Now On New Server!!!
- DrSpooky
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Now On New Server!!!
YEAH!!!
I have transitioned The Board to the new hardware server. I think everything should be OK. I disabled access to the old machine, copied The Board's databases to the new machine, tested a bit, and then reenabled external access to it. It seems to have gone very moothly. Some notes:
+ Email announcements now are sent directly from "TheBoard AT elviscostellofans DOT com" instead of via drjoel AT knology. This should make them arrive quicker. My tests had email showing up at gmail faster than I could refresh in another window.
+ Chat is gone. The version was old and would not transfer to the new machine easily. If people are interested, I can load a newer version. I did not want it to hold up the transition.
+ We now have mail accounts for USER AT elviscostellofans.com. If you are interested, please let me know. These can forward to another address or you can have webmail.
+ The RSS feeds should be useable since the machine is MUCH faster. We went from a 333 Mhz Pentium 2 (bought in March 1998) to a modern 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4. This machine screams in comparion and with the extra horsepower comes the ability to consder other services.
As usual, let me know if you notice anything unusual with The Board. I don't know about strange aches, fungi, or voices in your heard .
I have transitioned The Board to the new hardware server. I think everything should be OK. I disabled access to the old machine, copied The Board's databases to the new machine, tested a bit, and then reenabled external access to it. It seems to have gone very moothly. Some notes:
+ Email announcements now are sent directly from "TheBoard AT elviscostellofans DOT com" instead of via drjoel AT knology. This should make them arrive quicker. My tests had email showing up at gmail faster than I could refresh in another window.
+ Chat is gone. The version was old and would not transfer to the new machine easily. If people are interested, I can load a newer version. I did not want it to hold up the transition.
+ We now have mail accounts for USER AT elviscostellofans.com. If you are interested, please let me know. These can forward to another address or you can have webmail.
+ The RSS feeds should be useable since the machine is MUCH faster. We went from a 333 Mhz Pentium 2 (bought in March 1998) to a modern 2.8 Ghz Pentium 4. This machine screams in comparion and with the extra horsepower comes the ability to consder other services.
As usual, let me know if you notice anything unusual with The Board. I don't know about strange aches, fungi, or voices in your heard .
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- DrSpooky
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FYI some of you are not getting emails on PMs and topic posts at the moment. You may or may not have noticed this. Sometime Sunday AM (0300 GMT), the server got tested and failed the spamhaus.org test. The failure was because I forgot to allow incoming mail connections at the firewall. I have resolved this and the test report this morning says we are OK but it will take about 24 hours for the spam site list to get updated again.
On a positive note, the notices from TheBoard do seem to get to their destination VERY quickly. My tests had them getting to my gmail account before I could switch windows and refresh.
Not too many bumps so far.
On a positive note, the notices from TheBoard do seem to get to their destination VERY quickly. My tests had them getting to my gmail account before I could switch windows and refresh.
Not too many bumps so far.
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