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This Saturday I will probably put in place changes on the existing forum servers.

That will put in place all the new code written to put the finishing touches on forum moves, and also to more neatly support additional forum servers.

We may as well give that code a bit of a "work out" before going live.

The forum moves are geared now to take across not just your current forum type but also any phpbb3 upgrade that is in progress (though not if you are actually midway though a database conversion which would be very unlucky, but would "failsafe") and also any legacy phpbb2 forum just in case.

Own domains should also succeed, simply redirecting the domain to the moved forum link until the domain name servers updated and propagated. That may be something the owner needs to do unless they bought the domain from us.
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Dell reckon the server is now in "pre-delivery"
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We now have a slightly earlier date for the server and I'm sorting out more of the nut and bolts issues with the datacenter. Quite scary in some ways, but exciting in others I will be disappointed if by a week Saturday we have not got some forums running on it.
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The forum code changes are in place.

The "management" changes will go in tomorrow.

I think next Saturday might be optimistic for a start date for transfers, as we do have to wait a good 48 hours after IPs are allocated for the base new forum addresses to fully propagate, so that really means the server being installed Wednesday, and I doubt that will happen.
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Following on from someone commenting on how bad other services are, it has just occurred to me that since myff started our average spend simply on buying servers has been rather more than $1000 per month, yet we have seen one joker think he could run a competing service by spending $10 a month on shared hosting  
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I have the beast running forums and being remotely manageable via KvmOIP

Usefully it seems the KvmOIP card can share the system network card, which saves a few quid a month. Although I suppose that might be a false economy.
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I think it most likely we will deliver the server Thursday, and it will be installed Friday. There is just no sense in rushing things, there is nothing like having the thing actually here to focus the mind on the details, as such I am making a few changes to the configuration, and there are still things I want to test more.
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We seem good to go

Two servers running virtual machines have networked together on their own LAN. A trivial issue (at least if you have the XenServer set to use the right interface   ) but one of vital importance.

Forums are also transferring with seeming success to the live server.
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The server is now awaiting installation at the Datecentre.
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Had a little nerve racking hour there, as they told me the server was up, but it was not visible to me  

But it is there now, and we have ips, so the work really starts now.
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We're now in the same boat on the "real" ip addresses  
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still some propagation issues, but the forum environment is now seeing the raw forum client bits and bobs.

I'm still working in a "raw" console for no sensible reason at all, and it gets contaminated by constant security alerts as even on a totally new and unlinked server random ip scanning hackers try their luck  
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Now trying to get a Plesk based system up and running, needed so that we can totally clear down the Zaphod server.

It is good to do a lot of the bits in parallel, more chance to see any potential server issues that way.
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Plesk is now up. I had little choice but to build a new installation from scratch.

What is very frustrating there is that it throws that install back to php5.16 which is crazy when things like the latest phpMyAdmin demand  5.2  

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