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New Server
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:36 pm
by Richard Cranium
The new server is ready to be installed. As soon as I can arange a time to get in to the data center I will get it done. This will meen the DBB will be off line for a short time while this is completed and I may not be able to give you more than a couple of minutes notice depending in when I'm able to get in.
RC
Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:02 pm
by CDN_Merlin
Thanks for the heads up.
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:56 am
by Krom
Cool. Good luck getting everything setup smoothly.
Speaking of new stuff, my video card decided it was going to quit working at anything over 640x480 and 4 bit color this morning, and only half work at that (garbled corrupted). My computer is at a absolute dead end of it's possible upgrade path and not worth spending any more money on. So I will be assembling a whole new computer sometime in the next couple weeks. I picked a C2D E6600 chip, 2 GB of ram, a 7950 GT, abit motherboard with all the fixings, a 700w PSU and a 320 GB SATA Seagate to replace the whole thing.
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 8:15 am
by substratus
Krom wrote:...So I will be assembling a whole new computer sometime in the next couple weeks. I picked a C2D E6600 chip, 2 GB of ram, a 7950 GT, abit motherboard with all the fixings, a 700w PSU and a 320 GB SATA Seagate to replace the whole thing.
That sounds a lot like my new system I just made, well except for the 700w PSU. Is the motherboard you got the AW9D-MAX?
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:21 am
by Richard Cranium
Krom wrote:Cool. Good luck getting everything setup smoothly.
It should go very smooth. I have the DBB alreay running on the new server with a copy of the data from about a week ago. All I have to do is copy the new stuff in.
RC
Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:31 am
by Krom
Good to hear RC.
substratus wrote:Is the motherboard you got the AW9D-MAX?
Yup, the extra Sil SATA controller caught my eye, since it should make it very easy to move my existing RAID over. The PSU is an OCZ, I was originally looking at a smaller wattage Fortron, but the OCZ was only a few dollars more for 150 extra watts so I figured what the hell. Same with the video card, 7950 GT was only a few dollars more then a 7900 GT, so I got that instead.
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:11 am
by Richard Cranium
The plan is to install the new server on Tuesday December 12th at 1:00 pm Pacific time.
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:04 pm
by TIGERassault
Any prediction on how long it'll take?
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:40 pm
by Krom
If there are no problems, from the sounds of it I would expect less then an hour to do the switch over. Though you never know with these.
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:38 pm
by Top Wop
Im puttng down $50 bucks that it will be down for a week.

Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:18 pm
by Richard Cranium
Top Wop wrote:Im puttng down $50 bucks that it will be down for a week.

I don't think I can take that bet.
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:19 pm
by Richard Cranium
TIGERassault wrote:Any prediction on how long it'll take?
If everything goes as planned I would expect less that 30 minutes.
RC
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:28 am
by Neo
Krom wrote:Cool. Good luck getting everything setup smoothly.
Speaking of new stuff, my video card decided it was going to quit working at anything over 640x480 and 4 bit color this morning, and only half work at that (garbled corrupted). My computer is at a absolute dead end of it's possible upgrade path and not worth spending any more money on. So I will be assembling a whole new computer sometime in the next couple weeks. I picked a C2D E6600 chip, 2 GB of ram, a 7950 GT, abit motherboard with all the fixings, a 700w PSU and a 320 GB SATA Seagate to replace the whole thing.
Get an 8800 GTX. You know you want to. ^_~
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:27 pm
by Krom
Neo wrote:Get an 8800 GTX. You know you want to. ^_~
No, I'm not stupid enough to spend $600 on a video card, I'll leave that to people like you.

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:08 pm
by AceCombat
w3rd
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:56 pm
by Richard Cranium
Richard Cranium wrote:The plan is to install the new server on Tuesday December 12th at 1:00 pm Pacific time.
Just a little reminder that today is the day. In preparation for the migration I'll be shutting down the DBB early to back up it's database so I don't have to waste time on site to do that.
RC
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:20 pm
by Richard Cranium
Well, wasn't that fun. It took longer that expected but not because of the new server. You may notice that the Von Descent servers are off line at this time. During the install of the new server something happened to the other server that I stored the backup of the DBB on. With out the other I couldn't restore the data. I had to take the other server home with me and then upload the data remotely. Every message and post has been successfully reloaded on the system.
At any rate we are back online. I may have to tweak the system a little as we go to get some better performance.
Sorry for the delay.
RC
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:33 am
by Krom
I hardly noticed the outage, been too busy watching One Piece episodes. I need to remember to not try to use a 200+ episode series to pass a few hours...
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:42 am
by Jeff250
Browsing:
http://www.descentbb.net/
returns \"Directory Listing Denied\". You might need to point the DirectoryIndex to index.php?
Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:08 am
by Richard Cranium
Jeff250 wrote:Browsing:
http://www.descentbb.net/
returns "Directory Listing Denied". You might need to point the DirectoryIndex to index.php?
Good catch. I thought I had done that already.
RC