Upcoming Outage: Site Maintenance

[Ben Ruset]

Hey everyone:

My hosting company is asking me to migrate the site to a new server. They're in the process of spinning up a new machine for me. Once that is done I'm going to begin the somewhat arduous process of moving all of the data and databases over to the new machine. I am not 100% sure but there might be an IP address change, which would mean that the site potentially would not be reachable for a few hours.

I'm not sure when this is going to happen, but it will be happening soon. So if you try to connect to the site and don't see that it's up, it's likely because I'm working on it. (And not that I haven't been paying the bills!)

 

[46er]

Good luck Ben, see you on the other side.

 

[Teegate]

Okay.

 

[Ben Ruset]

I've started the migration of the data from the old to the new server. During this time I've closed the image gallery so that no files can be uploaded while the synchronization runs. Before I migrate the database I'll have to shut the forums down so that no posts get lost.

Hopefully the downtime won't last too long.

 

[Ben Ruset]

I did most of the migration and then noticed a problem on the new server, so we're back running on the old one for the time being. Whee!

 

[Teegate]

Okay. I hope it is not too time consuming.

Guy

 

[dogg57]

Thanks Ben

 

[Ben Ruset]

Okay. I hope it is not too time consuming.

Guy

It's not too bad. This is what I do for a living.

 

[Ben Ruset]

Ok, the migration should be complete.

 

[Boyd]

Wow, that was quick. Nicely done.

 

[Teegate]

Thanks Ben!

Guy

 

[MarkBNJ]

Hey Ben, I tried to upload a couple of pics this evening and wasn't able to log in to the gallery. I logged in to the main boards fine, but when I clicked over to the gallery it showed me as logged out, and attempts to log in with my creds from the main site resulted in "invalid login." Any ideas?

 

[dogg57]

Hey Ben, I tried to upload a couple of pics this evening and wasn't able to log in to the gallery. I logged in to the main boards fine, but when I clicked over to the gallery it showed me as logged out, and attempts to log in with my creds from the main site resulted in "invalid login." Any ideas?

Mark I tried this morning and it worked but, I had to log in on the gallery page and it told me to delete a cookie I clicked ok and I log on with no other issues and uploaded a photo and then click onto the forum with no issues. I belive you have to login to the Gallery side first

 

[MarkBNJ]

Mark I tried this morning and it worked but, I had to log in on the gallery page and it told me to delete a cookie I clicked ok and I log on with no other issues and uploaded a photo and then click onto the forum with no issues. I belive you have to login to the Gallery side first

Thanks, gave it a try, including deleting the cookies. Still didn't work with my forum creds.

 

[dogg57]

Thanks, gave it a try, including deleting the cookies. Still didn't work with my forum creds.

I forgot to say I click on login problems line that bought up the cookie clear box.Sounds like you tried that.Maybe Ben will know

 

[MarkBNJ]

Yeah, I tried it a couple of different ways, including deleting the cookies. First time since 2005 that I even recall seeing a login for the gallery.

 

[Boyd]

You could post your photo's as attachments instead of using the gallery....

 

[Ben Ruset]

The cookies aren't shared between the forums the the gallery anymore. You'll need to sign in separately.

I really suggest people not use the Gallery here anymore. The software is ancient, I don't pay for support on it anymore, and there's much better alternatives (like Flickr) out there. Or just attach your images to posts.

There will be a day when the image gallery here goes away.

 

[MarkBNJ]

Thanks, Ben, and Boyd. That makes sense. I do have a gallery on Zenfolio I pay for, so I could link there as well.

 

[Boyd]

Really, I like using attachments these days. It's a lot easier than uploading them somewhere else and then linking. And as we've discussed in another thread, the threshold where the software re-scales them is higher (something like 600 pixels for linked images but 800 for an attachment).