Major CF Server Cluster Upgrades - Scheduled Downtime

[Erwin]

We have had recent problems with our hardware which necessitates an upgrade.

In about 24 hours, CF will be moving all our servers from FreeBSD to CentOS, downgrading Apache to 1, recompile php, increase RAM in all our webservers, and add 2 new load-balacing servers, and also upgrade our database server with new hardware.

In addition, CF will be engaging a server admin to look after our server cluster (Steve) 24/7 which means that even when I'm asleep someone else will be monitoring the server end of things for CF (I'll still look after the software etc).

So be prepared for CF downtime in about 24 hours - it may last up to 4 hours (but hopefully less).

 

[Letalis]

Thank you Erwin.

*will catch up on some reading during the downtime*

 

[Tychicus2]

Thanks Erwin!

I hope this fixes the *bugs*

Please keep us updated...

God Bless,

Ty

 

[Erwin]

Thanks Erwin!

I hope this fixes the *bugs*

Please keep us updated...

God Bless,

Ty

It should!

 

[GritsnGrace]

Thanks Erwin!

I hope this fixes the *bugs*

Please keep us updated...

God Bless,

Ty

It should!

Good! I'm running out of bug repellant!!

 

[beehoney]

Sounds good Erwin!

 

[TheSerenityPrayer]

Thanks Erwin! You are a blessing!

 

[MN John]

We have had recent problems with our hardware which necessitates an upgrade.

In about 24 hours, CF will be moving all our servers from FreeBSD to CentOS, downgrading Apache to 1, recompile php, increase RAM in all our webservers, and add 2 new load-balacing servers, and also upgrade our database server with new hardware.

In addition, CF will be engaging a server admin to look after our server cluster (Steve) 24/7 which means that even when I'm asleep someone else will be monitoring the server end of things for CF (I'll still look after the software etc).

So be prepared for CF downtime in about 24 hours - it may last up to 4 hours (but hopefully less).

Thanks for all your work and for the warning!

 

[~InHisHands~]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[angelwind]

Thank you Erwin for all your hard work...

 

[Taylor43]

Thankyou i love this site but hopefully things will be workable not much down time. Glad you got somebody to help moniter the site. Thankyou for this site it is truly a blessing to be able to fellowship with people from all over.

 

[ForHisGlory]

Thanks Erwin for letting us know in advance. I'm sure it will help tons!
God Bless

 

[erin74]

Poor Steve - when will he sleep?

 

[icedtea]

Did it happen already and I slept through it?

 

[Letalis]

Did it happen already and I slept through it?

Was just wondering that...

I didn't notice any downtime, only a bit of slowness.

 

[Tychicus2]

Update Please???

Is it over??

 

[r911steven]

Its not 100% done. We ran into some issues last night, and were only able to do two of the webservers. We plan to do more tonight and do some further tweaking.

 

[Tychicus2]

Its not 100% done. We ran into some issues last night, and were only able to do two of the webservers. We plan to do more tonight and do some further tweaking.

Thanks for the update... Welcome to CF...

God Bless,

Ty

 

[Taylor43]

Thankyopu for the update welcome to the site

 

[krstlros]

So......how did it all go?

I was off line for the last 24 hours so I may have missed it.