Quite a day, quite a couple of days, but things are finally winding down, life is slowly returning to normal, and sleep on a normal schedule is slowly going to return (but I mean what’s truly normal for me?) - but the past 48 hours had a few tickets pop-up, thankfully nothing major, a few I actually hope to fix up tonight/tomorrow - but a lot of small/common issues - Frontpage the one thorn in my side, not to mention some ISP’s stragglin with DNS! But all in all the DNS servers are updated, sync’d and good to go, the FH3/NS3 hotspare here in bako should be lit up in about a week.
As for my Wildman comment, its quite a week of “extreme relaxing” as I am going to put it, I was invited to dinner tonight by my buddy William, of course I asked his mom if it was okay, and that I didn’t want to intrude, so I had some food, twas delightful, Thursday night I am taking my mom to the coast (which I have to run by my bro) which if we do, means I get to play with Charity some possibly before she has to goto school on Friday, then on Friday, Fluxar is doing a BBQ in the alley, so going to speed back from the coast around 9am, get back in bako around 11, time to stretch,unwind,get my legs back by noon, eat, enjoy, then on Saturday - oh yes, another party - for a 2yr old. the Foster’s daughter Carlie is having a party, and I am so going!
Yes I like kids, don’t know if you caught that - but should be fun, heck my upcoming birthday I am thinking about actually putting up some cash myself and having it at John’s Incredible Pizza and invite not only my friends, but their kids, cousins, nephews, nieces, since most of those kids I know and love to death, so would be crazy to have my niece, and a slew of other kids all come out for a birthday party - and not tell the John’s employee’s the part is for a 27 yr old guy - I seriously want to have them make one of those balloon monkeys, they are AWESOME.
So thankfully after a semi-stressful move, its all calming down, the dust is settling, but for some others life seems to be getting a tad crazy, while I don’t want to air other folks ultra personal issues, I can say if your a praying person, keep my friend and his wife in your prayers, so tension there and its getting bad from the looks of it, just nothing I can do or think to say that would be of any help - so pray it up if you could.
Anywhoo - that’s all I gotz. I am going to run to the store since I have no snacks, all the granola bars are gone! Someone ate all my baked lays, and the Rich Chocolaty Ovaltine is gone! How can a man be expected to survive conditions like this?! I need my tacklin fuel. Night folks.
Well here we are on the other side of a bulk of the migrations, and so far so good - a few “What happened!?” emails graced my inbox this morning, one gentleman thought we had crashed and thankfully saved all his email - so for about 35 seconds I was a miracle worker
But so far so good, since Thursday a server has been moved a day, several customers moved to the new business class server, and the new DNS system is working awesome! So no complaints from me as of yet, and so far no real complaints from customers, well 1 is complaining, but has given me no response to their tickets, emails, etc. just sends the same email with no details what-so-ever.
Today may be a short day - I have dinner at my sister’s house to celebrate her birthday a day early, and of course 9 days and counting here, but things are finally leveling out for me, and hopefully here very soon, normal operations will resume, new websites online, and life happy once again.
Thanks for the continued prayers, not feeling sick today, tad stuffy, but nothing that’s going to kill me… I hope. Have a Good Week Folks.
Well only a few glitches, one person says one fault was mine, but they removed their mail folder to “clean up” as it shows in the transfer log it made it over, and was still in-tact on the old server - few other minor glitches, just little things though like alternate SMTP ports so folks can send out mail if their ISP blocks port 25, but easy to fix up in the AM.
Very happy about the last 2 transfers speed, and how quick DNS is updating pretty much all of the server “faith” are showing their new IP, and all business customers got a new IP based site, as well as a standard IP based host so it’s not shared with the tons of shared hosting.
Now I am going to go take some meds, maybe sip some more hot coco to sooth my throat, and see if I can’t get to sleep, as tomorrow, the fun begins again - I am doing 2 sets of things in the afternoon, but only a few days left of the insanity, and then I can close out old servers, shut down hardware, etc. Good stuff.
Anywhoo - thanks for the continued prayers - off I go. Zoom! (zzz)
Well one server moved over, server is handling awesome - next step starts tonight, onto Shepherd on the FH side, so pretty excited - going to work on the pre-flight check list here shortly, get the tiny things all patched up, but all in all, if it goes as smooth as Homestar did, then this is going to be a breeze, a little more data coming from this server - but still since I am not going to have to stop mid-way to tweak some server settings, should be a lot less time between.
Anywhoo - thanks to everyone for the prayers - doing the hard thing now, trying to find something tho eat for dinner, maybe someone to join me for dinner, just unwind a bit before it starts, or an hour or two into things so I can talk/relax/eat. Who knows - may just be me, but that’s alright, I’ll just find me a volleyball and name it Wilson.
Well as I am writing this on the new server, the last account is finishing up, and that leaves only 1 final task of moving a reseller to a separate server - but the move has gone well. No major bumps I can tell - only downside was I couldn’t move folks early, hostname confusion - it was causing mail to fail.
So here I am at 3:30am, brain throbbing, head tottaly stuffed up, and pain through out my arms and legs (man this flu rocks!) - but I am alive, I am still craving a donut, but I may settle for a nap. This move though got me some things I had to learn, so I have a checklist to make sure I fix up on the next server before I move it, since all were setup identically goes to show I did things wrong several times Just mini-glitches, but nothing horrible.
Anywhoo - rambling - maybe more today once things calm down and I get some sleep.
No really, I am excited about the moves - modern hardware, up-to-date software - but there are minor glitches to be had, things that would be most common would be path’s, if customers had /home2 - that is now /home - Frontpage users are always a concern as its configurations NEVER update properly in a migration.
DNS however is synced up nice a pretty, goes across 3 servers, and a hotspare - so DNS requests should be even faster, updated mail systems, etc. etc. - going to be very nice, with a newer batch of servers in the works around July if business perks up - so lots of cool stuff on the horizon.
I have a ’service call’ tomorrow, not excited about that, but it could play out nicely, it may suck worse than I imagine it will - this call was more or less thrown on me, not offered, apparently since I own 2 Mac’s and have fixed up one or two in my time, that certifies me to repair entire networks of Mac’s - ah the joys of me being there to pick up someone’s mess (long story).
Anywhoo - not sure I’ll be blogging the next few days, prayers are appreciated - hopefully each day goes smoothly, might do one move tonight - just so much to do, so little time Friends hosting with me on Homestar, heads up, move is happening tomorrow night @ 8PM (PST).
Hope you all have a good week/weekend - see you in 6 days, when hopefully life is back to normal, and things are movin on up.
