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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	possible downtime and lost posts Nov 12^th, 2016 at 12:50pm I am planning on moving the site over to a dedicated server. Once the move starts, any new posts made might be lost. I will keep you updated. It has not started yet.
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Agnes Gold Member Offline fish dinner Posts: 6081 Bedford Park rnd	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #1 - Nov 12^th, 2016 at 1:29pm new posts, you mean all my great works of the last 2 days likely to just vanish.. so today tomorrow next week..any idea at all?
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Reply #2 - Nov 12^th, 2016 at 6:58pm

Agnes wrote on Nov 12^th, 2016 at 1:29pm:

new posts, you mean all my great works of the last 2 days likely to just vanish.. so today tomorrow next week..any idea at all?

New posts refers to posts made after he copies the database over. If this site is still up, any new posts made after the DB dump won't be moved and will be lost when he terminates this server. Keep an eye out for the signal and don't post until FD gives the heads up on the new site if it's something you want kept.

Perhaps an IP address while DNS sorts it's self out FD?

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #3 - Nov 12^th, 2016 at 7:09pm They are still setting up the new server for me. Might take 48 hours, just for that.
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Setanta Gold Member Offline \/ Peace man! Posts: 15928 Northern NSW Gender:	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #4 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 2:35am You are using mysql FD? If you had overlap of servers you could replicate the db so nothing was lost. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-mysql-master-mast... You'd also be half way there if another move ever happened to do another seamless change over.
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Reply #5 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 5:10am

Setanta wrote on Nov 13^th, 2016 at 2:35am:

You are using mysql FD? If you had overlap of servers you could replicate the db so nothing was lost.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-mysql-master-mast...

You'd also be half way there if another move ever happened to do another seamless change over.

"Elementary, my dear Watson" .. Shocked

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #6 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 7:34am I have just submitted the move request, so any posts made from now on may be lost. Apparently it usually takes between 24 and 72 hours. Not sure if it is automated and therefor underway already.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #7 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 7:42am For those who are interested, the new IP address is 162.144.110.142
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #8 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 8:13am freediver wrote on Nov 13^th, 2016 at 7:42am: For those who are interested, the new IP address is 162.144.110.142 Interesting. So you're shifting the site to Denver, Colorado where Marla hangs out with her flower-power hippie friends.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #9 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 8:14am Hostgator just let me know they have started the process, which I assume means making the backup they will use to copy the site over, in which case new posts will almost certainly be lost.
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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 80318 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #10 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 3:14pm I thought one of my more incisive posts disappeared without trace..... buggar...
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #11 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 5:21pm Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Nov 13^th, 2016 at 3:14pm: I thought one of my more incisive posts disappeared without trace..... buggar... It's the thought that counts, Grappler.
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Reply #12 - Nov 13^th, 2016 at 7:37pm

I was hoping they might be underpromising and overdelivering, but no. The backup finished at about 2pm today, but the new server is still not up and running.

You can check it by putting this IP address into your address bar:

162.144.110.142

If this takes you to the site home page rather than an error message, that means the new server is up and running. You should be able to start using the forum on the new server by following the instructions here:

https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/modify-your-hosts-file/

Until I update the DNS details, you will be able to use that to check which posts have been lost. Just comment the relevant line in and out and resave the file to switch between the old and new host.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #13 - Nov 14^th, 2016 at 7:53am test This is the new server.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: possible downtime and lost posts Reply #14 - Nov 14^th, 2016 at 8:18am You can access the old server using the instructions here: https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/modify-your-hosts-file/ with this IP address: 198.57.138.216 The old server will go offline soon.
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