Chaos he/him Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 All right guys. Server maintenance is going to occur Sunday. Why? We are going to move to a spectacular new host and server. It's about dang time for that, I think. What will happen Sunday is the big transfer of data from this server to the new server. It's a fun and exciting 10 or so gigs of information to move over, so I'm not sure how long it will take. The way I'm doing it will be such that you can still use the site in its entirety as this transfer is happening, and I'll just move the databases at the end. So while the transfer is occurring, everything should be fine, and then the downtime should be fifteen or so minutes to move the databases over, and then we'll flip the switch and it should be on the new server almost instantly. Though nothing inherent to the transfer should prevent you from posting, I imagine the server will slow down. That could happen, among other less savory things. But really, that part should be just fine. The database transfer requires me to turn off posting abilities (we wouldn't want to make a post and then it have disappeared on the new server) for a time, but again it should be a short time. In the history of our downtimes, this should be one of our shortest. In theory! As soon as you don't see the "this board is offline" message, you'll be on the new server! And after it's done, guys. Guys. I've never claimed to be good system admin, but I'm much better now, and the host and everything should make this new server basically perfect. It's also infinitely scalable, so expanding server power shall be trivially easy, in theory. Get excited itshappening.gif Also, in the coming few months--for real soon, not that fake, nebulous "soon"--there will be bigger changes than just back end stuff 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailliw73 he/him Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Do we get a preview of what these new, big changes are? And, I'm excited! This sounds like it'll be great! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 You will get a preview eventually! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Update: the new server, to my knowledge, seems ready to go, so I will be starting the Grand Transfer late tonight. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 The Great Transfer will begin within the half hour. Everything should be fine in this process, but if not, doesn't, well this is why! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Test post 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Okay, as of right this moment, the new server loads for me, and everything is glorious. You may have gotten error messages, but hopefully it didn't keep you too long. Bed time for me, holy crap. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightsworn Panda he/him Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 So, uh, we got a new suborum called the "Reckoner's RPG". Yay! About time we Oregon writers got a subforum! Strangely, however, the new subforum doesn't appear on mobiles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Lightsworn Panda, on 07 Dec 2014 - 12:46 PM, said: So, uh, we got a new suborum called the "Reckoner's RPG". Yay! About time we Oregon writers got a subforum! Strangely, however, the new subforum doesn't appear on mobiles. I see it on the mobile site. Just tap on Role-Playing and it's in that subforum list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail-mi he/him Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 So, ever since the server change, I haven't been able to access the 17th shard on wi-fi. It works with 3G on my mobile, but not on my wi-fi. Anything up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailliw73 he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Some people in the current Elimination game have also expressed problems with accessing it on their laptops. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 The DNS should all be propagated by now. For windows computers you may want to try in the command prompt the command "ipconfig /flushdns". In theory it should not have taken so long for the DNS to roll through. If that doesn't work and it doesn't work in like two days then something very weird is occurring, but I suspect maybe some DNS caching maybe? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail-mi he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 The DNS should all be propagated by now. For windows computers you may want to try in the command prompt the command "ipconfig /flushdns". In theory it should not have taken so long for the DNS to roll through. If that doesn't work and it doesn't work in like two days then something very weird is occurring, but I suspect maybe some DNS caching maybe? Um...I'm a programming Drab, so where would I put that command? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Hmm... I have the same issue, and I tried the command in the command prompt. It said that it was successful, but I'm still having issues connecting with the site. I can connect the first time I use the internet when I log off and log back on, but for the most part, it doesn't work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Hmm... I have the same issue, and I tried the command in the command prompt. It said that it was successful, but I'm still having issues connecting with the site. I can connect the first time I use the internet when I log off and log back on, but for the most part, it doesn't work. What the crap? That is... Very strange. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstRainbowRose she/her Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Um...I'm a programming Drab, so where would I put that command? Open the start menu, and in the search bar type "command prompt". That will pull up a weird looking (usually black and white, or black and green) dOS looking window. Simply type the command and hit enter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail-mi he/him Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail-mi he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 It didn't work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 I really don't understand why it would not be loading on your wifi... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Okay. I have a plan for those of you who can't access it. Type in the command prompt "ping www.17thshard.com" and tell me what IP address it spits out. For more information on how to do that, see: http://www.wikihow.com/Ping-an-IP-Address 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 I believe I have uncovered the cause of this not working on some desktop clients. Stay tuned. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 It didn't return anything at all when I tried pinging it. As reference, I checked a few other websites, and they all worked just fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 It didn't return anything at all when I tried pinging it. As reference, I checked a few other websites, and they all worked just fine. Hmmm, I think there are two unrelated errors going on. If you cannot load the site, please tell me the browser error that you get. I think yours might be DNS related... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Alright, here's what it says: 404 Not Found The server cannot find the requested page: www.17thshard.com/forum/ (port 80) Please forward this error screen to www.17thshard.com's WebMaster. Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at www.17thshard.com Port 80 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos he/him Posted December 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 Interesting, and that didn't ping anything? Very interesting. Which browser? I believe this to be related to IPv6 compatibility issues which I will resolve very soon. Anyone else please also let me know if you get this error. In addition please use that ping command, as that will be very helpful. Hopefully it will be resolved tonight! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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