Tuesday November 30

[gstark]

This system will be down from around 9:30 am on Tuesday next, November 30, probably till around 5 ish.

Thank you Energy Australia for the advance warning

Sorry for the inconvenience, but that is something that's beyond our control.

[MHD]

hehehe... who would have thought that it would be on the last day of the comp

[Geoff]

Where are those anti-depressants??

[gstark]

Good point.

At least they're not uploading here for that.

[birddog114]

Any member in this forum is project manager for Energy Australia in that region?

[Killakoala]

Any member in this forum is project manager for Energy Australia in that region

No, but i'm sure i could rattle-up a possie of a few of the lads from work and we'll go around his house and sort him out a bit....

[Raydar]

I can feel the withdrawal symptoms starting now!!!!!

Cheers
Ray

[birddog114]

I can feel the withdrawal symptoms starting now!!!!!

Cheers
Ray

Gary, do U need a generator for a day? it's important day, last day of the challenge, by 5:00PM, then MHD's server will be overload.

[Kristine]

Gary

I will offer you a back up it you like. If you are hosting your own DNS, all you need to do is go to where you registered your domain name and just change your ns2 to ns1.emmx.com

You need to do this at least 24 hours before your site is going to go down. I will create access for you and you can upload your files early - except for your database which should be done at the last minute.

When your ns1 fails, it will default to ns2 (which will be ns1.emmx.com). Once your power comes back up, you can either change your ns2 or leave it as a back-up.

HTH

Cheers
Kristine

[birddog114]

Kristine,
That's a great ideas to keep the site alive, at least a day, rather than let it off line.
Thanks Kristine, I'm sure Gary will look into it.

[gstark]

Kristine,

Are we all that desperate for this system? <g>

Gary

I will offer you a back up it you like. If you are hosting your own DNS, all you need to do is go to where you registered your domain name and just change your ns2 to ns1.emmx.com

The problem isn't the ns services, but the hosting of the forums.

Here's my take on what I think needs to be done; we should take this tio email from here on in, btw ...

What I think we would need to do is logically move the site over to your facilities asap, setting up both sites so that they each use the same underlying physical SQL server, which would need to be hosted by you.

At the same time, we would set the ns to point to your IP for the forums site. Between now and then, any locally cached ns would be looking to the new addresses and served from there.

I'll need your IP, so I can set up a secondary forums site host within the ns. I can email you the code setup that I'm using plus the underlying MySQL tables backup.

Once you get that working inhouse, we can test it first using the secondary hosting name.

At some point I would need to resend you the latest SQL data, at the same time changing the internal reference so that my host starts using your SQL databases.

Finally, I would need to change the nameservers so that I swap the primary and secondary hosts, making yours the primary.

There may also be a couple of niggles wrt the locally hosted maiulserver that the system references.

[MHD]

Worst comes to worst I have some PHPBB forums attatched to my home page (link below)
and we could always go to http://www.dpreview.com

[gstark]

We're back ...

But if you're reading this, then you already know that.

We almost had a backup system in place for today's outage but unfornately, time got the better of us wrt attending to some of the finer details of getting the pdataset across to Kristine.

[Raydar]

That wasn't hard at all

Didn't miss a thing

Cheers
Ray

[xerubus]

Worst comes to worst I have some PHPBB forums attatched to my home page (link below)
and we could always go to http://www.dpreview.com

me too!! but mine are only in extreme infancy... i think i've hit 5 users on both the canon and the nikon forums

gary... that was the hardest day of my life i think... i was lost and actually started looking through firewall and server logs ... ahhhhhh!!!!!!

[gstark]

xerberus,

Would you like some more logs to browse through?

How about my own email spammer blacklist?

[xerubus]

thanks.. but no thanks mate