So far nothing bad has happened, no one has called angry and threatening to sue - so so far so good, only 1 small server to roll tonight, should be pretty painless. I got some sleep, but not as much as I’d of liked honestly, but as it stands at 10pm the last bits will move over, and come Monday, DNS servers will be moved, and Tuesday I’ll migrate TN/FH to the new server for them, so going well.
If FTP is down for you, your using the old server, try OpenDNS or clear your DNS cache and close out apps, and try it again. For now, I am going to zone out and pass out, so if you have issues, email me.
Posted on 26 January '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
So far so good, gotten 3 servers squared away, 2 little ones remain, shouldn’t be so bad, going to run em real quick this evening, probably 3-4 hours max, but I’ll probably start at 10pm vs. 11pm and try to be in bed no later than 3am on Sunday.
Then its sleep, sleep, sleep - must get a schedule down in which I can hold a normal 9-5 time-frame 
for some reason offices don’t operate from 12-7am! Silly companies.
Anywhoo, rest soon. Thanks for the prayers! More later…
Posted on 26 January '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
So tonight is it. The big move (just started). Granted it’s not 100% done, but the last move is mainly of FH/TN websites, so that’ll go Tuesday at the latest - mainly want to keep it in one place till after a day or two of tickets is taken care of, but Thursday I’ll be requesting the other servers be shut down - which still leaves me with a bill, but something manageable, until I can relocate that final server - then I can be completely off the old provider.
It’s busy lately it seems, we met up at 9pm last night to see a old friend, however we never heard back that’d he was coming, but we figured - never hurts to try - so instead we had a fun dinner, and I had a nice chat with Jacob, it was a fun evening, I finished it up with some more relaxing - almost too relaxed for tonight, but I am hoping some moving around here at 6:30pm tonight will help wake me up a bit - but the move seems like it should be pretty straight forward, just have to move data, upgrade DNS, and only thing I can see as a “bad” thing is having to re-compile PHP4 on some servers, as I am sure there are some issues I’d rather simply not deal with right now, so I’d be going PHP4 on maybe 2 servers tops.
Got some more work today it seems, still waiting to hear back from EE on the final bits of it, I need to get RM up and online this weekend too - had hoped to get it last Monday, but I just have been so beat from these moves, thankfully this is the last weekend, then I may have a standard 9-5 so a semi-normal sleep schedule steady pay checks, rebuild my savings, get an apartment, build a time-machine, etc. etc. - so preparing for some big changes.
Just got in from a fun evening with the guys, it was pretty fun, had a good meal, some painful GH3, some ice cream from ColdStone - a good relaxing fun to lead into server migrations - so thus I am sitting here with the iPod crankin my car playlist, going to code some between packaging accounts - maybe sneak in a nap later… time will tell Prayers are appreciated! Oh and on my Grandma, they put a shunt in one valve and the meds had helped the other - so she’s going to get to go home on Sunday it looks like! Thanks for the prayers!
More later! Off I go to get this migration rolling!
Posted on 25 January '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
So I am alive. Mostly, though I plan to be going to sleep again soon, all sites moved over, 1 glitch with Horde but was an easy fix as it apparently was a common cPanel upgrade issue, all in all, very happy to see Shepherd on new hardware, performing well, next is Faith tonight at 11, going to get the choice few off Business as well, then next weekend it’s homestar and bubs will probably go mid-week.
Have a good Saturday folks. Sleep beckons (or at the very least, zoned out on the couch)
Posted on 19 January '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
Sooooo - seems things are moving along, not as fast as I’d like, the old systems have a lot going on, and the line is a little taxed at the moment with the moves, some big accounts over 1GB are going at the same time, so larger download times at the same time, eats up bandwidth quick. All in all though, it’s moving good good - a few hours to go till I can do my first DNS checks and go from there.
In other news, job. Possibly be picking up a IT admin position here in town - a classic 9-5, which would be nice to pick up, it’d actually almost get me right on the time-table I wanted to be at, having an Apartment by my birthday. Good stuff. So prayers appreciated there as well, I am trying to remain positive about it all - as it’s been a while since I’ve had a traditional 9-5 job, but even then it’d be 9-5, then work when I got home (I’d still work on FH/TN during the day as needed) so pretty happy about the possibility,
Anywhoo - more later I am sure, took a break as things were moving and went to Denny’s with Scott and Jake, I snagged a simple meal of a milkshake, and some extremely random chat - but I am hoping after this all calms down with the moves, jobs, etc. that if I do get an apartment I’ll have enough room to have everyone over for some freshly cooked grubbage. Happy Saturday folks, more later, probably an update here or twitter over the next few hours as things progress.
Posted on 19 January '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
The day has arrived, and how many folks truly know about it - remains a mystery. I was reviewing the notice about the move, only 34% of the folks opened the email, granted that’s a little skewed as of course the tracking relies on a image being loaded that’s embedded into the email, so if they are in text mode or have images disabled, I’ll never know - but tonight is the night, staring at 11PM (GMT-8).
Moves have become pretty common place to me, so I know a few things to look for, but tonight before the move I do need to do some final spring-cleaning of the servers, as I know some sites are still online which are no longer hosted with me, so why move over data that is essentially a waste of resources, but with that I’ll make a backup of all DNS settings, as I know custom records I have added won’t survive the move (or haven’t in past migrations) - but overall things should go over pretty smoothly.
So for now, I figure I have about 5 hours before I have to get to work on final clean-up and rounds, but I took most of yesterday off, of course a big chunk was done reading up on ASSP and various cPanel implementations - some promising stuff, some mixed reviews - but as SpamAssassian doesn’t seem to be cutting it much anymore, it’s a possible alternative and stop-gap measure while I look for a more robust solution to proxy mail thru, MailCleaner is nice, but even it’s effectiveness has been less than stellar.
Anywhoo - back to loafing, I have an alarm set for 8pm, so if I crash out Awaken will start playing me some iTunes love. Prayers are appreciated, I am hoping and praying for a smooth move with no issues, monitoring looks good, average ping time is HALF of what it is now from all monitoring sources both service based and “Hey can you ping this” based 
so I am just excited about the move, the improved performance, and new avenues this helps to open in the budget and possibility of an Apartment in the next few months - there are other things to write about, but more later, for now I need breaklunch. Good Friday to All.
Posted on 18 January '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
So I think I have a plan. With one day left, I think I am going to sleep off Thursday, the last few days of fine-tuning things and getting them good to go, if I fiddle anymore, I’ll go crazy! So I think Thursday will be some simply running around town doing things like bits of banking, or even just loafing for the day - but lots of sleep as this move will be the biggest thing for a while.
Day-Job wise, a few various things, might be picking up another job from a friend if he get’s another job elsewhere, so I may have some work here in a few weeks, not sure. Time will tell though, a nice paycheck + current income = Apartment! Woot!
I think I am going to start my Thursday Loafing now with a nice shower. So I will say farewell for now, and I’ll be back sooner or later (probably sooner).
Posted on 16 January '08 by Chuck Brown, under General. No Comments.
