While I don't know when exactly, I hope to do a bunch of stuff sometime this weekend, through Sunday evening (CDT). This will include...
1) Upgrading vBulletin to 3.6.2.
2) Upgrading to MySQL 5.1 from 4.1
3) Turning up the fail-over environment and failing the site over
4) Re-imaging the primary server upgrading from Fedora 2 to 4, PHP version, etc.
5) Bringing back up the primary server and bring it back online
6) Implementing a new automated fail-over and load sharing system to eliminate unplanned outages or the occasional high traffic times.
I may not get ALL of this done, even though most of it is already setup in a test environment. The only real downtime will be the vBulletin upgrade which should be fairly brief. Oh, and the MySQL upgrade will cause maybe 10-15 minutes of downtime. Outside of that, everything else should be covered.
Not that anyone cares, but that is just an FYI of what is happening behind the scenes to improve our ability to serve you for your technical support needs.
In the future, we will setup a geo-distant fail-over setup so that we don't have our entire setup in one datacenter or geographical location.
1) Upgrading vBulletin to 3.6.2.
2) Upgrading to MySQL 5.1 from 4.1
3) Turning up the fail-over environment and failing the site over
4) Re-imaging the primary server upgrading from Fedora 2 to 4, PHP version, etc.
5) Bringing back up the primary server and bring it back online
6) Implementing a new automated fail-over and load sharing system to eliminate unplanned outages or the occasional high traffic times.
I may not get ALL of this done, even though most of it is already setup in a test environment. The only real downtime will be the vBulletin upgrade which should be fairly brief. Oh, and the MySQL upgrade will cause maybe 10-15 minutes of downtime. Outside of that, everything else should be covered.
Not that anyone cares, but that is just an FYI of what is happening behind the scenes to improve our ability to serve you for your technical support needs.
In the future, we will setup a geo-distant fail-over setup so that we don't have our entire setup in one datacenter or geographical location.