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Server Migration
This Friday, July 24 2009, at approximately 5:00pm will take the server that hosts this site, and all other sites (*.thephenixblue.com, *.phenixblue.com, *.jmsearcy.com, *.vsumug.com, *.vsumug.org, *.vsusinfonia.org, *.firehouseink.com, *.ceramicsdiva.com, *.thewebroot.com) will go offline. During the offline period all sites will be migrated to new server hardware, as well as additional upgrades to Apache, PHP, and MySQL. [...]
The Phenix Returns!!!
The PhenixbluE returns (DUH! if you’re reading this!!!). Sorry for the downtime folks, but Mother Nature didn’t really give myself or Mediacom forwarning or much of a choice! Service was restored sometime this morning, and a quick restart of services got everything back up and running smooth. Thanks for your patience, and I hope you [...]
New Site Plans
So I’ve got some new plans for this site:
Site migration
This will including a possible migration to a standard WP install, rather than the current WP MU hosting. I’m also toying with a possible change in URL to http://thephenixblue.com or changing the overall domain to http://phenixblue.com (for overall better SEO).
Add 1-2 contributing authors in addition to myself
I would like to get one person [...]
Future Plans for Web Server
I have already tweeted a generic request for anyone with experience/expertise in the following areas:
Remote data Replication
Remote Load Balancing
Remote Failover
The ideal setup would be to have 1 web server (Server A) at ground zero that dynamically replicates it’s files to another web server (Server B) 20-100 miles away, while simultaneously sharing the load across the [...]
Unexpected Downtime
Yesterday a little before 3:00pm EST this site and all associated went down for roughly 4 hours. This outage appears to be the fault of my ISP (Mediacom) as the web server, dns, dhcp, main router, etc. were all in operation when I arrived on site. After examining the logs from the various systems, I [...]
