Update: Looks like the server has migrated but got quite a few issues. I will try to sort these out — urgent ones hopefully during the day, otherwise this evening. (scotty)
Sorry about the late notice. Been planning this server move for a week already and looks like tonight is the night to do it.
- Date: 21 Oct 2010
- Time: 12:30AM
- Move From: Linode in Fremont California
- Move To: Crucial Paradigm in Sydney
- Downtime: Hopefully less than 30 minutes
It's OzBargain and 95% of the visitors coming here are Australians. However for the last 2 years OzBargain has been hosting on a server in US (well, because it's cheap :) but the nightmare of "under-sea cable being cut by earth quake, OzBargain goes off-line for a week and bargain hunters in Australia go crazy and become zombies" has been haunting me lately. No, just kidding but I think it is time for me to pay a bit more to get a decent service in Australia instead.
So I am going to take a short nap now, take the kids to wee, take the server down, copy the database over, point the DNS to the new location, and go to sleep. Hopefully the site will still be in tact by the time I wake up tomorrow. And this forum topic will be used for reporting any site-level issues after the migration.
All done.