On Friday, 9th January 2009 the servers will be taken offline for planned maintenance. This will mean that the forums, website, gallery, game servers and all other dMw-hosted services will be offline from mid-morning through until mid-afternoon.
During the maintenance window we will we be:
-removing BlackAdder2 (BA2) server from the server rack (hardware failure and it's basically too old)
-moving BA3 & the firewall to a new rack.
-installing the new BA4 server in the new rack & finalising configuration
We will minimise down time as much as possible and hope that normal service will be resumed during the afternoon. In the mean time, if you really feel the need to keep in touch, then remember the temporary forum we use during such down time is here:
http://dmw.forum2u.org/
So, from tomorrow afternoon our community hardware will be looking in great shape (see below).
TL.
BA3
2 x Opteron 265 (Dual Core Opteron)
4GB DDR ECC Reg3200
2 x 74GB Western Digital 10K Raptor HDD
BA4
IBM System x3550 7978
2 x Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5430 / 2.66 GHz ( Quad-Core )
6GB DDR2 ECC PC2-5300 CL5 Buffered DIMM
2 x 250 GB HD running Raid 0
Thanks for the heads up TL! Can't wait for the new quicker server :D
Is it just me or is the temporary dmw forum down/ slow to load?
Quote from: GhostMjr;257713... Is it just me or is the temporary dmw forum down/ slow to load?
Fine for me.
Best of Luck Chaps..
Quote from: Ninja_Freak;257732Best of Luck Chaps..
Aye, best of luck. I hope you have a quick and easy transition :)
Good luck with your work! Hopefully we'll get the servers back till evening:)
Aye good luck with all you have planned.:)
Hope it goes well, should be good once we're back up! :yahoo:
Quote from: GhostMjr;257713Is it just me or is the temporary dmw forum down/ slow to load?
Although the temp forum was fine for me earlier (and has been fine for the last 18 months) I now cannot access it :blink:
Quote from: BlueBall;257753Although the temp forum was fine for me earlier (and has been fine for the last 18 months) I now cannot access it :blink:
Same here BB cannot access it...
Quote from: KKND;257757Same here BB cannot access it...
Working again now - gremlins?
Quote from: BlueBall;257759Working again now - gremlins?
Sod's law more like :D
Quote from: BlueBall;257759Working again now - gremlins?
down again:crying:
It's a free forum hosting site so we've no SLA I'm afraid. I've never had issues getting to it before though so hopefully it's just having a rest day before the activities tomorrow.
I have unlimited hosting space if you need to host the temp site anywhere else.
Good luck and thanks for the work on the upgrades!
Forums back at 15:17 :)
Well done guys :clap:
I was starting to get the shakes. :blink: Well done chaps :thumbsup2:
Great work gents.
Shout next time you're in TH and I'll buy you lunch, I spend half my week in GS anyway. I hope you enjoyed the chips.
Great work :yahoo:
we missed it while it was down.
But had a fun Trivia session on IRC whilst waiting for it come back. :yahoo:
All game servers back.
Well done guys and thanks ! :yahoo:
PEN
I never doubted you for a sec:woot2:
:yahoo: superb , well done :thumbsup2:
Well done, CSSnight! :boxing:
:yahoo:Nice work!
Top blokes :yahoo:
Well done guys:yahoo:
Cheers :D That was swiftly done :)
w00t! well done boys
Game on!!! Well done guys thanks for all the hard work :)
Quote from: Benny;257873Great work gents.
Shout next time you're in TH and I'll buy you lunch, I spend half my week in GS anyway. I hope you enjoyed the chips.
No chips. Lunch was a distant hope that gradually faded into oblivion :sad:
Cool, I soooooo need my gaming tonight :D
well done on our behalf fellas:dmw:
I still have rack rails and amperage meters spinning in front of my eyes!
TL.
well done :D:D:D:):):)
We are moving all the web-based stuff on the new server to a new IP address. This will mean that some of your bookmarks might fail until the DNS catches up.
If you require urgent access then simply substitute the DNS for the new IP address. For example:
http://lfs.deadmen.co.uk/lfs/
becomes
http://77.108.129.49/lfs/