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We'll be offline for a bit tomorrow - Update: We're back
Monday, February 21 2011 @ 11:40 PM EST

We're moving to new servers in the morning, so we will be offline tomorrow for a few hours at least and maybe longer if there are issues. So don't panic if that happens. I'll be in panic mode myself, of course, being me, and because things like this are stressful. But we've tested it as much as we can, so now there's nothing more to do but take the plunge, and so tomorrow it is, at around 9 AM, North Carolina time. We'll see you afterwards, probably around noon, and after that please let us know any issues you notice.

Update: We're up. Post in your comments any issues you notice, please. But so far, so good.

I need a nap.

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Upgrades are Good!
Authored by: entre on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 12:04 AM EST
Great time for a changeover, nothing going on now.

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We'll be offline for a bit tomorrow
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 12:34 AM EST
Worse comes to worse, is there a backup twitter/FB account to follow if the site
goes down longer than expected? Not so much for law news, but just to keep
apprised of progress/status on the migration if something should foul up?

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Don't forget the TZ
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 01:14 AM EST
I'm assuming that this is 9am Eastern.

For the many readers around the world, you may have to adjust your sets....(pun
intended)

WET = 15:00
GMT = 14:00
Pacific = 06:00

etc

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Non anonymous "Don't forget the TZ"
Authored by: Alan(UK) on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 05:31 AM EST
I'm assuming that this is 9am Eastern.

For the many readers around the world, you may have to adjust your sets....(pun intended)

WET = 15:00
GMT = 14:00
Pacific = 06:00

etc

Note the I'm assuming that this is 9am Eastern

The time referred to is a particular instant. It is the same instant for everyone. Civil time everywhere is based on UTC. As it is people have to ask: what time zone is Eastern Time in, is daylight saving in operation, what time zone am I in, is daylight saving in operation? I.E. you first have to convert to UTC and then convert to local time. If the time was UTC to start with, the job would be half done.

Americans did a great job with 100cents to the dollar, but things have gone downhill ever since.

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Microsoft is nailing up its own coffin from the inside.

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Don't stress.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 05:51 AM EST
Stuff happens and we'll be here when you're back up, probably with an attack of
the DT's from having to go cold turkey, but it'll be good for us:-)

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We'll be offline for a bit tomorrow
Authored by: Steve Martin on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 06:54 AM EST
Good luck to the guys at iBiblio. Hope it goes smoothly. We'll be here when you
come back up.


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As of 9:06 EST
Authored by: The Mad Hatter r on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 09:07 AM EST

Everything appears to be working, so I guess the upgrade was a success?


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http://madhatter.ca/

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We'll be offline for a bit tomorrow
Authored by: Erwan on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 10:15 AM EST
Looks like we're back.

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Erwan

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How many people tried to connect anyway?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 10:28 AM EST
It's part of my morning routine, I clicked then when I saw the unavailable
message remembered, "down till noon".

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We'll be offline for a bit tomorrow
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 10:43 AM EST
<kidding>So IBM bought you new servers?</kidding>

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Welcome back.
Authored by: Steve Martin on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 11:14 AM EST
Good job, iBiblio!


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We'll be offline for a bit tomorrow - Update: We're back
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 01:00 PM EST
{
We're moving to new servers in the morning
}

Watson? ;-)


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How the professionals do it
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 04:40 PM EST
Step 1 make sure your DNS is set right
You have an A record for oldserver.groklaw.net
You have an a record for newserver.groklaw.net
www.groklaw.net is a CNAME for oldserver
TTL is about 1 day

Step 2, couple of days before the move, wind the TTL down to 15 minutes

Step 3, ready to go? .. here we go ... either:
drop a permanent redirect into the oldserver apache conf
or
drop a proxy forward into the oldserver apache conf

Step 4 update the CNAME in your DNS to point to newserver

job done. seamless.

for step3 you can just swap the database connection so old server uses the
database on newserver for a while, it will be a little slower than normal, but
the load should clear in 15 minutes of the DNS change ... or you can even wind
the DNS shorter for a while if you want

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We'll be offline for a bit tomorrow - Update: We're back
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 04:50 PM EST
It's much faster here in Australia.

The old server, for some reason, was slower to respond. Perhaps there was some
BGP madness, making us use a slower link.

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RSS Feed is Broken
Authored by: Prototrm on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 05:58 PM EST
The old RSS feed no longer works for me after the change (404 error). I deleted it and started over, copying and pasting the URL posted at the bottom of the Groklaw home page, but I get the following XML error:

The URL you want Liferea to subscribe to points to a webpage and the auto discovery found no feeds on this page. Maybe this webpage just does not support feed auto discovery.Source points to HTML document.

OK guys, what I screw up this time?

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Update: We're back
Authored by: N_au on Tuesday, February 22 2011 @ 07:14 PM EST
but the page still says this, so is it still correct

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

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