Well the night has come, Unicron-Classic (lol) is being shutdown as I type. It was a good server, lasted longer than I thought it would, even if it did cause me great grief this past weekend locking up, running out of ram, etc. but the customers of that server (not mine) are now re-located to 2 masterful 8-Core systems - and doing great on lovely RAID10 drive setups, so a nice improvement for those folks, I am sure there are some little bugs waiting for me here and there, but all in all, very very happy!
In other news! My parts showed up today, as I have been working here, I have been trying out the new thumbdrive which is for a combo of personal and a combo of work, 16GB of thumbdrive wonderfulness - so very happy, and every little bit I have been putting together the system, and it’s going well - but I’ll post more later, a few things to sort out in here, and waiting on the final on the old server, etc. etc. but tonight I’ll have a few things to post about… more soon!
What a week, a slew of changes, ups, downs, backwards, forwards, friends gained, friends lost, toaster strudel (mmm love that icing) and ideas for projects, but thru it all, I have seen several adults this week act VERY childishly in regards to issues at hand - just sometimes wonder if it was the alignment of the planets.. maybe China has a “10 yr old” ray-gun that reverts folks to dealing with things by comments like “Turd Head” (oh yes, they went there) - but lots of things were resolved by people this week in that manner, leaving myself and a few others going “HUH?” - but maybe once the moon is full… lol who knows.
Tonight is a server migration! (YAY!) new servers came online for a customer earlier today, and it all is falling into place, which is super cool, even a new feature in cPanel which wasn’t there the last migration, which will switch the IP for me on the current DNS servers, with the size of this move, and all sites currently living on 1 server, that was gonna get messy doing updates thru the night, but this way - DONE! So very excited, I may, dare I say it, knock on wood, clap that you believe in fairies, and of cour say a prayer - this could go even smoother than I imagined!
But the only thing that is holding me up tonight, is a overdose of fun! As you can see from flickr -> my good buddy Scott said “PHOTO FRIDAY!” (okay so maybe not exactly that, but his offer translated to that in my head, I miss the photo days, and just getting out, we hit Lake Ming which is nearby and I gave him some tips on using his camera, and we had fun (or at least I did, but I hope he did too!) but some fun shots, he has some up too - so it was neat, had dinner (which I wasn’t too hungry - I think my lunch was icky) - but I arrived home to get the call about the aforementioned migration above
So it has been a whirlwind week, the weekend should be fun, I have a show I am going to with my Cousin, a friend’s husband is playing at a Borders so it should be a fun weekend with the Cuz, and there is a Atlantis episode somewhere, hope the DVR didn’t freak this week too - last week it missed it! Silly Brighthouse DVR!
Anywhoo - so much on my mind still some not quite ready for prime time in the public spotlight, but one thing really on my heart is a bit from earlier this week, the one I can’t chat about - you know the one (well God does) it still just seems odd, brash, sudden, but no one is talking to me about it - so I am leaving it as is, and let folks cool/calm/sort it out etc. and I’ll be here when folks want to talk - but my hope is something works out for everyone (vague I know). Have a WONDERFUL weekend! I am already shooting for NEXT weekend, as I am going to see my buddy turn 8 (go goofball!) and meet my Nephew and give him his first Photo Shoot Night!
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.
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…
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!
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)
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.
Night!
