Posted 5 November - CF will be offline for network/server upgrades in 12-24 hours!

[kmaxinator]

/me wonders if there a network up in Heaven, who God would have running it.....

lol good question pgp

 

[TheBear]

You know how CF moved to a completely new server setup last weekend? How I spent last weekend upgrading and moving all our data to our current server network? Well, it was all for nothing, and I wasted thousands doing it.

This is the current problem. Our current host is going to charge us over $10,000 this month because of our bandwidth usage. This is after I spent a whole weekend migrating to their service.
So I have to move to a new host pronto. Or we rack up more and more bandwidth costs.

I'm negotiating with our previous host a private rack with completely new servers, a private network and a public network, and also getting a good deal with bandwidth. We will drop our webservers from 5 to 4, to cut costs - I was overly ambitious with our upgrades, and we are about to break the bank with our current hosts.

If negotations go well, we will be migrating servers again this weekend. My deepest apologies for moving CF servers again - I pray that this is our last move. We cannot possibly stay with the current provider as they are charging us too much for the bandwidth.

The good news is that on this new private rack we will have our very own 100 Mbps internal network which should remove any lag between the webservers and database servers.

I'll keep people posted in this thread.

 

[Erwin]

Okay, an update:

I've finally got a good deal with our current network providers so we are staying. We are upgrading all our servers, increasing the number of processors (16 x Pentium 4s), adding a 2nd 100Mbps network to handle the bandwidth and prevent network saturation. This should really fix our current network clogging problems and bandwidth issues.

The changeover to this new setup will happen in 12-24 hours - during this time, CF will be offline - I will set it up so that the java IRC chat room shows up and people can meet to chat, and I can go there to update members.

 

[pgp_protector]

May the Lord bless you Erwin for all the work , time & effort you put into this.

And if I ever win the Lotto, you'll be getting a big donation.



Now I just need to play the Lotto.

 

[Ave Maria]

About how long do you think the upgrade will take Erwin? Oh and good luck!

 

[aReformedPatriot]

.

 

[Erwin]

About how long do you think the upgrade will take Erwin? Oh and good luck!

About 6-12 hours? Could be less, could be more.

I'm still waiting for the actual hardware to be configured so I can start transferring data across.

The actual private LAN still needs to be setup. Taking longer than I expected - I was hoping to have started by now.

 

[freespirit2001]

I guess the countdown is any minute in the process of happening....10...9...8......?????

Hugs and Love in Christ, Erwin!!!!

 

[Nevada77]

Thank you so much for ALL you do Erwin.

Nevada

 

[skysthelimit]

Nice job negotiating everything Erwin, and as always, thanks!

 

[crossrunner]

Thank you so much for all you do for us Erwin...this is truly a wonderful ministry. I pray that the Lord will bless you in mighty ways for all you have done.

cr

PS: I will try to continue to give financially when I can.

 

[Jedi christian]

Praying for you Erwin!
God Bless you for all the trouble you go to for CF!

 

[Ave Maria]

About 6-12 hours? Could be less, could be more.

I'm still waiting for the actual hardware to be configured so I can start transferring data across.

The actual private LAN still needs to be setup. Taking longer than I expected - I was hoping to have started by now.

Ah ok. Thank you for that information Erwin.

Praying for you Erwin!
God Bless you for all the trouble you go to for CF!