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BrutusMaximus
I Heart Boobs
So everything is runnin on the new server now? Still seems mighty slow to me. Guess it could just be me. Have there been any probs?
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I don't think Clarity has made the switch yet. I think he's still working on getting all of the software and the hacks on the new server. But then again I have no clue what I'm talking about
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BrutusMaximus
I Heart Boobs
You are probably right, I just hadnt read anything on it, was curious. And actually just as I typed my previous post, I saw the link that Clarity posted to the splash screen, which would be the new server, so ignore me :)
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Ran into a problem with the version of mysql the new machine had installed (3). Unfortunately, upgrading that required also upgrading the operating system, and other bits of software.
Someone local to the machine is taking it down Tuesday night, by Wednesday morning it will be ready for me to move everything back over, and import the database.
If all that goes well, I will immediately bring it live, shut this side down, and post a redirect. If it doesn't, then we should still be very close.
Per the norm, this was all more difficult and drawn out than it had to be. :P But at least we will be on the new box before the season starts. I could have moved us over weeks ago, but the OS upgrade was an absolute need, and doing that on a live box would be much more disruptive than the way we've gone. I guess the point here being that I felt waiting and getting it all right, was better than being on the new box sooner, but not having it the way it needed to be for us really to enjoy the new power and speed.
This *should* be the last update here in terms of "the move is coming". If you log in Wednesday (or shortly thereafter) and see a numeric IP instead of our domain name, we've moved. Don't update your bookmarks[sup]1[/sup] with the numeric IP. After we've moved, I'll update the DNS, that will propagate around the net, and you'll see the happy simplicity of 'buckeyeplanet.com' again.
[sup]1[/sup] - IF your bookmarks point to ANYTHING BUT www.buckeyeplanet.com/*, then you will probably have to change them. Meaning, if your links are to 'forum.buckeyeplanet.com', 'cinnmon.bryants.net', 'cinnamon.bryants.net', etc., then it might be a good idea to change them to the base 'www' address. We'll see when we get there, all those addresses will go somewhere, forum.buckeyeplanet.com will revert to www.*, but *.bryants.net will not. Maybe I'll put a redirect there as well, instead of the current picture of my dogs singing Christmas carols.
Someone local to the machine is taking it down Tuesday night, by Wednesday morning it will be ready for me to move everything back over, and import the database.
If all that goes well, I will immediately bring it live, shut this side down, and post a redirect. If it doesn't, then we should still be very close.
Per the norm, this was all more difficult and drawn out than it had to be. :P But at least we will be on the new box before the season starts. I could have moved us over weeks ago, but the OS upgrade was an absolute need, and doing that on a live box would be much more disruptive than the way we've gone. I guess the point here being that I felt waiting and getting it all right, was better than being on the new box sooner, but not having it the way it needed to be for us really to enjoy the new power and speed.
This *should* be the last update here in terms of "the move is coming". If you log in Wednesday (or shortly thereafter) and see a numeric IP instead of our domain name, we've moved. Don't update your bookmarks[sup]1[/sup] with the numeric IP. After we've moved, I'll update the DNS, that will propagate around the net, and you'll see the happy simplicity of 'buckeyeplanet.com' again.
[sup]1[/sup] - IF your bookmarks point to ANYTHING BUT www.buckeyeplanet.com/*, then you will probably have to change them. Meaning, if your links are to 'forum.buckeyeplanet.com', 'cinnmon.bryants.net', 'cinnamon.bryants.net', etc., then it might be a good idea to change them to the base 'www' address. We'll see when we get there, all those addresses will go somewhere, forum.buckeyeplanet.com will revert to www.*, but *.bryants.net will not. Maybe I'll put a redirect there as well, instead of the current picture of my dogs singing Christmas carols.
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There appears to be some sort of problem with the machine. Go *@#$ figure. Will relay more as I know it, as I post this, someone is going to try and figure out what it is. Their best guess at the moment is bad RAM, but maybe it's just not seated properly after the move. The machine had been running for weeks, but it was rebooted for the first time last night and didn't come back up. No video output, and doesn't connect to the network.
This of course is to all be expected, since it's basically how everything goes lately.
This of course is to all be expected, since it's basically how everything goes lately.
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Golferdow01
East-Coast Living
Ahh this is not good news Clarity, but we know you're doing the best you can given the circumstances. Hopefully this problem is fixed soon but either way it's all good...anticipation for the final product is through the roof :)
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At least one, maybe two, of the DIMMs (memory modules) are bad. How that is defies the limited logic set that I work from in regards to these technical issues, but the simple fact is that we have some bad RAM.
Back on track, albeit with 2GB instead of 4. Obviously we'll be getting in touch with NewEgg tomorrow to try and exchange that/those item(s) as quickly as possible. As things stand, barring ANY MORE inexplicable kicks in the nads, I believe I'll be able to switch us over tomorrow. Does mean that when the new RAM comes in, we'll have a little downtime one evening when that is put in place, but what can you do? I'm not interested in leaving us on this machine until the memory is replaced, we've waited long enough, and the season is too close.
My understanding is that the memory had all passed muster, had been burned in as part of the build process, I don't understand how it can just go bad at some point over the last few weeks, but it's evident that it did.
This is me shrugging and half expecting a small meteor to plummet to Earth in the next few hours, hit the building we're in, and manage to cleanly take out just our machine.
Back on track, albeit with 2GB instead of 4. Obviously we'll be getting in touch with NewEgg tomorrow to try and exchange that/those item(s) as quickly as possible. As things stand, barring ANY MORE inexplicable kicks in the nads, I believe I'll be able to switch us over tomorrow. Does mean that when the new RAM comes in, we'll have a little downtime one evening when that is put in place, but what can you do? I'm not interested in leaving us on this machine until the memory is replaced, we've waited long enough, and the season is too close.
My understanding is that the memory had all passed muster, had been burned in as part of the build process, I don't understand how it can just go bad at some point over the last few weeks, but it's evident that it did.
This is me shrugging and half expecting a small meteor to plummet to Earth in the next few hours, hit the building we're in, and manage to cleanly take out just our machine.
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Golferdow01
East-Coast Living
My first guess had been perhaps some incompatible RAM had been mistakenly ordered/shipped since most machines are pretty whiney about the type of RAM they run on. At least the RAM is the issue and is not hard to replace at all
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BrutusMaximus
I Heart Boobs
Welcome to the wonderful world of computers :)
I am working on my second straight 14-hour day. Most of today was spent upgrading one of our customer's co-located machines. Of course once you upgrade motherboard, processor, ram, the OS craps out, so then you spend hours rebuilding it, getting IIS working again. Now we are down to just getting asp working. I am really f'ing tired. Anyway, I expect things like this to happen, and it always works out in the end.
I am working on my second straight 14-hour day. Most of today was spent upgrading one of our customer's co-located machines. Of course once you upgrade motherboard, processor, ram, the OS craps out, so then you spend hours rebuilding it, getting IIS working again. Now we are down to just getting asp working. I am really f'ing tired. Anyway, I expect things like this to happen, and it always works out in the end.
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Yeah, no doubt, as long as it's all stable when we're done messing with it, I'm happy.
Just frustrating to finally have it ready for a live xfer, and it's not 100%.
BUT, I'd rather find out about bad RAM now, instead of, say, a month from now. So that's a positive spin.
Still not ruling out the meteor scenario though. With my luck lately...
Looking at the NewEgg receipt, they seem to have a very friendly return policy, so hopefully we've got some new memory in there before the start of the season. And given that we're only on 1GB now, 2GB is still going to be a tangible upgrade alongside 6x the processing power. :)
Very tired of saying "we're almost there", but, ah, we're almost there.
Just frustrating to finally have it ready for a live xfer, and it's not 100%.
BUT, I'd rather find out about bad RAM now, instead of, say, a month from now. So that's a positive spin.
Still not ruling out the meteor scenario though. With my luck lately...
Looking at the NewEgg receipt, they seem to have a very friendly return policy, so hopefully we've got some new memory in there before the start of the season. And given that we're only on 1GB now, 2GB is still going to be a tangible upgrade alongside 6x the processing power. :)
Very tired of saying "we're almost there", but, ah, we're almost there.
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Golferdow01
East-Coast Living
I've ordered all my stuff from Newegg and had no problems returning a defective product once...I suspect you will find them quite reasonable
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