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Thu, Feb 15th 10:55am 2007: Linux
The primary LA server ("Digital") is now back on the air, although in a rather different form: instead of a physical machine in Perth it's now a virtual machine in Melbourne thanks to the hard work of the admin team and server resources/bandwidth donated by Internet Vision Technologies.
We'd planned to do a nicely scheduled migration and I'd already started copying content off the old machine, but then circumstances forced an, umm, "emergency" migration before we were quite ready, so huge thanks to:
* Gary Allpike, who physically retrieved the old LA server at 3am when it looked like we had to "move it or lose it".
* Anand Kumria, who figured out a problem with Exim4 and TLS on the virtual machine and recompiled Exim so you could all get your mailing list fixes again - all while on an overseas trip.
* Andrew Pollock, who got home from a ski trip to discover that things had gone pear-shaped in his absence and then ran around fixing things like DNS.
Thanks guys! You're champions.
There are still bits of content missing from some sites because we didn't quite get it all off the old box in time, but when we can get the old server reconnected we'll clean that up. No content has been lost, it's just on a disk that's inaccessible at the moment. There are also some secondary domains that will need sorting out but by and large we're back on the air.
The primary LA server ("Digital") is now back on the air, although in a rather different form: instead of a physical machine in Perth it's now a virtual machine in Melbourne thanks to the hard work of the admin team and server resources/bandwidth donated by Internet Vision Technologies.
We'd planned to do a nicely scheduled migration and I'd already started copying content off the old machine, but then circumstances forced an, umm, "emergency" migration before we were quite ready, so huge thanks to:
* Gary Allpike, who physically retrieved the old LA server at 3am when it looked like we had to "move it or lose it".
* Anand Kumria, who figured out a problem with Exim4 and TLS on the virtual machine and recompiled Exim so you could all get your mailing list fixes again - all while on an overseas trip.
* Andrew Pollock, who got home from a ski trip to discover that things had gone pear-shaped in his absence and then ran around fixing things like DNS.
Thanks guys! You're champions.
There are still bits of content missing from some sites because we didn't quite get it all off the old box in time, but when we can get the old server reconnected we'll clean that up. No content has been lost, it's just on a disk that's inaccessible at the moment. There are also some secondary domains that will need sorting out but by and large we're back on the air.
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