Server Move Maintenance Window

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We're tentatively planning to move the site to our new host tonight.

(PDT) Saturday, August 29th, 2009 from 7-11PM PDT
(UTC) Sunday, August 30th, 2009 from 0200-0600 UTC

We're scheduling a long window (4 hours) because there are a lot of steps involved in actually moving a web site from one location to another. We don't expect the site to be down longer than 30 minutes once we actually flip the switch.

We will post again when things get started, and we'll use our Twitter account (@dreamwidth) to keep people posted of progress when the site is actually offline.

site upgrade mostly complete

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Okay, so the site is now running on the hardware from ServerBeach. This is a big change for us, as we're now using dedicated machines: i.e., hardware that isn't shared with other users.

This should help improve our speed and reliability and generally make things better. Yay.

The move itself seems to have gone pretty well. We have a few things left to iron out (cron jobs, search, incoming email) but by and large it's running smoothly. No complaints yet.

If you see anything not working (except for the aforementioned journal search), please let us know!

Edit: Since our IP addresses have changed, we're going to have to go through the process of getting ISPs and mail providers to trust us again. This can be a lengthy process, so if you see mail not going through, please let us know so we can investigate and contact the ISP in question.

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[denise]

We're now beginning the migration to our new hosting service. The site should be going down around 9PM PDT/4AM UTC. We don't expect things to take more than about 30 minutes or so, but it's possible it may take longer; we've scheduled a 4-hour window to complete the work.