The ez.org site is moving to brand new servers and data center.

[admin]

If all goes as planned the site will not see any significant down time and the switch over
will happen sometime this weekend. The new servers are bigger, better, faster and should
correct all the problems we have had the past few months.

You may notice the site being slow as the bulk of the data is copied over to the new server prior
to the final switch.

We will post a message here about an hour before we make the final switch over and only expect
to be offline about 30 minutes. I will also update this post with status updates.

Also, please report any problems on this thread once we are back up.

Thanks for everyone's support!

[admin]

Just an update. The new servers are configured and up and running.  All the data and software has
been copied over (over 150gb).

We started copying data Friday morning but a problem with a mis-configued router at the new data center shut
down access to the servers for most of yesterday afternoon. After some usual finger pointing they were
able to correct things. I'm not sure why it took over 8 hours for them to resolve but it may be due to the
weekend crew being on call. Either way I was not impressed and hope it's not a sign of things to come. I'm
going to give them the benefit of the doubt but I'll keeping the old servers up and running at the old data
center just in case.

Due to the problems yesterday and also the web traffic on the site this morning I'm not going make the final
switch till later tonight. We will make a final copy of any uploads or posts just before the switch.

[admin]

It did not go as smooth as I wanted but after about 40 minutes of downtime the site
is now live on the new server. Please report any issues you have on this thread.

Thanks and enjoy!

[admin]

We are making some final configuration changes and the site may be down for short periods this morning.

[admin]

It looks like everything is working and starting correctly so there should not be
anymore down time. Please post on this thread if you have any issues.

[Rick Hall]

No issues here, me thinks the transfer went well 

Sign of a good admin: Major move, or reconfiguration, nobody notices/complains 

Of note, page loads seem much faster now, much.

Rick

[admin]

Thanks, I was kicking myself a little because I tried to have no downtime at all but
it ended up being about 40 minutes plus a few false starts. I had forgotten to install
the session caching subsystem (sharedanced) that parts of the site uses and I had
to find it, compile it and get it configured after I had taken the old site offline.

I'm pretty happy with the performance, it's amazing what 4 year newer servers can do. The
usage is barely cracking 10% on the CPUS's now and disk is about the same. Before we
were hammering the server at close to full capacity at times from the various functions on the
server. The photo section just pops the images up now instead of a slow roll-down.

No issues here, me thinks the transfer went well 

Sign of a good admin: Major move, or reconfiguration, nobody notices/complains 

Of note, page loads seem much faster now, much.
Rick