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Website Migration -DJ Sith - Dec 14 12:32am

Heads up, jedis! In a few hours I'll be migrating this site to a new host. After the site reaches its new home it may take a few more hours for the new DNS records to apply. I'll comment on this post when I've started and once more when it's all done. Thanks, everyone!

Update: If you can read this then the site is resting comfortably on its new server. Woo new hardware!

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Dec 14 2010 06:01pm

DJ Sith
 - Jedi Council
 DJ Sith

Here are a few stats for the nerds.

The old web server is an Athlon XP 3200+ with 1G RAM and a 250G RAID1 array. It's a server colo'd at my former employer, and its parts were in-part paid for by a donation drive we ran a few years back, though I think its motherboard is one of my old gaming motherboards. It runs FreeBSD 6.4 and has an uptime of 640 days. It brings a tear to my eye to shut her off. That box has been running the JA since 2003. We've been through a lot together. :)

As time went on I eventually got promoted to customer (makes losing your job sound more pleasant :)) and had to rent a server to keep us up and running. The new server is an Intel Xeon 3470 quad-core with 4G of RAM and two separate 500G drives. This one is in SoftLayer's Dallas 5 facility (a very well organized and maintained datacenter) and has a few niceties like IPv6 connectivity (woo! We're catching up with the 21st century!). It runs 64-bit FreeBSD 8.1, and the JA stuff exists within a jail on a dedicated drive to help keep it separate from my personal projects. A number of daemons have been updated, and there are a few new security policies in place. Right now its uptime is 34 days. I think it'll serve us well for quite a while.

Please let me know if you see any problems with or have any questions about the upgrade.
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This comment was edited by DJ Sith on Dec 15 2010 01:38am.


Dec 18 2010 02:59am

Kaldør
 - Student
 Kaldør

Quote:
It runs FreeBSD 6.4


o/

Dec 15 2010 07:52pm

Setementor
 - Jedi Master
 Setementor

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is anyone working on a new site?

Yes

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Or are we waiting for the decisions about which games we are going to support?

No, but if special support needs to be added for a game I'm sure that it will later on.

Dec 15 2010 03:04pm

Degor
 - Padawan
 Degor

Thanks Deejaay! Btw is anyone working on a new site? Or are we waiting for the decisions about which games we are going to support?
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Dec 15 2010 01:25am

Setementor
 - Jedi Master
 Setementor

W00t!

Dec 14 2010 10:38pm

R2D2
 - Staff
 R2D2

w00t! Well done Mr. DJ_Sith!
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Dec 14 2010 05:47pm

DJ Sith
 - Jedi Council
 DJ Sith

Crap. Here I thought I invented the perfect time machine. Thanks for pointing that out, ozz. :D
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Dec 14 2010 01:38pm

ozzcoz
 - Cosplay Nerd
 ozzcoz

Well done Capt. DJ, bringing her in smoothly as usual. :D

Edit: although you might want to check the time settings as I am apparently posting this 6 hours into the future :P
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This comment was edited by ozzcoz on Dec 14 2010 01:40pm.

Dec 14 2010 12:29pm

Laziana
 - Jedi Instructor
 Laziana

very good, sir
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Dec 14 2010 11:00am

Hugo
 - Student
 Hugo

jeeeeej .. :(:confused::P


Dec 14 2010 01:33am

Maher
 - Jedi Knight
 Maher

roger!
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