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Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: Madman Date: June 11, 2018, 1:17 pm
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Hello everyone! So we have a bit of a situation. I received the
following information from our host:
[quote]Notice of Service Impact
Start Date/Time: 1 July 18 / 0900 CDT
End Date/Time: 3 July 18 / 0900 CDT
Window Length: 48.0 Hour(s)
Expected Outage Length: 24-48 Hours
Affected Services: All Dallas Located Services
Scheduled Facility Migration – Dallas, TX
We will be performing a migration of all hardware, core
infrastructure, and network equipment to a new Internap facility
in Dallas, TX.
Due to the immense growth in this location, the current facility
can no longer provide the level of service and expansion
footprint to support our growing demands. Our team has
diligently planned for this migration to minimize impact on
services, however there will be an extended outage faced by all
services on site as a physical move of ALL equipment is
required. [/quote]
Due to this, I have decided to have them migrate our server to a
different location. This will mean that our server should only
be down for a few hours tomorrow morning instead of potentially
being down for two days at the beginning of the month. This
should not result in any loss of data.
[size=18pt]THE SERVER WILL NOT BE WIPED!!!
However, there will be some extended interruption to our server
manager which controls the server economy and such. You may not
have access to your zcoins or vote rewards during this downtime.
The lostbike command should still function but others may not.
I hope to have some limited functionality of our server manager
shortly after the migration is complete but full functionality
may take longer. You may not see all of your zcoins and vote
points at first but do not be alarmed as I have backed up all of
that data and will restore it to you as quickly as I can.
I am going to take advantage of this move and switch us to the
Botman Server Manager. If you weren't already aware, the
current manager we use, Envul CBSM (Cloud Based Server Manager)
is quite buggy and slow at times. The developer has not updated
it since October of 2016 and we have slowly lost a lot of it's
advertised functionality. To be frank, we are on borrowed time
with it. Support no longer responds and it looks to be on it's
way to the "abandonware" bin. So in order to secure the
functionality of our server, I felt it was best to address this
situation now, before A17 drops. The Botman is an entirely
different animal than the current server manager we use so there
will be a bit of a learning curve. This may take a few days
days to work out all of the kinks and get it working exactly as
we want it to. Expect the possibility of frequent restarts
during configuration.
So besides the implementation of a new server manager, the
server itself should run as usual after migration but, with some
server economy and command outage. Also, there will be a new IP
address. I will make an announcement when the migration is
complete and post the new IP address. I hope to make this as
smooth a process as possible but please be patient, as there may
be some hiccups along the way. This all starts tomorrow
morning.[/size]
#Post#: 12601--------------------------------------------------
Re: Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: LuvThighsThatTouch Date: June 11, 2018, 1:35 pm
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Do u have a specific time (eastern) when this will be happening
tomorrow? Thanks for the info!
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Re: Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: Madman Date: June 11, 2018, 1:38 pm
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[quote author=LuvThighsThatTouch
link=topic=2077.msg12601#msg12601 date=1528742139]
Do u have a specific time (eastern) when this will be happening
tomorrow? Thanks for the info!
[/quote]
In the morning...EST ;)
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Re: Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: Madman Date: June 11, 2018, 1:39 pm
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I don't know the exact time yet. Sorry.
#Post#: 12604--------------------------------------------------
Re: Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: LuvThighsThatTouch Date: June 11, 2018, 1:55 pm
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NP! :D
#Post#: 12609--------------------------------------------------
Re: Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: guest307 Date: June 11, 2018, 2:53 pm
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Hey, I'll never complain about upgrades. Here's hoping the new
server manager works out well! :D
#Post#: 12616--------------------------------------------------
Re: Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: Madman Date: June 12, 2018, 10:00 am
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Server migration has now begun. I'll keep you all posted as
things progress. [emoji846]
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Re: Server Downtime Tomorrow and New IP Address Coming!
By: Madman Date: June 12, 2018, 11:48 am
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Server is back up!
The new Botman server manager isn't up and running yet but the
normal Envul one is for now.
New IP info can be found below:
HTML http://kamcraft.createaforum.com/server-address-and-password/server-ip-and-password/
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