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I got a bit bored this afternoon and installed v2 beta4 of the Gallery software that I use. If you’re interested in seeing how it looks after simply importing the photos from my normal gallery, just take a look here: http://www.nuxx.net/gallery2

Since it’s still in beta I’m not going to move to it yet, but that’s where I can see things going in a few months… It’s really, really swanky.

Oh, also, bornslippy.nuxx.net is turned off and in the back seat of my car. Everything is fully moved over to the new box.

If you’d like to see, I’ve got a screenshot of the shutdown of bornslippy.nuxx.net here (on gallery2) and here (on gallery1). For what it’s worth, 478 days, 21 hours, 39 minutes of uptime when shut down. If things go as planned, rez.nuxx.net will not be rebooted for quite some time… That, of course, is dependent on the hardware gods and my not screwing things up.

Now I go buy toilet paper. And dinner. Both are important. Very important.

Hey everyone… In case I host you on my webserver, you should know that I will be taking the server down for ~15 minutes, right around 12:00pm EDT today. This is because I’m pulling out the old server (bornslippy.nuxx.net) and I’m going to move the new one into its physical space. Currently rez.nuxx.net is located on the top shelf of the rack, and I want to locate it where bornslippy.nuxx.net is, directly over an air conditioning vent.

As soon as it reboots things should be back to normal.

Okay, an update on rez.nuxx.net.

In short, it’s done. Everything has been moved there. The only services which remains running on bornslippy.nuxx.net is qmail, set up to collect and forward mail over to rez.nuxx.net for all the domains it used to handle. This is just to ensure speedy mail delivery in case there’s some old, cached DNS entries out there.

Best I can tell, everything is working properly and require no password changes or reconfiguration. All databases (read: forums), websites, and email moved over smoothly.

So, for the most part, all you’ll see is some potential issues reaching the site as DNS flops over, but the TTL is rather short, so this shouldn’t really be noticable.

All in all, I’m content with how it turned out. The new machine is a lot faster. This is evident in Squirrelmail, various forums, and the photo galleries.

So uhm… Yeah. Enjoy. I’m going to head home now. I had to be at work at 6am, and while we finished up just before noon, I decided to stay here and finish the server move instead of waiting to do it until I got home.

Hey everyone, I just flopped ns1.nuxx.net from it’s old home at 216.29.181.213 to it’s new home at 204.11.33.41. There should be nothing that you need to change, but if you are running into any problems accessing any of the sites that I host, please let me know. Thanks!

Hey everyone… It looks like I’m going to be installing rez.nuxx.net in the colocation facility tomorrow. I’ll have just under a week to move things over from the current server, bornslippy.nuxx.net.

So, if I host stuff for you, you should pay attention to this. In short, if you have a message board, photo gallery, or anything which ties uses the database (MySQL) there is a good chance that there will be some reconfiguring needed in order to get things back in order. This is because I’m changing around the paths to where data is stored.

Additionally, there is likely to be some downtime while websites, databases, email, and other such things are moved.

I will be going through the sites one at a time in an attempt to ensure that everything is running smoothly. If you find that something isn’t working right, please contact me via AIM or telephone so that we can sort it out.

There should be no loss of data — be it email, web, or in a database — and I’m going to try to make things go as smoothly as possible, but there could be some bumps. So, again, if things arne’t working quite right, please let me know and we can sort it out.

Also, I’ll post updates here as things get moved over. As long as your DNS points to ns1.nuxx.net and ns2.nuxx.net everything should transition smoothly.

So, keep an eye out and hopefully things will be running even better by this time next week.