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Assist => News => Topic started by: Spanky on Monday, August 19, 2013, 15:34:58 PM

Title: Forum Relocation
Post by: Spanky on Monday, August 19, 2013, 15:34:58 PM

We have moved AAO25.com to a new server, hosted by Smoke at http://LowPingServers.com

There are a few reasons for this move including broken cron jobs (the stat modules at the top of the site) and custom server configurations that allow us to query servers for information. This is useful for the server list at http://natescomp.com/list (which will be moved over shortly) and it would be good if we ever decide to build our own tracker or wish to have advanced server stats.

This last unexpected downtime cost us data loss, luckily I had a backup of the site from last night otherwise it would have been 4 days of data loss. Now, on LPS (http://lowpingservers.com) we will have minimum daily backups for the entire site streamed to other servers for redundancy.

I want to thank Pegasus for hosting the site as long as he did. It certainly took a load off of the donations and made sure that the Assist server was paid for and stayed running.

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: JonnyM on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 02:15:30 AM

Good job spanky, a seamless change over. And good have all that debugging info we collected back.
I had to reboot my router to get the new site to work so that was weird.

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: Spanky on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 02:21:57 AM

I'm still on the old DNS despite many hours of waiting... I can access this site via IP though.

I got more stats up and coded, it's nice to have them working again. The Assist version and news on the homepage is pulled from the auth's ver.htm every half-hour I think. That'll be a nice feature. More to come once DNS updates...

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: Ganja on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 09:12:54 AM

Again, good job on the fixes. Nice to see the stats work again. Thanks Smoker also I guess ;)

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: noobslayer on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 10:54:04 AM

(https://aao25.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fhalo%2Fimages%2F3%2F3d%2FGive_that_man_a_cookie.jpg&hash=5cbd4edba5696659565c72c9e1f46764)

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: ~=W!CK!D=~ on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 12:02:00 PM

Cool another American server ; -)

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: zoxee on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 15:53:03 PM

nice transfer, i missed u guys  :P

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: ELiZ on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 10:02:45 AM

I'm getting sporadically switched back to old site

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: LPS.James on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 10:13:50 AM

Full DNS Propagation can take 72 Hours.

Title: Re: Forum Relocation
Post by: Spanky on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 13:29:17 PM

I just set my DNS back to auto and can view this site. Looks like it's 90% done.