On the evening of September 25, 2020 we will be offline for a period of time as we migrate to new servers. The outage is expected to start around 10 pm Pacific Time and I expect the forums to be up and running before 10 am the morning of September 26, 2020. This is the second part of my planned updates for the forums for the last half of 2020 and it is now possible since we have migrated to a more modern forum software.
After having run the servers off of my own hardware at a data centre for the past 20+ years, it is a little sad to move of our own infrastructure, but it makes the most sense. The current servers are at the end of their life cycle so before we encounter any issues with them, is the perfect time to migrate away. Most important I will now be able to cut some costs without affecting service. That should help keep the future stability of the forums intact.
While we have had enterprise grade servers for the past 12 years, thanks to the support of the TDIClub membership, that wasn't always the case as you can see from some of the original posts almost 20 years ago :
During the outage you should just get a message that the forums are offline and you will not be able to search.
After having run the servers off of my own hardware at a data centre for the past 20+ years, it is a little sad to move of our own infrastructure, but it makes the most sense. The current servers are at the end of their life cycle so before we encounter any issues with them, is the perfect time to migrate away. Most important I will now be able to cut some costs without affecting service. That should help keep the future stability of the forums intact.
While we have had enterprise grade servers for the past 12 years, thanks to the support of the TDIClub membership, that wasn't always the case as you can see from some of the original posts almost 20 years ago :
Forum downtime = Forum Upgrades
Thanks to the donations of many as well as VeeDubTDI's fundrasing, I have gone ahead and got the munch needed hardware upgrade. I am expecting to do it either Sunday (Aug 26) evening or some other evening this week. The exact date is not know, but just though I'd let you guys know. This is...
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Update server configuration
I have had some requests for info on what server is currently used, and what we are moving to. I thought it might be of interest for others here. The system is shared with a few other web sites (ufies.org is the big one), and by covering most of the hardware costs, the bandwidth stays very...
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During the outage you should just get a message that the forums are offline and you will not be able to search.
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