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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject: Server upgrades

This weeks review of site performance and backup systems has established that we should add additional hard drives to increase redundancy and improve performance. This will occur first on the spare server which isn't where it is really needed, but will provide a relatively painless dry run of the procedure. It will then occur on the main server. This will of course involve downtime. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject:

Looks like midnight CST for the upgrade. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:31 pm Post subject:

Can anyone translate that to UK time for me. Not sure what timezone CST is. Thanks

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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject:

Centeral scottish time _________________ http://www.saynoto0870.com/ http://www.myshopbag.co.uk XXVIII/ I/ MCMLXXI

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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

We are talking mid USA so i figure that is 7am ish. Have not checked as there is not a lot of point worrying about it. This is only effecting a few people currently as it is not the main server. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject:

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Centeral scottish time

Very good, nearly had me believing you there, it seemed plausible as an in jokes even with that smilie, how gullible am I?

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We are talking mid USA so i figure that is 7am ish. Have not checked as there is not a lot of point worrying about it. This is only effecting a few people currently as it is not the main server.

Thanks Admin, I misunderstood I thought it would affect most sites.

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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:31 am Post subject:

The same upgrade will occur on the main server and will effect most sites, so in that case we will post warning on all forums and actually figure out the time. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org

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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:02 am Post subject:

The upgrade did occur this morning, and a valuable lesson has been learnt The good news is that the server is noticable faster The bad news is that the upgrade has been done stupidly We lease servers and pay for system admin support. Whilst we have vast amounts of unix system administration experience in house, we regard the job as somthing better done by people who do nothing else. It takes weight off us and provides our customers with better security. By and large the competance shown has been execellent. Hence on this upgrade I told them in general terms what to do, and did not spell out that there were two ways to do the job, the lazy way and the intelligent way. So no prizes for guessing what happened In practical terms no problems will occur as a result of this. But it does offend my sense of tidyness. So I will now order the main site upgrade, and give far more explicet instructions. _________________ Family Friendly Shareware \| \| Web Design/Services \| Free Forums forum.myfreeforum.org