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

pgp_protector said:

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

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Erwin said:

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.

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Erwin said:

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.

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Jedi Christian said:

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

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