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now then, while i've been away it seems heartland has been using up a ridiculous amount of bandwidth - 4gb in the last 9 days alone :o

we're using up so much that i'm worried about the impact its having on the current servers, which have been kindly loaned to us by my friend at www.mawbray.com

the servers are ones he uses for his business, and i don't want our witterings to impact his business

so, i've purchased some new hosting from www.dreamhost.com (as recommended by rob from rhombus & wasteland :notworthy:) and will be moving heartland to their servers as soon as possible

what this means is that we're going to have a little downtime while people's DNS updates itself to point to the new servers - this could be anything up to a day or so depending on your ISPs. it will be different for each person i'm afraid.

anyway, what i'm planning is a 2 stage move, as follows:

1) upload copy of heartland to new webspace and point at the database on the existing heartland servers - done

2) update the dns to point to the new servers - i'm going to do this tomorrow (monday) evening

that will put is in a similar situation to how we were before the last big move, and should take the immediate pressure of the mawbray servers.

after that, i'll let it settle down for a week or so and they we will have to have another couple of hours downtime while i backup the database & move it to the new site.

once that's done we will be back up & running entirely on the new servers, which offer us an absurd amount of bandwidth per month, and which should hopefully mean no more moves for the foreseeable future :D

so, in summary, expect heartland to be down for anything up to 24 hours from tomorrow evening :!:

sorry about the short notice but its unavoidable i'm afraid :|
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Monday is the cruellest day of the week <so cold> :|

good luck Barry and thanks, don't think we say that enough :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Yeah, thanks Boss! Lemme know if there's anything I can do to help, too...
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Oki doki Barry.
Hope all goes well & that you & Jo are not chewing your fingernails too much over it ;D
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Jo chews Barry's fingernails for him, what do you think he is FFS Steve? :lol:
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Thanks for letting us know. I'll start a day at work different this Tuesday... ;D
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Ozpat wrote:Thanks for letting us know. I'll start a day at work different this Tuesday... ;D
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Obviousman wrote:
Ozpat wrote:Thanks for letting us know. I'll start a day at work different this Tuesday... ;D
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Holidays are another thing though :lol:
At least you won't have to get up early on Tuesday.... :lol:
I noticed some early posts this week...inspite of holidays... :wink:
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Blame my mother, she insists on me waking up early. I made it clear I was not planning on such a thing next week though ;D
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Obviousman wrote:Blame my mother, she insists on me waking up early. I made it clear I was not planning on such a thing next week though ;D
:lol: ........that brings back memories from a long time ago..... :lol:
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Thank you Quiff!
You have done so much for the cause, as Mr Blast said, we don't say it enough..... felt I should too.
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I'm savouring every word I type in preparation for a whole 24 hour withdrawal period. :|

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This'll be us on Tuesday, I predict! :lol:

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We'll have to resort to this manual, I suppose :lol:
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... Indeed, thanx Quiffy/Barry & Jo - Hopefully not too much grief for ya?

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right, we're back :!:

ish...

expect people to reappear when their ISPs update their DNS details :)

there still seems to be a problem with the gallery - i'm looking into it :?
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YAAAAY! Well, that was pretty painless (for me, anyway, hehe)! ;D
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Blimey that was quick! :D
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and if anyone wants to check, open up a command prompt and type

Code: Select all

ping myheartland.co.uk
you should see something like this:

Code: Select all

PING myheartland.co.uk &#40;208.113.190.46&#41;&#58; 56 data bytes
208.113.190.46 is the important bit. if you still see 64.38.12.10 you're still looking at the old site. hang on in their and it should just switch over seemlessly for you...
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All 208 here :D :notworthy:
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how d'ye do that command thingey?
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You don't, you just go to the ping tab in Network Assistant in the Utilities folder of Applications :innocent:
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