Server Move

[Jason Clark]

As you all probably noticed we had a night outage last night, it was planned, and I accept responsiblity for the warnings not going up . The move went quite well actually, although anand and I haven't slept in nearly 30 hours. You will probably notice much faster access as we are on a new network in a completely different location. There are still a few things to tidy up, but we should be wrapped up over the next two days.

Thanks for your understanding and support.

 

[nagger]

You guys moved to a new location Zuni? Weren't you guys happy with your ISP?

 

[narzy]

are you still with EIcomm?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

for whatever reason, since the move, i get a whole page of whitespace at top, with the ad in the middle of it, and the javascript PM window doesnt appear when i click the "send pm" button, so i can't pm anyone :-/

oh, no wonder, that's not whitespace, it's a new ad that's 600 pixels tall :|

also, some images are broken.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
for whatever reason, since the move, i get a whole page of whitespace at top, with the ad in the middle of it, and the javascript PM window doesnt appear when i click the "send pm" button, so i can't pm anyone :-/

oh, no wonder, that's not whitespace, it's a new ad that's 600 pixels tall :|

also, some images are broken.

The images work ok for me, and the PM window works ok in Mozilla 1.2.1 in WinNT5 (Windows 2000 SP3). I'm not in Linux at the moment so I can't check on how Mozilla on Linux handles the PM window.

The tall ATI ads are making me P.O. also. Maybe Zuni can make the software rotate them 90 degrees clockwise.

 

[Assimilator1]

Adds are a little annoying but I think I could get used to it ,I guess something has to pay for these forums

Btw am I the only one whose thread subscribing no longer works?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Adds are a little annoying but I think I could get used to it ,I guess something has to pay for these forums

Btw am I the only one whose thread subscribing no longer works?

I'm getting subscription updates, but they get sent to my PM box, since email with my ISP is very unreliable. It's not that I can't receive email, but rather that they occasionally get the idea that they should "spam-filter" some email that is actually useful to me - read: forum thread subscription messages - and they won't stop even when I have contacted them repeatedly in the past about that issue; they just claim that their server doesn't do any spam filtering. :disgust:

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Adds are a little annoying but I think I could get used to it ,I guess something has to pay for these forums

Btw am I the only one whose thread subscribing no longer works?

me too on the response notification.... put a thread in about it.. and e-mailed subscriber services... nothing yet, but it's only been a couple hours.

-Sid

(actually, I'm relieved to know it's not just me!)

 

[Jason Clark]

Hey guys, we are still with eicomm, they are great. We just moved NOC's, to a much much nicer facility, google is actually hosted there The new NOC is in Virginia, some of you will notice much better response times, which was another benefit of the move, more bandwidth. Anand and I started the move at about midnight and finished this morning at about 9:00 AM, moving 22 servers takes a bit of time.

The mail server had a few issues coming back online with all the DNS and IP changes, but it should be good to go from here on in.

Cheers

 

[Paulson]

Zuni you had me worried... I was thinking there was a conspiracy going on

Good to see things went well and that most everything still actually works haha.

 

[stash]

The main site (www.anandtech.com) used to respond to simply anandtech.com. Had to update my link and add www to the FQDN. Did you guys make some DNS changes?

 

[Jason Clark]

Stash, yes we did, that one should go in though

 

[Lord Evermore]

Access actually stopped at like 6PM EST for everyone in #neochat and others who came to the channel to find out if it was down.

 

[Jason Clark]

Correct, remember the servers were in pittsburgh, they had to be taken down and driven to the noc for a 12am start time

 

[kursplat]

we had a night outage last night, it was planned, and I accept responsiblity for the warnings not going up

remember the servers were in pittsburgh, they had to be taken down and driven to the noc for a 12am start time

he he...... i can see why no notice . word on the street and it might of turned into a heck of a road trip.
thanks for all the hard work

 

[Lord Evermore]

Anand and I started the move at about midnight

Most people would consider the start to be the moment you unplugged the systems. Paying customers certainly would.

 

[Assimilator1]

I'm getting my email subs again

22 servers!?,that's a lot of rigs!:Q

 

[Jeff7]

Ah, so that's what happened.

 

[wlee]

Well, there's definately something funny going on with DNS and/or Alias redirection. When I typed in " forums.anandtech.com ", I got redirected to this page. [link deleted]. The second time I tried it, the normal forums page loaded. It looks like Anandtech is now hosted on the same backbone as some Pr0n stuff. [link deleted]. Well, I hope that means better bandwidth now!

 

[JellyBaby]

Good deal.

 

[Jason Clark]

wlee thats not us that would be somethign on your end, the dns is exactly correct. There would be a heck of alot more than 1 person in here if anandtech dns was going to porn sites

 

[nagger]

somebody forgot one 'n' in anandtech

 

[Tripleshot]

I am getting many gateway timeouts when trying to post to a thread. I checked other sites, and no problem. I suspect server problems still, but I do not know for sure. It seems slow for the subscriber side since the move.

I will also check my ISP. I do a DSLreports speed check to N.J. and it comes in at the range I pay for---768/128. That is why I am curious if there are some server issues still.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: Tripleshot
I am getting many gateway timeouts when trying to post to a thread. I checked other sites, and no problem. I suspect server problems still, but I do not know for sure. It seems slow for the subscriber side since the move.

I will also check my ISP. I do a DSLreports speed check to N.J. and it comes in at the range I pay for---768/128. That is why I am curious if there are some server issues still.

Of course, you've probably already checked, but have you done a tracert? I'm not a subscriber, but a tracert to the subscriber server from my place shows this:

C:\>tracert subscriber.anandtech.com

Tracing route to subscriber.anandtech.com [168.143.107.179]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms dispenser.mshome.net [192.168.0.1]
2 111 ms 100 ms 100 ms arc2.lin.joink.com [66.244.68.3]
3 140 ms 131 ms 180 ms rtr2.gw1.lin.joink.com [65.219.94.1]
4 100 ms 110 ms 101 ms t1-66-244-65-77.static.bluemarble.net [66.244.65
.77]
5 * 140 ms 1532 ms br1-fast0-0-1.blm.bluemarble.net [208.245.164.72
]
6 190 ms 631 ms 110 ms 500.serial2-7.gw4.ind1.alter.net [65.195.241.221
]
7 100 ms 140 ms 100 ms 108.at-6-2-0.cl1.ind6.alter.net [152.63.66.74]
8 140 ms 140 ms 130 ms 551.at-1-0-0.xr1.chi2.alter.net [152.63.65.218]

9 170 ms 190 ms 120 ms 0.so-2-1-0.xl1.chi2.alter.net [152.63.67.129]
10 120 ms 120 ms 130 ms 0.so-7-0-0.br6.chi2.alter.net [152.63.71.94]
11 140 ms 140 ms 140 ms 204.255.174.162
12 1031 ms 1052 ms 140 ms p16-1-0-1.r20.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
5.103]
13 151 ms 150 ms 160 ms p16-7-0-0.r02.asbnva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.83]
14 241 ms 430 ms 351 ms ge-1-1.a00.asbnva01.us.ra.verio.net [129.250.26.
97]
15 150 ms 150 ms 210 ms ge-3-5.a00.asbnva01.us.ce.verio.net [168.143.105
.78]
16 150 ms 140 ms 170 ms ANANDSUB1 [168.143.107.179]

Trace complete.

 

[Jason Clark]

Servers are fine, wow nasty traceroute before you get anywhere near our network.