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Roedy Green
One of my favourite sites was down for a couple of days. I wrote to
find out what had gone wrong.
"Our nitwit hosting service decided to move all of the sites to
different servers (on a weekday!). Their planned 1-hour move (which
they failed to inform us about) turned into a 36-hour downtime, and
we're still cleaning up the debris."
In case you attempt such a shuffle:
1. get the new system up before you erase the old. Something might be
missing from the backups.
2. move one site at a time.
3. do it in the middle of the night on a weekend to give yourself time
to recover from a foul up without seriously impacting the customers.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
"There is an evil which ought to be guarded against, in the indefinite accumulation of property,
from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by... corporations.
The power of all corporations aught to be limited in this respect.
The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses."
~ James Madison (born: 1751-03-16 died: 1836-06-28 at age: 85)
find out what had gone wrong.
"Our nitwit hosting service decided to move all of the sites to
different servers (on a weekday!). Their planned 1-hour move (which
they failed to inform us about) turned into a 36-hour downtime, and
we're still cleaning up the debris."
In case you attempt such a shuffle:
1. get the new system up before you erase the old. Something might be
missing from the backups.
2. move one site at a time.
3. do it in the middle of the night on a weekend to give yourself time
to recover from a foul up without seriously impacting the customers.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
"There is an evil which ought to be guarded against, in the indefinite accumulation of property,
from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by... corporations.
The power of all corporations aught to be limited in this respect.
The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses."
~ James Madison (born: 1751-03-16 died: 1836-06-28 at age: 85)