if that helps.

Global.Cooling · 01-30-2010, 01:40 AM

Nope neither worked. I'll just give it time to update :P

**PM..** · 01-30-2010, 02:27 AM

Updates! Yay. Apophis is a legend.

This default theme scares me..

I'll stop clogging up the system now.

**Greyed** · 01-30-2010, 02:29 AM

Are both going through the same upstream DNS provider? Not only do you have to worry about your local cache but the cache of the machine whence you DNS comes. Almost every machine which answers DNS queries caches them. So if the machine you query for DNS pulled the IP of the old site right before Apo dropped the TTL flushing your local cache just means it'll query that DNS server and get the old IP again until the old TTL expires the entry.

So if one machine is getting the new site, the other the old and you flushed DNS on the one getting the old I'm willing to bet they are querying different DNS servers.

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