Site Downtime

Space Goat · 09-01-2014, 01:53 AM

Apologies for the site downtime today. I tried to migrate the site to a new VPS that I setup last weekend, but ran into problems getting my host's DNS updated properly. I waited 8.5 hours for my change to go live on their DNS severs before I gave up and rolled everything back to my old host. Sadly, the change finally went through on their end about an hour and a half later. I'm going to try migrating us again sometime next week. I expect it should go much quicker, since their DNS servers are now already set to go. In hindsight, I should have done this step last weekend when I setup the rest of the server, but didn't know better until now.

One of the few humorous things about this is that as a result of all the DNS changes, a few people are now stuck (temporarily) on the "new" server. They are basically in an alternate 3dmm.com universe until their DNS cache gets updated to direct them back to the old server.

Damage Jackal · 09-01-2014, 02:10 AM

haha they got twilight zoned

Harrison · 09-01-2014, 02:59 AM

BR must be in the alternate universe cause it's strangely quiet in this one

Ben Rice · 09-01-2014, 04:41 PM

he's fallen off the face of the earth

09-01-2014, 01:53 AM	#1
Space Goat Administrator Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,065	Site Downtime Apologies for the site downtime today. I tried to migrate the site to a new VPS that I setup last weekend, but ran into problems getting my host's DNS updated properly. I waited 8.5 hours for my change to go live on their DNS severs before I gave up and rolled everything back to my old host. Sadly, the change finally went through on their end about an hour and a half later. I'm going to try migrating us again sometime next week. I expect it should go much quicker, since their DNS servers are now already set to go. In hindsight, I should have done this step last weekend when I setup the rest of the server, but didn't know better until now. One of the few humorous things about this is that as a result of all the DNS changes, a few people are now stuck (temporarily) on the "new" server. They are basically in an alternate 3dmm.com universe until their DNS cache gets updated to direct them back to the old server.

09-01-2014, 02:59 AM	#3
Harrison Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 329	BR must be in the alternate universe cause it's strangely quiet in this one
Harrison Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 329

09-01-2014, 04:41 PM	#4
Ben Rice Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 10,274	he's fallen off the face of the earth
Ben Rice Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 10,274

09-01-2014, 02:10 AM	#2
Damage Jackal Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 18,519	haha they got twilight zoned